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Book Synopsis 7 best short stories - War by : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Download or read book 7 best short stories - War written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War has been part of human history since its inception. Of course, it has also left a strong imprint on the imagination of the writers of all times. Check out the stories that have war as their theme, especially selected by the critic August Nemo: - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce - Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant - The Upturned Face by Stephen Crane - Editha by William Dean Howells - War by Luigi Pirandello - The Soul of a Regiment by Talbot Mundy - Roger Malvin's Burial by Nathaniel Hawthorne For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
Book Synopsis 7 best short stories - American Civil War by : Ambrose Bierce
Download or read book 7 best short stories - American Civil War written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US Civil War (18611865) still serves as one of the milestones in American literary history, commonly representing the dividing line in survey courses and reference works on 19th-century American literature. Through seven short stories selected by the critic August Nemo you will be able to understand the different nuances of this historical moment: - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce - The Veteran by Stephen Crane - The Story of a Year by Henry James - The Locket by Kate Chopin - The Brothers by Louisa May Alcott - The Namesake by Willa Cather - The Burial of the Guns by Thomas Nelson PageFor more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
Book Synopsis 7 best short stories - World War I by : Rudyard Kipling
Download or read book 7 best short stories - World War I written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporaneously described as "the war to end all wars", World War I was one of the largest wars in history and also one of the deadliest conflicts in history. Writers often function as the memory of the world, eternalizing in words difficult moments that we can not forget. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories that allow us to look at the various faces of the war: - Mary Postgate by Rudyard Kipling - The Fly by Katherine Mansfield - May Day by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft - The Bowmen by Arthur Machen - His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - At the Bay by Katherine Mansfield For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
Book Synopsis 7 best short stories by H.G. Wells by : H. G. Wells
Download or read book 7 best short stories by H.G. Wells written by H. G. Wells and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 7 best short stories collection presents a special selection of works by noteworthy writers. This edition features the English writer H. G. Wells. Wells was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, and even including two books on war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fiction". This book contains the following writings: The Time Machine. A Dream Of Armageddon. The Crystal Egg. The Man Who Could Work Miracles. The Flowering of the Strange Orchid. The Sea Riders. The Apple. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!
Download or read book The Great War written by Jim Kay Jim and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 7 best short stories by Washington Irving by : Washington Irving
Download or read book 7 best short stories by Washington Irving written by Washington Irving and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the greatest American writer of his time: mentor to Poe, Dickens, and Hawthorne, his country's first professional author, and a writer of uniqely American ghost stories about growth, change, and identity. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Rip Van Winkle - The Devil and Tom Walker - Christmas - Guest from Gibbet Island - The Legend of the Engulphed Convent - The Adventure of my Uncle
Book Synopsis 7 Best Short Stories by : Arthur Conan Doyle
Download or read book 7 Best Short Stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven of the greatest authors of all time present their great works in the short story genre. In this book you can travel through the minds of geniuses like Bram Stoker, Herman Melville and Oscar Wilde. The selection of August Nemo contains the following works for your appreciation: Dracula's Guest By Bram Stoker Bartleby, the Scrivener By Herman Melville The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde A Scandal In Bohemia By Arthur Conan Doyle The Sandman By E.T.A. Hoffman The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
Book Synopsis Flying Through Midnight by : John T. Halliday
Download or read book Flying Through Midnight written by John T. Halliday and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling account, Halliday takes readers inside a top-secret air base and into the cockpit of an antiquated plane that was a lifeline for special forces on the ground in 1970 Laos during the Vietnam War.
Book Synopsis Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida by : Robert Chandler
Download or read book Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida written by Robert Chandler and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn - alongside tales by long-suppressed figures such as the subversive Kryzhanowsky and the surrealist Shalamov. Whether written in reaction to the cruelty of the bourgeoisie, the bureaucracy of communism or the torture of the prison camps, they offer a wonderfully wide-ranging and exciting representation of one of the most vital and enduring forms of Russian literature.
Book Synopsis 7 best short stories - Feel-Good Stories by : George Ade
Download or read book 7 best short stories - Feel-Good Stories written by George Ade and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes life can be discouraging and exhausting. For those moments there are stories that are heartwarming and give us the daily dose of joy and encouragement that we all need. Critic August Nemo selected seven short stories that will do good for your mood and your heart: - An Angel in Disguise by T.S. Arthur - The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde - The Magic Shop by H.G. Wells - Springtime a la Carte by O. Henry - The Antique Ring by Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Fable of the Man Who Didn't Care for Storybooks by George Ade - A Story Without A Title by Anton ChekhovFor more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
Book Synopsis 7 best short stories by Guy de Maupassant by : Guy de Maupassant
Download or read book 7 best short stories by Guy de Maupassant written by Guy de Maupassant and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Ren Albert Guy de Maupassant (Aug 5, 1850 - Jul 6, 1893) was a popular French author who wrote under the pen name Guy de Maupassant. He is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story as well as one of its finest practitioners. His prolific and deeply admired body of work influenced a great number of writers including William Somerset Maugham, O. Henry, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin and Henry James. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: - The Necklace - Mademoiselle Fifi - Miss Harriet - My Uncle Jules - Boule de Suif - The Wreck - The Hand
Book Synopsis 7 best short stories - Werewolves by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book 7 best short stories - Werewolves written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The myth of the werewolf is ancient, dating back to medieval times or earlier. Like the vampire, it suffered several modifications over time. In this book the critic August Nemo brings the vision of different well known authors on the myth of the werewolf: - Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson . - The Wolf Leader by Alexandre Dumas. - A Pastoral Horror by Arthur Conan Doyle. - The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling. - The Eyes of the Panther by Ambrose Bierce. - The She-Wolf by Saki. - Wolfshead by Robert E. Howard For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
Book Synopsis 7 best short stories by Mary Noailles Murfree by : Mary Noailles Murfree
Download or read book 7 best short stories by Mary Noailles Murfree written by Mary Noailles Murfree and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.This edition is dedicated to Mary Noailles Murfree, an American fiction writer of novels and short stories who wrote under the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock. She is considered by many to be Appalachia's first significant female writer and her work a necessity for the study of Appalachian literature, although a number of characters in her work reinforce negative stereotypes about the region. She has been favorably compared to Bret Harte and Sarah Orne Jewett, creating post-Civil War American local-color literature.Works selected for this book:The raid of the guerilla; Who crosses storm mountain?; The crucial moment; Una of the hill country; The lost guidon; Wolfs Head; His unquiet ghost. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!
Book Synopsis 7 best short stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman by : Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Download or read book 7 best short stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman written by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through her different genres of work including children's stories, poems, and short stories, Mary Wilkins Freeman sought to demonstrate her values as a feminist. During the time which she was writing, she did this in nonconventional ways; for example, she diverged from making her female characters weak and in need of help which was a common trope in literature.Come and enjoy the seven selected short stories of this author.A New England NunAnn Mary; Her Two Thanksgivings Luella Miller Little-Girl-Afraid-of-a-Dog Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas The Gospel According To JoanThe Revolt of "Mother"
Book Synopsis 7 best short stories by E. W. Hornung by : E. W. Hornung
Download or read book 7 best short stories by E. W. Hornung written by E. W. Hornung and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hornung's prose is widely admired for its lucid, simple style. Oliver Edwards, writing in The Times, considered that "not the least attractive part of the Raffles books is the simple, plain, unaffected language in which each one of them is written". The obituarist in the same newspaper agrees, and thinks Hornung had "a power of good and clear description and a talent for mystery and surprise". This selection chosen by the critic August Nemo contains the following stories: The Idles of March A Costume Piece Gentlemen and Players Le Premier Pas Wilful Murder Nine Points of the Law The Return Match
Book Synopsis Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold by : Jeffery Deaver
Download or read book Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold written by Jeffery Deaver and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuclear brinksmanship. Psychological warfare. Spies, double agents, femme fatales, and dead drops. The Cold War--a terrifying time when nuclear war between the world's two superpowers was an ever-present threat, an all-too-real possibility that could be set off at the touch of a button--provides a chilling backdrop to this collection of all-new short stories from today's most celebrated mystery writers. Bestselling authors Jeffery Deaver and Raymond Benson--the only American writers to be commissioned to pen official James Bond novels--have joined forces to bring us twenty masterful tales of paranoia, espionage, and psychological drama. In Joseph Finder's "Police Report," the seemingly cut-and-dry case of a lunatic murderer in rural Massachusetts may have roots in Soviet-controlled Armenia. In "Miss Bianca" by Sara Paretsky, a young girl befriends a mouse in a biological warfare laboratory and finds herself unwittingly caught in an espionage drama. And Deaver's "Comrade 35" offers a unique spin on the assassination of John F. Kennedy--with a signature twist.
Book Synopsis 7 Best Short Stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs by : Edgar Rice Burroughs
Download or read book 7 Best Short Stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Rice Burroughs only entered The Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2003 - more than 50 years after his death - but at this point he had a place of honor in the hearts and minds of science fiction, adventure and fantasy lovers. Its iconic characters, such as Tarzan and John Carter, became icons of pop culture and influenced all who came after. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: Tarzan's First Love A Jungle Joke Tarzan Rescues the Moon John Carter and the Giant Of Mars The Ancient Dead Beyond Thirty Skeleton Men of Jupiter
