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Great Short Books
Author | : Kenneth C. Davis |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2023-09-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781982180058 |
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"An entertaining guide to some of the best short novels of all time looks at works from the eighteenth century to the present day, spanning multiple genres, cultures, and countries"--
The Old Man and the Sea
Author | : Ernest Hemingway |
Publsiher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2022-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : EAN:8596547117650 |
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
100 Great Short Stories
Author | : James Daley |
Publsiher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 766 |
Release | : 2015-02-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780486803289 |
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"This is a wonderful collection of authors from America and around the world. Centuries are covered, making this a great resource for English teachers and any lover of literature." — Life Community Church This treasury of one hundred tales offers students and other readers of short fiction a splendid selection of stories by masters of the form. Contributors from around the world include Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Anton Chekhov, Mark Twain, Saki, Luigi Pirandello, Kate Chopin, and Ring Lardner. The stories, which are arranged chronologically, begin with tales by Daniel Defoe ("The Apparition of Mrs. Veal," 1705), Benjamin Franklin ("Alice Addertongue," 1732), and Washington Irving ("The Devil and Tom Walker," 1824). Highlights from the nineteenth century include Ivan Turgenev's "The District Doctor" (1852), Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron" (1886), Thomas Hardy's "Squire Petrick's Lady" (1891), and Rudyard Kipling's "Wee Willie Winkie" (1899). From the twentieth century come James Joyce's "Araby" (1914), Franz Kafka's "The Judgment" (1916), Virginia Woolf's "The Mark on the Wall" (1921), "The Broken Boot" (1923) by John Galsworthy, and many others. "A fabulous collections of stories sure to please any reader! The chronological layout is perfect for those looking to explore the development of stories over time and their relation to society." — Whitchurch-Stouffville Public Library
A Clockwork Orange
Author | : Anthony Burgess |
Publsiher | : W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393928098 |
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"A brilliant novel . . . a savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds." -New York Times "Anthony Burgess has written what looks like a nasty little shocker, but is really that rare thing in English letters: a philosophical novel." -Time
Sudden Fiction
Author | : Robert Shapard,James Thomas |
Publsiher | : Gibbs Smith |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0879052651 |
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Presents over seventy short stories five pages long or less by such American authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Bradbury, Langston Hughes, and Raymond Carver, and includes authors' commentary on the genre.
The World s Greatest Short Stories
Author | : James Daley |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2012-03-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780486114798 |
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Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries, this wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable anthology includes Tolstoy, Kipling, Chekhov, Joyce, Kafka, Pirandello, Mann, Updike, Borges, and other major writers of world literature.
50 Greatest Short Stories
Author | : Terry O'Brien (Quiz master) |
Publsiher | : Rupa Publications India |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 2015-11-18 |
Genre | : Short stories |
ISBN | : 8129137259 |
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50 Greatest Short Stories is a selection from the best of the world's short fiction, bringing together writings by great masters of the genre. Carefully picked for their timeless quality, readers are sure to be delighted by the inclusion of such favourites as 'The Gift of the Magi', 'The Lady with the Dog', 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', 'Rain' and 'Mrs Packletide's Tiger', to name but a few. This outstanding and wide-ranging anthology of stories is a collector's item, designed for readers to refresh their acquaintance with some of the world's finest writing and for newer readers to be introduced to it. Anton Chekov, Charles Dickens, Katherine Mansfield, Guy de Maupassant, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. Rider Haggard, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, W.W. Jacobs, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Saki, Jerome K. Jerome, H.G. Wells, Kate Chopin, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Frank Stockton, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen Leacock, James Joyce, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad, M. R. James, W. Somerset Maugham, R. L. Stevenson.
Great Short Stories of the World
Author | : Barrett Harper Clark,Maxim Lieber |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1096 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Short stories |
ISBN | : PSU:000045746260 |
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177 short stories.