7 best short stories - Summer
7 best short stories - Summer

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Publisher: Tacet Books

Published: 2020-05-12

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 3968587758

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Longer days, holidays and hot weather! The same summer inspires us to enjoy the day and take ice cream, also inspired many writers to create their works. Read seven short stories by great writers, which bring us different perspectives on the hot summer days and their effect on the human soul. This book contains: - One Summer Night by Ambrose Bierce. - At A Summer Villa by Anton Chekhov. - A Midsummer Knight's Dream by O. Henry. - Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf. - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield. - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane. - Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker.

7 Best Short Stories by John Galsworthy
7 Best Short Stories by John Galsworthy

Author: John Galsworthy

Publisher: Tacet Books

Published: 2019-05-16

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 8577771911

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John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright, who won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. He came from a newly rich upper middle class commercial family. His works mainly dealt with the social class system prevalent at that time. He especially concentrated on the upper middle class to which his own family belonged. Although he treated his characters sympathetically, he highlighted their narrow-minded snobbishness and suffocating moral values. This selection chosen by the critic August Nemo contains the following stories: - The First and Last - A Stoic - The Apple Tree - The Juryman - Indian Summer of a Forsyte - The Hedonist - Buttercup Night

7 Best Short Stories by Susan Glaspell
7 Best Short Stories by Susan Glaspell

Author: Susan Glaspell

Publisher: Tacet Books

Published: 2019-01-29

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 8577770524

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Susan Glaspell was highly regarded in her time, and was well known as a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. Her short stories were regularly printed in the era's top periodicals, and her New York Times obituary states that she was "one of the nation's most widely-read novelists." With major achievements in drama, novel, and short fiction, Glaspell is often cited as a "prime example" of an overlooked female writer deserving canonization. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: His Smile "Government Goat" A Jury of Her Peers The Anarchist: His Dog "One of Those Impossible Americans" At Twilight From A to Z

7 best short stories by H. and E. Heron
7 best short stories by H. and E. Heron

Author: H. and E. Heron

Publisher: Tacet Books

Published: 2020-05-15

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 3968585887

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Flaxman Low is a fictional character created by British authors Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard and his mother Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard, published under the pseudonyms "H. Heron" and "E. Heron". Low is credited with being the first psychic detective of fiction, and appears in a series of short stories. Flaxman Low is a pseudonym for "one of the leading scientists of the" Victorian era, whose real name is not disclosed in the stories. He was an accomplished athlete in his youth and has turned his interests to a scientific study of the occult. In this book you will find 7 short stories of mystery specially selected by August Nemo: - The Story of Saddler's Croft - The Story of Baelbrow - The Story of Yand Manor House - The Story of Konnor Old House - The Story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith - The Story of Sevens Hall - The Tale of the Moor Road

7 best short stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
7 best short stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Publisher: Tacet Books

Published: 2020-05-10

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 3968588517

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A prominent American sociologist, novelist, short story writer, poet, and lecturer for social reform, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a "utopian feminist." Her vast achievements, recorded during a period of American history where such feats were quite difficult for women, cast here as a role model for women everywhere. And her unorthodox concepts and lifestyles cast her as a role model for future generations of feminists.This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:When I Was a WitchThe Yellow WallpaperIf I were a manThe Giant Wistaria The Boys And The Butter!The CottagetteA Middle Sized Artist

7 best short stories by M. R. James
7 best short stories by M. R. James

Author: M. R. James

Publisher: Tacet Books

Published: 2020-05-14

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 3968582497

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M. R. James redefined the ghost story by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés and using more realistic contemporary settings. H.P. Lovecraft was a fan, and wrote a review on his work: "...gifted with an almost diabolic power of calling horror by gentle steps from the midst of prosaic daily life." he says, also adding: "Dr. James has, it is clear, an intelligent and scientific knowledge of human nerves and feelings; and knows just how to apportion statement, imagery, and subtle suggestions in order to secure the best results with his readers." In these seven chosen short stories you will enter the gloomy world of M. R. James: - A School Story - Count Magnus - Lost Hearts - 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You My Lad" - The Rose Garden - An Episode of Cathedral History - Mr. Humphreys and his Inheritance

7 Best Short Stories by Émile Zola
7 Best Short Stories by Émile Zola

Author: Émile Zola

Publisher: Tacet Books

Published: 2019-10-31

Total Pages: 777

ISBN-13:

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Émile Zola described the intention of his work with these words: "I want to portray, at the outset of a century of liberty and truth, a family that can not restrain itself in its rush to possess all the good things that progress is making available and is derailed by its own momentum, the fatal convulsions that accompany the birth of a new world. " He is considered to be a significant influence on those writers who are credited with the creation of the so-called new journalism; Wolfe, Capote, Thompson, Mailer, Didion, Talese and others. Critic August Nemo selected seven special short stories from this author for your appreciation: Captain Burle The Miller's Daughter Jean Gourdon's Four Days The Fete At Coqueville The Flood Death of Olivier Becaille Nana

7 Best Short Stories by E. Pauline Johnson
7 Best Short Stories by E. Pauline Johnson

Author: E. Pauline Johnson

Publisher: Tacet Books

Published: 2020-01-16

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 8577776891

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Emily Pauline Johnson, also known by her Mohawk stage name Tekahionwake, was a Canadian poet, author and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Not only was Johnson a poet and writer but she was a part of the New Woman movement due to the blending of her two cultures in her works and her criticisms of the Canadian government. Johnson was also a key figure in the construction of Canadian literature as an institution and has made an indelible mark on Indigenous women's writing and performance as a whole. This book contains: - The Shagganappi. - A Red Girl's Reasoning. - The King's Coin. - The Derelict. - Little Wolf-Willow. - Her Majesty's Guest. - The Brotherhood.

7 best short stories by Edward Bellamy
7 best short stories by Edward Bellamy

Author: Edward Bellamy

Publisher: Tacet Books

Published: 2020-05-15

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 3968582055

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The American author and socialist Edward Bellamy (1850 1898) briefly studied law before giving it up and becoming a journalist, then novelist. The critic August Nemo presents in this book seven tales specially selected by this author: The Blindman's World An Echo Of Antietam The Old Folks' Party The Cold Snap Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment Potts's Painless Cure A Summer Evening's Dream

7 best short stories by John Kendrick Bangs
7 best short stories by John Kendrick Bangs

Author: John Kendrick Bangs

Publisher: Tacet Books

Published: 2020-05-15

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 3967995666

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John Kendrick Bangs was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist. His name is immortalised in the term "Bangsian Fantasy" - fantasy set in the afterlife, of which Philip José Farmer's Riverworld series is a direct descendent. Check out seven short stories by this author specially selected by the critic August Nemo: - The Water Ghost Of Harrowby Hall - The Spectre Cook Of Bangletop - A Midnight Visitor - The Speck On The Lens - A Quicksilver Cassandra - The Ghost Club - A Psychical Prank