The Classic American Short Story MEGAPACK ® (Volume 1)
The Classic American Short Story MEGAPACK ® (Volume 1)

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2013-01-17

Total Pages: 842

ISBN-13: 1434447081

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The Classic American Short Story Megapack (Volume 1) assembles 34 of the greatest stories ever written by American authors -- including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Bret Harte, Sherwood Anderson, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Jack London, and Stephen Crane. Includes multiple stories per author, their most famous short works, along with biographical notes. Complete contents: YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN, by Nathaniel Hawthorne THE CELESTIAL RAILROAD, by Nathaniel Hawthorne THE GREAT STONE FACE, by Nathaniel Hawthorne ETHAN BRAND, by Nathaniel Hawthorne RIP VAN WINKLE, by Washington Irving THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW, by Washington Irving AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF by James Fenimore Cooper THE DAMNED THING, by Ambrose Bierce AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK, by Ambrose Bierce THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, by Edgar Allan Poe THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO, by Edgar Allan Poe THE PURLOINED LETTER, by Edgar Allan Poe THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, by Edgar Allan Poe THE PREMATURE BURIAL, by Edgar Allan Poe THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE, by Edgar Allan Poe THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP, by Bret Harte THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT, by Bret Hartev HANDS, by Sherwood Anderson I’M A FOOL, by Sherwood Anderson THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG, by Mark Twain THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY, by Mark Twain THE GIFT OF THE MAGI, by O. Henry THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF, by O. Henry THE COP AND THE ANTHEM, by O. Henry A RETRIEVED REFORMATION, by O. Henry THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES, by O. Henry TO BUILD A FIRE, by Jack London AN ODYSSEY OF THE NORTH, by Jack London LOVE OF LIFE, by Jack London THE HEATHEN, by Jack London THE PEARLS OF PARLAY, by Jack London THE BRIDE COMES TO YELLOW SKY, by Stephen Crane THE MONSTER, by Stephen Crane THE BLUE HOTEL, by Stephen Crane And don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for Megapack to see the other great entries in this series -- covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, children's literature, and much, much more!

Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (Classic Reprint)
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (Classic Reprint)

Author: Bram Stoker

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-22

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 9780365255765

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Excerpt from Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving Were my book a life of Henry Irving instead of a grouping of such matters as came into my own purview, I should probably feel some embarrassment in the commencement of a preface. Logically speaking, even the life of an actor has no preface. He begins, and that is all. And such beginning is usually obscure; but faintly remembered at the best. Art is a completion; not merely a history of endeavour. It is only when completeness has been obtained that the beginnings of endeavour gain importance, and that the steps by which it has been won assume any shape of permanent interest. After all, the struggle for supremacy is so universal that the matters of hope and difficulty of one person are hardly of general interest. When the individual has won out from the huddle of strife, the means and steps of his succeeding become of interest, either historically or in the educational aspect - but not before. From every life there may be a lesson to some one; but in the teeming millions of humanity such lessons can but seldom have any general or exhaustive force. The mere din of strife is too incessant for any individual sound to carry far. Fame, who rides in higher atmosphere, can alone make her purpose heard Well did the framers of picturesque idea understand their work when in her hand they put a symbolic trumpet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Bram Stoker

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-08

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9781332509805

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Excerpt from Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving, Vol. 1 Were my book a "life" of Henry Irving instead of a gathering of such matters as came into my own purview, I should probably feel some embarrassment in the commencement of a preface. Logically speaking, even the life of an actor has no preface. He begins, and that is all. And such beginning is usually obscure; but faintly remembered at the best. Art is a completion; not merely a history of endeavour. It is only when completeness has been obtained that the beginnings of endeavour gain importance, and that the steps by which it has been won assume any shape of permanent interest. After all, the struggle for supremacy is so universal that the matters of hope and difficulty of one person are hardly of general interest. When the individual has won out from the huddle of strife, the means and steps of his succeeding become of interest, either historically or in the educational aspect - but not before. From every life there may be a lesson to some one; but in the teeming millions of humanity such lessons can but seldom have any general or exhaustive force. The mere din of strife is too incessant for any individual sound to carry far. Fame, who rides in higher atmosphere, can alone make her purpose heard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Strange Eventful History
A Strange Eventful History

Author: Michael Holroyd

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2010-03-02

Total Pages: 772

ISBN-13: 1429939044

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PLEASE NOTE: THIS EBOOK DOES NOT CONTAIN PHOTOS INCLUDED IN THE PRINT EDITION. Deemed "a prodigy among biographers" by The New York Times Book Review, Michael Holroyd transformed biography into an art. Now he turns his keen observation, humane insight, and epic scope on an ensemble cast, a remarkable dynasty that presided over the golden age of theater. Ellen Terry was an ethereal beauty, the child bride of a Pre-Raphaelite painter who made her the face of the age. George Bernard Shaw was so besotted by her gifts that he could not bear to meet her, lest the spell she cast from the stage be broken. Henry Irving was an ambitious, harsh-voiced merchant's clerk, but once he painted his face and spoke the lines of Shakespeare, his stammer fell away to reveal a magnetic presence. He would become one of the greatest actor-managers in the history of the theater. Together, Terry and Irving created a powerhouse of the arts in London's Lyceum Theatre, with Bram Stoker—who would go on to write Dracula—as manager. Celebrities whose scandalous private lives commanded global attention, they took America by stormin wildly popular national tours. Their all-consuming professional lives left little room for their brilliant but troubled children. Henry's boys followed their father into the theater but could not escape the shadow of his fame. Ellen's feminist daughter, Edy, founded an avant-garde theater and a largely lesbian community at her mother's country home. But it was Edy's son, the revolutionary theatrical designer Edward Gordon Craig, who possessed the most remarkable gifts and the most perplexing inability to realize them. A now forgotten modernist visionary, he collaborated with the Russian director Stanislavski on a production of Hamlet that forever changed the way theater was staged. Maddeningly self-absorbed, he inherited his mother's potent charm and fathered thirteen children by eight women, including a daughter with the dancer Isadora Duncan. An epic story spanning a century of cultural change, A Strange Eventful History finds space for the intimate moments of daily existence as well as the bewitching fantasies played out by its subjects. Bursting with charismatic life, it is an incisive portrait of two families who defied the strictures of their time. It will be swiftly recognized as a classic. Please note: This ebook edition does not contain photos and illustrations that appeared in the print edition.

Publisher and Bookseller
Publisher and Bookseller

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1899

Total Pages: 1214

ISBN-13:

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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.

Reformed Systematic Theology, Volume 1
Reformed Systematic Theology, Volume 1

Author: Joel Beeke

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2019-03-14

Total Pages: 1156

ISBN-13: 1433559862

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The church needs good theology that engages the head, heart, and hands. This four-volume work combines rigorous historical and theological scholarship with application and practicality—characterized by an accessible, Reformed, and experiential approach. In this volume, Joel R. Beeke and Paul M. Smalley explore the first two of eight central themes of theology: revelation and God.