7 Best Short Stories
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7 Best Short Stories: Summer
By O. Henry, Stephen Crane, Virginia WoolfAmbrose Bierce, Anton Chekhov, O. Henry, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Stephen Crane, Bram Stoker August Nemo. rose and uncovered. O, Heavens, what were those shapes? Little white tables, and waitresses who looked first at her ...
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7 Best Short Stories: Spring
By O. Henry, Stephen Crane, Edith WhartonSusan Glaspell, Stephen Crane, Katherine Mansfield, Franz Kafka, O. Henry, Guy de Maupassant, Edith Wharton August Nemo. "Then you are very careful, you wear flannel, a heavy greatcoat and thick shoes, but all this does not prevent you ...
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7 Best Short Stories: Fishing
By Washington Irving, Guy de Maupassant, Anton ChekhovGuy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Rudyard Kipling, Washington Irving, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Henry van Dyke Jr. August Nemo. things which may be taken with a hook. It is a parable of human experience. I have been thinking, for instance, ...
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7 Best Short Stories: World War I
By F. Scott Fitzgerald, Katherine Mansfield, Arthur MachenRudyard Kipling, Katherine Mansfield, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Arthur Conan Doyle August Nemo. maddening, mysterious question. Why don't I fly out again? There's the window or the door or whatever it was I ...
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7 Best Short Stories
By Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Oscar WildeSeven 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.
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7 Best Short Stories: Classic Sci-Fi
By Jack London, Nathaniel Hawthorne, E. T. A. HoffmannEnjoy these seven classic science fiction short stories selected by the critic August Nemo: - A Thousand Deaths by Jack London - A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum - Parasite Planet by Stanley G. Weinbaum - The Jameson Satellite, by ...
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7 Best Short Stories: Ghost Stories
By O. Henry, Elizabeth Gaskell, Rudyard KiplingThe critic Augst Nemo brings seven tales with tormented souls that will make you shiver: - An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House by Sheridan le Fanu - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell - A Warning to the Curious by M. R. James ...
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7 Best Short Stories: Spain
By Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Fernán CaballeroPedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza (10 March 1833 – 19 July 1891) was a nineteenth-century Spanish novelist, best known for his novel El sombrero de tres picos (1874), an adaptation of a popular traditions which provides a lively picture ...
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7 Best Short Stories: Thanksgiving Day
By O. Henry, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher StoweMotherly Mrs. Alford drew the young man out sufficiently, however, to become deeply interested in him. By the next morning time for thought had led him to feel that he must trespass on their hospitality no longer.
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7 Best Short Stories: Murder
By Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, O. Henry"Hoddy, Sis' Nance." "Hoddy, Brer Sam." "Is de shurff in," inquired the Negro. "Yas, Brer Sam, he's eatin' his dinner," was the answer. "Willyer ax'im ter step ter de do' a minute, Sis' Nance?" The woman went into the dining-room, ...
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7 Best Short Stories: Horse Stories
By Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Rudyard KiplingIn this book, the critic August Nemo has selected seven short stories that talk about the intimate relationship between man and horse. This book contains: - Chu Chu by Bret Harte. - The Doctor's Horse by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.
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7 Best Short Stories: Time Travel
By Washington Irving, H. G. Wells, John Buchan"Well," said Arthur Price Williams, addressing Jack Peters, with an expert assumption of the modest discipleship, "what do we do now, Jack?" But Peters was regarding the Manse with manifest dubiety, and ignored the question.
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7 Best Short Stories: Winter
By Jack London, O. Henry, Andy AdamsSee how winter has inspired the authors differently in this seven great short stories: This book contains: - The Race for Number One by Jack London. - An Alpine Pass on Ski by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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7 Best Short Stories: Orientalism
By Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, Miss MitfordI slipped the window and looked down upon a flamingred beard, half covered by a railway-rug. That was my man, fast asleep, and I dug him gently in the ribs. He woke with a grunt, and I saw his face in the light of the lamps.
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7 Best Short Stories: Christmas
By O. Henry, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles DickensHans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Henry van Dyke, Stephen Leacock, Leo Tolstoy, O. Henry August Nemo. deaf-an'-dumb children is jest as good as some other kinds, an' that's what she is.
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7 Best Short Stories: Weird Fiction
By Robert W. Chambers, Arthur Machen, Ambrose BierceThe critic August Nemo has selected seven classic tales of the genre, especially for readers who want (and have courage!) to face the abyss: - The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft - Hell Screen by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa - An Occurrence at Owl ...
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7 Best Short Stories: Wedding
By Lucy Maud Montgomery, O. Henry, Stephen CraneOn they went, however, and had glittered along about a third of the aisle, when another stroke of the bell seemed to fill the church with a visible gloom, dimming and obscuring the bright pageant, till it shone forth again as from a ...
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7 Best Short Stories: Halloween
By Edgar Allan Poe, Leonid Andreyev, Ambrose BierceCheck out the selection of seven tales of horror by the critic August Nemo: - The Monkey's Paw By W. W. Jacobs - 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' By M. R. James - Yuki-Onna By Lafcadio Hearn - The Terrible Old Man by H. P. ...
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7 Best Short Stories: Money
By O. Henry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James JoyceThe critic August Nemo selected seven classic short stories on this subject: - The Money Box by W.W. Jacobs - Mammon and the Archer by O. Henry - After the Race by James Joyce - The Rocking-Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence - Filboid Studge by ...
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7 Best Short Stories: New York
By James Fenimore Cooper, O. Henry, Robert W. ChambersO. Henry, Robert W. Chambers, Edith Wharton, Algernon Blackwood, James Fenimore Cooper August Nemo. Belgian traveler, of the geography, history, economy, government, and culture of the United States [3] seventeen years since = Cooper ...