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7 best short stories - Food

Author : Saki (H.H. Munro)

Publisher : Tacet Books

Page : 88 pages

File Size : 38,90 MB

Release : 2020-05-12

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 3968586654

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Eating is more than just feeding the body. The time for a meal is the time to unite the community around a table and share. The taste of food can evoke feelings and memories such as longing, joy and contemplation. Knowing this, writers have always used food as a subject in their works, to metaphorize feelings and thoughts. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by great authors who mixed literature and cuisine. Enjoy! - A Piece of Steak by Jack London - Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov - A Dinner by Alexander Kielland - The New Food by Stephen Leacock - White Bread by Zona Gale - Witches' Loaves by O. Henry - Tea by Saki For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!



7 Best Short Stories: Food

Author : Saki

Publisher : Tacet Books

Page : 90 pages

File Size : 29,10 MB

Release : 2019-06-19

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 8577772934

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Eating is more than just feeding the body. The time for a meal is the time to unite the community around a table and share. The taste of food can evoke feelings and memories such as longing, joy and contemplation. Knowing this, writers have always used food as a subject in their works, to metaphorize feelings and thoughts. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by great authors who mixed literature and cuisine. Enjoy!A Piece of Steak by Jack London - Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov - A Dinner by Alexander Kielland - The New Food by Stephen Leacock - White Bread by Zona Gale - Witches' Loaves by O. Henry - Tea by H.H. Munro (Saki)



7 best short stories by H.G. Wells

Author : H. G. Wells

Publisher : Tacet Books

Page : 245 pages

File Size : 41,36 MB

Release : 2019-01-08

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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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!



7 Best Short Stories by Stephen Leacock

Author : Stephen Leacock

Publisher : Tacet Books

Page : 45 pages

File Size : 36,96 MB

Release : 2019-02-28

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 8577770958

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Stephen Leacock sees the comic of social situations. His writing exposes the incongruity between appearance and reality in human conduct, and his work is characterized by the invention of lively comic situations. Through this seven specially selected short stories you can meet and have fun with this author: - My Financial Career - Merry Christmas - How to Make a Million Dollars - How to Live to be 200 - How to Avoid Getting Married - Aristocratic Education - Self-Made Men



7 Best Short Stories: Courage

Author : Stephen Crane

Publisher : Tacet Books

Page : 146 pages

File Size : 31,60 MB

Release : 2019-06-27

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 8577773140

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Life always brings us situations that require courage to be faced and overcome. Fiction reflects these moments and, throughout history, many authors have had many different ways of understanding bravery. Join us in these seven stories about courage selected by the critic August Nemo: - A Mystery of Heroism by Stephen Crane - The Princess And The Puma by O. Henry - Beyond the Bayou by Kate Chopin - The Signal by Vsevolod Garshin - The Taking of the Redoubt by Prosper Merimee - The Heroic Slave by Frederick Douglass - A Little Hero by Fyodor Dostoevsky



7 best short stories by Zane Grey

Author : Zane Grey

Publisher : Tacet Books

Page : 262 pages

File Size : 44,92 MB

Release : 2020-05-14

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 3968585194

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Grey's novels however denigrated by critics as empurpled froths of 'virgins, villains and varmints' were only part of the allure that fixed his name in the hearts of millions of Americans. Zane Grey was a self-made model of rugged rural virtue overimbued with what the critic Heywood Broun acidly called "the sanity, the strength and the wholesomeness" of his novels; a teetotaler opposed to the "jiggle and toddle and wiggle" of jazz-age dancing; and a staunch champion of clean outdoor living and hard work and righteous, simple codes of conduct. The New York TimesThis selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:Amber's MirageThe RangerDon: The Story Of A Lion DogThe Wolf TrackerLure of the RiverA Missouri SchoolmarmMonty Price's Nightingale



7 best short stories - Dystopia

Author : H. G. Wells

Publisher : Tacet Books

Page : 416 pages

File Size : 47,67 MB

Release : 2020-05-12

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 3968586042

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Dystopian fiction- sometimes combined with, but distinct from apocalyptic literature - is the opposite: the portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author's ethos. The critic August Nemo selected seven classic tales of dystopian scenarios. - The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster - The Answer by H. Beam Piper - The Purple Cloud by M.P. Shiel - The Empire of the Ants by H.G. Wells - In The Year 2889 by Jules Verne - The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers - Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!



7 Best Short Stories: Spring

Author : Susan Glaspell

Publisher : Tacet Books

Page : 84 pages

File Size : 14,79 MB

Release : 2020-01-06

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 8577776573

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Springtime refer to the season, and also to ideas of rebirth, rejuvenation, renewal, resurrection and regrowth. Besides inspiring outdoor parties and lovers' promises, spring has also inspired writers. Check out these seven spring short stories by great authors. This book contains: - April Showers by Edith Wharton. - In the Spring by Guy de Maupassant. - Springtime a la Carte by O. Henry. - The Judgment by Franz Kafka. - Bliss by Katherine Mansfield. - The Veteran by Stephen Crane. - At Twilight by Susan Glaspell.



7 Best Short Stories by Francis Marion Crawford

Author : Francis Marion Crawford

Publisher : Tacet Books

Page : 205 pages

File Size : 18,31 MB

Release : 2019-10-30

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 8577775518

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Francis Marion Crawford was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastic stories. More than half his novels are set in Italy. He wrote three long historical studies of Italy and was well advanced with a history of Rome in the Middle Ages when he died. This may explain why Marion Crawford's books stand apart from any distinctively American current in literature. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this remarkable author for your enjoyment: - The Dead Smile. - The Screaming Skull. - Man Overboard! - For The Blood Is The Life. - The Upper Berth. - By The Waters of Paradise. - The Doll's Ghost.



7 best short stories - Love

Author : Anton Chekhov

Publisher : Tacet Books

Page : 97 pages

File Size : 39,29 MB

Release : 2020-05-12

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 3968581660

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It is possible that love is the most complex of human emotions. Whether platonic, lustful, fleeting or for life, this emotion always changes the lives it touches. So it comes as no surprise that love is a major literary theme, perhaps the most important. Check out these seven short stories by consecrated authors and see what each one of them has to say about love. This book contains: - The Lady With The Little Dog by Anton Chekhov. - The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein by O. Henry. - Federigo's Falcon by Giovanni Boccaccio. - Regret by Guy de Maupassant. - The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen. - The Boarding House by James Joyce. - The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne by Anthony Trollope.



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