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NEGLIGIBLE TALES - 14 Titles in One Edition

Author : Ambrose Bierce

Publisher : e-artnow

Page : 89 pages

File Size : 15,34 MB

Release : 2017-12-06

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 8027236797

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Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "NEGLIGIBLE TALES - 14 Titles in One Edition". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 – 1914?) was an American satirist, critic, poet, editor and journalist. Bierce became a prolific author of short stories often humorous and sometimes bitter or macabre. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce". Content: A Bottomless Grave Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General The Widower Turmore The city of the Gone Away The Major´sTale Curried Cow A Revolt of the Gods The Baptism of Dobsho The Race at Left Bower The Failure of Hope Wandel Perry Chumly´s Eclipse A Providential Intimation Mr. Swiddler´s Flip-Flap The Little Story



The Complete Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

Author : Edgar Allan Poe

Publisher : Good Press

Page : 1054 pages

File Size : 35,57 MB

Release : 2023-11-28

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN :

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Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Complete Short Stories' is a chilling and captivating collection of works that epitomizes the essence of gothic fiction. Poe's literary style, characterized by intricate plots, vivid imagery, and a dark exploration of human psychology, sets him apart as a master of the macabre. Each story is filled with suspense and mystery, keeping readers on the edge of their seats until the final reveal. With themes of death, madness, and the supernatural, Poe's stories continue to intrigue and unsettle readers today. His influence on the horror genre is undeniable, making this collection a must-read for lovers of dark and atmospheric literature. Edgar Allan Poe's own tumultuous life, marked by personal tragedies and psychological struggles, undoubtedly influenced the haunting themes present in his stories. Through his writing, Poe delves into the deepest depths of the human mind, revealing the darkness that lurks within us all. 'The Complete Short Stories' is a haunting reminder of Poe's enduring legacy and his unrivaled talent for crafting tales of terror and suspense that stand the test of time.



Negligible Tales (14 Unabridged Tales)

Author : Ambrose Bierce

Publisher : e-artnow

Page : 90 pages

File Size : 30,70 MB

Release : 2013-08-20

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 8074843947

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This carefully crafted ebook: "Negligible Tales (14 Unabridged Tales)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This ebook is a collection of rather morbid and grotesques tales by Ambrose Bierce. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 – 1914?) was an American satirist, critic, poet, editor and journalist. Bierce became a prolific author of short stories often humorous and sometimes bitter or macabre. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce". Content: A Bottomless Grave Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General The Widower Turmore The city of the Gone Away The Major´sTale Curried Cow A Revolt of the Gods The Baptism of Dobsho The Race at Left Bower The Failure of Hope Wandel Perry Chumly´s Eclipse A Providential Intimation Mr. Swiddler´s Flip-Flap The Little Story



The Forgotten Film Adaptations of D.H. Lawrence’s Short Stories

Author : Jason Mark Ward

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 285 pages

File Size : 40,43 MB

Release : 2016-07-11

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9004309055

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This book looks beyond fidelity to emphasize how each adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s short stories functions as a creative response to a text, foregrounding the significance of its fluidity, transtextuality, and genre. The adaptations analysed range from the first to the most recent and draw attention to the fluidity of textual sources, the significance of generic conventions and space in film, the generic potentialities latent within Lawrence’s tales, and the evolving nature of adaptation. By engaging with recent advances in adaptation theory to discuss the evolving critical reception of the author’s work and the role of the reader, this book provides a fresh, forward-looking approach to Lawrence studies.



Insignificant Things

Author : Matthew Francis Rarey

Publisher : Duke University Press

Page : 224 pages

File Size : 13,94 MB

Release : 2023-04-17

Category : Art

ISBN : 1478024429

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In Insignificant Things Matthew Francis Rarey traces the history of the African-associated amulets that enslaved and other marginalized people carried as tools of survival in the Black Atlantic world from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Often considered visually benign by white Europeans, these amulet pouches, commonly known as “mandingas,” were used across Africa, Brazil, and Portugal and contained myriad objects, from herbs and Islamic prayers to shells and coins. Drawing on Arabic-language narratives from the West African Sahel, the archives of the Portuguese Inquisition, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European travel and merchant accounts of the West African Coast, and early nineteenth-century Brazilian police records, Rarey shows how mandingas functioned as portable archives of their makers’ experiences of enslavement, displacement, and diaspora. He presents them as examples of the visual culture of enslavement and critical to conceptualizing Black Atlantic art history. Ultimately, Rarey looks to the archives of transatlantic slavery, which were meant to erase Black life, for objects like the mandingas that were created to protect it.



The Greatest Works of Mark Twain: 370+ Titles in One Edition (Illustrated)

Author : Mark Twain

Publisher : DigiCat

Page : 7655 pages

File Size : 22,17 MB

Release : 2023-12-23

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN :

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This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Gilded Age The Prince and the Pauper A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court The American Claimant Tom Sawyer Abroad Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Pudd'nhead Wilson Tom Sawyer, Detective A Horse's Tale The Mysterious Stranger Novelettes A Double Barrelled Detective Story Those Extraordinary Twins The Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut The Stolen White Elephant The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven Short Story Collections The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance Sketches New and Old Merry Tales The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches Alonzo Fitz, and Other Stories Mark Twain's Library of Humor Other Stories Essays, Satires & Articles How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays What Is Man? And Other Essays Editorial Wild Oats Concerning the Jews To the Person Sitting in Darkness To My Missionary Critics Christian Science Queen Victoria's Jubilee Essays on Paul Bourget The Treaty with China Stirring Times in Austria The Czar's Soliloquy King Leopold's Soliloquy Adam's Soliloquy Essays on Copyrights Other Essays Travel Books The Innocents Abroad A Tramp Abroad Roughing It Old Times on the Mississippi Life on the Mississippi Following the Equator Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion The Complete Speeches The Complete Letters Autobiography Biographies Mark Twain: A Biography by Albert Bigelow Paine The Boys' Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine My Mark Twain by William Dean Howells



The Athenaeum

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Publisher :

Page : 564 pages

File Size : 23,91 MB

Release : 1912

Category : England

ISBN :

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The Irish Fairy Tale

Author : Vito Carrassi

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 219 pages

File Size : 48,28 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1611493803

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Beginning with a critical reappraisal of the notion of "fairy tale" and extending it to include categories and genres which are in common usage in folklore and in literary studies, this book throws light on the general processes involved in storytelling. It illuminates the fundamental ways in which a culture is formed, while highlighting important features of the Irish narrative tradition, in all its wealth and variety and in its connections with the mythical and historical events of Ireland. The Irish Fairy Tale argues that the fairy tale is a kind of "neutral zone," a place of transition as well as a meeting place for popular beliefs and individual creativity, oral tradition and literary works, historical sources and imaginary reconstructions, and for contrasting and converging views of the world, which altogether allow for a deeper and more sophisticated understanding of reality. The book focuses on stories by Yeats and Stephens, whose approach to the subject marks the culmination of a long tradition of attempts at linking past and present and of bridging the gap between what appear to be contradictory facets of a single culture. This leads to a comparative study of Joyce's Dubliners, which illustrates the universal and exemplary nature of the notion of fairy tale put forward in the work.



The Secret Sharer and Other Stories (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

Author : Joseph Conrad

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 441 pages

File Size : 46,59 MB

Release : 2016-04-04

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0393614794

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This Norton Critical Edition includes four stories—two set on stormy seas, two on calm seas, all four based on the same incident—that speak to each other in interesting ways. The stories in this Norton Critical Edition maintain the connection and sequencing that Joseph Conrad saw among them. In his “Author’s Note” to ‘Twixt Land and Sea, Conrad writes of his two “Calm-pieces” (“The Secret Sharer” and The Shadow-Line) and his two “Storm-pieces” (The Nigger of the “Narcissus” and “Typhoon”). This edition is based on the first English book edition for the stories and the first American edition for the “Author’s Note” for The Shadow-Line, “Typhoon,” and “The Secret Sharer.” The stories are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a note on the texts (including a list of textual emendations), and a preface. “Backgrounds and Contexts” brings together relevant correspondence and contemporary reviews from both British and American sources. Also included are documents related to Conrad’s sources for the stories, among them Charles Arthur Sankey’s “Ordeal of the Cutty Sark: A True Story of Mutiny, Murder on the High Seas.” To help readers navigate, the editor includes a glossary of nautical terms as well as diagrams of the kinds of ships that appear in the stories. “Criticism” includes fifteen essays representing both new and established voices. The essays are arranged by story, with the focus on Conrad’s major themes—colonialism, narrative, gender, and race. Albert J. Guerard, Lillian Nayder, Mark D. Larabee, Fredric Jameson, F. R. Leavis, and John G. Peters are among the contributors. A chronology of Conrad’s life and work and a selected bibliography are also included.