Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780195092622
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Author : Neal James
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 39,65 MB
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0244918635
Molly Williams was a 'sensitive'. She saw things that other children did not, and when her Grandpa came to see her it made her day. The trouble was he'd been dead for a while, and the message he brought was not for her. Holly Palmer fell in love with The Ivy as soon as she saw it - the derelict pub had a history - maybe she should have taken note of it. John Naylor's future was on the line - join the army or face an inevitable future behind bars. His decision in 1936 was to turn him into a legend with those fighting against the tyranny of the jackboot. Jackie Blane hadn't always been a dance teacher, and when a surprise discovery in the London borough of Putney brought her face to face with her past, she was thrust suddenly under the spotlight of DCI Dennis Marks. Just four 'teasers' to set you on the way in this, Neal James' third volume of short stories. Like the first two books, you will find yourself down a succession of blind alleys which are Neal's stock-in-trade.
Author : L. Ron Hubbard
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 2011-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459629426
Chuck Lambert is taken advantage of by an unsavory real estate swindler of a galactic economy that sells unwary customers like him a planet where they can't sit down, because there's something the matter with its matter. But even though swindled, Chuck may just end up getting the last laugh....
Author : William Trevor
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,30 MB
Release : 2010-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199583140
Ireland has always been a nation of story-tellers. This magnificent anthology chronicles the development of a rich literary tradition, from the earliest folk-tales to James Joyce, Liam O'Flaherty, and the rising stars of the new generation.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 2344 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3967999831
This book contains70 short storiesfrom 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the criticAugust Nemo, in a collection that will please theliterature lovers. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: - Robert Louis Stevenson:The Waif Woman The Bottle Imp Thrawn Janet Markheim The Body Snatcher Olalla Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert E. Howard:Worms of the Earth The Queen of Black Coast Pigeons from Hell The Children of the Night Red Nails The Twilight of the Grey Gods The Shadow of the Vulture - G. K. Chesterton:The Blue Cross The Invisible Man The Man Who Was Thursday A Nightmare The Strange Crime of John Boulnois The Three Tools of Death The Wrong Shape The Mistake of the Machine - Edgar Wallace:The Cat Burglar Circumstantial Evidence The Ghost of Downhill The Poetical Policeman Red Aces The Four Just Men The Shadow Man - Arthur Machen:The Great God Pan The White People The Black Seal The Novel of the White Powder The Red Hand The Inmost Light The Bowmen - Ambrose Bierce:An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge One Summer Night The Death Of Halpin Frayser The Moonlit Road A Psychological Shipwreck The Stranger The Middle Toe of the Right Foot - Talbot Mundy:The Soul Of A Regiment The Pillar Of Light The Lady and the Lord Kitty Bruns Her Fingers The Mystic India Speaks The Real Red Root The Hermit and the Tiger - Abraham Merritt:The Pool Of The Stone God The Last Poet And The Robots The Fox Woman The People Of The Pit The Drone Through The Dragon Glass Three Lines Of Old French - Zane Grey:Amber's Mirage The Ranger Don: The Story Of A Lion Dog The Wolf Tracker Lure of the River A Missouri Schoolmarm Monty Price's Nightingale - Edgar Rice Burroughs:Tarzan's First Love A Jungle Joke Tarzan Rescues the Moon John Carter and the Giant Of Mars The Ancient Dead Beyond Thirty Skeleton Men of Jupiter
Author : Lee Child
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345537106
In thriller master Lee Child’s exclusive eBook short story, Jack Reacher must track down a spy in soldier’s clothing—by matching wits with four formidable females. Three are clean—but the fourth may prove fatal. Includes a thrilling preview of Lee Child’s hotly anticipated Jack Reacher novel, A Wanted Man! Summoned by Military Intelligence to Washington, D.C., Reacher is sent undercover. The assignment that awaits him: The army is meeting with its Capitol Hill paymasters for classified talks on a new, state-of-the-art sniper rifle for U.S. forces. But vital details about the weapon are leaking—straight from the Capitol and probably into the hands of unidentified foreign arms dealers. The prospect of any and every terrorist, mercenary, or dictator’s militia getting their hands on the latest superior firepower is unthinkable. That’s where Reacher comes in. His task: infiltrate the top-secret proceedings and smoke out the mole. His target: a quartet of high-powered Army political liaison officers—all of them fast-track women on their way to the top. According to his bosses, it’s a zero-danger mission. No need to draw a gun . . . just chat over drinks. But Reacher knows that things are rarely what they seem. And he’s learned the hard way never to underestimate an opponent. Or four. Lessons that will come in handy when he starts digging for the truth—and gets his hands a lot dirtier than he expected. “Child is a superb craftsman of suspense.”—Entertainment Weekly “The truth about Reacher gets better and better.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1380 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Maupassant (1850-1893) was a prodigious writer, particularly of short stories. This volume is divided into thirteen books of stories each with about a dozen stories. Maupassant's stories were often menacing or disturbing in some way.
Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 25,13 MB
Release : 1996-03-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0486289184
New edition features 7 of the most popular tales of one of the greatest of all short-story writers. Included are "La Parure," "Mademoiselle Fifi," "La Maison Tellier," "La Ficelle," "Miss Harriet," "Boule de Suif" and "Le Horla," all reflecting Maupassant's intimate familiarity with Paris and the universality of his creations.
Author : Eduardo Mayo
Publisher : Small Beer Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1931520372
A radical combination of emerging and established Mexican authors of original tales of the fantastic.
Author : GUY DE MAUPASSANT
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 1664 pages
File Size : 45,73 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
THE ENTIRE ORIGINAL MAUPASSANT SHORT STORIES "I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, in spite of their morbid solemnity, not an inexact summing up of the brief career during which, for ten years, the writer, by turns undaunted and sorrowful, with the fertility of a master hand-produced poetry, novels, romances and travels, only to sink prematurely into the abyss of madness and death. . . . . This book contains all thirteen volumes of his original short stories. THE ENTIRE ORIGINAL MAUPASSANT SHORT STORIES Over the course of his career, French writer Guy de Maupassant made a number of important contributions to the then-emergent genre of short stories. Today, critics regard him as one of the most accomplished virtuosos of short fiction. This comprehensive collection of Maupassant's short works showcases the writer's unique talents, which include an unvarnished, straightforward style and a mastery of narrative structure. THE ENTIRE ORIGINAL MAUPASSANT SHORT STORIES
