Download or read book 7 best short stories Canada written by Emily Pauline Johnson and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the book series 7 best short stories specials, selection dedicated to a special subject, featuring works by noteworthy authors. The texts were chosen based on their relevance, renown and interest. This edition is dedicated to Canadian literature. Influences on Canadian writers are broad, both geographically and historically, representing Canada's diversity in culture and region. This book contains the following texts: A Red Girl's Reasoning by E. Pauline Johnson; My Financial Career by Stephen Leacock; An Alpine Divorce by Robert Barr; The Blood of Kings by Frank L. Packard; The Little Bell of Honour by Gilbert Parker; The Way of the Winning of Anne by L. M. Montgomery; Captain Joe and Jamie by Charles G. D. Roberts. Bonus content: The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People by John George Bourinot. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!
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Download or read book Best Canadian Stories 2020 written by Paige Cooper and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The right story, at the right time, if you happen to be open to it ... can perhaps move you so far outside of yourself that you will not consider going back.” “Like meeting a stranger, much of the pleasure of a story is its unknown power,” writes Best Canadian Stories 2020 guest editor Paige Cooper. “The right story, at the right time, if you happen to be open to it ... can perhaps move you so far outside of yourself that you will not consider going back.” From Festival du Voyageur to the shores of Lake Erie, Tbilisi to Toronto, the Amisk River to a hotel-turned-hospital in the midst of a mysterious pandemic, this wide-ranging anthology brings together the real and the speculative, small towns and big cities, grief and humour, introducing readers to stories that startle us into new understanding—of ourselves and each other, the worlds we inhabit and the ones they help us to imagine. Featuring work by: Maxime Raymond Bock • Lynn Coady • Kristyn Dunnion • Omar El Akkad • Camilla Grudova • Conor Kerr • Alex Leslie • Thea Lim • Madeleine Maillet • Cassidy McFadzean • Michael Melgaard • Jeff Noh • Casey Plett • Eden Robinson • Naben Ruthnum • Pablo Strauss • Souvankham Thammavongsa
Download or read book 7 best short stories by Stephen Leacock written by Stephen Leacock and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book 7 best short stories by Gilbert Parker written by Gilbert Parker and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-16 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Gilbert Parker was a British novelist of popular adventure and historical romances whose most widely known work was The Seats of the Mighty, a novel of the 17th-century conquest of Quebec. This book contains: - The Little Bell of Honour. - The Baron of Beaugard. - The Singing of the Bees. - The Marriage of the Miller. - Mathurin. - Uncle Jim. - Parpon the Dwarf.
Download or read book 7 best short stories by E Pauline Johnson written by E. Pauline Johnson and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-16 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Pauline Johnson, also known by her Mohawk stage name Tekahionwake, was a Canadian poet, author and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Not only was Johnson a poet and writer but she was a part of the New Woman movement due to the blending of her two cultures in her works and her criticisms of the Canadian government. Johnson was also a key figure in the construction of Canadian literature as an institution and has made an indelible mark on Indigenous women's writing and performance as a whole. This book contains: - The Shagganappi. - A Red Girl's Reasoning. - The King's Coin. - The Derelict. - Little Wolf-Willow. - Her Majesty's Guest. - The Brotherhood.
Download or read book 7 best short stories Time Travel written by Washington Irving and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you had a time machine for when would you go? To travel through time as if it were a highway is an ancient dream of mankind. The first stories of time travelers go back to the beginning of civilizations, being found in Hindu, Jewish and Japanese mythologies. But it was with science fiction that the concept became popular and began to inhabit the dreams of all of us. In this book you will find seven classics of time travel specially selected by the critic August Nemo. For more books with thought-provoking themes, be sure to check out the other volumes of this series! *** This book contains: - Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. - The Clock That Went Backward by Edward Page Mitchell. - The Chronic Argonauts by H. G. Wells. - Lost in Time by Arthur Leo Zagat. - The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper by H. G. Wells. - The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan. - A Dream of John Ball by William Morris.
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories written by Jane Urquhart and published by Penguin Books Canada. This book was released on 2007 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning collection of 60 stories--over a century's worth of the best Canadian literature by an extraordinary array of our finest writers--has been selected and is introduced by award-winning writer Jane Urquhart. Urquhart's selection includes stories by major literary figures such as Mavis Gallant, Carol Shields, Alistair MacLeod, and Margaret Atwood, and wonderful stories by younger writers, including Dennis Bock, Joseph Boyden, and Madeleine Thien. This collection is uniquely organized into five parts: the immigrant experience, urban life, family drama, fantasy and metaphor, and celebrating the past.
Download or read book 7 best short stories by James Oliver Curwood written by James Oliver Curwood and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.This edition is dedicated to James Oliver "Jim" Curwood was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. At least one hundred and eighty motion pictures have been based on or directly inspired by his novels and short stories; one was produced in three versions from 1919 to 1953. At the time of his death, Curwood was the highest paid author in the world.Works selected for this book:Back to God's Country; The Yellow-Back; The Fiddling Man; L'ange; The Case of Beauvais; The Other Man's Wife; The Strength of Men. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!
Download or read book 7 best short stories by Talbot Mundy written by Talbot Mundy and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talbot Mundy was an English-born American writer of adventure fiction. Based for most of his life in the United States, he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. During Mundy's career his work was often compared with that of his more commercially successful contemporaries, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, although unlike their work his adopted an anti-colonialist stance and expressed a positive interest in Asian religion and philosophy. His work has been cited as an influence on a variety of later science-fiction and fantasy writers.This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:The Soul Of A RegimentThe Pillar Of LightThe Lady and the LordKitty Bruns Her FingersThe Mystic India SpeaksThe Real Red RootThe Hermit and the Tiger
Download or read book 7 best short stories by John Buchan written by John Buchan and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although little known today, John Buchan's fiction was important in defining the present mystery fiction. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this author for your enjoyment: - The Last Crusade - Politics and the Mayfly - The Keeper of Cademuir - The Wife of Flanders - The Watcher by the Threshold - Comedy in the Full Moon - The Herd of Standlan
Download or read book 7 Best Short Stories by Charles W Chesnutt written by Charles W. Chesnutt and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles W. Chesnutt was an important voice in his day and remains a precious reading for those who want to better understand the period of construction of African American identity, from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. Critic August Nemo chose seven short stories that bring the best of this author to your appreciation. This books contains: - The Wife of His Youth - The Passing of Grandison - Her Virginia Mammy - The Bouquet - The Sheriffs' Children - The Web of Circunstance
Download or read book The Oxford Book of French Canadian Short Stories written by Richard Teleky and published by Brantford : W. Ross Macdonald School, 1985. (Toronto : CNIB). This book was released on 1983 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major historical collection of French-Canadian short stories in translation, spanning a century and a half, this anthology offers twenty-two stories that will entertain, charm, and often disturb. At the same time they reveal the development of the French-Canadian short-story form, and present many of the leading writers of French Canada.
Download or read book Canadian Short Stories written by Raymond Knister and published by Macmillan Company of Canada. This book was released on 1928 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Best Canadian Short Stories written by John Stevens and published by Seal Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite predictions of its early demise, the short story continues to flourish, fed by energy, nourished by talent. It's particularly alive and well in Canada where, since Confederation, we've been writing them, publishing them and reading them. This collection is brimming over with the excitement, variety and quality of that rich tradition. The stories vary in theme and style from the traditional to the highly imaginative. They explore the struggles of newcomers to adapt to the rigours of Canadian life, the problems and joys of family life and, that most fascinating and complex subject of all, the relationships between men and women. At a time when it is fashionable to question whether such a thing as a Canadian identity exists at all, this collection contains ample evidence of our own varied style and unique experience. it is an essential book, important for anyone with any claim to an interest in and knowledge of our literature.
Download or read book 7 best short stories Music written by Willa Cather and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is said that music begins where words end. But many writers have tried to merge these two worlds, either by portraying musicians as characters, or by writing about the effects of music on some plot. For music and literature lovers, critic August Nemo has selected seven short stories that blend these elements: - A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather - The Wind Blows by Katherine Mansfield - A Mother by James Joyce - The Music of Erich Zann by H. P. Lovecraft - The Music on the Hill by H.H. Munro (Saki) - A Lover of Music by Henry van Dyke - The Tragedy of a Comic Song by Leonard Merrick For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
Download or read book 7 Best Short Stories Courage written by Stephen Crane and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
