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Book A Lodging for the Night  and Other Stories

Download or read book A Lodging for the Night and Other Stories written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Lodging for the Night

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Publisher : Modernista
  • Release : 2024-05-30
  • ISBN : 9180949169
  • Pages : 27 pages

Download or read book A Lodging for the Night written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a night of debauchery and crime, the notorious poet François Villon seeks refuge from the cold and the law. He finds shelter in the home of a reclusive old man, leading to a night of philosophical debate and moral reckoning. »A Lodging for the Night« is a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, originally published in 1877. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON [1850–1894] was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. He is among the 30 most translated authors of all time and has been praised by Marcel Proust, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, Ernest Hemingway, and Bertolt Brecht. Treasure Island is his most famous work, along with the gothic sci-fi novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde.

Book Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories

Download or read book Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How thin is the line between good and evil? Discover the classic tale of gothic horror Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature and allows him occasionally to abandon himself to his most corrupt inclinations as the monstrous Mr Hyde. But gradually he begins to find that the journey back to goodness becomes more and more difficult, and the risk that Mr Hyde will break free entirely from Dr Jekyll's control puts all of London in grave peril.

Book The Strange Case of Dr  Jekyll and Mr  Hyde and Other Stories

Download or read book The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Knickerbocker Classics. This book was released on 2016-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This elegant gift edition of The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde is the classic story of a man with two very different personalities.

Book A Lodging for the Night

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  • Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2015-12-14
  • ISBN : 9781522745297
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book A Lodging for the Night written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850 - 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins."

Book Square Persimmon and Other Stories

Download or read book Square Persimmon and Other Stories written by Takashi Atoda and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Square Persimmon and Other Stories is an introduction to Takashi Atoda—one of Japan's most popular and versatile writers of fiction. Takashi Atocia is a master storyteller. Like the bar madam in "The Glow of Lipstick," he is capable of weaving a tale that captures the reader's attention from beginning to end. His plots deal with ordinary people, yet the emotional impact of each story is unusually strong. His down-to-earth characters inhabit a world that may at first appear familiar, but Atoda can so manipulate a scene that suddenly the reader is wondering whether it is reality or illusion that he is observing. Many stories feature bizarre endings. In these eleven stories, Atoda examines universal themes-first love, lost love, change, fate-through unmistakably Japanese eyes. The dreamlike quality of some stories invites the reader to draw his own conclusions in the denouement. Yet, in each one, Atoda brings to bear his precise style and his own unique vision, by turns mysterious, romantic, darkly humorous, and even bizarre.

Book The Griffith Project  Volume 6

Download or read book The Griffith Project Volume 6 written by Paolo Cherchi Usai and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1912 is the first 'golden year' in the career of D.W. Griffith. There is still a wealth of treasures waiting to be uncovered in this year. Their reappraisal is one of the aims of this sixth installment in the multi-year research project commissioned by the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in Sacile.

Book Great English Short Stories

Download or read book Great English Short Stories written by Paul Negri and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVFirst-rate selections include Hardy's "The Fiddler of the Reels," James' "Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad," Dickens' "The Haunted Hotel," and tales by Saki, Kipling, Lawrence, Trollope, Stevenson, and others. /div

Book Art and Commerce in the British Short Story  1880   1950

Download or read book Art and Commerce in the British Short Story 1880 1950 written by Dean Baldwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short story was a commercial phenomenon which took off in the late nineteenth century and lasted through to the rise of television and film. Baldwin uses a wide variety of sources to show how economic factors helped to dictate how and what a wide variety of authors wrote.

Book Life of Goethe

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  • Author : Julius Moritzen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1924
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book Life of Goethe written by Julius Moritzen and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Book of Real Adventures

Download or read book Book of Real Adventures written by Charles Joseph Finger and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crimes of Love and Other Stories

Download or read book Crimes of Love and Other Stories written by Marquês de Sade and published by Lebooks Editora. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who have read other works by the Marquis de Sade, particularly "The 120 Days of Sodom," and are aware of the vast scope he gives to the word libertinism, will find a Sade this time more sensual than perverse. And this is not a negative factor; on the contrary, the Marquis's writing surprises with its quality and beauty. However, promiscuity is present throughout the work. His critique remains constantly aimed at holy women, virgins, and institutions such as the clergy and marriage, which led to his works being censored even a century after their publication. In this complete edition of "Contes Libertins," the reader will find 14 stories that represent an excellent sample of the irreverent, provocative, and boundless Marquis de Sade.

Book The Pot Boiler

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  • Author : Upton Sinclair
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book The Pot Boiler written by Upton Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

Download or read book The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories written by Leo Tolstoy and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'no one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied' As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' and the other works in this volume, Tolstoy conjures characters who, tested to the limit, reveal glorious and unexpected reserves of courage or baseness of a near inhuman kind. Two vivid parables and 'The Forged Coupon', a tale of criminality, explore class relations after the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 and the connection between an ethical life and worldly issues. In 'Master and Workman' Tolstoy creates one of his most gripping dramas about human relationships put to the test in an extreme situation. 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' is an existential masterpiece, a biting satire that recounts with extraordinary power the final illness and death of a bourgeois lawyer. In his Introduction Andrew Kahn explores Tolstoy's moral concerns and the stylistic features of these late stories, sensitively translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Book A Lodging for the Night

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Stevenson
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2013-12
  • ISBN : 9781494423872
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book A Lodging for the Night written by Robert Stevenson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Lodging For the Night is a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Arthur Conan Doyle, Cesare Pavese, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins.

Book Hard Times  And Other Stories

Download or read book Hard Times And Other Stories written by Charles Dickens and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When "Hard Times" appeared as a serial in Household Words in 1854, Dickens was about midway in his literary career. In the same year this novel appeared in an octavo volume with a dedication to Thomas Carlyle. Its purpose, according to Dickens himself, was to satirize "those who see figures and averages and nothing else—the representatives of the wickedest and most enormous vice of this time — the men who through long years to come will do more to damage the really useful facts of Political Economy than I could do (if I tried) in my whole life." The satire, however, like much that Dickens attempted in the same vein, was not very bitter. The characters in "Hard Times" are not numerous; and the plot itself is less intricate than others by the same author. The chief figures are Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, "a man of realities," with his unbounded faith in statistics; Louisa, his eldest daughter; and Josiah Bounderby, as practical as Mr. Gradgrind, but less kind-hearted. Louisa, though many years younger than Mr. Bounderby, is persuaded by her father to marry him. She is also influenced in making this marriage by her desire to smooth the path of her brother Tom, a clerk in Mr. Bounderby's office. Though not happy, she resists the blandishments of James Harthouse, a professed friend of her husband's. To escape him she has to go home to her father; and this leads to a permanent estrangement between husband and wife. In the mean time Tom Gradgrind has stolen money from Bounderby, and to avoid punishment runs away from England ...

Book The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories

Download or read book The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories written by O. Henry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their surprise endings. He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He changed the spelling of his middle name to Sydney in 1898. A collection of Short Storys by William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) THE TRIMMED LAMP A MADISON SQUARE ARABIAN NIGHT THE RUBAIYAT OF A SCOTCH HIGHBALL THE PENDULUM TWO THANKSGIVING DAY GENTLEMEN THE ASSESSOR OF SUCCESS THE BUYER FROM CACTUS CITY THE BADGE OF POLICEMAN O'ROON BRICKDUST ROW THE MAKING OF A NEW YORKER VANITY AND SOME SABLES THE SOCIAL TRIANGLE THE PURPLE DRESS THE FOREIGN POLICY OF COMPANY 99 THE LOST BLEND A HARLEM TRAGEDY ""THE GUILTY PARTY"" ACCORDING TO THEIR LIGHTS A MIDSUMMER KNIGHT'S DREAM THE LAST LEAF THE COUNT AND THE WEDDING GUEST THE COUNTRY OF ELUSION THE FERRY OF UNFULFILMENT THE TALE OF A TAINTED TENNER ELSIE IN NEW YORK Get Your Copy Now.