Download or read book 7 Best Short Stories by Jack London written by Jack London and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: The Law of Life To Build a Fire That Spot All Gold Canyon An Odyssey of the North A Piece of Steak Lost FaceJack London was born John Griffith Chaney on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California. After working in the Klondike, London returned home and began publishing stories. His novels, including The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Martin Eden, placed London among the most popular American authors of his time. London, who was also a journalist and an outspoken socialist, died in 1916.
Download or read book 7 best short stories London written by August Nemo and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, London is considered to be one of the world's most important global cities. Such a historically important city has certainly left its legacy in the imagination of writers. Check out the tales full of London's atmosphere selected by critic August Nemo: - Lost in a London Fog by Louisa May Alcott - London Impressions by Stephen Crane - A London Life by Henry James - The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle - The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad - Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street by Virginia Woolf - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
Download or read book Short Stories of Jack London written by Jack London and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of London's short stories includes adventure, comedy, social satire, and tall tales
Download or read book 7 best short stories by Jack London written by Jack London and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:The Law of LifeTo Build a FireThat SpotAll Gold CanyonAn Odyssey of the NorthA Piece of SteakLost Face
Download or read book 7 best short stories Murder written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death is one of the most important themes in literature - the fragility of human life and our own finitude have haunted authors since the early days. So what about murder? The act of taking a human life goes beyond the scope of crime and haunts our own concept of humanity. Many authors have dedicated themselves to this subject and you can check out these short stories in this volume of our collection. This book contains: - The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell. - The Caballero's Way by O. Henry. - The Sheriff's Children by Charles W. Chesnut. - Moon-face by Jack London. - Brothers by Sherwood Anderson. - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Download or read book Best Short Stories of Jack London written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of London's best short stories - brilliant, poetic, swift with violence and action, set from the Far North to the South Seas. The tales in this volume have been thrilling readers for most of this century.
Download or read book 7 best short stories by Arthur Machen written by Arthur Machen and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was born in 1863 in Wales, in Caerlson-Usk. He settled in London, still young, where he was a bookstore clerk for a few months, becoming a preceptor. Subsequently, he began to write in total material shortage and fatigue. For a long time he lived on translations. Still unrecognized, he continued his work with a growing feeling that "an immense spiritual gulf separated him from other men" and that he lived as a "Robinson Crusoe of the soul."A curious fact was that he, along with W. B. Yeats and Aleister Crowley, was a member of the "Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn," the ill-fated 20th century magic society.His work is acclaimed worldwide and has already been recognized by such big names as H. P. Locecraf, Stephen King and Jorge Luis Borges. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:The Great God PanThe White PeopleThe Black SealThe Novel of the White PowderThe Red HandThe Inmost LightThe Bowmen
Download or read book 7 best short stories by Margaret Oliphant written by Margaret Oliphant and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Oliphant was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works encompass "domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural". This book contains seven short stories specially selected by critic August Nemo: - A window's tale. - Queen Eleanor and fair Rosamond - Mademoiselle - The Lily and the thorn - The strange adventures of John Percival - A story of a wedding-tour - John
Download or read book 7 Best Short Stories by Anthony Trollope written by Anthony Trollope and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Trollope wrote convincing novels of political life as well as studies that show great psychological penetration. One of his greatest strengths was a steady, consistent vision of the social structures of Victorian England, which he re-created in his books with unusual solidity. This selection of short stories brings you the best of Trollope selected by August Nemo: The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box The Mistletoe Bough The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne Returning Home An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids The Courtship of Susan Bell The Relics of General Chasse
Download or read book 7 best short stories by Thomas Burke written by Thomas Burke and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Burke's writing blends several styles to create a dramatic portrait of London. Limehouse Nights and its various sequels classified Burke as a "purveyor of melodramatic stories of lust and murder among London's lower classes". Both his essays and fiction, focusing particularly on Limehouse Nights, are characterised, seemingly paradoxically, with harsh realities and more romanticised, poetic outlooks. This selection chosen by the critic August Nemocontains the following stories: - The Chink and the Child - The Father of Yoto - Gracie Goodnight - The Paw - The Cue - Beryl, the Croucher and the Rest of England - The Sign of the Lamp
Download or read book 7 best short stories by G K Chesterton written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English journalist and writer, born in London on May 29, 1874. He was educated at St. Paul's School and then joined the Slade School of London to study arts. His family was Anglican, but in 1922 Chesterton was converted to Catholicism by influence of the writer Hilaire Belloc with whom maintained great friendship. Chesterton was also well-known in his day for the debates with George Bernard Shaw, H. Wells, Bertrand Russell, and Clarence Darrow, in which his logic of thought and good humor won the public. He died on June 14, 1936, leaving all his assets to the Catholic Church. In this volume the critic August Nemo selected some if his most interesting stories: 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
Download or read book 7 Best Short Stories Dystopia written by H. G. Wells and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book 7 best short stories Dogs written by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 106 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 Dogs.Cultural depictions of dogs extend back thousands of years to when dogs were portrayed on the walls of caves. Representations of dogs in art became more elaborate as individual breeds evolved and the relationships between human and canine developed. Dogs were depicted to symbolize guidance, protection, loyalty and love.This book contains the following texts:- A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane; - Memoirs of a Yellow Dog by O. Henry; - The Anarchist: His Dog by Susan Glaspell; - The Dog by Ivan Turgenev; - To Build a Fire by Jack London; - A Dogs Tale by Mark Twain; - Little-Girl-Afraid-of-a-Dog by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
Download or read book 7 best short stories by Stacy Aumonier written by Stacy Aumonier and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was as a short-story writer that Stacy Aumonier was most highly regarded. Fellow writers stated that some of his short stories were among the best ever written. Rebecca West said of his writing in 1922 that his ability to blend reality with the imaginary was "the envy of all artists." This selection chosen by the critic August Nemocontains the following stories: - A Source of Irritation - Where Was Wych Street? - Burney's Laugh - The Chinese Philosopher and the European War - Cricket - George - "Solemn-Looking Blokes"
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 7 Best Short Stories British Authors written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British literary tradition is very rich. It unites the heritage of its own classics, such as medieval and Shakespeare productions, as well as the cultural influences of the various colonies and peoples who, throughout history, have mixed into British imagination. The critic August Nemo brings an excerpt of this rich cultural heritage through seven specially selected short stories: - The Blue Cross by G.K. Chesterton - The Red-Headed League by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Quality by John Galsworthy - A Love-Knot by W. W. Jacobs - The Shades of Spring by D. H. Lawrence - Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf - The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy
Download or read book 7 best short stories by H G Wells written by H. G. Wells and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!
