Longer days, holidays and hot weather! The same summer inspires us to enjoy the day and take ice cream, also inspired many writers to create their works. Read seven short stories by great writers, which bring us different perspectives on the hot summer days and their effect on the human soul. This book contains: - One Summer Night by Ambrose Bierce. - At A Summer Villa by Anton Chekhov. - A Midsummer Knight's Dream by O. Henry. - Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf. - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield. - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane. - Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker.

Longer days, holidays and hot weather! The same summer inspires us to enjoy the day and take ice cream, also inspired many writers to create their works. Read seven short stories by great writers, which bring us different perspectives on the hot summer days and their effect on the human soul. This book contains: - One Summer Night by Ambrose Bierce. - At A Summer Villa by Anton Chekhov. - A Midsummer Knight's Dream by O. Henry. - Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf. - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield. - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane. - Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker.

John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright, who won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. He came from a newly rich upper middle class commercial family. His works mainly dealt with the social class system prevalent at that time. He especially concentrated on the upper middle class to which his own family belonged. Although he treated his characters sympathetically, he highlighted their narrow-minded snobbishness and suffocating moral values. This selection chosen by the critic August Nemo contains the following stories: - The First and Last - A Stoic - The Apple Tree - The Juryman - Indian Summer of a Forsyte - The Hedonist - Buttercup Night

A prominent American sociologist, novelist, short story writer, poet, and lecturer for social reform, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a "utopian feminist." Her vast achievements, recorded during a period of American history where such feats were quite difficult for women, cast here as a role model for women everywhere. And her unorthodox concepts and lifestyles cast her as a role model for future generations of feminists.This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:When I Was a WitchThe Yellow WallpaperIf I were a manThe Giant Wistaria The Boys And The Butter!The CottagetteA Middle Sized Artist

Susan Glaspell was highly regarded in her time, and was well known as a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. Her short stories were regularly printed in the era's top periodicals, and her New York Times obituary states that she was "one of the nation's most widely-read novelists." With major achievements in drama, novel, and short fiction, Glaspell is often cited as a "prime example" of an overlooked female writer deserving canonization. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: His Smile "Government Goat" A Jury of Her Peers The Anarchist: His Dog "One of Those Impossible Americans" At Twilight From A to Z

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

Born in Sicily, Italy, Giovanni Verga was one of the creators of Verismo. Verismo is an Italian literary movement that emerged between 1875 and 1895, based on the works of writers and poets who constituted a school based on a set of realistic principles. Through this seven specially selected short stories you will have the opportunity to know the work of this author. - Rosso Malpello - Rustic Chivalry - How Peppa Loved Gramigna - Jeli, the Shepherd - La Lupa - The Story of St. Joseph's Ass - The Bereaved