Great English Short Stories
Title | Great English Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Negri |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2012-09-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0486114171 |
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
Best Short Stories
Title | Best Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Franz Kafka |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2013-04-09 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0486320022 |
DIVFive great stories in original German with new, literal English translations on facing pages: "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy." /div
Great American Short Stories
Title | Great American Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Negri |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2012-03-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0486114678 |
Features 19 gems in the American short-story tradition, including "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, plus stories by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Hawthorne, Twain, others.
The Penguin Book of English Short Stories
Title | The Penguin Book of English Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Dolley |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Short stories, English |
ISBN |
The Golden Age of the English short story lies from its first wide acceptance in the middle of the 19th century until the middle of the 20th. This book celebrates this period through some of the most widely known writers of the time.
Great Russian Short Stories
Title | Great Russian Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Negri |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2012-05-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0486112241 |
Twelve powerful works of fiction, including Pushkin's "The Overcoat," "Twenty-Six Men and a Girl" by Gorky, and "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" by Tolstoy, plus works by Gogol, Turgenev, more.
Five Great Short Stories
Title | Five Great Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Jack London |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 99 |
Release | 2012-04-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0486153576 |
Five exciting tales that epitomize Jack London's mastery of the adventure story: "The White Silence," "In a Far Country," "An Odyssey of the North," "The Seed of McCoy," and "The Mexican." Publisher's Note.
100 Great Short Stories
Title | 100 Great Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | James Daley |
Publisher | Courier Dover Publications |
Pages | 766 |
Release | 2015-02-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0486803287 |
"This is a wonderful collection of authors from America and around the world. Centuries are covered, making this a great resource for English teachers and any lover of literature." — Life Community Church This treasury of one hundred tales offers students and other readers of short fiction a splendid selection of stories by masters of the form. Contributors from around the world include Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Anton Chekhov, Mark Twain, Saki, Luigi Pirandello, Kate Chopin, and Ring Lardner. The stories, which are arranged chronologically, begin with tales by Daniel Defoe ("The Apparition of Mrs. Veal," 1705), Benjamin Franklin ("Alice Addertongue," 1732), and Washington Irving ("The Devil and Tom Walker," 1824). Highlights from the nineteenth century include Ivan Turgenev's "The District Doctor" (1852), Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron" (1886), Thomas Hardy's "Squire Petrick's Lady" (1891), and Rudyard Kipling's "Wee Willie Winkie" (1899). From the twentieth century come James Joyce's "Araby" (1914), Franz Kafka's "The Judgment" (1916), Virginia Woolf's "The Mark on the Wall" (1921), "The Broken Boot" (1923) by John Galsworthy, and many others. "A fabulous collections of stories sure to please any reader! The chronological layout is perfect for those looking to explore the development of stories over time and their relation to society." — Whitchurch-Stouffville Public Library