Books from Tacet Books
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7 best short stories by Washington Irving
By Washington Irving, August NemoThis selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Rip Van Winkle - The Devil and Tom Walker - Christmas - Guest from Gibbet Island - The Legend of the ...
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7 Best Short Stories by Ambrose Bierce
By Ambrose BierceThe. Death. Of. Halpin. Frayser. I. FOR BY DEATH IS WROUGHT greater change than hath been shown. Whereas in general the spirit that removed cometh back upon occasion, and is sometimes seen of those in flesh (appearing in the form of the ...
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7 best short stories by Leo Tolstoy
By Leo Tolstoy"How good and how simple!" he thought. "And the pain?" he asked himself. "What has become of it? Where are you, pain?" He turned his attention to it. "Yes, here it is. Well, what of it? Let the pain be." "And death...where is it?
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7 best short stories by Charlotte M. Yonge
By August Nemo, Charlotte M. YongeThe people of Moscow gathered round the convent, gazed at his cell, and told each other stories of his good works, ... He caused the death of his own son by a blow with that fatal staff of his; and a last, after a fever varied by ...
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7 best short stories by Edgar Wallace
By Edgar Wallace, August NemoWithin an hour the story of tragedy, inaccurate in detail, true in substance, filled the columns of the Press. Mystery on mystery! Who was this ill-dressed man, what part was he playing in the great game, how came he by his death? asked ...
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7 best short stories by John Buchan
By August Nemo, John BuchanLadas replied that they had considered the story too absurd to waste tolls on, but, since the C.C. was now ... The death of Mr Tubb was featured like the demise of a President or a film star, and there was a moving picture of the old ...
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7 Best Short Stories by Honoré de Balzac
By Honoré de BalzacDoes not the death of a parent often overtake young people thus in the fulness of life, in the wild enjoyment of an orgy? Death is as unexpected in her caprices as a woman in her fancies, but more faithful—Death has never duped any one.
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7 mejores cuentos - Francia
By Guy de Maupassant, August Nemo, Villiers de l'Isle Adam- Un expreso del futuro por Julio Verne. - Las fresas por Emile Zolá. - Alain el Gentil: Soldado por Marcel Schwob. - Las tres naranjas de amor por Alfred Musset. - Sombrío relato, narrador aún más sombrío por Villiers de l`Isle-Adam.
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7 mejores cuentos de Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent
By August Nemo, Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent... autores postsimbolistas y decadentes tocados por el Naturalismo como Joris-Karl Huysmans, Jean Lorrain, Madame Rachilde, OctaveHenri-Marie Mirabeau, y en cierta manera, Pierre Louys, Paul Verlaine y Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam.
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7 best short stories - Spain
By August Nemo, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Pedro Antonio de AlarcónIn this book, the critic August Nemo brings to readers a rich selection of seven short stories by Spanish authors. - The Tall Woman by Pedro Antonio De Alarcon. - The White Butterfly by Jose Selgas.
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7 best short stories by Herman Melville
By Herman Melville, August Nemo—So with outrageous cry, A thousand villeins round about him swarmed Out of the rocks and caves adjoining nye; ... During the successful revolt of the Spanish provinces from Old Spain, there fought on behalf of Peru a certain Creole ...
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7 best short stories by Honoré de Balzac
By August Nemo, Honoré de BalzacNotwithstanding his parole, he had to show himself every day to the sub-prefect. He was a Spanish grandee—neither more nor less. He had a name in os and dia, something like Bagos de Férédia. I wrote his name down in my books, ...
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7 Best Short Stories by Washington Irving
By Washington IrvingAt the dark and melancholy period when Don Roderick the Goth and his chivalry were overthrown on the banks of the Guadalete, and all Spain was overrun by the Moors, great was the devastation of churches and convents throughout that ...
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7 Best Short Stories by Kate Chopin
By Kate ChopinWhy could he not love Ozina, who would marry him to-morrow; or Fronie, or any one of a dozen others, rather than that little Spanish vixen? Calixta's slender foot had never touched Cuban soil; but her mother's had, and the Spanish was ...
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7 best short stories by A. E. W. Mason
By August Nemo, A. E. W. Masongave on to the passage which was shut off at its far end by another door from the square tulip-wood landing, at the head of the stairs. ... Sir Charles brought him back to his story. ... From Spain I worked my passage to England.
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7 Best Short Stories by Ernest Bramah
By Ernest Bramahhis identity such that he would have the best chance of remaining at large. ... The Southern people are popularly the most jealous and revengeful, so we must have a native of Italy or Spain, and the Italian is the more credible of the ...
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7 Best Short Stories: Detective Fiction
By Edgar Allan Poe, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan DoyleYou see me now with my back like a camel and my ribs all awry, but there was a time when Corporal Henry Wood was the smartest man in the 117th foot. We were in India then, in cantonments, at a place we'll call Bhurtee.
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7 Best Short Stories by Kathleen Norris
By Kathleen NorrisThe seven short stories that critic August Nemo carefully selected provide an overview of the themes and language of this important writer. Enjoy your reading!
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7 best short stories - London
By Stephen Crane, Louisa May Alcott, Virginia WoolfLOUISA MAY ALCOTT (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886).
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7 best short stories by Ruth McEnery Stuart
By August Nemo, Ruth McEnery StuartThis selection chosen by the critic August Nemocontains the following stories: - Sonny's Christenin' - Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets - The Two Tims - Old Easter - Saint Idyl's Light - Little Mother Quackalina - Blink