Author: James Daley Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: 0486803287 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 766
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"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
Author: Prakash Book Depot Publisher: Fingerprint! Publishing ISBN: 9789388810548 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 0
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The short story is one of the finest forms of writing. As short as a paragraph at times, or as lengthy as a novel, short stories are widely read and immensely lauded. Some of the most exceptional writers have dabbled in this form penning beautiful, unforgettable stories. In this carefully-crafted selection, we bring to you some of the greatest writers from around the world-- the iconic storytellers from America, such as Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, the legendary Grimm brothers from Germany, to the lyrical Rabindranath Tagore from India, and the witty H H Munro from Britain. All these and many more remarkable people come together in this edition . . . and all have stories to tell. An anthology beginning with Aesop's fables-- perhaps the first stories we come across-- and ending with Virginia Woolf's gothic, thrilling ' The Haunted House', 100 World's Greatest Short Stories brings together stories short and sweet, descriptive and lengthy, and stories that can do anything-- from telling a tale to hiding its narrator, from portraying the reality to diving into pure imagination-- and are a must-read for every fiction lover."
Author: Florence Goyet Publisher: Open Book Publishers ISBN: 1909254754 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 199
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The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular - the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - even the greatest writers followed strict generic conventions that were far from subtle. This expanded and updated translation of Florence Goyet's influential La Nouvelle, 1870-1925: Description d'un genre à son apogée (Paris, 1993) is the only study to focus exclusively on this classic period across different continents. Ranging through French, English, Italian, Russian and Japanese writing - particularly the stories of Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Giovanni Verga, Anton Chekhov and Akutagawa Ry?nosuke - Goyet shows that these authors were able to create brilliant and successful short stories using the very simple 'tools of brevity' of that period. In this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers and higher-end periodicals. She demonstrates that, despite the apparent intention of these stories to question bourgeois ideals, they mostly affirmed the prejudices of their readers. In doing so, her book forces us to re-think our preconceptions about this 'forgotten' genre.
Author: Priyal Jhaveri Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781535394727 Category : Languages : en Pages : 48
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In Short Stories from Around the World, Vol. II we have different stories that help teach kids different values and morals. Learning morals, lessons, and good characteristics can start at a young age. By providing a comfortable and entertaining environment, learning can be a fun activity!
Author: James Daley Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486447162 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 257
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Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features short stories by great nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe. Included are Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," in which two waiters and a lonely customer in a Spanish cafe confront the concept of nothingness; "A & P," John Updike's most anthologized story and one of his most popular; "Borges and I," typical Jorge Luis Borges — imaginative, philosophical, and mysterious; as well as short masterpieces by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Herman Melville, Thomas Mann, Guy de Maupassant, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, D. H. Lawrence, and ten other great writers. Prime examples of the classic short story, these enduring literary treasures will be invaluable to students and teachers as well as to anyone who appreciates the finely turned tale.
Author: Graham K. Riach Publisher: Liverpool University Press ISBN: 1835533930 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 141
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The Short Story after Apartheid offers the first major study of the anglophone short story in South Africa since apartheid’s end. By focusing on the short story this book complicates models of South African literature dominated by the novel and contributes to a much-needed generic and formalist turn in postcolonial studies. Literary texts are sites of productive struggle between formal and extra-formal concerns, and these brief, fragmentary, elliptical, formally innovative stories offer perspectives that reframe or revise important concerns of post-apartheid literature: the aesthetics of engaged writing, the politics of the past, class and race, the legacies of violence, and the struggle over the land. Through an analysis of key texts from the period by Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavić, Zoë Wicomb, Phaswane Mpe, and Henrietta Rose-Innes, this book assesses the place of the short story in post-apartheid writing and develops a fuller model of how artworks allow and disallow forms of social thought.
Author: Short Story Press Publisher: Short Story Press ISBN: 1648913849 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 37
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Short Story Press Presents Enchanted Steps by Casie Stilwell Emilia was a normal teenage girl on the verge of elopement when her entire world was turned upside down by a catastrophic accident. Left miserable and deformed, Emilia uncovers a magical family secret that promises to bring her salvation, and eventually…her destruction. In this small town, in a land far away, the people are being preyed upon by an unknown presence, and many have been abducted. Fear and ignorance ensue and blame is soon set at the doorstep of a disfigured and reclusive Emilia, and she is hunted as a witch. She has one chance and one chance only, to save a small boy from a terrible fate and prove that even though she is a witch, she is not the one behind these nefarious plots. All alone, Emilia endeavors to use her magic in this hair-raising adventure filled with magic shoes, hairy beasts and mutated monkeys. Willemena, Emilia’s jealous older sister, has a dark side. Emilia had the good looks, the handsome boy, the love of their father and more magical power than Willemena could imagine. Watch as Willemena’s jealousy quickly becomes maniacal and twisted in this fantastical story about what really happened before Dorothy landed in Oz. Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.
Author: Short Story Press Publisher: Short Story Press ISBN: 1648913032 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 31
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Short Story Press Presents Parallel Divergence by Lynda Rodriguez Parallel Divergence is a new take on the story of a love affair gone horribly wrong. The narrator is one of the many women who find themselves embroiled in a romantic situation that they never saw coming. The unnamed woman discovers that she could, indeed , be any woman in any place. The middle aged woman who narrates has grown complacent with her life. She becomes increasingly discontent as she realizes that her children are growing older and she hasn’t quite moved in the direction that she always wanted. She pursues a long time interest in photography. Her teacher is dark and mysterious and seems to be exactly what she needs to add a spark into her dull life. Their affair advances from a one-time fling into a full blown affair, causing the town gossips to reveal her secret to her husband. Her terrified husband accommodates her in her struggle for happiness. Then an anonymous girl approaches her with information about her lover’s past. All things come to a resolution with a surprising twist at the end. Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.
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