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"Selected Tales and Sketches" is a collection of the best short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Collected here are the following tales: The Gray Champion, Sunday at Home, The Minister's Black Veil, The May-Pole of Merry Mount, Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe, Wakefield, The Prophetic Pictures, The Hollow...

‘When the story is finished, Muriel and Polly sit in silence. The coloured lights on the fuchsia bush twinkle against the black sea and the black mountain and the black sky. They sit in silence. They let the story settle.’ Drawing on the Irish proverb, Ar Scáth a Chéile...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's works are staples in the canon of American literature. The author drew upon the early Puritan influences that played a major role in the country's history and exploited them through mystery, creativity, science, and witchcraft. Hawthorne wrote with a psychological view of his characters...

The complexity and range of Robert Louis Stevenson’s short fiction reveals his genius perhaps more than any other medium. Here, leading Stevenson scholar Barry Menikoff arranges and introduces the complete selection of Stevenson’s brilliant stories, including the famed masterpiece Strange Case...

THE SHORT STORIES OF N.G. DIAN * He Put A Flower In My Hair * I Know I Miss You * The Miracle of My Aunt’s Hands

A trio of short stories about spiritual faith in uncertain times."A Leap of Faith" - A young man contemplates suicide by leaping in front of a speeding train when an old bus driver shows him the miraculous wonders of everyday living that makes life more meaningful."The Devil Came A-Collecting"...

The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. A widespread favourite of scholars, critics and...

Chekhov's trilogy of interlinked stories about Truth, Freedom and Love. First published in 1898 in Russian and released as separate stories. This title, based on translations by Constance Garnett with revision and adaptation by Max Bollinger follows Chekhov's original vision by bringing the three stories together once again.

THE COMPLETE WORKS! Novels, Short-Stories, Essays, Letters, The Library of Humor, Non-Fiction, Travel-Writing and Speeches The Ultimate Collection of Mark Twain - In One Beautifully Formatted Volume! Mark Twain is undoubtedly America's most famous literary icon, and the author of "Huckleberry...

HERE is my first collection of short stories. 600 pages of 35 bodies of work, all guaranteed to make you laugh, cry, wretch, and hopefully relate to another bold soul that is kicking at this can called life. Print it off, read it, share it, enjoy it. I hope that anyone who delves into it can find...

The main story opens with a rendition of a medical malpractice jury trial against a surgeon, a hospital, a nurse, and a group of surgeons in a jurisdiction where the medical care professionals win 90 per cent of this type of civil litigation. The remainder of the book relates a collection of stories...

Crying Never Solved Anything is a collection of 10 short stories for kids that teaches them extremely important life lessons and traditional family values. At a time when children are encouraged to be soft and weak. Safe Spaces are built everywhere to protect a generation from even the opinions of...

With Star Over Bethlehem, the beloved Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie shines in a totally unexpected way, offering readers a wondrous collection of poems and holiday short stories. A retelling of the Christmas Story in a way you’ve never heard it before. . . . The fable of a donkey who...

An intriguing, fabulously bizarre debut collection of short stories by prize-winning German writer Ingo Schulze, author of Simple Stories*.* These thirty-three macabre, often comical short pieces revolve around moments of odd bliss–moments seized by characters who have found ways to conquer...