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Jack Londons remarkable success as a shortstory writer came at a critical moment in American literary history The vacuum created by the deaths of Stephen Crane and Frank Norris the suppression of Theodore Dreiser the disaffection of Henry James and the decline into old age of Mark Twain and William Dean Howells had been filled by a host of longforgotten popular hacks Londons emergence came as a tremendous shock Like Stanfords edition of Jack Londons letters this edition of his short stories will revolutionize not only London studies but cultural studies of all kinds that are focused on the Progressive Era in American history Finally this authoritative carefully edited collection includes an extensive introduction that indicates a breadth and depth of scholarship that compels as much admiration as it does interest Joseph R McElrath Jr Florida State University
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Excerpt from The Complete Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant Ten Volumes in OneFor many days now the fagend of the army had been straggling through the town They were not troops but a disbanded horde The beards of the men were long and filthy their uniforms in tatters and they advanced at an easy pace without flag or regiment All seemed wornout and backbroken inca pable of a thought or a resolution marching by habit solely and falling from fatigue as soon as they stopped In short they were a mobilized pacific peo ple bending under the weight of the gun some little squads or The alert easy to take alarm and prompt in enthusiasm ready to attack or to flee and in the midst of them some red breeches the remains of a division broken up in a great battle son e somber artillery men in line with these varied kinds of foot soldiers and sometimes the brilliant helmet of a dragoon on foot who fol lowed with difficulty the shortest march of the linesSome legions of freeshooters under the heroic names of Avengers of the Defeat Citizens of the Tomb Par takers of Death passed in their turn with the air of banditsAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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For the first time the complete collected short stories of the author of Empire of the Sun Cocaine Nights and SuperCannes regarded by many as Britains No 1 living fiction writer With sixteen novels over four decades from The Drowned World in 1962 to his highly acclaimed SuperCannes in 2000 JG Ballard is firmly established as one of Britains most highly regarded and original novelists For all that time he has also written short stories in fact many people consider that he is at his best in the shortstory format These stories have appeared in magazines such as New Worlds Amazing Stories and Interzone and in several separate collections including The Voices of Time The Terminal Beach The Day of Forever The Venus Hunters The Disaster Area Vermilion Sands LowFlying Aircraft Myths of the Near Future and War Fever Now for the first time all of JG Ballards published stories including four stories that have not previously appeared in a collection have been gathered together in one volume and set out in the order in which they were originally published providing an unprecedented opportunity to review the career of one of Britains greatest writers
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Fiftyone stories deal with crime supernatural terror ghosts a hypochondriac and an art collector
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Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds But it was in his short stories written when he was a young man embarking on a literary career that he first explored the enormous potential of the scientific discoveries of the day He described his stories as a miscellany of inventions yet his enthusiasm for science was tempered by an awareness of its horrifying destructive powers and the threat it could pose to the human race A consummate storyteller he made fantastic creatures and machines entirely believable and by placing ordinary men and women in extraordinary situations he explored with humor what it means to be alive in a century of rapid scientific progress At the dawn of a new millennium Wells singular vision is more compelling than ever
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Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds But it was in his short stories written when he was a young man embarking on a literary career that he first explored the enormous potential of the scientific discoveries of the day He described his stories as a miscellany of inventions yet his enthusiasm for science was tempered by an awareness of its horrifying destructive powers and the threat it could pose to the human race A consummate storyteller he made fantastic creatures and machines entirely believable and by placing ordinary men and women in extraordinary situations he explored with humor what it means to be alive in a century of rapid scientific progress At the dawn of a new millennium Wells singular vision is more compelling than ever
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Book Jacket Status JacketedEvelyn Waughs short stories are the marvelous concentrated riffs of his comic genius revealing in miniaturized perfection all the elements that made him the greatest comic writer of our century We find in them Waughs almost superhuman technical skill as a writer and his quicksilver attentiveness to the minutiae of human absurdity as well as his worldly knowledge his tenderness his perceptive compassion and his sophisticated disabused but nevertheless forceful idealism The thirtynine stories collected here include such small masterpieces as Mr Lovedays Little Outing and ScottKings Modern Europe an alternative ending to Waughs novel A Handful of Dust a missing chapter in the life of Charles Ryder the hero of Brideshead Revisited and two linked stories remnants of an abandoned novel that Waugh considered his best writingThis edition contains the original illustrations to Love Among the Ruins as well as more than thirty graphics produced by the author as an Oxford undergraduate in the 1920s
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Sixty stories present moral lessons facetious advice tongueincheek memoirs and modern fables told in Twains style of humor satire or bitter irony
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This anthology of anthologies contains H H Munros excellent short stories derived from a total of six compilations which were published over the course of twenty years Containing all of his best regarded and famous short tales as well as a sizeable host of hidden gems and lesserknown treasures this gigantic compendium is comprehensive and certain to satisfy any fan of the author The sensual tantalising and distinctly moral nature of the stories usually rail against the stifling conventions of society in the end the natural world and people acting naturally tend to come out on top The recognisable style with which Saki tells his tales make their endings which are usually surprising and witty a keynote feature of every story Sakis ingrained wit and the casually biting nature of the topics he chooses often leads certain characters and the things they represent to ridicule usually to the great satisfaction of the reader
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Language EnglishPages 3224About the BookPremchand 18801936 considered one of the greatest fiction writers in Hindi was born Dhanpat Rai in Lamahi a small village near Benares He wrote in Urdu under the name Nawab Rai and changed it to Premchand when his collection of short stories Soze Watan was seized for sedition in 1909 In a prolific career spanning three decades Premchand wrote fourteen novels two plays almost 300 short stories and several articles reviews and editorials He edited four journals and also set up his own printing press Though best known for his stories exposing the horrors of poverty and social injustice he wrote on a variety of themes with equal felicityromance satire social dramas nationalist tales and yarns steeped in folkloreBack of the BookMunshi Premchand widely lauded as the greatest Hindi fiction writer of the twentieth century wrote close to 300 short stories in the course of a
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This comprehensive collection of Twains short stories showcases his immense talent humor and wit Considered to be the greatest American humorist of all time Mark Twain was born in 1835 and was raised in Hannibal Missouri where many of his most wellknown stories take place Twain led an adventurous life working as a type setter for his brothers newspaper as a young man then as a riverboat pilot on the Missouri river followed by a stint as a miner in Nevada and California and then finally as a journalist and writer where he found success and fame These experiences would form the basis of many of his most famous tales such as The Celebrated Jumping Frog from Calaveras County the first story to bring him national attention and fame and was based on a tale he heard while mining in California While Twain may be best known for his accomplishments as a novelist this collection of short stories spanning his lengthy and prolific career showcases his brilliant ability to create fascinating characters his expert plotting and his unrivaled wit and humor This edition is printed on premium acidfree paper
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ROBERT LEWIS STEVENSON The Complete Short Stories The Centenary Edition 2 Volume Set sold without hardcase sleeve as stated on copyright page Edited with intro by Ian Bell 2 6x9 479 amp 447 pages published by Henry Holt and Company
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Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds But it was in his short stories written when he was a young man embarking on a literary career that he first explored the enormous potential of the scientific discoveries of the day He described his stories as a miscellany of inventions yet his enthusiasm for science was tempered by an awareness of its horrifying destructive powers and the threat it could pose to the human race A consummate storyteller he made fantastic creatures and machines entirely believable and by placing ordinary men and women in extraordinary situations he explored with humor what it means to be alive in a century of rapid scientific progress At the dawn of a new millennium Wells singular vision is more compelling than ever
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Mark Twains famous novels Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn available in Everyman have long been hailed as major masterpieces but it is less well known that the father of American literature also made his mark as a master of the short story This is the only edition in hardcover of his complete shorter fiction sixty tales spanning a long career many rollicking and uproarious some sombre and even shocking Included of course are such immortal classics as The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 1865 a humorous piece set in GoldRush California which helped establish the young authors reputation and The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg 1899 a satirical novella in which a selfrighteously respectable American small town is exposed as a fraud
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Collects all 58 of the distinguished American authors short stories in order of their first publication
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Background information on Stevensons life and career accompanies his stories and novellas including The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Body Snatcher and The Bottle Imp
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Collects the authors fortyseven short stories in three volumes
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The writers New England heritage is well represented in 72 short stories of keen psychological insight
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