Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 12

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 12
Author: Andy Adams
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 1227
Release: 2020-04-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3967991334

This book contains70 short storiesfrom 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the criticAugust Nemo, in a collection that will please theliterature lovers. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: - Mór Jókai:Thirteen at Table. The Celestial Slingers. The Bad Old Times. The Hostile Skulls. Love And The Little Dog. The Justice Of Soliman A Turkish Story. The Compulsory DiversionAn Old Baron's Yarn. - Andy Adams:Drifting North. Siegerman's Per Cent. "Bad Medicine". A Winter Round-Up. A College Vagabond. The Double Trail. Rangering. - B. M. Bower:The Lonesome Trail. First Aid To Cupid. When The Cook Fell Ill. The Lamb. The Spirit of the Range. The Reveler. The Unheavenly Twins - Richard Middleton:The Ghost Ship. A Drama of Youth. The New Boy. On the Brighton Road. A Tragedy in Little. Sheperd's Boy. The Passing of Edward. - Pierre Louÿs:Woman and Puppy. The New Pleasure. Byblis. Leda. Immortal Love. The Artist Triumphant. The Hill Of Horsel. - Hugh Walpole:The Whistle. The Silver Mask The Staircase. A carnation for an old man. Tarnhelm Mr. Oddy. Seashore Macabre. - Henry Handel Richardson:The End of a Childhood. The Bathe. Succedaneum. Mary Christina. "And Women Must Weep". Sister Ann. The Coat. - Gertrude Stein:Ada. Miss furr and Miss Skeen. France. Americans. Italians. A Sweet Tail. In the Grass. - E. Phillips Oppenheim:The Noxious Gift. Traske and the Bracelet. The Atruscan Silver mine. The Defeat of Rundermere. The End of John DykesBurglar. A Woman Intervenes. The Regeneration of Jacobs. - Arthur Wuiller-Couch:I Saw Three Ships. The Haunted Dragoon. A Blue Pantomime. The Two Householders. The Disenchantment of 'Lizabeth. The Laird's Luck. Captain Dick and Captain Jacka.

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Children's literature 2

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Children's literature 2
Author: Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2020-04-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 3968589041

This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is:Children's literature II. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: - Selma Lagerlöf. - Hans Christian Andersen. - Elanor H. Porter. - Wilhelm Hauff. - George MacDonald.

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 6

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 6
Author: Kathleen Norris
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 1354
Release: 2020-04-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3968581474

This book contains70 short storiesfrom 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the criticAugust Nemo, in a collection that will please theliterature lovers. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: - Kathleen Norris:Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby What Happened to Alanna Austin's Girl S is for Shiftless Susanna Making Allowances for Mamma Dr. Bates and Miss Sally Rising Water - Charles W. Chesnutt:The Wife of His Youth The Passing of Grandison Her Virginia Mammy The Bouquet The Sheriffs' Children The Web of Circunstance - Don Marquis:The Old Soak The Revolt of the Oyster The Professor's Awakening The Saddest Man Behind the Curtain Kale Too American - Emma Orczy:The Red Carnation The Traitor Number 187 The Trappist's Vow Juliette, a Tale of Terror The Revenge of Ur-Tasen The Glasgow Mistery - Zona Gale:Friday Sucess and Artie Cherry The Dance The Way thw World Is White Bread Human Exit Charity - Anthony Trollope:The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box The Mistletoe Bough The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne Returning Home An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids The Courtship of Susan Bell The Relics of General Chasse - Ellis Parker Butler:Pigs is Pigs The Hard-boiled Egg Philo Gubb's Greatest Case Solander's Radio Tomb The Thin Santa Claus Dey Ain't No Ghosts The Man Who Did Not Go to Heaven on Tuesday - Mary Shelley:The Invisible Girl The Brother and Sister The Dream Transformation The Mortal Immortal The Mourner The Swiss Peasant - Hector Hugh Munro:The Lumber Room The Open Window Sredni Vashtar Gabriel-Ernest Tobermory The Unrest-Cure Laura - D.H. Lawrence:The Rocking-Horse Winner Tickets, Please! The Odour of Chrysanthemums The Horse Dealer's Daughter Second Best The Shades of Spring The Fox

The Big Book of Adventure Stories

The Big Book of Adventure Stories
Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 898
Release: 2011-05-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 030747450X

A hair-raising collection of adventure stories that's so big and enthralling if you open it you may never be seen again: enter at your own risk. Everyone loves adventure, and Otto Penzler has collected the best adventure stories of all time into one mammoth volume. With stories by Jack London, O. Henry, H. Rider Haggard, Alastair MacLean, Talbot Mundy, Cornell Woolrich, and many others, this wide-reaching and fascinating volume contains some of the best characters from the most thrilling adventure tales, including The Cisco Kid; Sheena, Queen of the Jungle; Bulldog Drummond; Tarzan; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Conan the Barbarian; Hopalong Cassidy; King Kong; Zorro; and The Spider. Divided into sections that embody the greatest themes of the genre—Sword & Sorcery, Megalomania Rules, Man vs. Nature, Island Paradise, Sand and Sun, Something Feels Funny, Go West Young Man, Future Shock, I Spy, Yellow Peril, In Darkest Africa—it is destined to be the greatest collection of adventure stories ever compiled. Featuring: Lawless open seas Ferocious army ants Deadeyed gunmen Exotic desert islands Feverish jungle adventures Including: The story that introduced The Cisco Kid The complete novel of Tarzan the Terrible

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps
Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Total Pages: 1170
Release: 2008-12-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307494160

The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled. Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train—a bullet couldn’t pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. These are the classic tales that created the genre and gave birth to hard-hitting detectives who smoke criminals like packs of cigarettes; sultry dames whose looks are as lethal as a dagger to the chest; and gin-soaked hideouts where conversations are just preludes to murder. This is crime fiction at its gritty best. Including: • Three stories by Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Dashiell Hammett. • Complete novels from Carroll John Daly, the man who invented the hard-boiled detective, and Fredrick Nebel, one of the masters of the form. • A never before published Dashiell Hammett story. • Every other major pulp writer of the time, including Paul Cain, Steve Fisher, James M. Cain, Horace McCoy, and many many more of whom you’ve probably never heard. • Three deadly sections–The Crimefighters, The Villains, and Dames–with three unstoppable introductions by Harlan Coben, Harlan Ellison, and Laura Lippman Featuring: • Plenty of reasons for murder, all of them good. • A kid so smart–he’ll die of it. • A soft-hearted loan shark’s legman learning–the hard way–never to buy a strange blonde a hamburger. • The uncanny “Moon Man” and his mad-money victims.

The Big Book of the Dead

The Big Book of the Dead
Author: Marion Winik
Publisher: Catapult
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-09-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1640092544

Marion Wink is esteemed for bringing humor and wit to that most unavoidable of subjects: death. At last, Winik's critically acclaimed, cult favorites, Glen Rock Book of the Dead and Baltimore Book of the Dead, have been carefully combined in their proper chronological order, revealing more clearly than ever before the character hidden throughout these stories: Winik herself. Featuring twelve additional vignettes along with a brand–new introduction, The Big Book of the Dead continues Winik's work as an empathetic, witty chronicler of life.