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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People
By Charles Dickens. 2012
Sketches by "Boz," Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People (commonly known as Sketches by Boz) is a collection of…
short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. The 56 sketches concern London scenes and people and are divided into four sections: "Our Parish", "Scenes", "Characters", and "Tales". The material in the first three of these sections is non-fiction[citation needed]. The last section comprises fictional stories. Originally, the sketches were published in various newspapers and periodicals from 1833-1836.The Bishop and Other Stories
By Anton Chekhov. 2012
In the waning weeks of his life, a renowned bishop reflects on his past and his priorities. Written during the…
period when Anton Chekhov was gravely ill with tuberculosis, "The Bishop" reflects the author's feelings about his own imminent death, and is considered one of his finest works.The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
By Washington Irving. 2012
Tales of the Klondyke
By Jack London. 2012
Jack London (January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild…
and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a huge financial success from writing.The Scarlet Plague was written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. It was re-released in February of 2007 by Echo Library. The story takes place in 2072, sixty years after the scarlet plague has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith is one of the few people left alive in the San Francisco area, and as he realizes his time grows short, he tries to impart the value of knowledge and wisdom to his grandsons.American society at the time of the plague has become severely stratified and there is a large hereditary underclass of servants and "nurses"; and the politcal system has been replaced by a formalized oligarchy. Commercial airship lines exist, as do some airships privately owned by the very rich.The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke
By Jack London. 2012
Jack London (January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild…
and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a huge financial success from writing.The Scarlet Plague was written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. It was re-released in February of 2007 by Echo Library. The story takes place in 2072, sixty years after the scarlet plague has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith is one of the few people left alive in the San Francisco area, and as he realizes his time grows short, he tries to impart the value of knowledge and wisdom to his grandsons.American society at the time of the plague has become severely stratified and there is a large hereditary underclass of servants and "nurses"; and the politcal system has been replaced by a formalized oligarchy. Commercial airship lines exist, as do some airships privately owned by the very rich.Stories of Ships and the Sea: Little Blue Book #1169
By Jack London. 2012
"It reared its black, forbidding head like some huge monster rising from the deep." A typhoon rages off the coast…
of Japan -- and off the page, in Jack London's first story, published at age 17. In these vivid stories, London pits nature at its most extreme against men who must struggle violently to survive. Whether describing ore cables strung across a valley in Sacramento gold-mine territory or the straining boards of ships battered by gales, London's eye for realism keeps his dramatic tales vivid and fresh -- even now, nearly a century after his death.Children of the Frost
By Jack London. 2012
From "The League of the Old Men" At the Barracks a man was being tried for his life. He was…
an old man, a native from the Whitefish River, which empties into the Yukon below Lake Le Barge. All Dawson was wrought up over the affair, and likewise the Yukon-dwellers for a thousand miles up and down. It has been the custom of the land-robbing and sea-robbing Anglo-Saxon to give the law to conquered peoples, and ofttimes this law is harsh. But in the case of Imber the law for once seemed inadequate and weak. In the mathematical nature of things, equity did not reside in the punishment to be accorded him. The punishment was a foregone conclusion, there could be no doubt of that; and though it was capital, Imber had but one life, while the tale against him was one of scores. In fact, the blood of so many was upon his hands that the killings attributed to him did not permit of precise enumeration. Smoking a pipe by the trail-side or lounging around the stove, men made rough estimates of the numbers that had perished at his hand. * Also included in this volume are "In the Forests of the North," "The Law of Life," "Nam-Bok the Unveracious," "The Master of Mystery," "The Sunlanders," "The Sickness of Lone Chief," "Keesh, the Son of Keesh," "The Death of Ligoun," and "Li Wan, the Fair."Salumbi: La mirada del cuento
By Ana Amalia Rivas Orejón. 2016
Directo al inconsciente de los lectores Centrado en la reflexi n de valores positivos que debemos tener…
en cuenta desde la infancia hasta nuestra madurez P P Ayuda a la toma de conciencia de la importancia del pensamiento positivo en todas las etapas de la vida Salumbi es un pueblo m gico donde interact an seres sin estereotipos masculinos ni femeninos no al menos c mo los humanos los tenemos establecidos Pues la importancia en los personajes no radica en los roles establecidos en funci n de su g nero si no en funci n de su misi n de vida P P Por eso cada quien ejerce un papel para el que ha sido elegido A lo largo de la historia conoceremos a cada personaje y sabremos de dicho papel encomendado Esta dividido en tres partes cada una de ellas marca la importancia del momento y lo que los personajes viven en cada uno de ellosThe Four Million
By O. Henry. 2012
Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City…
who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen--the census taker--and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million."Shorter Prose Pieces
By Oscar Wilde. 2012
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known…
for his biting wit, and a plentitude of aphorisms, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially "The Importance of Being Earnest".Michael, Brother of Jerry
By Jack London. 2012
Jack London (January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild…
and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a huge financial success from writing.The Scarlet Plague was written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. It was re-released in February of 2007 by Echo Library. The story takes place in 2072, sixty years after the scarlet plague has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith is one of the few people left alive in the San Francisco area, and as he realizes his time grows short, he tries to impart the value of knowledge and wisdom to his grandsons.American society at the time of the plague has become severely stratified and there is a large hereditary underclass of servants and "nurses"; and the politcal system has been replaced by a formalized oligarchy. Commercial airship lines exist, as do some airships privately owned by the very rich.Cabbages and Kings
By O. Henry. 2012
A series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while…
each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period. In this book, O. Henry coined the term "banana republic".Love of Life: And Other Stories
By Jack London. 2012
Under this title the author has grouped eight short stories. The tale which gives the book its name is a…
description of a man dying in the wilds of the Northwest by slow starvation. The concluding story, "Negore, the Coward," relates to the old days of the Russian occupancy of Alaska, and shows what a man will do to retain a woman's love and wipe from his name an undeserved affix.The Strength of the Strong
By Jack London. 2012
Jack London (January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild…
and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a huge financial success from writing.The Scarlet Plague was written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. It was re-released in February of 2007 by Echo Library. The story takes place in 2072, sixty years after the scarlet plague has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith is one of the few people left alive in the San Francisco area, and as he realizes his time grows short, he tries to impart the value of knowledge and wisdom to his grandsons.American society at the time of the plague has become severely stratified and there is a large hereditary underclass of servants and "nurses"; and the politcal system has been replaced by a formalized oligarchy. Commercial airship lines exist, as do some airships privately owned by the very rich.Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories
By Jack London. 2012
She had delayed, because of the dew-wet grass, in order to put on her overshoes, and when she emerged from…
the house found her waiting husband absorbed in the wonder of a bursting almond-bud. She sent a questing glance across the tall grass and in and out among the orchard trees. "Where's Wolf?" she asked. "He was here a moment ago." Walt Irvine drew himself away with a jerk from the metaphysics and poetry of the organic miracle of blossom, and surveyed the landscape. "He was running a rabbit the last I saw of him." "Wolf! Wolf! Here, Wolf!" she called, as they left the clearing and took the trail that led down through the waxen-belled manzanita jungle to the county road. Irvine thrust between his lips the little finger of each hand and lent to her efforts a shrill whistling. She covered her ears hastily and made a wry grimace.The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stori
By Various. 2012
The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories (1921) by Jack London. Clarence E. Mulford, Henry van Dyke, Zane Grey, Irvin…
S. Cobb, Stewart Edward White, Rex Beach, Jack London, Irving Bacheller, Ellis Parker Butler, Frank L. Packard, Ralph Connor, W.H.H. Murray. The campfire for ages has been the place of council and friendship and story-telling. The mystic glow of the fire quickens the mind, warms the heart, awakens memories of happy, glowing tales that fairly leap to the lips. The Boy Scouts of America has incorporated the "campfire" in its program for council and friendship and story-telling. In one volume, the Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories makes available to scoutmasters and other leaders a goodly number of stories worthy of their attention, and when well told likely to arrest and hold the interest of boys in their early teens, when "stirs the blood--to bubble in the veins."The Last Galley
By Arthur Conan Doyle. 2013
A collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including "The Last Galley," "The Contest," "Through the Veil," "An Iconoclast,"…
"Giant Maximin," "The Coming of the Huns," "The Last of the Legions," "The First Cargo," "The Homecoming," and "The Red Star."The Entire Original Maupassant Short
By Guy De Maupassant. 2012
"I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." These words of Maupassant to…
Jose Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, in spite of their morbid solemnity, not an inexact summing up of the brief career during which, for ten years, the writer, by turns undaunted and sorrowful, with the fertility of a master hand produced poetry, novels, romances and travels, only to sink prematurely into the abyss of madness and death. . . . . This book contains all thirteen volumes of his original short stories.The Yellow Wallpaper
By Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 2012
THE YELLOW WALL-PAPER is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England…
Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical and mental health. Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal from him, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency," a diagnosis common to women in that period.Tales of the Alhambra
By Washington Irving. 2012
The Alhambra, a series of tales and sketches of the Moors and Spaniards, was published in May 1832. Consisting of…
a series of essays and short fiction pieces, it was referred to as his "Spanish Sketch Book." In 1851 Irving wrote the "Author's Revised Edition," also titled Tales of the Alhambra.