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The Death of the Lion
By Henry James. 2013
In the almost-novella-length short story "The Death of the Lion," literary giant Henry James pokes sardonic fun at the vagaries…
of literary fame. The author at the center of the tale, one Neil Paraday, is gushingly praised by the newspapers and journals -- but very few of his admirers seem to have actually read his work. It's a thought-provoking look at the celebrity culture of the turn of the twentieth century.The Crusade of the Excelsior
By Bret Harte.
Excerpt: . . . CHAPTER XI. THE CAPTAIN FOLLOWS HIS SHIP. When Padre Esteban had finished reading the document he…
laid it down and fixed his eyes on the young man. Hurlstone met his look with a glance of impatient disdain. "What have you to say to this?" asked the ecclesiastic, a little impressed by his manner. "That as far as it concerns myself it is a farrago of absurdity. If I were the person described there, why should I have sought you with what you call a lie of 'sentimental passion, ' when I could have claimed protection openly with my SISTER PATRIOT," he added, with a bitter laugh. "Because you did not know THEN the sympathy of the people nor the decision of the Council," said the priest. "But I know it NOW, and I refuse to accept it. " "You refuseWheels Within
By Charles V. Devet. 2012
Caro Autore
By Matthew W. Grant, Marta Pizzini. 2014
Testimonianza della sua discesa nella follia quando James Walek, reduce da un matrimonio fallito e da una carriera da scrittore…
in stallo, viene spinto oltre il limite da una di quelle insultanti lettere di rifiuto dagli editori inizianti per "Caro Autore" di troppo.Tales From the Graveyard: The Complete Collection
By Susan Shultz. 2015
In a pleasant little New England town, there is a house on a hill. Its garden is decorated with gravestones.…
The house has stood for ages now, and occupants have come and gone. But those who died there never leave. They just watch...and wait. Susan Shultz's haunting Tales From the Graveyard series is now available in one complete digital collection.The Blacksmith. Jessie. Dirt. Sam. Read Tales From the Graveyard: The Complete Collection today, and you'll see. Our ghosts never leave us.Contains content that may be graphic to some readers. Mature audiences only.Praise for The Blacksmith, Book One of the Tales From the Graveyard series: "The Blacksmith by Susan Shultz is like Dexter with a feminine twist gone dark. Ainsley feeds her dead heart by killing men and eating theirs. Who run the world? Girls. And their apparently insatiable desire for man-flesh. A fun holiday read!" --Nerdist.com "It wasn't until I read The Blacksmith by Susan Shultz that I thought about a different type of 'scary story.'...It relies on legitimate fears of loss and the flaws in human nature to make you feel uncomfortable. Don't misunderstand--if you like blood, ghosts, and socipaths, The Blacksmith has that for you." --Volumes of WordsBoy Life: Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells
By William Dean Howells. 2012
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey,…
in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham is perhaps his best known, describing the rise and fall of an American entrepreneur in the paint business. His social views were also strongly reflected in the novels Annie Kilburn (1888) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890). While known primarily as a novelist, his short story "Editha" (1905) - included in the collection Between the Dark and the Daylight (1907) - appears in many anthologies of American literature. Howells also wrote plays, criticism, and essays about contemporary literary figures such as Ibsen, Zola, Verga, and, especially, Tolstoy, which helped establish their reputations in the United States. He also wrote critically in support of many American writers. It is perhaps in this role that he had his greatest influence.Seks I Kuchnia
By Katarzyna Urszula Długaszek, Patrizia Caiffa. 2014
Trzy opowiadania, na podstawie spektakli o tych samych tytułach, opowiadające zupełnie różne historie, trzy wydarzenia pod podwójną lupą: seksu i…
żołądka. Miłość do gotowania albo miłość poszukiwana przy pomocy gotowania."Welon Panny Młodej i elementarz" jest historią Marii Celeste, młodej dziewczyny pochodzącej z wiejskiej i prowincjonalnej Sycylii, dążącej do szczęśliwego małżeństwa, podobnie jak jej wielu rówieśniczek, z jednym jednak wyjątkiem: Maria Celeste marzy, aby nauczyć się czytać. Doprowadzi ją to do skomplilowanego małżeństwa, w którym będzie musiała zapłacić wysoką cenę, by móc zrealizować swoje marzenie. "Ja mogę" jest historią pary podczas jej pierwszego spotkania, gdzie gra w uwodzenie i ta w kulinarne poszukiwania w sposób nieukniony splatają się ze sobą, tworząc dziwaczne manie i wyszukane nieporozumienia. "Czerń jak ból" opowiada historię Gotfryda, adwokata na tyle mało kochającego swoją pracę, na ile wielbiciel kulinarii i prozy epickiej. Mieszając kulinarne przedsięwzięcia z tymi bohaterskimi ze swoich literackich mitów, Gotfryd opowiada w pierwszej osobie swoją miłosną historię - głęboką, bolesną i pasjonującą - wraz z nieoczekiwanym zakończeniem.Geagte Skrywer
By Matthew W. Grant, Petro Ebersohn. 2014
Wees 'n getuie van hoe James Walek tot raserny gedryf word wanneer hy as gevolg van 'n huwelik wat besig…
is om op die rotse te loop en 'n skryfloopbaan wat tot stilstand gekom het, deur een te veel van daardie beledigende "Geagte Skrywer"-briewe van afkeur van 'n uitgewer, oor die rand van wanhoop gestoot word.Celebrando a la Gente Reservada
By Prasenjeet Kumar, Marcela Gutiérrez Bravo y María Florencia Lavorato. 2016
Celebrando a la Gente Reservada: Una colección única de historias VERDADERAS inspiradoras, motivacionales y edificantes, para personas introvertidas y altamente…
sensibles que no te deberías perder... Estas historias nos cuentan sobre cómo introvertidos realmente famosos como Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, J.K. Rowling y Walt Disney superaron, con resolución de acero, los más difíciles retos en su camino. Sobre todo, resalta la importancia del trabajo duro, la perseverancia, la creatividad, la auto-disciplina y el tener una visión o una rica imaginación que son atributos afortunados y naturales de todas las personas Reservadas. El autor sinceramente espera que estas historias te den el valor de perseguir tus sueños y ambiciones, sin importar cuán "extravagantes" puedan parecer a los demás.The Jupiter Weapon
By Charles Louis Fontenay. 2012
Tales of the Fish Patrol
By Jack London. 2012
Included in this volume are "White and Yellow," "The King of the Greeks," "A Raid on the Oyster Pirates," "The…
Siege of the "Lancashire Queen,"" "Charley's Coup," "Demetrios Contos," and "Yellow Handkerchief."Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays
By Tennessee Williams, Thomas Keith. 1982
"The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays--like firecrackers in a rope." --Tennessee Williams This new collection of…
fantastic, lesser-known one-acts contains some of Williams's most potent, comical and disturbing short plays?Upper East Side ladies dine out during the apocalypse in Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws, while the poet Hart Crane is confronted by his mother at the bottom of the ocean in Steps Must Be Gentle. Five previously unpublished plays include A Recluse and His Guest, and The Strange Play, in which we witness a woman's entire life lived within a twenty-four-hour span. This volume is edited, with an introduction and notes, by the editor, acting teacher, and theater scholar Thomas Keith.The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middlet
By Wardon Allan Curtis. 2012
Prezado Autor - Como Enviar Manuscritos Para Agentes Literários E Receber Cartas De Rejeição Dos Editores Que Enlouquecem Os Escritores
By Matthew W. Grant, Sônia Gonçalves. 2014
"Acompanhe o mergulho à insanidade total quando o escritor James Walek, sofrendo com um casamento fracassado e uma carreira de…
escritor estagnada, é levado à beira do desespero quando recebe uma das muitas cartas com o título "Prezado Autor", que são enviadas pelas editoras aos escritores rejeitados."The Judge's House
By Bram Stoker. 2012
Abraham "Bram" Stoker was a Victorian Irish writer. He moved to London and became the business manager for Irving's Lyceum…
Theatre, a post he held for 27 years. He also wrote novels and short stories to supplement his income. Stoker is best remembered as the author of the hugely influential horror novel Dracula. However, he also penned a number of chilling horror and supernatural short stories. This tale contains elements of both and is one of his best.Check and Checkmate
By Walter M. Miller. 2012
In a world in which the Cold War never ended, American president John Smith XVI dares to re-open contact with…
the East after forty years of Big Silence. A comedy of masks ensues, with unexpected results. From the author of "A Canticle for Leibowitz," this classic tale originally appeared in 1953Lives In Smoke
By Enrica Aragona, Luca Ducceschi, Anthony Mazzorana. 2014
Lives in Smoke unfolds like a long story, hard and subtle at the same time, a jigsaw thriller that was…
able to earn 6th place for the 2013 Best Thriller Award, City of Cattolica.Enrica Aragona - previously published by us in the collection I Racconti del Laboratorio - and Luca Ducceschi, author of Un'anima devono prenderla comunque, published in the fourth installment of Knife magazine - combine their literary talents in crafting a dark story that won't fail to amaze even those with finer tastes. Inspector Moretti, while investigating a homicide, comes face to face with a series of clues that lead inexorably to people in his private life. But the pieces of the mosaic are not all in the proper order, and that which at a certain point presents itself as a terrible insight, will be only the prelude to a more bitter and disturbing truth.Blood, Light & Time
By James Lepore. 2015
Here is a truly unique reading experience from a master storyteller dubbed "a great discovery" by New York Times bestselling…
author William Landay. A stunning melding of image and prose, BLOOD, LIGHT & TIME is a collection of fifty-two short fiction pieces that concentrate their considerable impact in brief, potent passages, each married to one of the author's distinctive photographs. Within these pages, you'll meet the driven, the desperate, the lost, the rediscovered, the alien, the shockingly familiar, and so many other characters who will resonate long after you meet them and build in power as more and more of them take residence in your soul. Likely to be one of the most original and engrossing reads you've had in a long while, BLOOD, LIGHT & TIME redefines the potential of flash fiction.More Twisted: Collected Stories, Vol. II
By Jeffery Deaver. 2006
Jeffery Deaver has famously thrilled and chilled fans with tales of masterful villains and the brilliant minds who bring them…
to justice. Now the author of the Lincoln Rhyme series (The Cold Moon and The Bone Collector) returns with a second volume of his award-winning, spine-tingling short stories of suspense.While best known for his twenty-four novels, Jeffery Deaver is also a short story master--he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story, and he won the Short Story Dagger from the Crime Writers Association for a piece that appeared in his first short story collection, Twisted. The New York Times said of that book: "A mystery hit for those who like their intrigue short and sweet...[The stories] feature tight, bare-bones plotting and the sneaky tricks that Mr. Deaver's title promises." The sneaky tricks are here in spades, and Deaver even gives his fans a new Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs story. Deaver is back with sixteen stories in the tradition of O. Henry and Edgar Allan Poe. His subjects range from a Westchester commuter to a brilliant Victorian England caper. With these intricately plotted, bone-chilling stories, Jeffery Deaver is at the top of his crime-writing game.Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction
By Elissa Schappell. 2011
Elissa Schappell, "a diva of the encapsulating phrase, capable of conveying a Pandora's box of feeling in a single line"…
(The New York Times Book Review) delivers eight provocative, darkly funny linked stories that map America's shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to the present day.Blueprints for Building Better Girls delves into the lives of an eclectic cast of archetypal female characters--from the high school slut to the good girl, the struggling artist to the college party girl, the wife who yearns for a child to the reluctant mother--mapping America's shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to the present day. Its interconnected stories explore the commonly shared but rarely spoken of experiences that build girls into women and women into wives and mothers. In revealing all their vulnerabilities and twisting our preconceived notions of who they are, Elissa Schappell alters how we think about the nature of female identity and how it evolves.