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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for his literary criticism and short stories. With his vast number of short stories, Q shows his dynamic range of style and creativity with tales of the supernatural, Viking tales, satires, historical fiction, romantic adventures, tales of heroic swashbuckling, mystery and crime fiction, and sea-going adventures.The critic August Nemo has selected seven short stories by this author for your appreciation:- I Saw Three Ships.- The Haunted Dragoon.- A Blue Pantomime.- The Two Householders.- The Disenchantment of Lizabeth.- The Lairds Luck.- Captain Dick and Captain Jacka.

Banjo Paterson lived in the city for most of his life, yet he became wildly famous in the colonies for the poems and stories he wrote about life in the Australian outback. The stories he created about the lives and struggles of bushmen, shearers and drovers in rural farm country struck a chord with Australians.In these seven specially selected short stories you will be able to know and appreciate the universe of this important Australian author.The CatThe DogHis MasterpieceThe Merino SheepConcerning a Steeplechase RiderThree Elephant PowerThe Amateur Gardener

Barry Pain, english journalist, poet and writer. He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories, but he also wrote many horror stories, which were well received by the lay men and critics alike. Best remembered for his Eliza group of comedic short stories.The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this remarkable author for your enjoyment:- Aunt Martha.- The Bet.- The Boy in the Book.- The Discovery of Nesting.- Eliza and the Special.- The Kindness of the Celestial.- The Victim of Apparatus.

Bjrnstjerne Bjrnsonreceived the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit", becoming the first Norwegian Nobel laureate.This selection chosen by the critic August Nemocontains the following stories:- The Railroad and the Churchyard- The Father- The Bridal March- One Day- Mothers Hands- Thrond- Absaloms Hair

Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.This edition is dedicated to the american author Booth Tarkington. Tarkington is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered Americas greatest living author.Works selected for this book:The Fascinating Stranger; The Party;The One-Hundred-Dollar Bill; Jeannette; The Spring Concert; Willamilla; The Only Child. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to the english author Charles Dickens.Charles Dickenswas an English writer and social critic. He created some of the worlds best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read todaWorks selected for this book:- A Childs Dream of a Star;- Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn;- Nobodys Story;- The Childs Story;- The Magic Fishbone;- What Christmas is As We Grow Older;- The Haunted Man and the Ghosts Bargain.

Charles W. Chesnutt was an important voice in his day and remains a precious reading for those who want to better understand the period of construction of African American identity, from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. Critic August Nemo chose seven short stories that bring the best of this author to your appreciation.This books contains:- The Wife of His Youth- The Passing of Grandison- Her Virginia Mammy- The Bouquet- The Sheriffs Children- The Web of Circunstance

Charlotte M. Yonge was a best-selling author in her time. Her appeal is due to the liveliness of her portrayal of character. Her books are peopled with large Victorian families, every member distinctly drawn and presented with insight and humour. Her books helped to spread the influence of the Oxford Movement but her work has a vitality that saves it from being merely propagandist.Most of Yonges work is out of print, but in these seven selected short stories you will have the opportunity to appreciate this Victorian jewel.The Last Fight In The ColiseumFaithful Till DeathThe Battle Of The Blackwater The Housewives Of LowenburgFathers And SonsWhat Is Better Than Slaying A Dragon Under Ivan The Terrible

A prominent American sociologist, novelist, short story writer, poet, and lecturer for social reform, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a "utopian feminist." Her vast achievements, recorded during a period of American history where such feats were quite difficult for women, cast here as a role model for women everywhere. And her unorthodox concepts and lifestyles cast her as a role model for future generations of feminists.This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:When I Was a WitchThe Yellow WallpaperIf I were a manThe Giant Wistaria The Boys And The Butter!The CottagetteA Middle Sized Artist

D.H. Lawrence is best known for his infamous novel Lady Chatterleys Lover, which was banned in the United States until 1959. At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation."This edition brings seven specially selected short stories, a reading that will please and amaze both old readers and newcomers to the work of D. H. Lawrence.- The Rocking-Horse Winner- Tickets, Please!- The Odour of Chrysanthemums- The Horse Dealers Daughter- Second Best- The Shades of Spring- The Fox

E. F. Bensons gruesome tales break the membrane between the waking and dreaming world.The critic August Nemo selected seven ghost stories by this author:- The Room in the Tower- Caterpillars- Mrs. Amworth- Mr. Tillys Seance- Negotium Perambulans- How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery- The Horror-Horn

Emily Pauline Johnson, also known by her Mohawk stage name Tekahionwake, was a Canadian poet, author and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Not only was Johnson a poet and writer but she was a part of the New Woman movement due to the blending of her two cultures in her works and her criticisms of the Canadian government. Johnson was also a key figure in the construction of Canadian literature as an institution and has made an indelible mark on Indigenous womens writing and performance as a whole.This book contains:- The Shagganappi.- A Red Girls Reasoning.- The Kings Coin.- The Derelict.- Little Wolf-Willow.- Her Majestys Guest.- The Brotherhood.

According to her biographer, Julia Briggs, E. Nesbit was "the first modern writer for children": Nesbit "helped to reverse the great tradition of childrens literature inaugurated by Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald and Kenneth Grahame, in turning away from their secondary worlds to the tough truths to be won from encounters with things-as-they-are, previously the province of adult novels." Briggs also credits Nesbit with having invented the childrens adventure story.This selection chosen by the critic August Nemocontains the following stories:- The Ebony Frame- John Charringtons Wedding- Uncle Abrahams Romance- The Mystery Of The Semi-Detached- From The Dead- Man-Size In Marble- The Mass For The Dead

Edith Wharton was born to a wealthy New York family and spent her life among artists, politicians and influential people in society. Among the people of his coexistence were Henry James and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Wharton has fluid prose, is an excellent satirist and his horror tales (a lesser known part of his legacy) deserve special attention.In this work you will find seven specially selected short stories to provide an overview of Edith Whartons ever-present and eclectic work.The Triumph of NightThe PelicanThe Fullness Of LifeApril ShowersA JourneyAfterwardXingu

Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to Eleanor H. Porter. Porter wrote mainly childrens literature, adventure stories, and romance fiction. Her most famous novel is Pollyanna (1913), followed by a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Her adult novels include The Turn of the Tide (1908), The Road to Understanding (1917), Oh Money! Money! (1918), Dawn (1919), Keiths Dark Tower (1919), Mary Marie (1920) and Sister Sue (1921); her short-story collections include Across the Years (c. 1919), Money, Love and Kate (1923), and Little Pardner (1926). Porter achieved considerable commercial success: Pollyanna ranked eighth among best-selling novels in the United States during 1913, second during 1914, and fourth during 1915 (with 47 printings between 1915 and 1920); Just David ranked third in 1916; The Road to Understanding ranked fourth in 1917; and Oh Money! Money! ranked fifth in 1918. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this remarkable author for your enjoyment: - A Delayed Heritage; - The Folly of Wisdom; - The Letter; - The Elephants Board and Keep; - Crumbs; - The Lady in Black; - That Angel Boy. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

In the early twentieth century, her writing appeared old-fashioned and provincial, but today Elizabeth Gaskell ranks as one of the most highly-regarded British Victorian novelists. In this new century she is recognised as the accomplished artist that she was, and for the past thirty years or more has increasingly attracted the attention of literary theorists, academics and readers who just enjoy a good story. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:The Old Nurse StoryThe Poor ClareLois The WitchThe Grey WomanCurious If TrueSix Weeks At HeppenheimDisappearances

ÉmileZola described the intention of his work with these words: "I want to portray, at the outset of a century of liberty and truth, a family that can not restrain itself in its rush to possess all the good things that progress is making available and is derailed by its own momentum, the fatal convulsions that accompany the birth of a new world. " He is considered to be a significant influence on those writers who are credited with the creation of the so-called new journalism; Wolfe, Capote, Thompson, Mailer, Didion, Talese and others.Critic August Nemo selected seven special short from this author for your appreciation:- Captain Burle- The Millers Daughter- Jean Gourdons Four Days- The Fete At Coqueville- The Flood- Death of Olivier Becaille- Nana

Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity.Few of Kafkas works were published during his lifetime. In his will, Kafka instructed his executor and friend Max Brod to destroy his unfinished works, but Brod ignored these instructions. His work has influenced a vast range of writers, critics, artists, and philosophers during the 20th and 21st centuries.The critic August Nemo selected seven emblematic short stories of this author for his appreciation:The MetamorphosisA Hunger ArtistIn the penal colonyThe JudgmentBefore the LawA Country DoctorA Report to an Academy

Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to the russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevskys literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as multiple of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. Works selected for this book: - White Nights; - An Honest Thief; - The Christmas Tree and the Wedding; - Notes From Underground; - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man; - A Little Hero; - Mr. Prohartchin. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

George Ades greatest recognition came with Fables in Slang (1899), a national best-seller that was followed by a weekly syndicated fable and by 11 other books of fables. The fables, which contained only a little slang, were, rather, examples of the vernacular.The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories from this essential author of American literature:The Fable of the Preacher Who Flew His Kite, But Not Because He Wished to Do SoThe Fable of the Two Mandolin Players and His Willing PerformerThe Fable of the Parents Who Tinkered with the OffspringThe Fable of the Man Who Didnt Care for StorybooksThe Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His IdealThe Fable of How Uncle Brewster was Too Shifty for the TempterThe Fable of Lutie, the False Alarm, and How She Finished about the Time that She Started