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Longer days, holidays and hot weather! The same summer inspires us to enjoy the day and take ice cream, also inspired many writers to create their works. Read seven short stories by great writers, which bring us different perspectives on the hot summer days and their effect on the human soul.This book contains:- One Summer Night by Ambrose Bierce.- At A Summer Villa by Anton Chekhov.- A Midsummer Knights Dream by O. Henry.- Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf.- The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield.- A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane.- Draculas Guest by Bram Stoker.

Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West, most commonly between the years of 1860 and 1900. Westerns often stress the harshness of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape of deserts and mountains. Often, the vast landscape plays an important role, presenting a mythic vision of the plains and deserts of the American West.Critics August Nemo brings seven short stories specially selected with the best of Westerns courage and adventure:- The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte- All Gold Canyon by Jack London- On the Divide by Willa Cather- The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane- The Caballeros Way by O. Henry- The Great Slave by Zane Grey- Wine in the Desert by Max BrandFor more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!

Money - and the social effects of having it or not - is too big a theme in peoples daily lives to be ignored by literature. The writers gave the most varied interpretations and looked from the most different angles to the human relationship with money - but the final thought is always up to the reader.The critic August Nemo selected seven classic short stories on this subject:- Counterparts by James Joyce- The Romance of a Busy Broker by O. Henry- Sleepy by Anton Chekhov- Neighbour Rosicky by Willa Cather- An Old Maids Triumph by George Gissing- The Egg by Sherwood Anderson- A Simple Soul by Gustave FlaubertFor more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!

Contemporaneously described as "the war to end all wars", World War I was one of the largest wars in history and also one of the deadliest conflicts in history. Writers often function as the memory of the world, eternalizing in words difficult moments that we can not forget. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories that allow us to look at the various faces of the war:- Mary Postgate by Rudyard Kipling- The Fly by Katherine Mansfield- May Day by F. Scott Fitzgerald- Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft- The Bowmen by Arthur Machen- His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- At the Bay by Katherine MansfieldFor more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!

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 british author Aldous Huxley.Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher, widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.Works selected for this book:- Uncle Spencer;- Little Mexican;- Hubert And Minnie;- Fard;- The Portrait;- Young Archimedes;- The Gioconda Smile.

Ambrose Bierce was born on June 24, 1842 in Meigs county, Ohio. He worked as a printers apprentice and enlisted to fight in the Civil War. After the war he worked as an editor, journalist, and short story writer; capturing his war experiences in vivid detail. Although his caustic and satirical style granted him notoriety as a journalist, nowadays he is remembered for his incursions into the genre of terror, influencing authors of the stature of H.P. Lovecraft, and is considered one of the most significant of the nineteenth century, together with others such as Edgar Allan Poe and Guy de Maupassant. Profoundly misanthropic, expressed in his writings his distrust of the human race, distrust expressed with a critical attitude that earned him the nickname of Bitter Bierce .This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:An Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeOne Summer NightThe Death Of Halpin FrayserThe Moonlit RoadA Psychological ShipwreckThe StrangerThe Middle Toe of the Right Foot

Andy Adams lived the cowboy life on the Texas plains. He later rendered those experiences in fiction to set Americans straight about life in the West.For this book, the critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this author:- Drifting North.- Siegermans Per Cent.- "Bad Medicine".- A Winter Round-Up.- A College Vagabond.- The Double Trail.- Rangering.

B. M. Bower, was an American author who wrote novels, fictional short stories, and screenplays about the American Old West. Her works, featuring cowboys and cows of the Flying U Ranch in Montana, reflected "an interest in ranch life, the use of working cowboys as main characters, the occasional appearance of eastern types for the sake of contrast, a sense of western geography as simultaneously harsh and grand, and a good deal of factual attention to such matters as cattle branding and bronc busting."For this book, the critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this author:- The Lonesome Trail.- First Aid To Cupid.- When The Cook Fell Ill.- The Lamb.- The Spirit of the Range.- The Reveler.- The Unheavenly Twins

Bret Harte was the first American writer from the West Coast to gain an international reputation. He was instrumental in introducing frontier literature to eastern audiences. His stories established many of the basic characteristics of the western genre: rough, sarcastic humor, rustic dialect, and character types such as good-natured gamblers, greedy bankers, and prostitutes with hearts of gold.We selected seven short stories from this author so that you can know and appreciate his work:The Luck of Roaring CampThe Outcasts of Poker Flat Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff A Convert of the MissionA Widow of the Santa Ana Valley A Yellow DogMelons

Elizabeth Garver Jordan was an American journalist, author, editor, and suffragist, now remembered primarily for having edited the first two novels of Sinclair Lewis, and for her relationship with Henry James, especially for recruiting him to participate in the round-robin novel The Whole Family.This book contains:- Bart Harrington, Genius.- The Communitys Sunbeam.- Mrs. Mccafferty Explains.- Motion Study at St. Katharines.- Philips "Furnis Man".- The Surrender of Professor Seymour.- Young Love.

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 Ellen Glasgow was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942. A lifelong. Glasgow portrayed the changing world of the contemporary South, differing from the idealistic escapism that characterized Southern literature after Reconstruction.Works selected for this book:The Shadowy Third; Dares Gift; The Past; Whispering Leaves; A Point in Morals; The Difference; Jordans End; Bonus content: "Evasive Idealism in Literature by Ellen Glasgow. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Ernest Haycox was an important figure in the development of the popular Western. Diligent, prolific, and ambitious, he wrote twenty-four novels, nearly three hundred short stories and serial installments, and dozens of essays. In the 1930s and 1940s, he may have been Oregons most widely acclaimed author of magazine fiction.This book contains:- At Wolf Creek Tavern.- Blizzard Camp.- Born to Conquer.- Breed of the frontier.- Custom of the Country.- Good Marriage.- The last rodeo.

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 Gertrude Atherton was an American author. Her bestseller Black Oxen was made into a silent movie of the same name. In addition to novels, she wrote short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on such issues as feminism, politics, and war. She was sometimes controversial, especially for her anti-communism and her white supremacist views.Works selected for this book:The Bell in the Fog; The Striding Place; The Dead and the Countess; The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number; A Monarch of a Small Survey; The Tragedy of a Snob; Crowned with One Crest.If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Henri Ren Albert Guy de Maupassant (Aug 5, 1850 - Jul 6, 1893) was a popular French author who wrote under the pen name Guy de Maupassant. He is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story as well as one of its finest practitioners. His prolific and deeply admired body of work influenced a great number of writers including William Somerset Maugham, O. Henry, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin and Henry James.This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:- The Necklace- Mademoiselle Fifi- Miss Harriet- My Uncle Jules- Boule de Suif- The Wreck- The Hand

Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His first two books gained much attention, though they were not bestsellers, and his popularity declined precipitously only a few years later. By the time of his death he had been almost completely forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and most responsible for Melvilles fall from favor with the reading public was rediscovered in the 20th century as one of the chief literary masterpieces of both American and world literature.This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:Bartleby, the ScrivenerBenito CerenoThe EncantadasThe ChaseCock-A-Doodle-Doo!I and My ChimneyThe Lightning-Rod Man

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 James Oliver "Jim" Curwood was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. At least one hundred and eighty motion pictures have been based on or directly inspired by his novels and short stories; one was produced in three versions from 1919 to 1953. At the time of his death, Curwood was the highest paid author in the world.Works selected for this book:Back to Gods Country; The Yellow-Back; The Fiddling Man; Lange; The Case of Beauvais; The Other Mans Wife; The Strength of Men. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Although little known today, John Buchans fiction was important in defining the present mystery fiction. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this author for your enjoyment:- The Last Crusade- Politics and the Mayfly- The Keeper of Cademuir- The Wife of Flanders- The Watcher by the Threshold- Comedy in the Full Moon- The Herd of Standlan

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 Mark Twain. Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". Works selected for this book: - About Barbers; - A Dogs Tale; - A Ghost Story; - A Monument to Adam; - Eves Diary; - Extracts from Adams Diary; - The Stolen White Elephant.

Owen Wister was an American novelist whose novel The Virginian (1902) helped establish the cowboy as a folk hero in the United States and the western as a legitimate genre of literature. The Virginian is the prototypical western novel and, arguably, the work most responsible for the romanticized view of the West that is an important part of American cultural identity.This book contains:- The Jimmyjohn Boss.- A Kinsman of Red Cloud.- Sharons Choice.- Napoleon Shave-Tail.- Twenty Minutes for Refreshments.- The Promised Land.- Hanks Woman.

Rabindranath Tagore was a polymath, poet, musician, and artist from the Indian subcontinent. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse" of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagores poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal".This book contains:- The Cabuliwallah.- The Home-Coming.- Onde There Was A King.- The Childs Return.- Master Mashai.- Subha.- The Postmaster.