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The Cook’s Wedding and Other Stories – ebook
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Many stories from this collection about animals and children. This is perhaps the cutest collection, with unusual animals and kittens. This story you can live and feel through the eyes of a child. The choice of the main character leaves a lot of question in the future, but we ourselves can guess the reason for this choice.Data dostępności:
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Sixes and Sevens – ebook
O. Henry
„Sixes and Sevens” is a first collection of humorous short stories from the author of „The Four Million”, his stories deal for the most part with ordinary people: clerks, policemen and waitresses and often use twist endings which turn on an ironic or coincidental circumstance in his stories. O. Henry proves that he is the master of the short story format. This collection has quirky as well as nice...Data dostępności:
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A Changed Man and Other Tales – ebook
Thomas Hardy
The stories that make up The Changed Man were written at different points in Hardy’s life, but this collection was not published until 1913. Hardy wrote really excellent short stories – many of his stories had the scope and complexity of a full-length novel. This collection of twelve stories; Tales of soldiers, shepherds, milkmaids and dukes often contain some elements of the creepy or supernatural...Data dostępności:
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The Silver Thorn – ebook
Hugh Walpole
This is an exciting collection of 15 stories. Indeed, there are some who are very good – there is a sad and exciting „Silly old fool” about a canon who believes that a woman cares for him, and „Engraving” sees how an obsessed husband goes against his wife’s desires, collecting engravings. Other great stories are Little Donkeys with Raspberry Saddles, gentle Chinese Horses about two women and a man,...Data dostępności:
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The Greater Inclination – ebook
Edith Wharton
This is Edith Wharton’s earliest published collection of 8 short stories (1899). A selection consists: „Muse’s Tragedy”: Unrequited love between a poet and his muse. „The Journey”: A woman journeys with her ailing husband. „The Pelican”: A woman supports her son. „Souls Belated”: The pressure put on couples to marry. „A Coward”: A man recounts his cowardice past. „The Twilight of the God”: Past lovers...Data dostępności:
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Crucial Instances – ebook
Edith Wharton
Originally published in 1901, „Crucial Instances” is the second collection of six short stories connected, as the title suggests, by a hinging moment in the narrative through which the plot alters dramatically. The contents included the following: „The Duchess at Prayer”, „The Angel at the Grave”, „The Recovery”, „Copy: A Dialogue”, „The Rembrandt”, „The Moving Finger” and „The Confessional”.This is...Data dostępności:
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Heart of the West – ebook
O. Henry
„Heart of the West” is a collection of O. Henry nineteen short stories, all of which are set in or feature the American West at the turn of the 20th century, back before paved interstates, when cowboy culture was at its peak. This collection of short fiction from master of the form centers on tales of romantic entanglement, adventure, and lost love among the dusty trails and plains of the Wild West....Data dostępności:
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Head in Green Bronze and Other Stories – ebook
Hugh Walpole
In Walpole style, an excellent collection of short story bedside tables in the guest room, for recovering or reading aloud. There is nothing modern cynicism; the stories seem somewhat outdated – but in the end it often reassures. One group may be left alone, „Let the storm tremble,” built on the fascinating idea of business to rid society of boring ones.Data dostępności:
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The Party and Other Stories – ebook
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
A small collection of stories. The general theme of the stories is the diversity of emotions that the main characters experience, and by the end it turns out to be a bit painful. A variety of subjects, simple but wonderful, honed by irony. Most stories of unhappy marriages. The main characters can get married because of unhappy love or unexpected pregnancy.Data dostępności:
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The Countess of Lowndes Square and Other Stories – ebook
E.F. Benson
A collection of fourteen short stories. These are stories about blackmail and own experiments. Some stories may seem close. Thus, the stories will be read in one breath. Since the reader will perceive them with interest. A hint is attached to each story, but you will have to solve some problems yourself.Data dostępności:
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