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Short Stories (All the Year Round, 1859-1863)

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In 1859 Charles Dickens launched a new weekly journal, All the Year Round, to replace Household Words. Elizabeth Gaskell remained a prolific contributor until 1863. Her fictional contributions feature strong female characters and have a darker tone than her previous works, reflecting the fashion for Gothic fiction of the 1860s and her travels in Europe. They include two of her best known shorter works: Lois the Witch, a heartfelt story of a young English girl who becomes of a victim of the Salem witch trials, and The Grey Woman, a powerful tale of a deceived wife’s flight from her husband, a nobleman who turns out to be a leader of the French ‘chauffeurs’. Two of Gaskell’s most complex family sagas were thinly disguised as Christmas Ghost stories: The Ghost in the Garden Room (later, The Crooked Branch) and How the First Floor Went to Crowley Castle. The Cage at Cranford is a short reprise of Gaskell’s Cranford stories. Of the two documentary pieces, Select Committee on French Songs (attributed to Gaskell in 2015) appears here for the first time in a collection of Elizabeth Gaskell’s work. (Phil Benson) [chương_files]

Novelle per un Anno, vol. 10: Il Vecchio Dio

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Novelle per un anno è una raccolta di 241 novelle scritte da Luigi Pirandello. Originariamente sono state pubblicate sul Corriere della Sera, successivamente ripubblicate in 15 raccolte. Inizialmente erano previste 24 raccolte contenenti 365 novelle, tuttavia la prematura morte dell’autore ha impedito il raggiungimento del traguardo. Postume sono state pubblicate altre novelle scritte dall’autore. Le raccolte sono state pubblicate tra il 1896 e il 1924. La decima raccolta, edita nel 1926, contiene novelle pubblicate tra il 1894 ed il 1915. (Riassunto di Filippo Gioachin) Questo libro è stato promosso dal gruppo Volontari del Libro di aNobii. [chương_files]

Strength of Gideon and Other Stories

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One of four books of short stories written in his brief career. These stories are written using African-American dialect which provides deeper insight to the culture of that time. – Summary by Kirk202 [chương_files]

Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

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An anthology of short, chilling stories from Algernon Blackwood. They will make you start at noises in the night and wonder about your neighbors. These stories likely stem from Blackwood’s investigations into haunted houses for the Psychical Research Society and reflect his fascination with the weird, occult and supernatural. – Summary by Lynne Thompson [chương_files]

Orientations

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This is a collection showing W. Somerset Maugham’s early attempt in the short story genre, which he comes to master as one of 20th century’s best teller of tales. – Summary by Lilith Branda [chương_files]

King in Yellow (Version 2)

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A collection of stories that inspired the works of many writers such as HP Lovecraft, “The King in Yellow” revolves around the play that the main characters read a part of, and those two acts of the play drive them all into madness. – Summary by Eva Staes [chương_files]

Human Boy And The War

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Published in 1916, this is the third collection of thirteen humorous short stories about English school boys in a boarding school in the fictitious village Merivale. This book, of course, has World War I as a backdrop. Each story is told in the voice of a different boy at the school. The author wrote two other books in this series: The Human Boy (1900) and The Human Boy Again (1908). Eden Phillpotts was popular with the reading public and wrote prolifically novels, short stories, poetry, plays, and nonfiction. (David Wales) [chương_files]

Strength of the Strong

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Seven short stories, written around the middle of London’s writing career. The stories take place in diverse settings and time periods, from prehistoric times to the future. Plots include a worldwide work strike, a sociopath serial killer, a sailor returning home after years at sea, and more. (Summary by TriciaG) [chương_files]

Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches

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In this urbane collection of short stories by Maurice Baring, characters ranging from legendary figures to schoolboys find themselves in step or out of sorts, where they are meant to be or warned not to go, out of luck or, more often than not, in it. – Summary by A. Gramour [chương_files]

Stories Weird and Wonderful

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A collection of tales written by J.E. Muddock. All these stories are dark in atmosphere and subject matter. [chương_files]