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Kai Lung’s Golden Hours is a frame story or frame novel, that is, the narrative provides a frame for different stories. Think One Thousand And One Nights or Canterbury Tales. Kai Lung is an ancient Chinese storyteller who tells stories to postpone his criminal conviction in the court of a Mandarin. (david wales) [chương_files]
A Sportsman’s Sketches (Russian: Записки охотника; also known as The Hunting Sketches and Sketches from a Hunter’s Album) was an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition. He wrote this collection of short stories based on his own observations while hunting at his mother’s estate at Spasskoye, where he learned of the abuse of the peasants and the injustices of the Russian system that constrained them. The frequent abuse of Turgenev by his mother certainly had an effect on this work. The stories were first published in The Contemporary with each story separate before appearing in 1852 in book form. He was about to give up writing when the first story, “Khor and Kalinich,” was well received. This work is part of the Russian realist tradition in that the narrator is usually an uncommitted observer of the people he meets. – Summary by Wikipedia [chương_files]
This is a collection of (each in their own way) romantic short stories by Lily Dougall. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
An eclectic collection of 8 stories by one of the early masters of the weird tale, Robert W. Chambers. The stories include a range of topics including war, romance, humor and even fishing. The title short story, “The Maker of Moons,” is considered to be one of Chamber’s greatest weird horror tales and was one of H.P. Lovecraft’s favorite stories by the author. (Summary by Kadath) [chương_files]
No need to be afraid of the dark – here is a wonderful collection of stories about the creatures and personalities who live at night and sleep in the day. – Summary by Jude Somers [chương_files]
This collection consists of thirteen stories. The stories are set in the mythical town of Whilomville used by Stephen Crane for many of his best stories. They appeared in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine between 1899 and 1900. The writing is crisp, the stories are poignant and funny (usually) and always tell us something about our quirky human nature. – Summary by Phil chenevert [chương_files]
Masterful short stories about life in Dublin at the turn of the century, by James Joyce. (Summary by Hugh McGuire) [chương_files]
Tales of Men and Ghosts was published as a collection in 1910, though the first eight of the stories had earlier appeared in Scribner’s and the last two in the Century Magazine. Despite the title, the men outnumber the ghosts, since only “The Eyes” and “Afterward” actually call on the supernatural. In only two of the stories are women the central characters, though elsewhere they play important roles. Wharton enjoys subjecting her subjects — all of them American gentlemen and gentlewomen, in the conventional senses of the word — to various moral tests and sometimes ironic tests. Some of the stories deal with the intellectual fashions of the day — “The Blond Beast” basing itself, to some degree, on Nietzsche, and “The Debt” on variants of Darwinism. Though “Afterward” is set in England, and “The Letters” in France, the rest of the stories are squarely in Wharton’s own New York city, rather than (say) in what she calls “the soul-deadening ugliness of the Middle West,” thus avoiding the need to come to terms with what fashion-conscious New Yorkers still today call “fly-over country” for everything that lies between the west bank of the Hudson River and San Francisco Bay. (Summary by Nicholas Clifford) [chương_files]
Breckinridge Elkins is the roughest, toughest, fastest-shootin’, hardest-fightin’ feller in the Bear Creek settlement, and probably in the entire Humbolt Mountains. As he travels further from home, he single-handedly takes on outlaws, settles (and starts) feuds and tries his hand at romancing the girls. He also discovers a lot of strange customs among other folks, such as building houses out of boards and wearing clothes that ain’t buckskins. Set in Nevada during the late 1800’s, this collection of stories is a great rollicking romp through the American frontier as seen through the eyes of one of the most enjoyable characters created in the history of tall tales. (Summary by RK Wilcox) [chương_files]
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