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Slav Soul and Other Stories

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Novelist and short story writer Alexandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was one of the most widely read authors of his time. Nabokov called him the Russian Kipling for his stories about people who are often “neurotic and vulnerable”. Many films and radio programs based on his works have been produced. These 15 short stories, typically “artful studies of abnormal states of mind”, were selected from various sources. The collection includes “Easter Day” (a chance meeting); “The Picture” (intense envy); “Hamlet” (a fading actor); “The Last Word” (a psychotic confession); “Dogs’ Happiness” (strays in jeopardy); “A Clump of Lilacs” (a wife’s ingenuity); “Anathema” (a curse); and “Tempting Providence” (homeward bound). “The White Poodle” and “The Elephant”, appropriate for all readers, were intended by the author to be read aloud to children. ( Lee Smalley) [chương_files]

Uncollected Short Stories of L.M. Montgomery

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A compilation of 80 short stories by the author of “Anne of Green Gables” that were not previously published in a book or in one of Project Gutenberg’s short stories collections for this author. The subjects range from children’s stories, to romance, humor, and ghost stories. These short stories were published in various magazines from the years 1896 to 1924. Some of these stories were adapted by L.M. Montgomery into chapters of her later novels. The story “Una of the Garden” was transformed into the novel “Kilmeny of the Orchard”. (Summary by Maria Therese) [chương_files]

Anting-Anting Stories And Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos

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“No less wonderful and varied are the inhabitants and the phenomena of the Philippines, and a new author, showing rare knowledge of the country and its strange peoples, now gives us a collection of simple yet wonderful stories which bring them before us with dramatic vividness… Strangest, perhaps, of all these possibilities for fiction is the ‘anting-anting’, at once a mysterious power to protect its possessor and the outward symbol of the protection…” – Summary from the Foreword [chương_files]

Bet and Other Stories

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Thirteen short stories by the master. Summary by david wales [chương_files]

Doves’ Nest and Other Stories

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The Doves’ Nest and Other Stories is a collection of complete stories and fragments by the writer Katherine Mansfield. The book was published several months after the Kiwi author’s death. – Summary by Rob Marland [chương_files]

Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Vol. 2

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THE HEPTAMERON, first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, and an eighth day containing only 2 stories. The stories, many of which deal with love and infidelity, resulted in “accusations of looseness” by critics of the day. The author, Margaret of Navarre (also known as Margaret of Angoulême) became an influential woman in the intellectual and cultural circles of the French Renaissance. From an 1892 essay by the translator George Saintsbury: “In so large a number of stories with so great a variety of subjects, it naturally cannot but be the case that there is a considerable diversity of tone. But that peculiarity at which we have glanced more than once, the combination of voluptuous passion with passionate regret and a mystical devotion, is seldom absent for long together…The question, What is the special virtue of the Heptameron? I have myself little hesitation in answering. There is no book, in prose and of so early a date, which shows to me the characteristic of the time as it influenced the two great literary nations of Europe so distinctly as this book of Margaret of Angoulême… – Summary adapted from Wikipedia and excerpted from the text by lubee930 [chương_files]

Dwarf’s Chamber And Other Stories

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Short Stories by Fergus Hume, a prolific English novelist. – Summary by Wikipedia [chương_files]

Tales of Three Hemispheres

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Tales of Three Hemispheres is a collection of fantasy short stories by Lord Dunsany. The first edition was published in Boston by John W. Luce & Co. in November, 1919; the first British edition was published in London by T. Fisher Unwin in June, 1920. The book collects 14 short pieces by Dunsany; the last three, under the general heading “Beyond the Fields We Know,” are related tales, as explained in the publisher’s note preceding the first, “Idle Days on the Yann,” which was previously published in the author’s earlier collection A Dreamer’s Tales, but reprinted in the current one owing to the relationship. [chương_files]

Abaft The Funnel

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“Men in pajamas sitting abaft the funnel and swapping lies of the purple seas.” Thirty one early short stories by the master story teller Kipling. (Summary by David Wales and title page) [chương_files]

Hotel D’Angleterre And Other Stories

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Five short stories by Lanoe Falconer which is the pseudonym of the English writer, Marie Elizabeth Hawker (1848 – 1908). Her works, though few, were well received. Never married, her health was precarious, preventing her from writing more, though she wished to. She died of tuberculosis, as did her brother. (Summary by David Wales) [chương_files]