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20/09/2024
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John Sherman and Dhoya

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In 1891, Yeats published “John Sherman”, a novella, and “Dhoya”, a Celtic mythologic story. Ganconagh, Yeats’s nom de plume for this work is the name of a male faerie in Irish mythology that is known for seducing human women. (Summary by Wikipedia)     [chương_files]  

20/09/2024
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Tolstoi for the Young: Selected tales from Tolstoi

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Seven stories by Leo Tolstoy selected for inclusion into a school curriculum. Some of the stories are well known and others more obscure; some are long and others quite short but all are of course from the pen of the great graf Leo Tolstoy and faithfully translated by Mrs. R. S. Townsend. – Summary by philip a chenevert     [chương_files]  

20/09/2024
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Sword of Welleran and Other Stories

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The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories is the third book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin and others. It was first published in hardcover by George Allen & Sons in October, 1908, and has been reprinted a number of times since. Issued by the Modern Library in a combined edition with A Dreamer’s Tales as A Dreamer’s Tales and Other Stories in 1917. The book is a series of short stories, some of them linked by Dunsany’s invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegāna, which were the focus of his earlier collections The Gods of Pegāna and Time and the Gods. One of the stories, “The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth,” was afterwards (1910) published by itself as a separate book. – Summary by Wikipedia     [chương_files]  

20/09/2024
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Kai Lung’s Golden Hours

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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]  

20/09/2024
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Sportsman’s Sketches

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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]  

20/09/2024
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Dozen Ways of Love

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This is a collection of (each in their own way) romantic short stories by Lily Dougall. – Summary by Carolin     [chương_files]  

20/09/2024
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Maker of Moons, and Other Short Stories

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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]  

20/09/2024
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Among the Night People

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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]  

20/09/2024
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Whilomville Stories

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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]  

19/09/2024
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Mobilizing Woman-Power

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Harriot Stanton Blatch, a suffragist in her own right, was the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton who was one of the champions of women’s rights and a force in the suffragist movement. In this volume, Blatch focuses on the mobilization of women during World War I, both in Europe and American. These courageous women stepped into roles formerly the domain of men and provided the essential services crucial to the success of the outcome of the war. – Summary by Larry Wilson     [chương_files]