In this 1921 collection of short stories, many dealing with the experiences of ordinary people during the Great War, the master English storyteller Stacy Aumonier explores themes ranging from the humorous to the poignant. (Summary by Michael Maggs) [chương_files]
Kurze Momentaufnahmen und Betrachtungen von Menschen, Orten und Szenen aus dem Leben. Zueignung: Ein kleines Zeichen wahrhafter Verehrung und Freundschaft Frau Anna von Köckritz geb. Gräfin zu Limburg-Stirum (Zusammenfassung von lorda) [chương_files]
«…ἐνόσω ζῶ καὶ ἀναπνέω καὶ σωφρονῶ, δὲν θὰ παύσω πάντοτε… νὰ ὑμνῶ μετὰ λατρείας τὸν Χριστόν μου, νὰ περιγράφω μετ᾿ ἔρωτος τὴν φύσιν, καὶ νὰ ζωγραφῶ μετὰ στοργῆς τὰ γνήσια Ἑλληνικὰ ἤθη…». Ιστορίες αναμνήσεις και συναισθήματα που συγκίνησαν τον ίδιο τον Παπαδιαμάντη περιλαμβάνει το βιβλίο αυτό. Χωρίς προσπάθεια να «γαλβανίσει την περιέργεια του αναγνώστη» όπως λέει ο ίδιος , περιγράφει γεγονότα και καταστάσεις ανθρώπων της διπλανής πόρτας, με φόντο την ελληνική άνοιξη και το δικό του θρησκευτικό συναίσθημα. (Summary by Penelope ) [chương_files]
A collection of Wells’ short stories, with a short introductory essay by the author- “Essentially it is a miscellany of inventions, many of which were very pleasant to write; and its end is more than attained if some of them are refreshing and agreeable to read. I have now re-read them all, and I am glad to think I wrote them. I like them, but I cannot tell how much the associations of old happinesses gives them a flavour for me. I make no claims for them and no apology; they will be read as long as people read them.” (From the author’s Introduction.) H.G. Wells is best known as a writer of science fiction; “The Country of the Blind and Other Stories” is a collection only incidentally touched by science. [chương_files]
Seven stories by Jack London, set in the Yukon and other northwestern localities. The most well-known story in this collection is probably To Build a Fire, which is often taught in American high school classrooms. – Summary by TriciaG [chương_files]
A 1923 collection of tales by the British author Stacy Aumonier (1877–1928), described by John Galsworthy as “one of the best short-story writers of all time.” This collection includes two of Aumonier’s best-known works, “The Octave of Jealousy” and “Where Was Wych Street?” (listener warning: includes two occurrences of the n-word). It opens with the very funny “Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty”, in which a deeply conservative middle-aged spinster checks in to a hotel in Bordeaux on her first trip abroad. She finds a man asleep on the bed and realises she is in the wrong room, but the door handle has come off in her hand, and she can’t get out. Then she makes another discovery. (Michael Maggs) [chương_files]
Eleven short stories from The Windsor Magazine in the 1920s, Best British Short Stories of 1922, and Best British Short Stories of 1923. – Summary by David Wales [chương_files]
A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923. Stevens trained to be a lawyer. Within eleven years after this series of poems were written, he was vice-president at the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company in Connecticut. He continued to pursue a quiet life of poetry and correspondence and for the remainder of his life he nurtured his contemplative habit of observation and writing as he walked from home to work and back again. Few at Hartford knew of his world acclaim as a poet. While his major work is considered to have been written when he was much older, many of these early poems are firm classics in the American poetic canon, including: “Anecdote of the Jar,” “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” “Peter Quince at the Clavier,” “Sunday Morning,” “The Snow Man,” “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” and many others. Stevens died of cancer in 1955, shortly after receiving that year’s Pulitzer Prize for poetry. These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (Others, Secession, Rogue, The Soil, The Modern School, Broom, Contact, The New Republic, The Measure, The Little Review, The Dial, and particularly in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.) Nearly 70 of the 101 published poems were later collected in Stevens’ first published collection of poems, HARMONIUM. (Summary by Alan Davis Drake) [chương_files]
Aventurarnos en los “Cuentos de las Montañas” es zambullirnos sin concesiones en los antiguos días de la India durante la dominación británica, desde la perspectiva de un ciudadano patriota y orgulloso del imperio. R. Kipling, popular escritor, periodista y poeta inglés nacido en India y educado en Inglaterra, cimentó su reputación como escritor de genio ya a los 22 años con la publicación de esta primera colección de narraciones cortas, en lo que sería una meteórica carrera hacia el Premio Nobel de Literatura. Ambientadas en las exóticas colinas de Simla que el autor tanto amó, y escritas en un estilo sencillo, livianas y casi anecdóticas, relatan historias y experiencias de la vida cotidiana en la India británica. Dan forma a un retrato pleno de matices de la sociedad anglo-india en aquel contexto colonial. Desencantos, amores prohibidos, ambición, odios, maquinaciones, celos, superficialidad… Bajo el sol implacable de Simla van desfilando la mentalidad, conflictos, paradojas y valores de la dama de sociedad, el soldado, la mujer enamorada, el burócrata y el empresario, en un escenario de colores y aromas fascinantes. (Introducción por Jasna y Epachuko) [chương_files]
Relíquias de Casa Velha é o último livro de obras curtas de Machado de Assis, publicado ainda em vida do autor. O livro é composto de nove contos, um conjunto de discursos e críticas, além de duas pequenas peças. A obra traz ainda, em sua abertura, o possivelmente mais famoso poema do autor, “A Carolina”. – Summary by Leni [chương_files]
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