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21/09/2024
Doves’ Nest and Other Stories
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]
20/09/2024
Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Vol. 2
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]
20/09/2024
Dwarf’s Chamber And Other Stories
Short Stories by Fergus Hume, a prolific English novelist. – Summary by Wikipedia [chương_files]
20/09/2024
Tales of Three Hemispheres
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]
20/09/2024
Abaft The Funnel
“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]
20/09/2024
Hotel D’Angleterre And Other Stories
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]
20/09/2024
4 Stories by Louisa May Alcott
Here are four delightful short stories written by the famous author specifically for girls. As she says in the tiny preface “These stories were written for my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion. The flowers which were my solace and pleasure suggested titles for the tales and gave an interest to the work. If my girls find a little beauty or sunshine in these common blossoms, their old friend will not have made her Garland in vain. L.M. ALCOTT.” The stories are An Ivy Spray & Ladies Slippers; Pansies; Water-Lilies and Mountain-Laurel & Maiden-Hair. They are all between 40 minutes and 55 minutes finished audio so they are not short but all four are typical stories from the talented pen of Miss Alcott. – Summary by Phil Chenevert and the author [chương_files]
20/09/2024
John Sherman and Dhoya
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
Tolstoi for the Young: Selected tales from Tolstoi
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]