Editorial: Booklassic
Odour of Chrysanthemums was written in the year 1914 by David Herbert Lawrence. This book is one of the most popular novels of David Herbert Lawrence, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), who wrote as M. R. James, was an English author, medieval scholar, and provost of King's College, Cambridge, and of Eton College. He is best known for his outstanding ghost stories. James reinvented the ghost story for the modern audience by moving away from Gothic elements and using realistic contemporary settings. His protagonists and plots often reflected his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story". "Count Magnus" is the story of an amateur scholar travelling in a remote part of Sweden, whose researches lead him to the mausoleum where the infamous Count Magnus is interred. As he researches the history of the long dead count, and learns more about his ill deeds and the mysterious "black pilgimage" from which he returned with something or someone evil...strange and horrifying events begin to overtake him.Ver libro
Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. Race and gender have denied many their rightful place in literary history. When we take time to look again we find remarkable jewels of astonishing merit that reveal just how many talented stories have emerged from the pens of these very special women. 01 - The Top 10 - The African American Women - An Introduction 2 - Two Offers by Frances W Harper 3 - The Wooing of Pastor Cummings by Georgia F Stewart 4 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson 5 - The Hoodoo by Martha Gruening 6 - The Octoroon's Revenge by Ruth D Todd 7 - Breaking the Color Line by Annie McCary 8 - The Quadroons by Lydia Maria Child 9 - The Preacher at Hill Station by Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman 10 - Talma by Pauline E Hopkins 11 - Aunt Lindy. A Story Founded on Real Life by Victoria Earle MatthewsVer libro
Four short stories by Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories and novels portraying life in the mining communities of the turn-of-the-century American West. She is famous for her stories of place, in which she portrayed the rough, picturesque life she experienced and observed in the old West, especially that in the early mining towns. She wrote several novels, and illustrated stories and novels by other authors for various publishers. She died at age 90. Her legacy in American history is as a stalwart of the American Old West and a teller of its stories. Her work—the numerous stories for books and periodicals, with her drawings and woodcut illustrations; the correspondence from western outposts; her novels and nonfiction—gained her notice as a skilled observer of the frontier (Summary by Wikipedia and David Wales)Ver libro
The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its twelfth year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the best of the bunch to reprint all in one volume.Ver libro
Jannat Ka Bhoot is a selection from the works of Mirza Azeem Baig Chugtai. About the author: Mirza Azeem Chughtai known in literary circles by his pen name Shabnam Romani, was a renowned Urdu poet based in Karachi, Paksitan. Shabnam Romani wrote a number of books including Jazeera, Doosra Himala, and Tohmat. He was the publisher and editor of quaterly Aqdar, a literary Urdu magazine and wrote a regular column in The Daily "Mashriq" KarachiVer libro
A demon coyote that's too fast to shoot and too smart to poison is closing in. Will the Wolf Hunter survive?Ver libro
