Publisher: BookRix
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Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem. In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything. But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle. Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. Story. Poems. Story. Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters. And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse. 1 - Chapter & Verse - Charles Dickens - An Introduction 2 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 3 - The Ivy Green by Charles Dickens 4 - The Song of the Wreck by Charles Dickens 5 - The Hymn of the Wiltshire Laborers by Charles Dickens 6 - A Child's Hymn by Charles Dickens 7 - Lucy's Song by Charles Dickens 8 - Little Nell's Funeral by Charles Dickens 9 - Gabriel Grub's Song by Charles Dickens 10 - George Edmund's Song by Charles Dickens 11 - Squire Norton's Song by Charles Dickens 12 - A Fine Old English Gentleman by Charles Dickens 13 - The Trial for Murder by Charles DickensShow book
The sequel to the critically acclaimed Reverse Engineering. Reverse Engineering II brings together contemporary classic stories with their authors' discussions of how they were written. An essential book for everyone interested in how fiction works...Show book
One Good Story, That One is a collection steeped in native oral tradition and shot through with Thomas King's special brand of wit and comic imagination. These highly acclaimed stories conjure up Native and Judeo-Christian myths, present-day pop culture, and literature while mixing in just the right amount of perception and experience.Show book
Get your weird and fun fix with these super-short stories of the strange. From ghosts to galactic guests and everything in the gaps. Riddled with riddles, tons of twists and turns, plenty of pulp, and some truly tender moments. Read them all or pick and choose which ones to read by genre. Flashing Lights: Short and Weird is a collection of sixteen flash fiction and short stories in several subgenres of speculative fiction. The collection includes aliens and ghosts, portals through time and space, plenty of humor, a bit of horror and suspense, and some serious classic sci-fi. Embark on a mission to explore the breadth of speculative short fiction. Each story is preceded by a content rating (G, PG, PG-13) and its genre tags. And is followed by an About section, describing the story’s prompt, inspiration, homages, and the occasional Easter egg. The collection also includes six “bonus” ten-word stories with a short commentary about each and a secret bonus short work.Show book
Considered one of the greatest filmmakers of the twentieth century, legendary director, producer, and screenwriter Orson Welles was also an acclaimed actor, whose distinctive voice commanded attention. In this recording, Welles offers historic interpretations of excerpts from classic literature. This collection features time-honored works by several distinguished contributors, including American authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, as well as Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Saki, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde. Narrated as only Orson Welles can, the stories collected here include: " By the Old Moulmein Pagoda" by Rudyard Kipling • " The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde • " Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson • " The Red Room" by H.G. Wells • " Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling • " The Secret Sharer" by Joseph Conrad • " Shredni Vashtar" by Saki • " The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe • " Wakefield" by Nathaniel Hawthorne • " The Way Through the Woods" by Rudyard KiplingShow book
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. In this volume our classic authors turn their words and narratives to a decade when Europe is engulfed in revolution. At home London becomes the largest city on the globe, as the Industrial Revolution gathers pace amidst stirrings of increasing social unrest. 01 - Top 10 Short Stories - The 1820s - An Introduction 2 - El Verdugo by Honoré de Balzac 3 - The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott 4 - Ferdinando Eboli by Mary Shelley 5 - The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving 6 - Vampirismus or Aurelia by E T A Hoffman 7 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 1 by Ernst Raupach 8 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 2 by Ernst Raupach 9 - From the Memoirs of Satan by Wilhelm Hauff 10 - Peter Rugg, The Missing Man - Part 1 by William Austin 11 - Peter Rugg, The Missing Man - Part 2 by William Austin 12 - Mateo Falcone by Prosper Merimee 13 - The Prediction - Part 1 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey 14 - The Prediction - Part 2 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David LyndseyShow book
