The Great Modern American Stories
Author | : William Dean Howells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Dean Howells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
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Author | : Edward J. O'Brien |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1979-03-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780849542077 |
Author | : Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781019801000 |
Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien's anthology of modern English stories brings together a diverse range of works from some of the greatest writers of the 20th century. From Virginia Woolf to E.M. Forster, this collection offers a fascinating overview of the evolution of the short story during this period. A must-read for lovers of literature and fiction. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Short stories, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edward Joseph O'Brien |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Short stories, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edward Joseph O'Brien |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Short stories, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Hamlin Fitch |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2022-09-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Modern English Books of Power" by George Hamlin Fitch. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien |
Publisher | : General Books |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2012-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781458918086 |
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT By Robert Lou1s Stevenson IT was late in November, 1456. The snow fell over Paris with rigorous, relentless persistence; sometimes the wind made a sally and scattered it in flying vortices; sometimes there was a lull, and flake after flake descended out of the black night air, silent, circuitous, interminable. To poor people, looking up under moist eye brows, it seemed a wonder where it all came from. Master Francis Villon had propounded an alternative that afternoon, at a tavern window: was it only Pagan Jupiter plucking geese upon Olympus? or were the holy angels moulting? He was only a poor Master of Arts, he went on; and as the question somewhat touched upon divinity, he durst not venture to conclude. A silly old priest from Montargis, who was among the company, treated the young rascal to a bottle of wine in honour of the jest and grimaces with which it was accompanied, and swore on his own white beard that he had been just such another irreverent dog when he was Villon's age. The air was raw and pointed, but not far below freezing; and the flakes were large, damp, and adhesive. The whole city was sheeted up. An army might have marched from end to end and not a footfall given the alarm. If there were any belated birds in heaven, they saw the island like a large white patch, and the bridges like slim white spars, on the black ground of the river. High up overhead the snow settled among the tracery of the cathedral towers. Many a niche was drifted full; many a statue wore a long white bonnet on its grotesque or sainted head. The gargoyles had been transformed into great false noses, drooping towards the point. The crockets were like upright pillows swollen on one side. In the intervals of the wind, there was a dull sound of dripping about the pr...
Author | : Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Short stories, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Roland English Hartley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |