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The still-hilarious parodies in this humorous collection offer ample evidence of Leacock's first-rate comic sensibilities. Highlights include "Maddened by Mystery," a send-up of the detective novel, "Gertrude the Governess," a bodice-ripping romance gone wrong, and "Man in Asbestos," a sci-fi laugh riot.
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Brought together here in this volume is a classic collection of satirical works from Jonathan Swift, perhaps one of the greatest satirist in the English language. While Swift is probably best known for his novel "Gulliver's Travels", he was a brilliant satirist with a cutting wit and mastery of language. His skills with the pen, which made him both famous and feared by the powerful, can be seen in "A Modest Proposal". Swift's famous essay, originally...
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This massive work in two volumes, includes all 180 short stories written by the nineteenth-century French master of the genre, Guy de Maupassant.
Guy de Maupassant is one of the modern masters of the art of the short story and has influenced practitioners of that genre from his time to the present.
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"The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories" collects six of Tolstoy's finest short stories into one edition. In "How Much Land Does a Man Need?", Tolstoy explores this very question through the story of a peasant with an increasing appetite for land-an appetite which becomes his ruin. "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", one of Tolstoy's short masterpieces, tells of the early death of a high-court judge in 19th century Russian. "Family Happiness" explores the...
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In 'Dynamo' the antics of a dog cause trouble for his owners. In 'Running the Gauntlet' two wannabee cattle rustlers start out on a hapless pursuit. A year 10 student finds a hoped-for friend has a dark side in 'Killing Two Birds'. A teenager's yearning for more height has a strange outcome in 'There Are More Things'. Enjoy these and six more stories in this diverse collection.
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Waiting For A Friend is a stage play about a fifty-something-year old man who is confronted by the unexpected visit of his best friend, who died tragically when they were kids in high school.
The man must come to terms with his lost youth and innocence, and the unstoppable passage of time, while a painful but heartfelt conversation with his teenage friend puts into perspective a life cut short versus what it means to have lived a full life.
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Guy de Maupassant died insane due to venereal disease in 1893 at the young age of 43. He died but his great novels and particularly his short stories have endured. Anyone who loves fiction will enjoy this book including his great tales such as The Necklace and The Horla. (Amazon)
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This delightful eBook presents seven pieces from the rich heritage of Lafcadio Hearn-one of the first and most preeminent scholars to travel to and write about Japan. They are a natural outgrowth of Hearn's peerless philosophy: "If you have any feeling-no matter what-strongly latent in the mind (even only a haunting sadness or a mysterious joy), you may be sure that it is expressible." Hearn's language, his incomparable prose, ripened and mellowed...
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A collection of short stories by one of the preeminent voices of nineteenth-century Norwegian literature.
Alexander L. Kielland ranks alongside Henrik Ibsen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson as one of Norway’s great literary masters. First published in 1896, this volume of Kielland’s short fiction introduced English-speaking audiences to his incisive realism and his satirical yet humane vision of Norse society.
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The book title "A Telling Experience" has a double meaning: 1) something curious that you were part of, and 2) the sharing of your particular story. An experience becomes even more meaningful by being, told. The thing may be familiar, or it may be as strange as The Twilight Zone (but true). The idea of this book is that everybody's life is somehow a Tall Tale. This book is my Tall Tale; my ordinary, strange, telling experience: A bewildered youth,...
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