Daniil Kharms, Julian Hawthorne, August Nemo, E. F. Benson, John Buchan, Ella D'Arcy, Jacques Futrelle, Frank Stockton, John Kendrick Bangs, Kenneth Grahame, A. E. W. Mason

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Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 11 (eBook, ePUB)

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This book contains70 short storiesfrom 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the criticAugust Nemo, in a collection that will please theliterature lovers. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: - A. E. W. Mason:The Affair At The Semiramis Hotel The Clock Green Paint Ensign Knightley The Man Of Wheels The Coward Keeper Of The Bishop - Julian Hawthorne:David Poindexter's Disappearance. Ken's Mystery. When Half-gods Go, the Gods Arrive. Set Not Thy Foot on Graves. My Friend Paton. The Christmas Guest. The Laughing Mill - Kenneth Grahame:The Twenty-First of October Dies Irae Mutabile Semper The Magic Ring Its Walls Were as of Jasper A Saga of the Seas The Reluctant Dragon - John Kendrick Bangs:The Water Ghost Of Harrowby Hall The Spectre Cook Of Bangletop A Midnight Visitor The Speck On The Lens A Quicksilver Cassandra The Ghost Club A Psychical Prank - Frank R. Stockton:The Bee-Man Of Orn. The Griffin And The Minor Canon. Old Pipes And The Dryad. The Queen's Museum. Prince Hassak's March. The Battle Of The Third Cousins. The Banished King. - Jacques Futrelle:The Problem of Cell 13 The Thinking Machine Five Millions by Wireless Kidnapped Baby Blake, Millionaire The Problem of the Motor Boat The Problem of the Opera Box The Problem of the Vanishing man - Ella D'Arcy:Irremediable White Magic A Marriage In Normandy The Pleasure-Pilgrim The Web of Maya An Engagement - John Buchan:Politics and the Mayfly The Keeper of Cademuir The Wife of Flanders The Watcher by the Threshold Comedy in the Full Moon The Herd of Standlan - E. F. Benson:The Room in the Tower Caterpillars Mrs. Amworth Mr. Tilly's Séance Negotium Perambulans How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery The Horror-Horn - Daniil Kharms:Symphony no. 2 On phenomena and existences - No. 1 The thing Andrey Semyonovich An unexpected drinking bout The destiny of a professor's wife The memoirs of a wise old man

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A. E. W. Mason (7 May 1865 22 November 1948) was an English author and politician. Julian Hawthorne was an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 6 July 1932) was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. John Kendrick Bangs was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist. His name is immortalised in the term "Bangsian Fantasy". Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. Jacques Heath Futrelle (April 9, 1875 April 15, 1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine" for his application of logic to any and all situations. Futrelle died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Ella D'Arcy (23 August 1857 5 September 1937) was a short fiction writer in the late 19th and early 20th century. John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, (/26 August 1875 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederat E.F. Benson , in full Edward Frederic Benson , (born July 24, 1867, Wellington College, Berkshire, Eng.died Feb. 29, 1940, London), writer of fiction, reminiscences, and biographies, of which the best remembered are his arch, satirical novels and his urbane autobiographical studies of Edwardian and Georgian society. Daniil Kharms (30 December 1905 2 February 1942) was an early Soviet-era avant-gardist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tacet Books
• Seitenzahl: 778
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783966611084
• Artikelnr.: 59022941