author: august nemo

7 best short stories by Don Marquis

... keep your pores open says Ed for if you stop the presspiration that means a sun stroke. The main thing is to ... your stomach, sir, and it takes up a lot of room you will wish you had later in the day. For some people I would say beer ...

Essential Science Fiction Novels - Volume 4

... no wise breaking the trust Captain Warren had given him in letting his chum ... game about, like this." "Yes; I can understand that," returned Ray, sympathetically. "And certainly there seemed to be plenty of life ... no game here of the sort ...

Big Book of Best Short Stories: Specials - Russia II

Specials - Russia II August Nemo. Fyodor. Dostoevsky. Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow, Russia, on October 30, 1821. Son of Mikhail Dostoevsky and Maria Fyodorovna Nietcháieva. He was orphaned as a mother on February 27, 1837. That ...

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Russia 2: Volume 11

... timber for felling, lent money at interest, and altogether was a sharp old ... deaf; his wife Aksinya, a handsome woman with a good figure, who wore a hat ... deaf, and who evidently knew very little about female beauty. The old man had ...

3 books to know Literary Realism

... answer to their questions Colia explained that the hedgehog was not his, and that he had left another boy, Kostia Lebedeff, waiting for him outside. Kostia was too shy to come in, because he was carrying a hatchet ... books. Colia and Kostia ...

Essential Novelists - Nathaniel Hawthorne: Weird and Subtle Beauty

... Pearl put up her mouth and kissed the scarlet letter, too. "That was not kind!" said Hester. "When thou hast shown me a little love, thou mockest me!" "Why doth the minister sityonder?" asked Pearl. "He waits to welcome thee," replied ...

3 books to know Lost Worlds

... savage curving beak shore off the heel of his boot as if it had been cut with a chisel. This time at least modern weapons prevailed and the great creature, twelve feet from head to foot—phororachus its name, according to our panting but ...

7 best short stories - Dogs

... stories - Dogs, by August Nemo.), identified by Tacet Books, is free of known copyright restrictions. © 2020 - Tacet Books - All rights reserved Author and publisher: August Nemo Contact: tacet.books@gmail.com ISBN: 9783968581330.

3 Books To Know Victorian Women

... heart-shaped box, portable—for the pocket; there, again, it becomes like a splendid double flower—an ornament for the table; and now"—Mr. Trumbull allowed the flower to fall alarmingly into strings of heart-shaped leaves—"a book of ...

3 books to know Sea Stories

... Tashtego, was successfully accomplished, in the teeth, too, of the most ... case had been nearly emptied of its lighter contents, leaving little but the ... Tashtego perished in that head, it had been a very precious perishing; smothered ...

Essential Novelists - Nellie Bly: the forerunner of Lois Lane

... price-as jewelry! It goes for nothing as money. When I offered it in payment for my bills I was told it would be taken at sixty per cent discount. The Colombo diamond merchants are very glad to get American twenty dollar gold pieces and ...

Essential Novelists - Arthur Machen: influential supernatural and horror fiction

... jewelry for sale, but that I left to be decided, then my work was to begin ... jewelry I bought in Birmingham, on purpose for his expedition. A week later I ... price of every bottle of wine I drank, would not be suffered, as Sancho ...

7 best short stories by Anton Chekhov

... timber for felling, lent money at interest, and altogether was a sharp old ... deaf; his wife Aksinya, a handsome woman with a good figure, who wore a hat ... deaf, and who evidently knew very little about female beauty. The old man had ...

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 4

... timber for felling, lent money at interest, and altogether was a sharp old ... deaf; his wife Aksinya, a handsome woman with a good figure, who wore a hat ... deaf, and who evidently knew very little about female beauty. The old man had ...

Essential Novelists - Selma Lagerlöf: 1st to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

... sea-monsters. But the boy understood that it was the sea-trolls, who had gathered around the island and intended to crawl up on it, to fight with the land-trolls who lived there. And those on the land were probably afraid, for he saw ...

7 mejores cuentos de Javier de Viana

La serie de libros "7 mejores cuentos" presenta los grandes nombres de la literatura en lengua española. Javier de Viana fue un escritor y político periodista uruguayo.

7 best short stories by Agatha Christie

Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to English author Agatha Christie.

Essential Science Fiction Novels - Volume 7

... is not even any indication of suffering among the newts. On the contrary. What we see is that they have no need of any of the things with which man seeks escape and relief from the worries of his life or the horrors of his metaphysics ...

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 7

... life. Whose life is in the cast, my Lord of Brunfels?" Before the Baron ... game must play it to the end, even though he finds luck running against him ... no game that I fear to finish. We were about dice in order to discover whether ...

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - France: Volume 3

... cuckold, for he is a cuckold, I must inform you. His countess is making him one with every man she meets—yes, even with that good-for-nothing of a Fauchery. And that Mignon, who goes loafing about the pavement in behalf of his harridan ...

3 books to know Early Feminism

This is one of many books in the series 3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics.

3 Books to Know: Romantic Era

... me. I escaped from them to the room where lay the body of Elizabeth, my love, my wife, so lately living, so dear, so worthy. She had been moved from the posture in which I had first beheld her, and now, as she lay, her head upon her arm ...

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 6

... Ask me no questions, and I'll tell ye no lies as to how I done it. “Ye see this here bottle, do ye? Kentucky Bourbon, and nothin' else. Bottled in bond, an' there's plenty more where that comes from.—Ask me no questions, and I'll enrich ye ...

7 best short stories - War

Check out the stories that have war as their theme, especially selected by the critic August Nemo: - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce - Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant - The Upturned Face by Stephen Crane - Editha by ...

Essential Novelists - Anna Katharine Green: the mother of the detective novel

... my bed, dressed me and gone out into the yard back of my house for a little air. It was an unusual thing for me to ... woman in my house; it may be so, but at the time I considered it a vision of my wife, and the remembrance of it, coming as ...

7 best short stories - Victorian Romance

... story about Helpholme. That bedridden old lady there had a stalwart son, who was now the owner of the Helpholme pastures ... love—or an ambition which might have grown to love. The young man, after much thought, had not dared to speak to ...

Essential Novelists - Gabriele D'Annunzio: the aesthetic of excess

... stairway, against the wall of which hung, heaven knows since when, skins of hares, hairless and dried, stretched ... flute stole in from a neighboring house; always the same air at the same hour. This music seemed delicious to me. I listened, ...

Essential Novelists - Arthur Morrison: slum life in London

... box I had seen last night. His back was turned toward me, and himself was ... starve, Stevy," he said, "as long as wits finds victuals. But see here," he went on, becoming grave as he sat ... things don't always go right, an' I might get in.

3 Books To Know Orientalism

... Hadji Murad and his men only fired when one of the militiamen showed himself and they seldom missed. Three militiamen were wounded and their comrades not only hesitated to charge Hadji Murad and his men, but dropped farther and farther ...

3 books to know Strong Female Character

... girl, who kept a hundred fat geese in the field," said Amy, when Sallie's invention gave out. "The little girl was sorry for them, and asked an old woman what she should do to help them. 'Your geese will tell you, they know everything ...

7 best short stories - Absurdist

The critic Augst Nemo selected seven short stories of the absurd for his appreciation: - A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka - Before the Law by Franz Kafka - Ex Oblivione by H. P. Lovecraft - Andrey ...

Two classic novels ISTP will love

... voice is more tragic: it is more feminine; and the more feminine a woman is, the more tragic it seems when she does desperate actions.” “There may be something in that,” said Mrs Davilow, languidly. “But I don't know what good there is ...

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