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"The Open Boat" is based on a harrowing incident in the author's life: the 1897 sinking of a ship on which he was a passenger; "The Blue Hotel" and "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" reflect Crane's early travels in Mexico and the American Southwest; and six other short stories.
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Stories of adventures and derring-do featuring the man who is "after Holmes and Watson, Arthur Conan Doyle's most successful literary creation" (Julian Symons, Edgar Award–winning British crime writer).
Originally published in The Strand magazine in the 1890s, the tales of Etienne Gerard, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, shows Arthur Conan Doyle at his satiric best. In his own words, Gerard takes readers through his illustrious career, his...
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"It is December 8, 1941. Everyone in the school assembly in Artie Garber's school in Birney, Illinois is hushed and serious. They are listening to President Roosevelt declare that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has brought on war. Down the street Artie's big brother, Roy, recovering from a hangover, is preparing to join the Marines. Shirley, a girl Roy cares for, is taking a new interest in the would-be soldier. And Arties, "going on 11,"...
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. "The Great Shadow", also known as "The Great Shadow and other Napoleonic Tales", is an Action & Adventure novel published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1892. Instead of Sherlock Holmes being the main character,...
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Extrait : "S'il est vrai, selon le poète catholique, qu'il n'y ait pas de plus grande peine que de se rappeler un temps heureux, dans la misère, il est aussi vrai que l'âme trouve quelque bonheur à se rappeler, dans un moment de calme et de liberté, les temps de peine ou d'esclavage. Cette mélancolique émotion me fait jeter en arrière un triste regard sur quelques années de ma vie, quoique ces années soient bien proches de celle-ci..."
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A pair of U.S. Navy Security Police petty officers make their rounds checking guards within the city. An observation at the OK Hotel creates a dilemma over reporting this to Military Police authorities--one in favor, one opposed. The unexpected outcome results in more than they had planned. The story provides a unique view of Da Nang from so many years ago.
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Inhalt:
Lispeth
Drei Walzer-und eine Extratour
Vergeudet
Miss Youghals "Sais"
Im Joch
Zwielicht
Pluffles' Befreiung
Amors Pfeile
Die drei Musketiere
Der Wendepunkt
Uhren
Der Andere
Folgen
Die Bekehrung Aurelian Mc. Goggins
Die Einnahme von Lungtungpen
Der Bazillentöter
Entführt
Die Verhaftung des Leutnants Golightly
Im Hause Suddhoos
Seine Ehefrau
Der Rekordbrecher
Jenseits
Irrungen
Ein Bankbetrug
Toddy's Antrag
Die Tochter des Regiments
In der...
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When the world is collapsing,
how is survival possible?
When a three-year-old stuffs paper into the toilet, it seeps through the ceiling onto the mahogany table to enrage his mother. Money tight, a girl does farm work in hot sun. A homeless man yearns for his childhood home. A young Merchant marine sails into the port city just A-bombed. Millions are stunned as planes slice into their tallest skyscraper.
In Jean E. Verthein's Bottled Cries...
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Faruk Šehić ha ido escribiendo estos relatos durante años para ponerse a salvo de la guerra y de la vida. "¿Por qué alguien inventaría historias de terror cuando las vivió durante los años de la guerra? -escribe el autor- ¿De qué fantasía hablamos cuando todo lo que vivimos fue fantástico? En nuestro país, la literatura es a menudo más que la vida misma, porque es una combinación de maquinación y hechos irrefutables".
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11) Larie
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Larie started working the farm with his dad beginning at the age of 5. Larie knew that he wanted to do something better with his life, and he needed motivation in the right direction. While in high school, Larie researched the branches of the military and, decided the Marines would provide the benefits, training, and motivation he needed to succeed. God has a path for each one of us, and in this story, Larie perseveres and stays on his path that...
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The Twilight Zone meets Saturday Night Live in captivating collection of short stories! Science fiction, paranormal, mystery, suspense, drama and comedy, combined in one collection of plot twisting reads. Some tales based on true stories, there's something for everyone. Curl up next to the fire or in your favorite nook, but don't get too comfortable. One minute you'll laugh, the next you'll be sitting on the edge of your seat, and within a flip of...
13) Without You
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I lost you when I was just sixteen-years-old. The pain was unlike any I had ever known before, but nevertheless, I trudged on. I learned how to live without you, and somehow moved on with my life. Now I've met someone new and have fallen in love once more.. But time has passed, and I'm forced to make the greatest decision of my life.
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In Ambrose Bierce's short story One of the Missing, an orderly for the Union Army undertakes a scouting mission. Preparing to fire on a retreating army, the structure in which he is hiding is suddenly destroyed by cannon fire. When he comes to, he realizes he is completely pinned under the rubble. Making matters worse his own gun, primed and ready to fire, is coincidentally pointing at his head. This story, which originally appeared in The San Francisco...
15) Love and War
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Thirteen short stories make up this book: from the romance of 'The Angel of Tobruk' to the deadly battles of 'The Third of August', 'Staying Alive', 'Horace the Horse', to the nostalgia of 'My Grandfather the Soldier', 'Suburban Hero', 'Homecoming' and 'The Light in the Window'. Plus some history of the 2nd/43rd battalion in World War Two, who fought at Tobruk, El Alamein, New Guinea and Borneo. The 'Rats of Tobruk' fought, died, were wounded, and...
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Tragicomedy of the highest order, this stellar collection is Croatian writer Novakovich's best ever.
Hailed as one of the best short story writers of the 1990s, Josip Novakovich was praised by the New York Times for writing fiction that has "the crackle of authenticity, like the bite of breaking glass." In his new collection, he explores a war–torn Balkan world in which a schoolchild's innocence evaporates in a puff of cannon smoke, lust replaces...
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Spanning centuries and continents, Mamet uses war and its players to explore, among other themes, redemption and forgiveness as they unfold in the context of conflict in the form of three novellas. In The Redwing, the first of the three novellas, a 19th-century Secret Service naval officer turned prisoner, then novelist, and finally memoirist recounts his own transformations during the course of his service and imprisonment. The protagonist in Notes...
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Un recueil de nouvelles historiques avec pour toile de fond le paysage ardennais belge
L'allumeur de réverbères se souvient des réalités rurales tissées de bonheurs simples et d'infinie patience, dans l'Ardenne de jadis, jusqu'à la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Ce recueil de nouvelles se distingue par la sincérité généreuse de l'auteur et une couleur locale très attachante.
Il regroupe sept récits, dont les titres sont les suivants:
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"A Fight with a Cannon" is a short story by Victor Hugo narrating an effort to deal with a wayward cannon destroying a French warship. Entertaining and intelligent, it is highly recommended for fans of historical fiction and is not to be missed by collectors of Hugo's seminal work. Victor Marie Hugo (1802 – 1885) was a French novelist, dramatist, and poet belonging to the Romantic movement. He is widely hailed as one of the most accomplished and...
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In Ambrose Bierce's The Eyes of the Panther, a beautiful young woman rejects her suitor's marriage proposal. Explaining that she is insane, she describes the strange circumstances of her birth, involving the mysterious appearance of a panther at her mother's window, an event which terrorized her mother and led to the death of her older sister. Haunted by this spectre of a panther, the woman cannot marry. An early example of werewolf fiction, this...
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