Nineteenth century short stories

Nineteenth Century Short Stories

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this collection of stories has been selected by English teachers for its appeal to Key Stage 4 stu

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Nineteenth-Century French Short Stories (Dual-Language)

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Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century

A collection of classic featuring tales by Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, RL Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Anthony Trollope and many others.

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Rollercoasters: 19th Century Short Stories

This collection of short stories is ideal for use with all 11-16 students to help prepare them for GCSE English Language and English Literature. Organ

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Narrative Painting in Nineteenth-Century Europe

How do pictures tell stories? This ground-breaking book analyses visual narrative in nineteenth-century history and genre paintings across Europe. It

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Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction

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Short Stories Audio Cassette

A collection of powerful, unabridged stories, accompanied by activities for creative language classrooms. Short Stories includes eleven vivid and memorable short stories written by a variety of authors from different backgrounds between the nineteenth century and the present day. Due to their powerful impact, these stories suggest many possibilities for creative activiti...

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Best American Short Stories of the Century

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Bohemia's Jews and Their Nineteenth Century - Jindřich Toman

Anotace: This book on Jewish culture and literature focuses on the "quiet" decades of the nineteenth century, a scarcely written-about period of time in Bohemian Jewish history. Using a myriad of sources, including travelers' accounts, poems, essays, short stories, guides, and newspaper articles, the volume explores Jewish expression, Jewish-Czech relations, an...

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Bohemia´s Jews and Their Nineteenth Century - Texts, Contexts, Reassessments - Jindřich Toman

<p>This book on Jewish culture and literature focuses on the “quiet” decades of the nineteenth century, a scarcely written-about period of time in Bohemian Jewish history. Using a myriad of sources, including travelers’ accounts, poems, essays, short stories, guides, and newspaper articles, the volume explores Jewish expression, Jewish-Czech relations, and the chang...

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Penguin Book of English Short Stories

The Golden Age of the English short story lies from its first wide acceptance in the middle of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentiet

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Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories

Beginning with the late nineteenth-century writings which first assimilated and reworked Western literary traditions, and coming right up to the young

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Great Russian Short Stories of the Twentieth Century

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Great Italian Short Stories of the Twentieth Century

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The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

Anotace: A major new collection of Japanese short stories, many appearing in English for the first time, with an introduction by Haruki Murakami, author of Killing Commendatore A Penguin Classics Hardcover This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the art of the Japanese short story, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable practi...

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Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

This edition of the Sherlock Holmes short stories is one of a series consisting of unabridged versions of 19th-century classics, with introductions, g

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Complete Short Stories

The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man'

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Italian Short Stories

Intends to exemplify the variety of Italian writing of the twentieth century. This volume includes discussions of the words and dialect expressions in

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Level 5: Outstanding Short Stories

This collection brings together some of the best examples of late nineteenthand early twentieth-century short stories. Some are about ordinary people

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Parallel Text: French Short Stories

Containing eight stories by 20th century French writers, this work offers insights into French life and literature and are accompanied by a parallel E

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Parallel Text: German Short Stories

Includes eight stories which offer a varied and representative collection of twentieth century German authors from a range of political and cultural b

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The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories - Jay Rubin

<p>A major anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki Murakami</p> <p>This is a celebration of the Japanese short story from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to remarkable contemporary works. It includes the most well-known Japanese writers - Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surprising new pieces, fro...

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Great Spanish and Latin American Short Stories of the 20th Century

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Macmillan Literature Collection - Twentieth Century Stories - Advanced C2

This series of Readers containing original, unsimplified stories written by famous classic and modern writers, now features four new titles. All the collections come with substantial support material for each story, including a short summary, a description of major themes, pre-reading vocabulary activities, post-reading language and comprehension exercises, a literary ana...

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Complete Stories

A complete collection of short fiction by one of the masters of twentieth-century American literature.

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Complete Stories

A complete collection of short fiction by one of the masters of twentieth-century American literature.

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20th Century Ghosts

A superb collection of short stories from an award-winning author.

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Three Japanese Short Stories - Rjúnosuke Akutagawa

<p>'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!'Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit ...

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Level 5: Outstanding Short Stories - Poe Edgar Allan

Anotace: Classic / British EnglishThis collection brings together some of the best examples of late nineteenthand early twentieth-century short stories. Some are about ordinary people to whom something unexpected happens. Others are about unusual characters or events. Some of the stories are funny and others are more serious. All of them are highly enjoyable.

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The Penguin Book of French Short Stories 1 - Patrick McGuinness

<p>'Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The IndependentA major new celebration of the French short storyThe short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. Here are decadent tales, 'bloody tales', fairy tales...

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The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories - Fulton Bruce

Anotace: This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea`s dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between North and South and the rapid, disorienting urbanization of later decades, The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories captu...

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The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories - Bruce Fulton

<p>‘An ever-surprising and stylistically diverse anthology that will surely stand as the touchstone collection of Korean literature for decades to come’ Literary ReviewThis eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and c...

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The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2 - Patrick McGuinness

<p>'Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The IndependentA major new celebration of the French short story across the twentieth centuryThe short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. Here are fables, puzzle...

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Prague Stories - Bassett Richard

Anotace: A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of stories set in Prague, by an international array of brilliant writers. The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual center of the western world. The writers collected here range from the early nineteenth century to the present and include both Prague natives and visitors from elsewhere. Here are stories, le...

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At the End of the Century

Multi-layered, subtle, insightful short stories from the inimitable Booker-prize winning author, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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World Apart and Other Stories

A collection of short stories by Czech women from the turn of the twentieth century.

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Japanese Ghost Stories - Lafcadio Hearn

<p>The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. Lafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and ghouls of traditional Japanese folklore - including the headless 'rokuro-kubi', the monstrous goblins 'jikininki' or...

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Macmillan Readers D H Lawrence Selected Short Stories by PreIntermediate Pack

Four stories written by one of the greatest writers of twentieth-century English literature.

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Attack on the Mill and Other Stories

Most famous for his twenty-volume dissection of nineteenth-century French mores and society, the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola was also an extremely ac

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Level 5: Outstanding Short Stories Book and MP3 Pack - Poe Edgar Allan

Anotace: Classic / British EnglishThis collection brings together some of the best examples of late nineteenthand early twentieth-century short stories. Some are about ordinary people to whom something unexpected happens. Others are about unusual characters or events. Some of the stories are funny and others are more serious. All of them are highly enjoyable.This Pack co...

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Collected Stories Of Arthur C. Clarke

The definitive collection of short stories from the century's greatest science fiction writer.

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PER | Level 5: Outstanding Short Stories Bk/MP3 Pack - Edgar Allan Poe

<p>Classic / British EnglishThis collection brings together some of the best examples of late nineteenthand early twentieth-century short stories. Some are about ordinary people to whom something unexpected happens. Others are about unusual characters or events. Some of the stories are funny and others are more serious. All of them are highly enjoyable.This Pack con...

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The Haunter of the Dark: Collected Short Stories Volume Three - Lovecraft Howard Phillips

Anotace: Selected and Introduced by M J Elliott.`They were removing the stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. And then, as the breach became large enough, they came out into the laboratory in single file; led by a stalking thing with a beautiful head made of wax.`From the dark, mind-expanding imagination of H P Lovecraft, Wordsworth presents a third volume...

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The Haunter of the Dark: Collected Short Stories Volume Three - Howard Phillips Lovecraft

<p>Selected and Introduced by M J Elliott. 'They were removing the stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. And then, as the breach became large enough, they came out into the laboratory in single file; led by a stalking thing with a beautiful head made of wax.' From the dark, mind-expanding imagination of H P Lovecraft, Wordsworth presents a third volum...

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Hollywood: A Very Short Introduction

Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires.

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Great Spanish Stories: 10 Parallel Texts - Various

Anotace: A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in Spanish alongside an expert English translation, providing unique cultural insig...

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Methodism: A Very Short Introduction

Methodism began as renewal movement within Anglicanism in the eighteenth century, dominated the Protestant landscape of the USA in the nineteenth, and

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Kierkegaard: A Very Short Introduction

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55), one of the original thinkers of the nineteenth century, wrote on religious, psychological, and literary themes. This book

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Life in the Victorian Kitchen: Culinary Secrets and Servants' Stories

The World of the Victorian Kitchen explores the development of cooking during the nineteenth century. A blend of social and culinary history, the book

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Bayou Folk & a Night in Acadie

In the decade prior to the publication of her landmark novel, The Awakening (1899), Kate Chopin wrote about ninety short stories. She gathered twenty-three of them in a collection entitled Bayou Folk in 1894, and followed that three years later with a collection of twenty-one more in A Night in Acadie. Together, these nuanced portraits of nineteenth-century inhabitants of...

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John Stuart Mill: A Very Short Introduction

John Stuart Mill (1806-73) is widely regarded as the leading liberal philosopher, economist, and political theorist of nineteenth century Britain. Thi

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The Cop and the Anthem and Other Stories - Olivier Henry

<p>O. Henry was a master of the short story and one of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century. This selection of tales from across his writing career ranges from New York apartments to the cattle-lands of Texas, taking in con men, clerks, hustlers, shop assistants, tramps and tricksters. They all highlight his ironic, comic eye, his gift for evok...

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The Happy Prince and Other Stories - Oscar Wilde

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.</p> <p>‘Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.’<...

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Film: A Very Short Introduction

Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories are often offered to us as quite false, frankly and beautifully fantastic, and they are sometimes insistently said to be true. But they are stories in both cases, and there ar...

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Granta Book Of The American Short Story

An anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century with stories by writers such as Eudora Welty, John Cheever an

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James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction

James Joyce was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. This book explores his novels and short stories, and analyses the litera

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North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction

This book begins with the emergence of peoples in North America and traces their stories to the beginning of the early twenty-first century. The narra

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The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 4 - Philip K. Dick

<p>The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick's short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre.This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick's work includes the influential 'We Can Remember It For You Wholesale' and 'The Electric Ant', as well as a litany of mind-expanding other works. Work your way through some of the most influe...

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The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 1 - Dick Philip K.

Anotace: The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick`s short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre.This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick`s work includes the influential `Beyond Lies the Wub` and `Second Variety`, as well as a litany of mind-expanding other works. Work your way through some of the most influential stories from...

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The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 1 - Philip K. Dick

<p>The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick's short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre.This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick's work includes the influential 'Beyond Lies the Wub' and 'Second Variety', as well as a litany of mind-expanding other works. Work your way through some of the most influential stories from ...

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