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Stories of Mystery is a collection of mystery tales by various authors. Excerpt: "When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole. One would have thought, considering the nature of the ground, that he could not have doubted from what quarter the voice came; but, instead of looking up to where I stood on the top of the steep cutting nearly over his head, he turned...
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NOVA Storys
Thomas Grüter: Freie Wildbahn
J. A. Hagen: Yuggoth
Anke Hüper: Außerirdische Daten
Karsten Kruschel: Kurz nach dem Einmarsch der Befreiungsarmee
Dieter Rieken: Jonas und der Held Terranovas
Glen Sedi: Kobo, das Wunschkind
Lukas Schneider: Alina
Rafael Torra: Die Spinne
Erik Wunderlich: Unearthing
Álex Souza: Unsichtbare Körper
NOVA Sekundär
Tanine Allison: Woran man einen Kriegsfilm erkennt. Der zeitgenössische Science-Fiction-Blockbuster...
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Essays about the inherently collaborative nature of science fiction
As a geometric term, parabola suggests a narrative trajectory or story arc. In science fiction, parabolas take us from the known to the unknown. More concrete than themes, more complex than motifs, parabolas are combinations of meaningful setting, character, and action that lend themselves to endless redefinition and jazzlike improvisation. The fourteen original essays in this collection...
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"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 22" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices....
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"The World's Greatest Books - Volume 07 - Fiction" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Stories of Exile" by Various. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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From early Spanish myths and Seminole and African-American folktales to the latest descriptions of modern Miami, this anthology includes writings by such authors as Ralph Waldo Emerson, John James Audubon, Zora Neale Hurston, Zane Grey, Wallace Stevens, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Jose Yglesias, and Harry Crews.
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"The World's Greatest Books - Volume 06 - Fiction" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal...
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Excerpt: "Carols are still sung in almost numberless churches, lights glow on altars bound and wreathed with spruce and holly, trees are set up in innumerable homes, and mobs of merry children sing and dance around them, stockings take on grotesque shapes and hang gaping with treasures for early marauders on Christmas morning, and hosts of men and women keep the day in their hearts in all peace and piety. The festival, dear to the heart of sixty generations,...
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"The World's Greatest Books - Volume 02 - Fiction" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Book of Bryn Mawr Stories" by Various. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Experience the beginning of American literature with these classic stories from authors such as James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe. Early American Classics includes: The Scarlet Letter, The Last of the Mohicans, "Rip Van Winkle," "Young Goodman Brown," "Bartleby the Scrivener," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Fall of the House of Usher."
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As one can guess from the title, the following book is an anthology of the stories published in 1920, considered to be the best by the editor of the book, Edward J. O'Brien. Featured titles include the following: 'The Other Woman (Sherwood Anderson)', 'Gargoyle (Edwina Stanton Babock)', and 'Ghitza (Konrad Bercovici)'.
15) Short Stories of the New America: Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Short Stories of the New America" (Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls) by Various. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment...
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"The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story" is an early edition of the most famous short stories of the time picked up and arranged into a collection by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien. The selection of O'Brien's stories was trendy among the readers. This issue includes the stores by Sherwood Anderson, Charles J. Finger, Frances Noyes Hart, and others.
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"The Best Psychic Stories" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks...
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"The World's Greatest Books - Volume 01 - Fiction" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal...
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Savor classic erotic literature from throughout the ages with Erotic Classics I and II. Erotic Classics II includes the anonymously-written The Lustful Turk, The Romance of Lust, and The Way of a Man with a Maid, as well as My Secret Life Vol. 1-3 by "Walter," Venus in India by Charles Devereaux, and A Night in a Moorish Harem by Lord George Herbert.
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