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Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 8
Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 8
Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 8
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Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 8

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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.
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This book contains:


- Émile Zola:
- Captain Burle
The Miller's Daughter
Jean Gourdon's Four Days
The Fete At Coqueville
The Flood
Death of Olivier Becaille
Nana


- Stewart Edward White:The Girl Who Got Rattled
Billy's Tenderfoot
The River-Boss
The Saving Grace
The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
The Girl in Red
The Fifth Way

- Sarah Orne Jewett:A Winter Courtship
Going to Shrewsbury
The White Rose Road
The Town Poor
A Native of Winby
Looking Back on Girlhood
The Passing of Sister Barsett

- Willa CatherA Burglar's Christmas
A Wagner Matinee
On the Gull's Road
Paul's Case
The Enchanted Bluff
The Namesake
The Garden Lodge

- George AdeThe Fable of the Preacher Who Flew His Kite, But Not Because He Wished to Do So
The Fable of the Two Mandolin Players and His Willing Performer
The Fable of the Parents Who Tinkered with the Offspring
The Fable of the Man Who Didn't Care for Storybooks
The Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His Ideal
The Fable of How Uncle Brewster was Too Shifty for the Tempter
The Fable of Lutie, the False Alarm, and How She Finished about the Time that She Started

- Robert W. Chambers:The Messenger
The Repairer of Reputations
The Purple Emperor
Passeur
The Key to Grief
A Matter of Interest
Pompe Funèbre

- George GissingThe House Of Cobwebs
A Capitalist
Christopherson
Humplebee
The Scrupulous Father
A Poor Gentleman
Miss Rodney's Leisure

- Lord Dunsany:Chu-Bu and Sheemish
The Hoard of the Gibbelins
The Quest of the Queen's Tears
How One Came, As Was Foretold, To The City Of Never
The Wonderful Window
The Bride Of The Man Horse
The House Of The Sphinx

- Ruth McEnery Stuart:
Sonny's Christenin'
Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets
The Two Tims
Old Easter
Saint Idyl's Light
Little Mother Quackalina
Blink

- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson:The Railroad and the Churchyard
The Father
The Bridal March
One Day
Mother's Hands
Thrond
Absalom's Hair
LanguageEnglish
PublisherTacet Books
Release dateApr 9, 2020
ISBN9783968584980
Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 8
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Emile Zola

Émile Zola (1840-1902) was a French novelist, journalist, and playwright. Born in Paris to a French mother and Italian father, Zola was raised in Aix-en-Provence. At 18, Zola moved back to Paris, where he befriended Paul Cézanne and began his writing career. During this early period, Zola worked as a clerk for a publisher while writing literary and art reviews as well as political journalism for local newspapers. Following the success of his novel Thérèse Raquin (1867), Zola began a series of twenty novels known as Les Rougon-Macquart, a sprawling collection following the fates of a single family living under the Second Empire of Napoleon III. Zola’s work earned him a reputation as a leading figure in literary naturalism, a style noted for its rejection of Romanticism in favor of detachment, rationalism, and social commentary. Following the infamous Dreyfus affair of 1894, in which a French-Jewish artillery officer was falsely convicted of spying for the German Embassy, Zola wrote a scathing open letter to French President Félix Faure accusing the government and military of antisemitism and obstruction of justice. Having sacrificed his reputation as a writer and intellectual, Zola helped reverse public opinion on the affair, placing pressure on the government that led to Dreyfus’ full exoneration in 1906. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902, Zola is considered one of the most influential and talented writers in French history.

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