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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 the uruguayan author Horacio Quiroga.
Horacio Quiroga was a playwright, poet, and short-story writer. He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, used the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive. He also excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states, a skill he gleaned from Edgar Allan Poe, according to some critics. His influence can be seen in the Latin American magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortázar.
Works selected for this book: – How the Rays Defended the Ford; – The Story of Two Raccoon Cubs and Two Man Cubs; – The Parrot That Lost Its Tail; – The Blind Doe; – The Alligator War; – How the Flamingoes Got Their Stockings; – The Giant Tortoise's Golden Rule.
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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 Alexander Pushkin. <br /> <br /> Alexander Pushkin was a Russian poet and writer who is considered the father of the modern Russian novel. The so-called Golden Age of Russian Literature was inspired by the themes and aesthetics of Pushkin – we are talking about names like Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol. <br /> <br /> This book contains: <br /> – The Queen of Spades. <br /> – The Shot. <br /> – The Snowstorm. <br /> – The Postmaster. <br /> – The Coffin-maker. <br /> – Kirdjali. <br /> – Peter, The Great's Negro. <br /> <br /> If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

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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 A. Merritt. <br /> <br /> A. Merritt was an american fantasist, science-fiction writer, and journalist. Most of his novels remained in print in both hardcover and paperback, and in 1959, one of his publishers estimated that his books had at that time sold over four million copies. In 1999 he was honored with a place in the Science Fiction Hall of Fame for his contribution to science fiction and fantasy. <br /> <br /> This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: <br /> – The Pool Of The Stone God. -<br /> The Last Poet And The Robots. <br /> – The Fox Woman. <br /> – The People Of The Pit. <br /> – The Drone. <br /> – Through The Dragon Glass. <br /> – Three Lines Of Old French.<br /> <br /> If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

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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 the american author Mark Twain. <br /> <br /> Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the «greatest humorist the United States has produced,» and William Faulkner called him «the father of American literature».<br /> <br /> Works selected for this book:<br /> – About Barbers; <br /> – A Dog's Tale; <br /> – A Ghost Story; <br /> – A Monument to Adam; <br /> – Eve's Diary; <br /> – Extracts from Adam's Diary; <br /> – The Stolen White Elephant.<br />

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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 the english author Charles Dickens.
Charles Dickenswas an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read toda
Works selected for this book: – A Child's Dream of a Star; – Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn; – Nobody's Story; – The Child's Story; – The Magic Fishbone; – What Christmas is As We Grow Older; – The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain.

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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 the russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.<br /> <br /> Dostoevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as multiple of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces.<br /> <br /> Works selected for this book: <br /> – White Nights; <br /> – An Honest Thief; <br /> – The Christmas Tree and the Wedding; <br /> – Notes From Underground; <br /> – The Dream of a Ridiculous Man; <br /> – A Little Hero; <br /> – Mr. Prohartchin.<br /> <br /> If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

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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 Maurice Leblanc, a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.Works selected for this book:The Invisible Prisioner; Two-Hundred Thousand Francs Reward!…; The Wedding Ring; The Sign Of The Shadow; The Infernal Trap; The Red Silk Scarf; Shadowed By Death. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

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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 the american author Booth Tarkington. Tarkington is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered America's greatest living author.
Works selected for this book: The Fascinating Stranger; The Party; The One-Hundred-Dollar Bill; Jeannette; The Spring Concert; Willamilla; The Only Child.
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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. Agatha Christie was an English writer known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies and according to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author.
Works selected for this book: The Adventure of The Western Star; The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor; The Adventure of the Cheap Flat; The Mystery of Hunters Lodge; The Million Dollar Bond Robbery; The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb; The Kidnapped Prime Minister.
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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 Mary Noailles Murfree, an American fiction writer of novels and short stories who wrote under the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock. She is considered by many to be Appalachia's first significant female writer and her work a necessity for the study of Appalachian literature, although a number of characters in her work reinforce negative stereotypes about the region. She has been favorably compared to Bret Harte and Sarah Orne Jewett, creating post-Civil War American local-color literature.Works selected for this book:The raid of the guerilla; Who crosses storm mountain?; The crucial moment; Una of the hill country; The lost guidon; Wolfs Head; His unquiet ghost. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

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