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Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors.Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work.This edition is dedicated to the Irish writer James Joyce. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses, a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness.This book contains the following writings:Novels: Ulysses; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.Short Story Collection: Dubliners.If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!
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Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors.Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work.This edition is dedicated to the French writer Émile Zola, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'Accuse! Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902.This book contains the following writings:Novels: Germinal; The Downfall; Therese Raquin.Short Stories: The Attack on the Mill; Captain Burle; The Millers Daughter; Jean Gourdon's Four Days; The Fete At Coqueville; The Flood; Death of Olivier Becaille; Nana; The Fortune of the Rougons.Essays: J'Accuse…!If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!
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Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors.Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work.This edition is dedicated to the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, who is considered one of the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: «Medicine is my lawful wife», he once said, «and literature is my mistress.»This book contains the following writings:Biographical: Letters of Anton Chekhov to his family and friends, translated by Constance Garnett.Short Stories: The Lady With The Little Dog; Ward No 6; A Joke; The Darling; Kashtanka; The Black Monk; In the ravine; My Life; At a country house; The death of a government clerk; The bet; Misery; The cooks wedding; An avenger; Oysters; A Blunder.If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!
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Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors.Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work.This edition is dedicated to the British writer Saki, pen name of H. H. Munro. His witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered by English teachers and scholars as a master of the short story, and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.This book contains the following writings:Short Stories and Collections: The Chronicles of Clovis; Beasts and Super-Beasts; The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers; The Unbearable Bassington; When William Came; Reginald.Biographical: Saki, by Rothay Reynolds.If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!
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Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors.Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work.This edition is dedicated to the writer O. Henry, one of the greatest American short story writer of the 19th century and one of the most popular authors of his time. O. Henry's stories frequently have surprise endings. In his day he was called the American answer to Guy de Maupassant. While both authors wrote plot twist endings, O. Henry's stories were considerably more playful, and are also known for their witty narration.This book contains the following writings:Short Story Colletions: The Four Million; The Voice of the City; The Trimmed Lamp; Options; Sixes and Sevens.If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!
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Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors.Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work.This edition is dedicated to the American writer Mark Twain. He was lauded by the NY Times as the «greatest humorist the United States has produced», and William Faulkner called him «the father of American literature». His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called «The Great American Novel». Twain was born shortly after an appearance of Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would «go out with it» as well; he died the day after the comet made its closest approach to the Earth.This book contains the following writings:Novels: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; A Connecticut Yakee In King Arthurs Court; The Prince and the Pauper.Short Stories: About Barbers; A Dog's Tale; A Ghost Story; A Monument to Adam; Eve's Diary; Extracts from Adam's Diary; The Stolen White Elephant; Advice for Little Girls; The Californian's Tale; The Private History of a Campaign that Failed; A Telephonic Conversation.Biographical: Mark Twains Obituary.If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!
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Bienvenidos a la serie de libros Novelistas Imprescindibles, donde les presentamos las mejores obras de autores notables.Para este libro, el crítico literario August Nemo ha elegido las dos novelas más importantes y significativas de Jane Austen que son Orgullo y Prejuicio y Sentido y Sensibilidad.Jane Austen fue una novelista británica que vivió durante la época georgiana. La ironía que emplea para dotar de comicidad a sus novelas hace que Jane Austen sea considerada entre los clásicos de la novela inglesa, a la vez que su recepción va, incluso en la actualidad, más allá del interés académico, siendo sus obras leídas por un público más amplio. Novelas seleccionadas para este libro:Orgullo y Prejuicio.Sentido y Sensibilidad.Este es uno de los muchos libros de la serie Novelistas Imprescindibles. Si te ha gustado este libro, busca los otros títulos de la serie, estamos seguros de que te gustarán algunos de los autores.
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La serie de libros «7 mejores cuentos» presenta los grandes nombres de la literatura en lengua española. En este volumen traemos a Mark Twain, un escritor, orador y humorista estadounidense. Escribió obras de gran éxito como El príncipe y el mendigo o Un yanqui en la corte del Rey Arturo, pero es conocido sobre todo por su novela Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer y su secuela Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn. William Faulkner calificó a Twain como «el padre de la literatura norteamericana». Este libro contiene los siguientes cuentos:
– Los diarios de Adán y Eva – Los McWilliams y el timbre de alarma – Una historia de fantasmas – El desventurado prometido de Aurelia – El hombre que riñe con los gatos – El lamento de la viuda – El cuento del niño malo
– Los diarios de Adán y Eva – Los McWilliams y el timbre de alarma – Una historia de fantasmas – El desventurado prometido de Aurelia – El hombre que riñe con los gatos – El lamento de la viuda – El cuento del niño malo
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Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Daniel Defoewhich areA Journal of the Plague Year andThe Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Defoe was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than three hundred worksbooks, pamphlets, and journalson diverse topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology, and the supernatural. He was also a pioneer of business journalism and economic journalism. Novels selected for this book: –A Journal of the Plague Year –The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.
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Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels ofDinah Craik which are A Romance of John Halifax, Gentleman and Mistress and Maid. Dinah Craik earned her living by writing and believed in greater freedom of opportunity for women, especially those unmarried. Novels selected for this book:
– A Romance of John Halifax, Gentleman. – Mistress and Maid.This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.
– A Romance of John Halifax, Gentleman. – Mistress and Maid.This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.