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The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1890's - The Europeans

by Anton Chekhov, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Moritz Jokai ...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
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The Top 10 Short Stories - The 19th Century - The Europeans

by Victor Hugo, Nikolai Gogol, Moritz Jokai ...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
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The Macabre Megapack

25 Lost Tales from the Golden Age

by Erckman-Chatrian, Villiers de L’isle-Adams, Lafcadio Hearn, Moritz Jokai, John Galt, Emma Embury, Luise Muhlback ...

Editor Duane Parsons has assembled a treasure-trove of rare macabre stories for lovers of classic fantasy and horror. From ghosts of mind and spirit to exotic paranormal tales, each story in this volume has never before appeared in an anthology. Included are:The Silent Man, by Henry Fothergill ChorleyThe Strange Ormonds, by Leitch RitchieThe Mysterious Wedding: A Danish Story, by Heinrich ... Read more

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Editor Duane Parsons has assembled a treasure-trove of rare macabre stories for lovers of classic fantasy and horror. From ghosts of mind and spirit to exotic paranormal tales, each story in this volume has never before appeared in an anthology. Included are:The Silent Man, by Henry Fothergill ChorleyThe Strange Ormonds, by Leitch RitchieThe Mysterious Wedding: A Danish Story, by Heinrich
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Foundations of Fiction, The - The Murder Mystery

The stories that created one of the most popular genres in fiction

by Ambrose Bierce, Amelia Edwards, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Charles Dickens, D K Broster, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Stewart Drewery, Frank R Stockton, Fredric Brown, H G Wells, Hugh Walpole, J M Barrie, Jack London, Móritz Jókai, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Saki, Susan Glaspell, T F Powys, W F Harvey ...

Narrated by Christopher Ragland, Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

13 hours 11 min

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success ... Read more

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In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success
... Read more
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - Eastern Europe

The top ten short stories of all time written by authors from Eastern Europe.

by Franz Kafka, Boleslaw Prus, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Sologub, Jaroslav Hasek, Leonid Andreyev, Moritz Jokai, Nikolai Gogol ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Tom McLean, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

4 hours 32 min

The Top 10 – Eastern Europe - An IntroductionFrom the Central plain of Europe to the Urals, many thousands of miles away, the nations of Eastern Europe have risen to become Empires and fallen underfoot to others. Their literary tradition has always been strong and vibrant, bold and beguiling. Within the many cultures and societies the narrative of the human condition is told in many startling and ... Read more

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The Top 10 – Eastern Europe - An IntroductionFrom the Central plain of Europe to the Urals, many thousands of miles away, the nations of Eastern Europe have risen to become Empires and fallen underfoot to others. Their literary tradition has always been strong and vibrant, bold and beguiling. Within the many cultures and societies the narrative of the human condition is told in many startling and
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Letter, The - A Short Story Collection

Classic stories in the form of the classic means of communication

by Edgar Allan Poe, Honoré de Balzac, Arnold Bennett, Anton Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, Richard Marsh, Morley Roberts, Leoplod von Sacher-Masoch, Móritz Jókai, Rhoda Broughton, Lafcadio Hearn ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Lisa Bowerman, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

4 hours 33 min

In modern society writing a letter, on paper, is almost unheard of. We all scribble notes and reminders but very rarely compose our thoughts in lengthy prose for another person to read.In bygone days the letter was the fastest and most accurate means of communication. Letters were sent and delivered at incredible speeds, summoning this and requesting that.Within its lines and paragraphs all manner ... Read more

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In modern society writing a letter, on paper, is almost unheard of. We all scribble notes and reminders but very rarely compose our thoughts in lengthy prose for another person to read.In bygone days the letter was the fastest and most accurate means of communication. Letters were sent and delivered at incredible speeds, summoning this and requesting that.Within its lines and paragraphs all manner
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Bizeban

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by Moritz Jokai ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

27 min

Móric Jókay de Ásva was born on the 18th February 1825 in Komárom, then in the Kingdom of Hungary but now part of Slovakia.Due to his timid and delicate constitution he was educated at home until the age of 10 and then sent away to complete his studies at the Calvinist college at Pápa.At 12 his father died, and he was pushed to honour him by replicating his career as a lawyer. He studied hard and ... Read more

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Móric Jókay de Ásva was born on the 18th February 1825 in Komárom, then in the Kingdom of Hungary but now part of Slovakia.Due to his timid and delicate constitution he was educated at home until the age of 10 and then sent away to complete his studies at the Calvinist college at Pápa.At 12 his father died, and he was pushed to honour him by replicating his career as a lawyer. He studied hard and
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - European Gothic

The ten best gothic short stories of all time by European authors

by Charles Dickens, Nikolai Gogol, Miguel de Cervantes, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rosa Mulholland, E T A Hoffman, Jean Lorrain, Rhoda Broughton, Sheridan Le Fanu, Moritz Jokai, Ernst Raupach ...

Narrated by Robbie McNab, Ian Holm, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

10 hours 46 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
... Read more
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Bizeban

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by Moritz Jokai ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

Móric Jókay de Ásva was born on the 18th February 1825 in Komárom, then in the Kingdom of Hungary but now part of Slovakia.Due to his timid and delicate constitution he was educated at home until the age of 10 and then sent away to complete his studies at the Calvinist college at Pápa.At 12 his father died, and he was pushed to honour him by replicating his career as a lawyer. He studied hard and ... Read more

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Móric Jókay de Ásva was born on the 18th February 1825 in Komárom, then in the Kingdom of Hungary but now part of Slovakia.Due to his timid and delicate constitution he was educated at home until the age of 10 and then sent away to complete his studies at the Calvinist college at Pápa.At 12 his father died, and he was pushed to honour him by replicating his career as a lawyer. He studied hard and
... Read more

To the Stars—and Beyond

The Second Borgo Press Book of Science Fiction Stories

by Damien Broderick, Philip E. High, Jacqueline Lichtenberg ...

n Damien Broderick’s haunting tale, “The Meek,” the survivors of humanity’s drive toward racial suicide must pay an awful price for their continued survival. John Glasby’s “Innsmouth Bane” tells how the alien entity Dagon first came to nineteenth-century America. In “Helen’s Last Will,” James C. Glass shows us that death may not always be “the end.” Charles Allen Gramlich’s “I Can Spend You” is a ... Read more

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n Damien Broderick’s haunting tale, “The Meek,” the survivors of humanity’s drive toward racial suicide must pay an awful price for their continued survival. John Glasby’s “Innsmouth Bane” tells how the alien entity Dagon first came to nineteenth-century America. In “Helen’s Last Will,” James C. Glass shows us that death may not always be “the end.” Charles Allen Gramlich’s “I Can Spend You” is a
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The Complete Saki

The Collected Novels and Short Stories

by Saki, Hector Hugh Munro ...

Series series Bybliotech Classics
Saki's (a.k.a Hector Hugh Munro) unique brand of humor has resonated with readers for over a century. Both macabre and also at times vicious, his writing nonetheless manages to perfectly capture the trivial absurdities of the Edwardian era in England.His subjects are almost always louche members of the upper classes - in particular his perfectly observed anti-heroes such as Clovis and Reginald - ... Read more

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Saki's (a.k.a Hector Hugh Munro) unique brand of humor has resonated with readers for over a century. Both macabre and also at times vicious, his writing nonetheless manages to perfectly capture the trivial absurdities of the Edwardian era in England.His subjects are almost always louche members of the upper classes - in particular his perfectly observed anti-heroes such as Clovis and Reginald -
... Read more
The Third Ghost Story Megapack

26 Classic Ghost Stories

by Gertrude Atherton, F. Marion Crawford, Lafcadio Hearn, A. T. Quiller-Couch, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, W.W. Jacobs, W. C. Morrow, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Margaret Oliphant ...

The Third Ghost Story Megapack selects 26 more choice hauntings for your reading pleasure. Included this time are:THE DEAD AND THE COUNTESS, by Gertrude AthertonTHE CEDAR CLOSET, by Lafcadio HearnTHE WRAITH OF BARNJUM, by F. AnsteyTHE JOLLY CORNER, by Henry JamesTHE ROLL-CALL OF THE REEF, by A. T. Quiller-CouchTHE BOWMEN, by Arthur MachenOMAN, By Leopold KompertTHE MIDDLE TOE OF THE RIGHT FOOT, by ... Read more

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The Third Ghost Story Megapack selects 26 more choice hauntings for your reading pleasure. Included this time are:THE DEAD AND THE COUNTESS, by Gertrude AthertonTHE CEDAR CLOSET, by Lafcadio HearnTHE WRAITH OF BARNJUM, by F. AnsteyTHE JOLLY CORNER, by Henry JamesTHE ROLL-CALL OF THE REEF, by A. T. Quiller-CouchTHE BOWMEN, by Arthur MachenOMAN, By Leopold KompertTHE MIDDLE TOE OF THE RIGHT FOOT, by
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