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  • The Best Short Stories of 1918, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

    A Journey Through Early 20th-Century American Fiction

    by Harrison Rhodes, Sinclair Lewis, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Julian Street, Achmed Abdullah, George Gilbert, Mary Heaton Vorse, Gordon Hall Gerould, Katharine Holland Brown, Edwina Stanton Babcock, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Mary Mitchell Freedley, G. Humphrey, Arthur Johnson, Burton Kline, Katharine Prescott Moseley, William Dudly, Fleta Campbell Springer, Edward C. Venable, Frances Gilchrist Wood ...
    The Best Short Stories of 1918, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story offers a compelling snapshot of the literary transformations occurring at the close of the Great War. The anthology bridges diverse themes ranging from the angst of societal change to intimate portraits of human emotion, combining various literary styles'Äîfrom naturalism to early modernist expressions. With a tapestry of ... Read more

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    A Year of Women's Diaries

    by Sarah Gristwood ...
    'Totally addictive.'– Alice Loxton, The Daily Telegraph'An intriguing, highly snackable guide to women's experiences.'– Independent'A modern classic.'– Alison Weir, author and historian'The sort of book you return to again and again.'– Tracy Borman, author and historianA captivating collection of daily extracts from women... ... Read more

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  • James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (LOA #90)

    by James Thurber ...
    A comprehensive collection of the American humorist’s best work—including “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”—plus original drawings and a chronology of Thurber’s own troubled lifeJames Thurber, whimsical fantasist and deadpan chronicler of everyday absurdities, brought American humor into the 20th century. His comic persona, a modern city-dweller whose zaniest flights of free association are tinged ... Read more

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  • Savage Beauty

    The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay

    by Nancy Milford ...
    Thirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she tormented herself.ONE OF ESQUIRE’S 50 BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIMEIf F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was ... Read more

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  • How to Tell a Story and Other Essays

    A Collection of Short Stories

    by Mark Twain ...
    Series Book 8 - Mark Twain Collection
    How to Tell a Story and Other Essays is a series of essays by Mark Twain. In them, he describes his own writing style, attacks the idiocy of a fellow author, defends the virtue of a dead woman, and tries to protect ordinary citizens from insults by railroad conductors. The essays contained include How to Tell a Story, The Wounded Soldier, The Golden Arm, Mental Telegraphy Again, and The Invalid's ... Read more

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  • The Gift Of The Magi (Mobi Classics)

    by O. Henry ...
    The Gift of the Magi" is a short story written by O. Henry (a pen name for William Sydney Porter), allegedly at Pete's Tavern on Irving Place in New York City.James Dillingham Young and his wife Della are a young couple who are very much in love with each other, but can barely afford their one-room apartment due to their very bad economic situation. For Christmas, Della decides to buy Jim a chain ... Read more

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  • The Velveteen Rabbit (Illustrated Edition)

    by Margery Williams, General Press ...
    The Velveteen Rabbit is a first children's book and a heart-warming tale by Margery Williams, an English-American author, primarily of popular children's books. It is about a stuffed rabbit who longs to become real, and the magic that makes his dream come true.Christmas morning, the room filled with the hustle and bustle of preparation, a rabbit stitched of velveteen sits perched on top of the ... Read more

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  • The Mystery of Mary

    by Grace Livingston Hill ...
    According to Wikipedia: "The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian Church denomination that is organised in a quasi-military manner. It is well known for its social services and charitable work. The founders, William and Catherine Booth, sought to bring Christian salvation to the poor, destitute and hungry by meeting both their physical and spiritual needs. One of The Salvation Army's stated ... Read more

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  • Constant Reader

    The New Yorker Columns 1927–28

    by Dorothy Parker ...
    Dorothy Parker’s complete weekly New Yorker column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing.When, in 1927, Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, she was already a legendary wit, a much-quoted member of the Algonquin Round Table, and an arbiter of literary taste. In the year that she spent as a weekly reviewer, under the rupic “Constant Reader,” she created what is still ... Read more

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  • Rapture and Melancholy

    The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay

    by Edna St. Vincent Millay ...
    The first publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s private, intimate diaries, providing “a candid self-portrait of the ‘bad girl of American letters’” (Kirkus Reviews)“Endlessly intriguing and illuminating. The publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay's diaries is a major literary event, providing astonishing insight into the great poet’s art and life.”—Chloe Honum, author of The Tulip-FlameThe ... Read more

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  • The Cases of Blue Ploermell

    by James Thurber, Bill Peschel ...
    Series Book 9 - 223B Casebook
    In 1923, the young reporter James Thurber was given a half a page in the Sunday Evening Dispatch of Columbus, Ohio, every week to fill with anything he wanted. For most of that year, he turned out book reviews, humorous commentary, jokes, stories, and even literary criticism.He also wrote a series of 13 short Sherlockian parodies — 10,000 words in all — starring Blue Ploermell, a “psychosocial” ... Read more

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  • The Best Short Stories - 9

    Best Authors - Best stories

    by Sherwood Anderson, H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, O. Henry, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Stephen Leacock, H.H. Munro (SAKI), Matsuo Basho ...
    Series Book 9 - The Best Short Stories
    Anton ChekhovH.H. Munro (SAKI)HP LovecraftBjørnstjerne BjørnsonStephen LeacockSherwood AndersonO. HenryAmbrose BierceMatsuo BashoJames JoyceEdted by Ahmet Ünal ÇAM ... Read more

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