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Children's Short Stories, Book 3 is a box set collection of three short stories: Run Wild, Run Free Again, Callie The Calico Kitty, and My Hound Dog. Run Wild, Run Free Again is an inspiring story about a herd of beautiful wild horses that have lived on Mustang Island by the Atlantic Ocean for hundreds of years. Climb into the saddle with Makala and go on a wild horse ride by the sea. Callie The Calico Kitty is based on a true story. Callie narrates...
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Reality can be more astounding than fantasy, and often unfurls a mysterious tendril to draw in the unsuspecting person. Encounters with troglodytes in a crypt, fluorescent honey and the house that goes to the ultimate extreme to get rid of its inhabitants, can happen.
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First published in 1925, "Carry On, Jeeves" is P. G. Wodehouse's third collection of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster stories. All of the stories included in this volume first appeared in periodicals like the "Saturday Evening Post" including some that are reworked versions of stories that appeared in the 1919 collection "My Man Jeeves". In this volume, readers will find some of Wodehouse's most famous tales of the hapless and wealthy Bertie, his equally...
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A collection of Chekhov's short stories featuring: Talent, Anyuta, The Helpmate, Ivan Matveyitch, Polinka. These stories are rich in characterisation and represent brilliantly observed slices of life. They don't come to an end, they just peter out inconclusively leaving you to draw your own conclusions.
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A collection of Short Stories by Anton Chekhov featuring A Tragic Actor, In A Strange Land, Oh The Public, The Looking Glass, Her Husband and Overdoing It. These stories are small masterpieces. The scene is set quickly and within a few sentences the story line is underway. But all seem to contain an element of the unexpected.
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Chekhov's trilogy of interlinked stories about Truth, Freedom and Love. First published in 1898 in Russian and released as separate stories. This title, based on translations by Constance Garnett with revision and adaptation by Max Bollinger follows Chekhov's original vision by bringing the three stories together once again.
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A collection of fun and mind provoking short stories, poems and limericks. When writing I lean towards subjects such as dreams, aspirations, peace, Mother Nature, death and what happens to us as we pass from this to the next phase of our lives. There's plenty of different writings in this book so please make the most of this pick 'n' mix. If you enjoy these stories, it would help me if you spread the word to friends and family. Some stories may have...
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Return to Mythnium, where tree nymphs, rana, mer, pirates, and more add dimension and life to the fantasy realm.Journey with eight new characters who work to overcome hardships in a world interwoven with magic, light, dark, danger, and hope.A hamadryad finds solace and hope in the Deep Forest alongside a Forest Elf.On the Ebony Isles, treachery forces a lone rana to seek an unlikely ally.Beneath the Walker Mountains, a child's innocence shatters in...
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Described by literary critic Robert Morss Lovett as "a novelist of civilization, absorbed in the somewhat mechanical operations of civilization, absorbed in the somewhat mechanical operations of culture, preoccupied with the upper ('and inner') class," Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton (1862-1937) also wrote superbly crafted works of short fiction. The seven stories in this excellent collection demonstrate the author's ability to create...
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Fewer and fewer people these days read short stories. This is unfortunate-so few will ever experience the joy that reading such fine work can give. This book gives a nice collection of short stories that will excite people into rediscovering this excellent source of entertainment.
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Guyanese born and UK trained Registered Nurse has published Short Stories through XLIBIS publishers in 2011. She has captured the minds of the reader by expressing how a couple bade sad farewell to their beloved pooch when his time was up The Contented, in the first chapter. The Day I Rode into Balloch Town follows a Native American womans unforgettable dreamlike encounter with a handsome young man by the name of Clint Eastwood. Shanti shared My Experience...
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About the Book These short stories range from the philosophical, to the realistic, to the plain absurd. They are bite-size readings that you can take during lunch or breaktime. Humorous and poignant, they note the triumph of man while remaining true to an absolute. Everyone from fifteen to five hundred will find something that points life's mirror right back at them. You will be surprised when the story takes a turn you did not expect. About the Author...
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In this collection of short stories, Stanislas M. Yassukovich has indulged his taste for nostalgic reverie. The tales are, inspired by the people and places the author has, encountered during a lifetime spent in cosmopolitan circles. The quirks of fate that move people from an apparently predestined course of life have provoked his imagination. Stanislas has drawn on a variety of conditions and personalities to colour his stories with the shades and...
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When an elderly gentleman is returning from a visit to his wife's graveside, he is shocked to find himself the victim of a young thug. What the thug doesn't realise is that this particular gentleman has nothing to lose and will make the young man regret ever having crossed him. (Bringing the House Down)
When a lady refuses to leave her bungalow for an easier life in a care home, nobody suspects the real reason behind her reluctance to go. (An Accident)
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16) Short Stories
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There are three stories in the book.
The characters are fictitious and the author gives a glimpse of their circumstances.
They come from different parts of the world.
But whoever they are and what kind of lives they lead, only the human factor remains in our minds.
17) Short Stories
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Short stories, written from the soul and the heart. Because sometimes, only one sentence can have a big impact.
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Rencontre entre le bien et le mal, les rêves et les cauchemars...
Il existe un monde o la réalité se mêle aux cauchemars, o le mal cohabite avec les forces du bien et o rien n'est complètement blanc ou noir. Cet univers, Barnett Chevin vous y emmène, aux travers de chemins tortueux que la raison vous pousserait à éviter. Plongez en plein cœur des Short stories, des histoires courtes o vos nerfs seront mis à rude épreuve, o vos nuits...
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The genre and style of Derryl G. Berry's "Short Stories" is quite varied. Some are straightforward, first- or third- persons POV. Some are off-the-wall perspectives and musings. Some are "circular" in that they begin and end pretty much at the same point, e.g., "Let's Act Normal." Many of Derryl's short stories began as an idea that came to him while hiking and were fleshed out later, e.g., "Five Shots," and "The Empty Hook." Others were triggered...
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This book is a collection of twenty bold, bizarre and beautiful short stories. Each one is an open door into a new perception of our world.
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