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Top 10 Short Stories, The - Men 1910s

The top ten Short Stories of the 1910's written by male authors

by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Arnold Bennett, D H Lawrence, M R James, Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev, Saki the pseudonym for H H Munro, Sherwood Anderson, W F Harvey, William Hope Hodgson ...

Narrated by Jim Norton, Richard Mitchley, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

7 hours 37 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

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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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Neglected Authors, The - Russian Men

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by Leonid Andreyev, Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev, Valery Bryusov, Vsevolod Garshin, I N Potapenko, Nikolai Schedrin, S T Semyonov, Fyodor Sologub ...

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick, David Shaw-Parker, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

4 hours 58 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The 1910's - The Europeans

The ten best stories written from 1910-1919 by European authors

by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Luigi Pirandello, Alexander Kuprin, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ivan Bunin, Leonid Andreyev, I N Potapenko, Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev, Aleister Crowley ...

Narrated by Jim Norton, David Shaw-Parker, Lisa Bowerman ...

Unabridged

7 hours 6 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
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Foundations of Fiction, The - Russian Realism

Stories that helped shape one of literatures most acclaimed genres

by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Gogol, Leonid Andreyev, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Bunin, Vsevolod Garshin, Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev0, I N Potapenko1, Vera Jelihovsky2, Mikhail Bulgakov3 ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley4, David Shaw-Parker5, Mark Rice-Oxley6 ...

Unabridged

13 hours 44 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
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Neglected Authors, The - Volume 1

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Grant Allen, Leonid Andreyev, Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev, Gertrude Atherton, Lady Augusta Gregory, Stacy Aumonier, William Austin, William Austin, Richard Harris Barham, Robert Barr0, Charles Baudelaire1, Aphra Behn2, John Davys Beresford3, Helena Blavatsky4, Marjorie Bowen5, Mary Elizabeth Braddon6, Ernest Bramah7, D K Broster8, Rhoda Broughton9, Valery Bryusov0, Thomas Burke1 ...

Narrated by Eve Karpf2, Mark Rice-Oxley3, David Shaw-Parker4 ...

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12 hours 31 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
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The Red Terror in Russia

by Sergey Petrovich Melgounov ...

Uritsky, People’s Commissary of the Northern Commune, and a leading spirit of the Che-Ka of Petrograd, was assassinated on August 17, 1918, by a Socialist ex-student named Kannegiesser, who during the war had been a military cadet. In the official report of the assassination it was said: Leonid Kannegiesser asserts that he killed Uritsky solely of his own free will, in revenge for the arrest of ... Read more

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Uritsky, People’s Commissary of the Northern Commune, and a leading spirit of the Che-Ka of Petrograd, was assassinated on August 17, 1918, by a Socialist ex-student named Kannegiesser, who during the war had been a military cadet. In the official report of the assassination it was said: Leonid Kannegiesser asserts that he killed Uritsky solely of his own free will, in revenge for the arrest of
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The Neglected Authors: Volume 1 (of 6) - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa to Thomas Burke

by Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev, John Davys Beresford, D K Broster ...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
Heirloom Furniture Projects

Timeless Pieces for Your Home

by Chris Marshall, Bill Hylton, John Hooper, Woodworker's Journal, Chris Inman, Rick White, Brad Becker, Ian Kirby, J. Petrovich, Bruce Kieffer, Larry Stoiaken, Stephen Shepard, Stan Schmidt, Randy Bemont ...

Series series Best of WWJ
Build a handsome heirloom to be cherished for years to come with 21 projects hand-picked from the editors of Woodworker's Journal. Perfect for adding your carved and scrolled signature touches, the projects include a baker's shelf, Shaker vanity mirror, cherry gun cabinet, Colonial pewter cupboard, and much more. ... Read more

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Build a handsome heirloom to be cherished for years to come with 21 projects hand-picked from the editors of Woodworker's Journal. Perfect for adding your carved and scrolled signature touches, the projects include a baker's shelf, Shaker vanity mirror, cherry gun cabinet, Colonial pewter cupboard, and much more.
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Ms. Marvel By Saladin Ahmed Vol. 2

Stormranger

by Saladin Ahmed ...

Collects Magnificent Ms. Marvel (2019) #7-12. Kamala Khan really needs a break - but things don’t work like that for Ms. Marvel! Kamala’s road trip with Zoe and Nakia gets derailed by literal corporate zombies! The villainous Monopoly has set his sights on our magnificent hero - and his new recruits Discord and Lockdown are more than happy to deliver Ms. Marvel on a silver platter! And when ... Read more

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Collects Magnificent Ms. Marvel (2019) #7-12. Kamala Khan really needs a break - but things don’t work like that for Ms. Marvel! Kamala’s road trip with Zoe and Nakia gets derailed by literal corporate zombies! The villainous Monopoly has set his sights on our magnificent hero - and his new recruits Discord and Lockdown are more than happy to deliver Ms. Marvel on a silver platter! And when
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The Revolutionist

by Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev ...

Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev (Russian: Михаил Петрович Арцыбашев) was a Russian writer and playwright, and a major proponent of the literary style known as naturalism. He was the great grandson of Tadeusz Kościuszko and the father of Boris Artzybasheff, who emigrated to the United States and became famous as an illustrator. ... Read more

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Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev (Russian: Михаил Петрович Арцыбашев) was a Russian writer and playwright, and a major proponent of the literary style known as naturalism. He was the great grandson of Tadeusz Kościuszko and the father of Boris Artzybasheff, who emigrated to the United States and became famous as an illustrator.
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Sanin

by Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev ...

The hero of Artsybashev's novel exhibits a set of new values to be contrasted with the morality of the older Russian intelligentsia. Sanin is an attractive, clever, powerful, life-loving man who is, at the same time, an amoral and carnal animal, bored both by politics and by religion. During the novel he lusts after his own sister, but defends her when she is betrayed by an arrogant officer; he ... Read more

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The hero of Artsybashev's novel exhibits a set of new values to be contrasted with the morality of the older Russian intelligentsia. Sanin is an attractive, clever, powerful, life-loving man who is, at the same time, an amoral and carnal animal, bored both by politics and by religion. During the novel he lusts after his own sister, but defends her when she is betrayed by an arrogant officer; he
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The Princess Tarakanova: A Dark Chapter of Russian History

by Grigory Petrovich Danilevsky ...

A storm has been raging for already three days. We have been so tossed about that it has been impossible to write. Our frigate, the Northern Eagle, is not far from Gibraltar. We have lost our rudder, and our sails are all torn, and now the current is carrying us south-eastwards. Where shall we land? what will become of us? It is night; the wind has fallen, and the sea is calmer. I am writing in my ... Read more

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A storm has been raging for already three days. We have been so tossed about that it has been impossible to write. Our frigate, the Northern Eagle, is not far from Gibraltar. We have lost our rudder, and our sails are all torn, and now the current is carrying us south-eastwards. Where shall we land? what will become of us? It is night; the wind has fallen, and the sea is calmer. I am writing in my
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