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Contemporaneously described as "the war to end all wars", World War I was one of the largest wars in history and also one of the deadliest conflicts in history. Writers often function as the memory of the world, eternalizing in words difficult moments that we can not forget. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories that allow us to look at the various faces of the war:- Mary Postgate by Rudyard Kipling- The Fly by Katherine Mansfield- May Day by F. Scott Fitzgerald- Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft- The Bowmen by Arthur Machen- His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- At the Bay by Katherine MansfieldFor more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!

A. E. W. Mason is best remembered for his 1902 novel of courage and cowardice in wartime, The Four Feathers and is also known as the creator of Inspector Hanaud, a French detective who was an early template for Agatha Christies famous Hercule Poirot.The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this author for your enjoyment:- The Affair At The Semiramis Hotel- The Clock- Green Paint- Ensign Knightley- The Man Of Wheels- The Coward- Keeper Of The Bishop

Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to A. Merritt. A. Merritt was an american fantasist, science-fiction writer, and journalist. Most of his novels remained in print in both hardcover and paperback, and in 1959, one of his publishers estimated that his books had at that time sold over four million copies. In 1999 he was honored with a place in the Science Fiction Hall of Fame for his contribution to science fiction and fantasy. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: - The Pool Of The Stone God. - The Last Poet And The Robots. - The Fox Woman. - The People Of The Pit. - The Drone. - Through The Dragon Glass. - Three Lines Of Old French. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to English author Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie was an English writer known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies and according to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author.Works selected for this book:The Adventure of The Western Star; The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor; The Adventure of the Cheap Flat; The Mystery of Hunters Lodge; The Million Dollar Bond Robbery; The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb; The Kidnapped Prime Minister. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to the british author Aldous Huxley.Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher, widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.Works selected for this book:- Uncle Spencer;- Little Mexican;- Hubert And Minnie;- Fard;- The Portrait;- Young Archimedes;- The Gioconda Smile.

Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to Alexander Pushkin. Alexander Pushkin was a Russian poet and writer who is considered the father of the modern Russian novel. The so-called Golden Age of Russian Literature was inspired by the themes and aesthetics of Pushkin - we are talking about names like Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol. This book contains: - The Queen of Spades. - The Shot. - The Snowstorm. - The Postmaster. - The Coffin-maker. - Kirdjali. - Peter, The Greats Negro. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to the English author Algernon Blackwood. Algernon Blackwood was a master of supernatural fiction, known for his ability to create a sense of unease and tension in his readers. In this collection, readers can expect to be taken on a journey through the haunting landscapes and eerie situations that Blackwoods stories are famous for. Works selected for this book:- The Willows; - Secret Worship; - The Wendigo; - Ancient Sorceries; - The Listener; - The Transfer; - A Descent Into Egypt. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Alice Duer Miller was a writer from the U.S. whose poetry actively influenced political opinion. Her feminist verses made an impact on the suffrage issue, and her verse novel The White Cliffs encouraged U.S. entry into World War II. She also wrote novels and screenplays.This book contains:- The Candid Friend.- A Clash of Sentimentalists.- Emulation.- Home Influence.- Middle Age.- The Relapse.- The Respecters of Law.

Among the first generation born free in the South after the Civil War, Alice Dunbar Nelson was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. As her posthumous editor Alice T. Hull puts it, Dunbar-Nelson and her contemporaries were "always mindful of their need to be living refutations of the sexual slurs to which black women were subjected and, at the same time, as much as white women, were also tyrannized by the still-prevalent Victorian cult of true womanhood."August Nemo selected for this book seven short stories from this important author who stood out in her time and left a mark of talent and empowerment for future generations:A Carnival JangleLittle Miss SophieLa JuanitaThe Praline WomanSister JosephaMr. BaptisteMsieu Fortiers Violin

Ambrose Bierce was born on June 24, 1842 in Meigs county, Ohio. He worked as a printers apprentice and enlisted to fight in the Civil War. After the war he worked as an editor, journalist, and short story writer; capturing his war experiences in vivid detail. Although his caustic and satirical style granted him notoriety as a journalist, nowadays he is remembered for his incursions into the genre of terror, influencing authors of the stature of H.P. Lovecraft, and is considered one of the most significant of the nineteenth century, together with others such as Edgar Allan Poe and Guy de Maupassant. Profoundly misanthropic, expressed in his writings his distrust of the human race, distrust expressed with a critical attitude that earned him the nickname of Bitter Bierce .This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:An Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeOne Summer NightThe Death Of Halpin FrayserThe Moonlit RoadA Psychological ShipwreckThe StrangerThe Middle Toe of the Right Foot

Amelia B. Edwards was a versatile woman, who had been a journalist, writer and Egyptologist. Her tales of horror and ghost became very famous at the time of release. In this book, the critic August Nemo selected seven stories that show all the versatility of this author:- An Engineers Story- A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest- The Story of Salome- In the Confessional- Was it an illusion?- How the Third Floor Knew the Potteries- The Tragedy in the Palazzo Bardello

Andy Adams lived the cowboy life on the Texas plains. He later rendered those experiences in fiction to set Americans straight about life in the West.For this book, the critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this author:- Drifting North.- Siegermans Per Cent.- "Bad Medicine".- A Winter Round-Up.- A College Vagabond.- The Double Trail.- Rangering.

Anne OHagan Shinn was an American feminist, suffragist, journalist, and writer of short stories, regularly contributing to publications such as Vanity Fair, and Harpers. In particular, she is known for her writings detailing the exploitation of young women working as shop clerks in early 20th Century America.This book contains:- Bread Eaten in Secret.- The Courtship of the Boss.- Emeline Hardacres Revenge.- Fate and the Pocketbook.- Margaret McDonoughs Restaurant.- The Romance at Hollywood College- Phbe in Politics

Anthony Hope was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels. His works are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre known as Ruritanian romance, works set in fictional European locales similar to the novels.This book contains:- The Adventure of Lady Ursula.- AspirationsExplanations.- A Cut and a Kiss.- Promising.- Imagination.- Uncle John and the Rubies.- Lucifera.

Anthony Trollope wrote convincing novels of political life as well as studies that show great psychological penetration. One of his greatest strengths was a steady, consistent vision of the social structures of Victorian England, which he re-created in his books with unusual solidity. This selection of short stories brings you the best of Trollope selected by August Nemo: The Man Who Kept His Money in a BoxThe Mistletoe BoughThe Parsons Daughter of Oxney ColneReturning Home An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids The Courtship of Susan BellThe Relics of General Chasse

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a master of the modern short story. He was a literary artist of laconic precision who probed below the surface of life, laying bare the secret motives of his characters. Chekhovs best plays and short stories lack complex plots and neat solutions. Concentrating on apparent trivialities, they create a special kind of atmosphere, sometimes termed haunting or lyrical. Chekhov described the Russian life of his time using a deceptively simple technique devoid of obtrusive literary devices, and he is regarded as the outstanding representative of the late 19th-century Russian realist school. The critical August Nemo selected seven of the best and most representative stories by this author for your enjoyment:The Lady With The Little DogWard No. 6A JokeThe DarlingKashtankaThe Black MonkIn The Ravinein the ravien

Arnold Bennett was a British novelist, playwright, critic, and essayist whose major works form an important link between the English novel and the mainstream of European realism.In this book the critic August Nemo brings seven specially selected short stories:- The Lions Share- The Burglary- News of the Engagement- Beginning the New Year- From One Generation to Another- The Death of Simon Fuge- In a New Bottle

Originally a physician, in 1887 Arthur Conan Doyle published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.This is a collection of the 7 best short stories of one of the most iconic writer ever to have been published, Arthur Conan Doyle. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:- A Scandal In Bohemia- The Five Orange Pips- The Disintegration Machine- When the World Screamed- The Great Keinplatz Experiment- The Horror of the Heights- The Ring of Thoth

He was born in 1863 in Wales, in Caerlson-Usk. He settled in London, still young, where he was a bookstore clerk for a few months, becoming a preceptor. Subsequently, he began to write in total material shortage and fatigue. For a long time he lived on translations. Still unrecognized, he continued his work with a growing feeling that "an immense spiritual gulf separated him from other men" and that he lived as a "Robinson Crusoe of the soul."A curious fact was that he, along with W. B. Yeats and Aleister Crowley, was a member of the "Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn," the ill-fated 20th century magic society.His work is acclaimed worldwide and has already been recognized by such big names as H. P. Locecraf, Stephen King and Jorge Luis Borges. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:The Great God PanThe White PeopleThe Black SealThe Novel of the White PowderThe Red HandThe Inmost LightThe Bowmen

Arthur Morrison was noted for realist novels and short stories describing slum life in Londons East End at the end of the Victorian era.This selection chosen by the critic August Nemocontains the following stories:- That Brute Simmos- A Poor Stick- Behind the Shade- To Bow Bridges- A Conversation- All That Messuage- Three Hounds