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Best Russian Short Stories

Best Russian Short Stories

by Leonid Andreyev

Best Russian Short Stories is a collection of short stories written by many Russian authors. The collection includes “THE QUEEN OF SPADES, BY ALEXSANDR S. PUSHKIN”, THE CLOAK BY NIKOLAY, by V. GOGOL”, “THE DISTRICT DOCTOR, BY IVAN S. TURGENEV”, “THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING, BY FIODOR M. DOSTOYEVSKY”, “GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS, BY LEO..

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a narrative poem written by George Gordon Byron, an English poet who led the romantic movement of British literary world. Along with his magnum opus Don Juan, his poetic works includes Parthenon marbles, The Curse of Minerva and She Walks in Beauty. It looks like the author’s experiences during his travels through E..

The Waste Land

The Waste Land

by T. S. Eliot

The Waste Land is one of the most important poems of 20th century written by T. S. Eliot, an American essayist, playwright and literary critic whose magnum opus being The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.  This long poem is written in five parts, titling it as The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death by Water, and What..

The Iliad

The Iliad

by Homer

The Iliad is an epic poem written by Homer, an ancient Greek Poet whose work influenced the shaping of Greek culture to great extent.  Considered to be sequel to the author’s early work “The Odyssey”, The Iliad narrates final week incidents of the Trojan War, the early events like the cause of the war, gathering warriors for the siege has b..

The Best American Humorous Short Stories

The Best American Humorous Short Stories

by Alexander Jessup

The Best American Humorous Short Stories is collection of short stories written by many authors and collected by Alexander Jessup, who is credited also for many such collections including “The Book of the Short Story” and “Little French Masterpieces”.  The author mentions in his introductory note that the primary selection criteria for comp..

The Sea-Gull

The Sea-Gull

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The Sea Gull is a Russian play penned by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, a Russian Physician and remembered as one of the greatest short story writer of not only Russian literature, but in the entire literary world. The Sea Gull is remarkable in many aspects, it has broken the conventional style of the then dramatization and ignited the comeback of Chekho..

Poems

Poems

by Emily Dickinson

The Poems of Emily Dickinson is the first unedited Poems of Emily Dickinson to be published nearly 80 years after death. Emily Dickinson, an American poet during her living years was considered an eccentric, even by her friends who were only communicating to her through letters. Her poems challenged the then definitions of poetry resulting in heavy..

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy

The Scarlet Pimpernel is an adventure play was performed during the clouds of French revolution, written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, a British novelist remembered for her portrayal of Scarlet Pimpernel as hero with hidden identity, which subsequently leading the way for similar creations of Batman and Zorro. During the French revolution, many ari..