George Ade, H. G. Wells, Anton Chekhov, T. S. Arthur, Oscar Wilde, O. Henry, Nathaniel Hawthorne, August Nemo

7 best short stories - Feel-Good Stories (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Sometimes life can be discouraging and exhausting. For those moments there are stories that are heartwarming and give us the daily dose of joy and encouragement that we all need. Critic August Nemo selected seven short stories that will do good for your mood and your heart: - An Angel in Disguise by T.S. Arthur - The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde - The Magic Shop by H.G. Wells - Springtime a la Carte by O. Henry - The Antique Ring by Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Fable of the Man Who Didn't Care for Storybooks by George Ade - A Story Without A Title by Anton ChekhovFor more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tacet Books
• Seitenzahl: 36
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783966613538
• Artikelnr.: 59395508

Autorenporträt

George Ade, (born Feb. 9, 1866, Kentland, Ind., U.S.died May 16, 1944, Brook, Ind.), American playwright and humorist whose Fables in Slang summarized the kind of wisdom accumulated by the country boy in the city. Oscar Wilde(16 October 1854 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for "gross indecency", imprisonment, and early death at age 46. Anton Chekhov(29 January 1860 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Timothy Shay Arthur(June 6, 1809 March 6, 1885) known as T. S. Arthur was a popular 19th-century American author. He is most famous for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There (1854), which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public. Herbert George Wells(21 September 1866 13 August 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, and even including two books on recreational war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. William Sydney Porter(September 11, 1862 June 5, 1910), better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His stories are known for their surprise endings. Nathaniel Hawthorne(July 4, 1804 May 19, 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer.