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Twice-Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1800 · ★ 3.9 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection first published in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The stories had all been previously published in magazines and annuals, hence the name. Contains: The Gray Champion Sunday At Home The Wedding Knell The Minister's Black Veil The Maypole of Merry Mount The Gentle Boy Mr Higginbotham's Catastrophe Little Annie's Ramble Wakefield A Rill From the… Shares: Sextons, American Historical fiction, Short Story, Clergy

La Fille de Rappaccini et autres contes fantastiques Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1989 · 36p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Shares: Sextons, Puritans, Satanism, Short Story Shares: Sextons, Puritans, Satanism, Short Story

Twice-Told Tales [1/2] Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1842 · 323p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Shares: Sextons, Short Story, Clergy, Paranormal Shares: Sextons, Short Story, Clergy, Paranormal

Fanshawe Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1828 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Published anonymously at his own expense in 1828, Hawthorne's first novel is an engrossing apprentice work. Shares: American Historical fiction, Social life and customs, Classic Literature

A Book of Short Stories Stuart Pratt Sherman · 1914 · ★ 3.6 · 353p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The minister's black veil. Ethan Brand. Edgar Allan Poe: Fall of the House of Usher, the gold-bug. Charles Dickens: The signalman. Frank Stockton: The lady, or the tiger. Thomas Hardy: The three strangers. Robert Louis Stevenson: Will o' the mill, The Sire de Maletroit's door. Sir James Matthew Barrie: The courting of T'nowhead's… Shares: Sextons, Short Story, Clergy, Short Stories

Crucial Instances Edith Wharton · 1901 · ★ 3.5 · 131p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Edith Wharton's classic 1901 short story collection. Included are: "The Duchess at Prayer," "The Angel at the Grave," "The Recovery," "Copy: A Dialogue," "The Rembrandt," "The Moving Finger," and "The Confessional." Shares: Manners and customs, Historical Fiction, Classic Literature, Short Stories

Là-bas Joris-Karl Huysmans · 1890 · ★ 4.0 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Là-Bas, translated as Down There or The Damned, is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in 1891. It is Huysmans' most famous work after À rebours. Là-Bas deals with the subject of Satanism in contemporary France, and the novel stirred a certain amount of controversy on its first appearance. It is the first of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly… Shares: Satanism, Paranormal, Classic Literature

The complete works of O. Henry [pseud.] O. Henry · 1899 · ★ 3.8 · 1396p · ≈ 46h · Demanding The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of… Shares: Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories

The troll garden Willa Cather · 1905 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "This collection of Willa Cather stories - her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career - is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of… Shares: Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories

The ruling passion Henry van Dyke · 1901 · ★ 3.7 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Challenging This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true… Shares: Manners and customs, Short Stories

The snow-image, and other tales Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1851 · ★ 5.0 · 254p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Short stories. Shares: American Historical fiction, Social life and customs, Historical Fiction

This Present Darkness Frank E. Peretti · 1986 · ★ 4.2 · 508p · ≈ 16h · Moderate “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12 Ashton is just a typical small town. But when a skeptical reporter and a prayerful, hardworking pastor begin to investigate mysterious events, they suddenly find… Shares: Satanism, Clergy

The Four Million O. Henry · 1906 · ★ 4.0 · 225p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The Four Million is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry originally released in 1906. There are twenty five stories of various lengths including several of his best known works such as "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Cop and the Anthem". The book's title refers to the then population of New York City where many of the stories are set. The stories include; Tobin's Palm The… Shares: Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Classic Literature, Short Stories

Tales of the Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1922 · ★ 3.9 Published in 1922, the eleven Tales of the Jazz Age feature the flappers and lost young men of the period as well as a great variety of characters and scenes. Among them, the critically acclaimed novella "May Day" contrasts drunken debutantes with a mob of war veterans battling socialists in the streets, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", filmed with Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Tilda… Shares: Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Classic Literature, Short Stories

The Warden Anthony Trollope · 1809 · ★ 3.9 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 1: The Warden The tranquil atmosphere of the cathedral town of Barchester is shattered when a scandal breaks concerning the financial affairs of a Church-run almshouse for elderly men. In the ensuing furore, Septimus Harding, the almshouse's well-meaning warden, finds himself pitted against his daughter's suitor Dr John Bold, a zealous local reformer. Matters… Shares: Clergy, Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Classic Literature

The small house at Allington Anthony Trollope · 1864 · ★ 4.1 · 598p · ≈ 19h · Challenging The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 5: The Small House at Allington The Small House at Allington introduces Trollope's most charming heroine, the betwitching Lily Dale, onto the Barsetshire scene. She so endeared herself to readers of the Cornhill Magazine, where A Small House was first published in serial form, that Trollope was bombarded by letters begging him to marry her to her lifelong… Shares: Clergy, Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Classic Literature

The women on the wall Wallace Stegner · 1950 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares: Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories

The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales Bret Harte · 1889 · 138p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The sun was going down on the Dedlow Marshes. The tide was following it fast as if to meet the reddening lines of sky and water in the west, leaving the foreground to grow blacker and blacker every moment, and to bring out in startling contrast the few half-filled and half-lit pools left behind and forgotten. The strong breath of the Pacific fanning their surfaces at times kindled them into a… Shares: Manners and customs, Short Stories

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