18 books like Twice-Told Tales

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

Selected Tales and Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1900 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Shares: Sextons, American Historical fiction, Short Story, Clergy Shares: Sextons, American Historical fiction, Short Story, Clergy

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

La fête du mais Thomas Tryon · 1969 · ★ 3.5 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Moderate It was almost as if time had not touched the village of Cornwall Coombe. The quiet, peaceful place was straight out of a bygone era, with well-cared-for Colonial houses, a white-steepled church fronting a broad Common. Ned and Beth Constantine chanced upon the hamlet and immediately fell in love with it. This was exactly the haven they dream of. Or so they thought. For Ned and his family,… Shares: New england, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

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

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: Art, Manners and customs, Historical Fiction, Short Stories

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

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

Enigmas en el Arte Manuel Jesús Segado-Uceda · 2021 · 174p · ≈ 5h · Moderate «La Historia del Arte está repleta de tesoros por descubrir, a pesar de que suelen estar a la vista de quien contempla el cuadro o la escultura en la que están disimulados. Manuel Jesús Segado-Uceda nos ofrece en esta obra algunos ejemplos maravillosos. El lector se sentirá ante uno de esos pasatiempos que contienen errores por descubrir y que están ante sus ojos, pero tan bien disimulados, que… Shares: Art, History

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 elixir of life (Auriol) William Harrison Ainsworth · 1844 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Auriol: or, The Elixir of Life is a novel by British historical novelist William Harrison Ainsworth. It was first published in 1844 in serial form, under the title Revelations of London. Auriol, written 1844, is slightly unusual in the Ainsworth repertoire as the action is entirely couched as a fantasy, so that the supernatural element (which occurs also, for instance, in his Guy Fawkes and his… Shares: Supernatural, Paranormal

With the immortals Francis Marion Crawford · 1888 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Challenging 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: Supernatural, Paranormal

The Minister's Wooing Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1800 · 427p · ≈ 14h · Challenging From the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a domestic comedy that examines slavery, Protestant theology, and gender differences in early America.First published in 1859, Harriet Beecher Stowe's third novel is set in eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, a community known for its engagement in both religious piety and the slave trade. Mary Scudder lives in a modest farmhouse with her widowed mother… Shares: New england, Clergy, Social life and customs, History

White Nights Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1961 · ★ 4.1 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a poignant short story about love, loneliness, and fleeting human connections. Set in St. Petersburg during the ethereal "white nights" of summer, it follows a dreamy, solitary narrator who meets a young woman named Nastenka. Over four nights, he shares his fantasies and feelings, while she confides her longing for a lost lover. As the narrator falls in love… Shares: Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories, History

New-England tale Catharine Maria Sedgwick · 1822 · ★ 3.2 · 297p · ≈ 9h · Challenging The Early American Women Writers series offers rare works of fiction by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women, each reprinted in its entirety, each with a foreword by General Editor Cathy N. Davidson, who places the novel in a historical and literary perspective. Written in 1822, A New-England Tale is the first of the many novels, tales, and short magazine pieces Catharine Sedgwick published… Shares: New england, Social life and customs

Dragon Seed (Progress English) Pearl S. Buck · 1941 · ★ 4.5 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Dragon Seed is a fictional novel which describes the lives of Chinese peasants in a village outside Nanjing, China immediately prior to and during the Japanese invasion in 1937. Shares: American Historical fiction, Historical Fiction, History

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