July 2009

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark TWAIN

Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras mark twain adventureThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark TWAIN. It -was one of --Twain's earliest --writings, and helped establish his -reputation as a humorist. -He eventually included-- it as the title story in -his first collection of tales.
In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from
the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and
inquired after my friend's friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to
do, and I hereunto append the result.read the short story

story type: 
Humour
Author: 
Mark Twain
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5

Rudyard Kipling's Horror Short Story: The Mark of The Beast

mark-of-the-beastRudyard Kipling's Horror Short Story: The Mark of The Beast
Your Gods and my Gods do you or I know which are the stronger? Native
Proverb.read the short story

story type: 
Horror
Author: 
Rudyard Kipling
Page: 
9

Best Russian Short Stories:The District Doctor by Turgenev

district-doctor-storyThe District Doctor by Turgenev at a glance;read the short story

  • Author: Ivan Turgenev
  • First Published: 1848
  • Type of Plot: Vignette
  • Time of Work: The 1840's
  • Setting: Rural Russia
  • Principal Characters: Trifon Ivanych, Alexandra Andreyevna
  • Genres: Short fiction
  • Subjects: Love or romance, Marriage, Doctors, Storytelling, Sisters, Death or dying, Sick persons, Sports, Patients
story type: 
Fiction
Author: 
I. Turgenev
Page: 
8

Brother's Grimm great story: Fundevogel

funevogel
An forrester finds a child in the jungle. And take
the child his house. Give the child Fundevogel name.
Fundevogel and forrester's doughter lives together happyly.
But Forrester's cook dont like Fundevogel.read the short story

story type: 
Children's
Author: 
Brothers GRIMM

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

blue-carbuncle-sherlock-holmes"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", one of the fifty six short stories (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) The story was first published in January 1892.
-A precious stone was steal by Countess of Morcar. John Horner was arrested because of this crime. But the precious blue carbuncle was not found. But with some strange incidents the Blue Carbuncle landed on the hands of Sherlock Holmes.read the short story

story type: 
Adventure
Author: 
Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE
Page: 
15
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James Joyce's "A Little Cloud"

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In this story(James Joyce's "A Little Cloud"),Describes the life of Dublin atrophy. Little Chandler works a simple job and  marry and was bored in Dublin. Our hero, can not manage to escape from the city. Lives unhappy and defeated.read the short story

story type: 
Fiction
Author: 
James Joyce
Page: 
9
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Edgar Allen Poes's Story: The Raven

"The Raven", which was written through Poe's suffering for his dying wife, deals with the dread of death and the "impending doom" of losing a loved one. In the end, Poe realizes that out of his nightmares and tragic life would come his legacy, his stories for future generations.read the short story

story type: 
Other
Author: 
Edgar Allen Poe
Page: 
3
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Charles Young's Story: What was it?


It is, I confess, with considerable diffidence that I approached the
strange narrative which I am about to relate. The events which I purpose
detailing are of so extraordinary a character that I am quite preparedread the short story

story type: 
Horror
Author: 
Charles Young
Page: 
7

Georce William Curtis's short story: Titbottom's Spectacles

titbottom-spectaclesIn my mind's eye, Horatio.
Prue and I do not entertain much; our means forbid it. In truth, other people entertain for us. We enjoy that hospitality of which no account is made. We see the show, and hear the music, and smell the flowers of great festivities, tasting as it were the drippings from rich dishes.read the short story

story type: 
Humour
Author: 
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
Page: 
15

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter"

Rappaccini's Daughter   We do not remember to have seen any translated specimens of the productions of M. de l'Aubepine a fact the less to be wondered at, as his very name is unknown to many of his own countrymen as well as to the student of foreign literature.read the short story

story type: 
Romance
Author: 
Nathaniel Hawthorne