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There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these mo

Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life.An author's ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure.In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem. In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything. But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle. Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another.Story. Poems. Story. Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters. And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse.

As a general rule we are a trusting lot. You say something and, whilst I might disagree, I believe you are acting in good faith. Of course this may be just the beginning of a ruse. If I trust you I might let down my guard, I might seek to share and to create a bond between us. But, if you can't be trusted, if you have an ulterior motive I might lose out. In the hands of authors such as Maxim Gorky, Ella D'Arcy, Rudyard Kipling, Ivan Turgenev and may others reality may not be what it quite seems.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens'across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.In this volume our classic authors from decades past look forwards into the future in their many ways. Their stories predict and expect many things. Intriguingly they interlace Sci-Fi with flavours and themes of other genres creating weird and wonderful stories that hold our attention with each turn of the page and fascinate our minds with their premise and execution.

This collection is a compilation of novels and short stories by some of the greatest masters of fiction literature. The collection includes works spanning over 150 years from the beginning of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century. The works vary in genre, including humorous, lyrical, psychological, romantic, detective, fantastic, adventurous, and mystical prose. It features classics of American, British, Irish, French, German, and Russian literature. Some of the outstanding authors included in this collection: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Arthur Conan Doyle, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, Agatha Christie, and many more. This book is intended for teachers and true literature enthusiasts. Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Prosper Mérimée. Mateo Falcone Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Ambitious Guest Edgar Allan Poe. The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold-Bug Ivan Turgenev. The District Doctor Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol Herman Melville. The Lightning-Rod Man Mark Twain. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Mark Twain. Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man Bret Harte. The Luck of Roaring Camp Robert Louis Stevenson. The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Leo Tolstoy. Kholstomer, The Story Of A Horse Leo Tolstoy. Alyosha The Pot Guy de Maupassant. The Necklace Oscar Wilde. The Selfish Giant Ambrose Bierce. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Thomas Hardy. The Three Strangers Ambrose Bierce. The Magic Shop Anton Chekhov. The Darling Arthur Conan Doyle. The Case of Lady Sannox Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Jack London. The Law of Life Rainer Maria Rilke. How Old Timofei Died Singing H. H. Munro, or Saki. The Music On The Hill O. Henry. The Gift of the Magi O. Henry. The Ransom of Red Chief Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper Katherine Mansfield. The Fly Willa Cather. A Wagner Matinée James Joyce. Araby James Joyce. Eveline D. H. Lawrence. The Prussian Officer Franz Kafka. The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka. Jackals and Arabs Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man Sherwood Anderson. The Egg Virginia Woolf. The Mark On The Wall Ring Lardner. The Golden Honeymoon John Galsworthy. The Broken Boot Joseph Conrad. Heart Of Darkness F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Ernest Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises Ray Bradbury. Asleep In Armageddon Isaac Asimov. Youth E.M. Forster. The Machine Stops H. P. Lovecraft. The Call of Cthulhu Agatha Christie. The Adventure of “The Western Star” Agatha Christie. The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor Agatha Christie. The Adventure of the Cheap Flat

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens'across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.This decade is resplendent with literature and its many prodigiously talented authors who write on as varied a range of subjects as might be thought possible. Yet each is studded with careful literary precision and narrative verve. It is a remarkable decade.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens'across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.Ambrose Bierce is an author whose words take us one way and then send us another. These miniature masterpieces all have a central truth and plausibility that seems to vanish in an ending that can be anything from wry, to shocking to hallucinatory.

This classic short story of a Southern plantation owner facing execution by Union soldiers is “a flawless example of American genius” (Kurt Vonnegut). Alabama planter Peyton Farquhar was loyal to the Confederate cause. Now, as the Union Army overtakes the South, he is brought to the edge of a railroad bridge—hands tied behind his back—sentenced to hang for attempting to burn down the bridge on which he stands. As he ponders the events both large and small that brought him to this moment, Farquhar also contemplates a daring escape. First published in 1890, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is one of the most celebrated short stories in American literature. Included in Ambrose Bierce's anthology, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, its unique structure and stream of consciousness style have inspired numerous adaptions and countless imitators.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens'across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.A decade of exuberance as the world became a plaything of the Western Imperial powers to exploit for their own ends. Whole cultures were sequestrated and suspended and another overplanted in its place. But short story authors created some of literature's brightest jewels as they explored genres and styles in ambitious claims to be the chronicler of the age.

Longer days, holidays and hot weather! The same summer inspires us to enjoy the day and take ice cream, also inspired many writers to create their works. Read seven short stories by great writers, which bring us different perspectives on the hot summer days and their effect on the human soul. This book contains: - One Summer Night by Ambrose Bierce. - At A Summer Villa by Anton Chekhov. - A Midsummer Knight's Dream by O. Henry. - Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf. - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield. - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane. - Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker.

On arriving at a rural monastery, the monk Ambrosius meets a young girl, Benedicta. She is shunned by the local community for being the daughter of the local hangman, but Ambrosius is drawn into a dangerous sympathy with her, and in defiance of the community and his superiors, he starts spending time alone with her. But when her virtue is corrupted by an impetuous young man, the stage is set for a battle between heart, mind, body, spirit, the sins of the past and redemption.

This ebook contains Ambrose Bierce's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.

Bierce was considered a master of pure English by his contemporaries, and virtually everything that came from his pen was notable for its judicious wording and economy of style. He wrote in a variety of literary genres. His short stories are held among the best of the 19th century, providing a popular following based on his roots. He wrote realistically of the terrible things he had seen in the war in such stories as'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge','The Boarded Window','Killed at Resaca', and'Chickamauga'.

Ambrose Bierce was an American writer who is best known for his realism. Often compared to Poe for the dark, realistic nature of his short stories, Bierce drew upon his Civil War experience as a soldier to write on a wide variety of subjects, and stories like An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge are still widely read.

'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'or'A Dead Man's Dream'is a short story, which is set during the Civil War, is famous for its irregular time sequence and twist ending. Bierce's abandonment of strict linear narration in favor of the internal mind of the protagonist is considered an early example of experimentation with stream of consciousness. It is Bierce's most anthologized story.

•Un diagnóstico de muerte •El dedo medio del pie derecho, (escrito en 1891) •La Maldita Cosa •El extraño •Chickamauga (1891) •Aceite de perro •Al otro lado de la pared •Carrera inconclusa •Chickamauga •Diccionario del Diablo •El amo de Moxon •El caso del desfiladero de Coulter •El engendro maldito •El golpe de gracia •El guardián del muerto •El hipnotizador •El incidente del Puente del Búho •El monje y la hija del verdugo - Novela corta •El pastor Haíta •El patriota ingenioso •El secreto del Barranco de Macarger •El solicitante •El viudo Turmore •La alucinación de Staley Fleming •Mi crimen favorito •Muerto en Resaca •Un habitante de Carcosa •Un hijo de los dioses •Una conflagración imperfecta •Una dama de Redhorse •Una escaramuza en los puestos de avanzada •Una noche de verano •Una rebelión de los dioses •Una tumba sin fondo •Uno de los desaparecidos •Visiones de la noche Ambrose Gwinett Bierce (Meigs, Ohio Estados Unidos, 24 de junio de 1842 - Chihuahua, 1914?) fue un escritor, periodista y editorialista estadounidense. Su estilo lúcido y vehemente le ha permitido conservar la popularidad un siglo después de su muerte, mientras que muchos de sus contemporáneos han pasado al olvido. Ese mismo estilo cáustico hizo que un crítico le apodara El amargo Bierce (Bitter Bierce).