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The Fair Jilt: or, the Amours of Prince Tarquin and Miranda is a short novella by Aphra Behn published by Will Canning in 1688, a year before Behn's death. [2] The plot is loosely based around rumors Behn had heard regarding a story of Prince Francisco de Tarquini. Though Behn did insist that the story was true, it is sensationalized. [3]
Project Gutenberg ( PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks ." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in ...
The bibliography of Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 – 1881) comprises novels, novellas, short stories, essays and other literary works. Raised by a literate family, Dostoyevsky discovered literature at an early age, beginning when his mother introduced the Bible to him. Nannies near the hospitals—in the grounds of which he was raised—introduced ...
Background. Conrad began writing the four short stories that would comprise T yphoon and Other Stories while he was attempting to complete the third and final story for the proposed collection Youth, A Narrative; and Two Other Stories (1902) for William Blackwood and Sons. Setting aside “The End of the Tether”- and after finishing his novel ...
The Stories of Katherine Mansfield. Auckland: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-558113-X. External links. Bliss and other stories at the New Zealand Text Centre; Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield available at Project Gutenberg; Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield available at Project Gutenberg Australia
The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly between 1853 and 1855. The collection includes what have long ...
Something Childish and Other Stories is a 1924 collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield. [1] It was first published in America as The Little Girl . This anthology was published after her death by her husband John Middleton Murry. Murry wrote in his introductory note that this volume contains the stories written between ...
The Promise (Steinbeck) Categories: American short stories by writer. Works by John Steinbeck. Hidden category: