Serapion And Other Stories

Author : Francis Stevens
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781513285009

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Serapion and Other Stories by Francis Stevens Pdf

Serapion and Other Stories (1920) is a collection of stories by Francis Stevens. Using her well-known pseudonym, Gertrude Barrows Bennett published some of the twentieth century’s greatest science fiction stories and novels. “Serapion” been recognized as a powerful tale of dark fantasy for investigation of demonic possession and the occult, and remains central to Stevens’ reputation as a pioneering author of fantasy and science fiction. “‘Get! Get out!’ adjured that brutally vulgar voice. Then it changed to a whining, female treble: ‘You are young, Clayton Barbour; young and soft to the soft, cruel hand that would mold you. You are easy to mold as clay-clay-Clayton-clay! Evil hangs over you--black evil! Flee from the damned Clayton Barbour. Go home--you!’” Against his better judgment, Clay Barbour ignores the advice of his friend Nils Berquist and attends a séance at the home of well-known spiritualists James and Alicia Moore. In the dim, candlelit room, a “fifth presence” named Serapion reveals himself to Barbour, claiming to offer happiness and success to the young man. Terrified at first, Barbour soon welcomes Serapion into his life, unwittingly opening the door to disaster for himself and his loved ones. Presented alongside some of Stevens’ lesser known tales of science fiction and occult inquiry, “Serapion” is a masterpiece of dark fantasy and a cautionary tale that continues to haunt a century after it appeared in print. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Francis Stevens’ Serapion and Other Stories is a classic work of American science fiction reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Charles Gibbon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555044828

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Fancy free, and other stories by Charles Gibbon Pdf

Author : David Shrayer-Petrov
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780815610335

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Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories by David Shrayer-Petrov Pdf

These fourteen stories by the acclaimed master of Jewish-Russian fiction are set in the former USSR, Western Europe, and America. Dinner with Stalin features Soviet Jews grappling with issues of identity, acculturation, and assimilation. Shrayer-Petrov explores aspects of antisemitism and persecution, problems of mixed marriages, dilemmas of conversion, and the survival of Jewish memory. Both an author and a physician, Shrayer-Petrov examines his subjects through the double lenses of medicine and literature. He writes about Russian Jews who, having suffered in the former Soviet Union, continue to cultivate their sense of cultural Russianness, even as they—and especially their children—assimilate and increasingly resemble American Jews. Shrayer-Petrov’s stories also bear witness to the ways Jewish immigrants from the former USSR interact with Americans of other identities and creeds, notably with Catholics and Moslems. Not only lovers of Jewish and Russian writing but all discriminating readers will delight in Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories.

Author : Francis Stevens,August Nemo
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783968584157

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7 best short stories by Francis Stevens by Francis Stevens,August Nemo Pdf

Gertrude Barrows Bennett, known by the pseudonym Francis Stevens, was a pioneering author of fantasy and science fiction. Bennett wrote a number of fantasies and has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy". ] The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this remarkable author for your enjoyment: - Behind the Curtain. - Unseen Unfeared. - Elf Trap. - Serapion. - Friend Island. - Citadel of Fear. - Nightmare!

Author : Fitz James O'Brien,Francis Marion Crawford,Francis Stevens,Barry Pain,Frank L. Packard,Paul Laurence Dunbar,Otis Adelbert Kline,John Ulrich Giesy,Valery Bryusov,Eleanor H. Porter,August Nemo
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 2176 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783966611145

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Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 13 by Fitz James O'Brien,Francis Marion Crawford,Francis Stevens,Barry Pain,Frank L. Packard,Paul Laurence Dunbar,Otis Adelbert Kline,John Ulrich Giesy,Valery Bryusov,Eleanor H. Porter,August Nemo Pdf

This book contains70 short storiesfrom 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the criticAugust Nemo, in a collection that will please theliterature lovers. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: Fitz-James O'Brien: - The Diamond Lens. - The Lost Room. - What Was it? A Mystery. - My Wife's Tempter. - The Golden Ingot. - The Child Who Loved a Grave. - The Wondersmith.Francis Marion Crawford: - The Dead Smile. - The Screaming Skull. - Man Overboard! - For The Blood Is The Life. - The Upper Berth. - By The Waters of Paradise. - The Doll's Ghost.Francis Stevens: - Behind the Curtain. - Unseen Unfeared. - Elf Trap. - Serapion. - Friend Island. - Citadel of Fear. - Nightmare!Barry Pain: - Aunt Martha. - The Bet. - The Boy in the Book. - The Discovery of Nesting. - Eliza and the Special. - The Kindness of the Celestial. - The Victim of Apparatus.Frank L. Packard: - Corporal Bob. - The Guardian of the Devil's Slide. - Where's Haggerty? - McQueen's Hobby. - Munford. - "If a Man Die" - The Blood of Kings.Paul Laurence Dunbar: - The Scapegoat. - One Christmas At Shiloh. - The Mission Of Mr. Scatters. - A Matter Of Doctrine. - Old Abe's Conversion. - The Race Question. - A Defender Of The Faith.Otis Adelbert Kline: - The Corpse on the Third Slab. - The Man from the Moon. - The Cup of Blood. - Mignight Madness. - The Malignant Entity. - The Bird-People. - The Thing of a Thousand Shapes.John Ulrich Giesy: - The Occult Detector. - The Purple Light. - The Significance of the High "D". - The Wistaria Scarf. - The Master Mind. - Rubies of Doom. - The House of Invisible Bondage.Valery Bryusov: - The Republic of the Southern Cross. - The Marble Bust. - For Herself or for Another. - In the Mirror. - Protection. - The "Bemol" Shop of Stationery. - Rhea Silvia.Eleanor H. Porter: - A Delayed Heritage. - The Folly of Wisdom. - The Letter. - The Elephant's Board and Keep. - Crumbs. - The Lady in Black. - That Angel Boy.

Author : Francis Stevens,August Nemo
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783967995817

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Essential Novelists - Francis Stevens by Francis Stevens,August Nemo Pdf

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Francis Stevens wich are Nightmare! nad The Heads of Cerberus. Gertrude Barrows Bennett, known by the pseudonym Francis Stevens, was a pioneering author of fantasy and science fiction. Bennett wrote a number of fantasies and has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy". Novels selected for this book: - Nightmare! - The Heads of Cerberus.This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Author : H. and E. Heron,Sheridan Le Fanu,Charlotte Riddell,Flora Annie Steel,Amelia B. Edwards,Margaret Oliphant,Edward Bellamy,Arnold Bennett,S. Baring-Gould,Daniil Kharms,E. F. Benson,Ella D'Arcy,Jacques Futrelle,Frank Richard Stockton,John Kendrick Bangs,Kenneth Grahame,Julian Hawthorne,A. E. W. Mason,Richard Middleton,Pierre Louÿs,Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole,Ethel Richardson,Gertrude Stein,E. Phillips Oppenheim,Arthur Quiller-Couch,Mór Jókai,Andy Adams,Bertha Sinclair,Fitz James O'Brien,Eleanor H. Porter,Valery Bryusov,John Ulrich Giesy,Otis Adelbert Kline,Paul Laurence Dunbar,Barry Pain,Gertrude Bennett,Francis Marion Crawford,William Pett Ridge,Gilbert Parker,Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford,Elizabeth Garver Jordan,Richard Austin Freeman,Alice Duer Miller,Leonard Merrick,Anthony Hope,Ethel Watts Mumford,Anne O'Hagan Shinn,B. M. Bower,August Nemo
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 5269 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783968583112

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Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 3 by H. and E. Heron,Sheridan Le Fanu,Charlotte Riddell,Flora Annie Steel,Amelia B. Edwards,Margaret Oliphant,Edward Bellamy,Arnold Bennett,S. Baring-Gould,Daniil Kharms,E. F. Benson,Ella D'Arcy,Jacques Futrelle,Frank Richard Stockton,John Kendrick Bangs,Kenneth Grahame,Julian Hawthorne,A. E. W. Mason,Richard Middleton,Pierre Louÿs,Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole,Ethel Richardson,Gertrude Stein,E. Phillips Oppenheim,Arthur Quiller-Couch,Mór Jókai,Andy Adams,Bertha Sinclair,Fitz James O'Brien,Eleanor H. Porter,Valery Bryusov,John Ulrich Giesy,Otis Adelbert Kline,Paul Laurence Dunbar,Barry Pain,Gertrude Bennett,Francis Marion Crawford,William Pett Ridge,Gilbert Parker,Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford,Elizabeth Garver Jordan,Richard Austin Freeman,Alice Duer Miller,Leonard Merrick,Anthony Hope,Ethel Watts Mumford,Anne O'Hagan Shinn,B. M. Bower,August Nemo Pdf

This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - Sheridan Le Fanu - H. and E. Heron - Charlotte Riddell - Flora Annie Steel - Amelia B. Edwards - Margaret Oliphant - Edward Bellamy - Arnold Bennett - S. Baring-Gould - Daniil Kharms - E.F. Benson - John Buchan - Ella D'Arcy - Jacques Futrelle - Frank Richard Stockton - John Kendrick Bangs - Kenneth Grahame - Julian Hawthorne - A. E. W. Mason - Richard Middleton - Pierre Louÿs - Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole - Ethel Richardson - Gertrude Stein - E. Phillips Oppenheim - Arthur Quiller-Couch - Mór Jókai - Andy Adams - Bertha Sinclair - Fitz James O'Brien - Eleanor H. Porter - Valery Bryusov - John Ulrich Giesy - Otis Adelbert Kline - Paul Laurence Dunbar - Frank Lucius Packard - Barry Pain - Gertrude Bennett - Francis Marion Crawford - William Pett Ridge - Gilbert Parker - Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford - Elizabeth Garver Jordan - Richard Austin Freeman - Alice Duer Miller - Leonard Merrick - Anthony Hope - Ethel Watts Mumford - Anne O'Hagan Shinn - B. M. Bower

Author : Victor Terras
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300048688

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Handbook of Russian Literature by Victor Terras Pdf

Profiles the careers of Russian authors, scholars, and critics and discusses the history of the Russian treatment of literary genres such as drama, fiction, and essays

Author : Bettina Brandt,Yasemin Yildiz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110778922

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Tales That Touch by Bettina Brandt,Yasemin Yildiz Pdf

Cultural texts born out of migration frequently defy easy categorization as they cross borders, languages, histories, and media in unpredictable ways. Instead of corralling them into identity categories, whether German or otherwise, the essays in this volume, building on the influential work of Leslie A. Adelson, interrogate how to respond to their methodological challenge in innovative ways. Investigating a wide variety of twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts that touch upon "things German" in the broadest sense—from print and born-digital literature to essay film, nature drawings, and memorial sites—the contributions employ transnational and multilingual lenses to show how these works reframe migration and temporality, bringing into view antifascist aesthetics, refugee time, postmigrant Heimat, translational poetics, and post-Holocaust affects. With new literary texts by Yoko Tawada and Zafer Şenocak and essays by Gizem Arslan, Brett de Bary, Bettina Brandt, Claudia Breger, Deniz Göktürk, John Namjun Kim, Yuliya Komska, Paul Michael Lützeler, B. Venkat Mani, Barbara Mennel, Katrina L. Nousek, Anna Parkinson, Damani J. Partridge, Erik Porath, Jamie Trnka, Ulrike Vedder, and Yasemin Yildiz.

Author : Katherine Hirt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110232400

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When Machines Play Chopin by Katherine Hirt Pdf

When Machines Play Chopin brings together music aesthetics, performance practices, and the history of automated musical instruments in nineteenth-century German literature. Philosophers defined music as a direct expression of human emotion while soloists competed with one another to display machine-like technical perfection at their instruments. When Machines Play Chopin looks at this paradox between thinking about and practicing music to show what three literary works say about automation and the sublime in art.

Author : Edinburgh (Scotland). Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Dictionary catalogs
ISBN : OSU:32435008871519

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Catalogue of Books in the Lending Library by Edinburgh (Scotland). Public Library Pdf

Author : Vsevolod Vi︠a︡cheslavovich Ivanov
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0810115476

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Fertility and Other Stories by Vsevolod Vi︠a︡cheslavovich Ivanov Pdf

Combining traditional elements with the fantastic and the surreal, Ivanov's stories address not only the themes of the Russian revolution but also the quiet world of man and nature, and the elemental bond that tied peasants to their native land.

Author : Isaac Babel
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141908304

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Red Cavalry and Other Stories by Isaac Babel Pdf

Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a powerful energy from the earliest tales including 'Old Shloyme' and 'Childhood', which affirm his Russian-Jewish childhood, to the relatively non-Jewish world of his collection of stories entitled 'Red Cavalry'. Babel's masterpiece, 'Red Cavalry' is the most dramatic expression of his dualism and in his simultaneous acceptance and rejection of his heritage heralds the great American-Jewish writers from Henry Roth to Saul Bellow and Philip Roth.

Author : Craig Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781317722243

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus by Craig Evans Pdf

This Encyclopedia brings together the vast array of historical research into the reality of the man, the teachings, the acts, and the events ascribed to him that have served as the foundational story of one of the world's central religions. This kind of historiography is not biography. The historical study of the Jesus stories and the transmission of these stories through time have been of seminal importance to historians of religion. Critical historical examination has provided a way for scholars of Christianity for centuries to analyze the roots of legend and religion in a way that allows scholars an escape from the confines of dogma, belief, and theological interpretation. In recent years, historical Jesus studies have opened up important discussions concerning anti-Semitism and early Christianity and the political and ideological filtering of the Jesus story of early Christianity through the Roman empire and beyond. Entries will cover the classical studies that initiated the new historiography, the theoretical discussions about authenticating the historical record, the examination of sources that have led to the western understanding of Jesus' teachings and disseminated myth of the events concerning Jesus' birth and death. Subject areas include: the history of the historical study of the New Testament: major contributors and their works theoretical issues and concepts methodologies and criteria historical genres and rhetorical styles in the story of Jesus historical and rhetorical context of martyrdom and messianism historical teachings of Jesus teachings within historical context of ethics titles of Jesus historical events in the life of Jesus historical figures in the life of Jesus historical use of Biblical figures referenced in the Gospels places and regions institutions the history of the New Testament within the culture, politics, and law of the Roman Empire.

Author : Louise de la Ramée
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732688982

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Princess Napraxine by Louise de la Ramée Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Princess Napraxine by Louise de la Ramée