7 Best Short Stories Thanksgiving Day

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Thanksgiving began as a day of giving thanks and sacrifice for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Although Thanksgiving has historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, it has long been celebrated as a secular holiday as well. Being the holiday that marks the opening of the Holiday Season, Thanksgiving is an important part of the identity and culture of North America. Have fun with seven short stories selected by the critic August Nemo that bring all the atmosphere of union and gratitude of this date: - An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott - Thankful by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Turkeys Turning The Tables by William Dean Howells - How We Kept Thanksgiving at Oldtown by Harriet Beecher Stowe - Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen by O. Henry - Three Thanksgiving Kisses by Edward Payson Roe - The First Thanksgiving by Albert F. Blaisdell & Francis K. Ball

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Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Tacet Books
Release : 2019-06-05
File : 96 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9788577772506


7 Best Short Stories By Mary E Wilkins Freeman

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Through her different genres of work including children's stories, poems, and short stories, Mary Wilkins Freeman sought to demonstrate her values as a feminist. During the time which she was writing, she did this in nonconventional ways; for example, she diverged from making her female characters weak and in need of help which was a common trope in literature. Come and enjoy the seven selected short stories of this author. A New England Nun Ann Mary; Her Two Thanksgivings Luella Miller Little-Girl-Afraid-of-a-Dog Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas The Gospel According To Joan The Revolt of "Mother"

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Publisher : Tacet Books
Release : 2019-02-27
File : 145 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9788577770915


7 Best Short Stories By William Dean Howells

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Considered "The Dean of American Letters," Willian Dean Howells has broad range of works appealing to young and old. His writing style favored naturalism, in which he related his characters' observations in a seemingly casual and endearing manner by embracing their imperfections. In these seven short stories selected by the critic August Nemo you will know a little more of this important American author. Christmas Every Day The Pumpkin-Glory Butterflyflutterby and Flutterbybutterfly City and Country in the Fall, A Long-distance Eclogue A Case Of Metaphantasmia An Experience A Pair Of Patient Lovers

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Genre : Fiction
Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Tacet Books
Release : 2019-02-27
File : 131 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9788577770939


7 Best Short Stories By Louisa May Alcott

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Louisa May Alcott tells us through a more famous character, "I want to do something splendid... something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead...I think I shall write books." And that's what she did! Much remembered for her most famous novel, Little Women, Alcott left us a tremendous legacy. While a nurse, housekeeper, teacher, abolitionist and a first-wave feminist, Alcott found the time and passion to produce more than 30 novels and more than a hundred short stories with the most varied themes. For this collection were selected seven classic short stories of this talented author, a reading that will surely please longtime admirers of her work and those who will have their first contact with Louisa May Alcott. Good reading! A Modern Cinderella My Red Cap A Christmas Dream, and How it Came to Be True An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Aunt Kipp Rosy's Journey The Brothers

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Tacet Books
Release : 2019-01-28
File : 155 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9788577770489


7 Best Short Stories Autumn

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The air cools down and the days begin to shorten; the leaves changing color put us in contact with the passing of time in a visible way. The autumn has served as inspiration for several writers that you confer in this volume, through great seven short stories. This book contains: - One Autumn Night by Maxim Gorky. - The purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe. - Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac. - A Painful Case by James Joyce. - An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoevsky. - An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott. - The Elementary Spirit by E. T. A. Hoffman.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Maxim Gorky
Publisher : Tacet Books
Release : 2020-01-06
File : 189 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9788577776566


The Publishers Trade List Annual

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Genre : Publishers' catalogs
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Release : 1875
File : 1972 Pages
ISBN-13 : KBNL:KBNL03000402628


Index To Short Stories

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Genre : Short stories
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Release : 1936
File : 312 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015034636160


Moore S Rural New Yorker

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Genre : Agriculture
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Release : 1891
File : 932 Pages
ISBN-13 : UIUC:30112072702282


Children S Catalog Of Two Thousand Books

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Genre : Children's literature
Author : H.W. Wilson Company
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Release : 1916
File : 354 Pages
ISBN-13 : MINN:31951000935368X


Harper S Young People

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Release : 1882
File : 852 Pages
ISBN-13 : CHI:102873094