August Nemo

This is a collection of the 7 best short stories of one of the most read horror, detective and science fiction authors ever to have been published, Edgar Allan Poe. This selection contains the following stories: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Black Cat. Edgar Allan Poe has influenced many great writers and creative minds like Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Machen, H. P. Lovecraft, Jules Verne, Clark Ashton Smith, Charles Baudelaire, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, among many others. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian author best known for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina which are considered to be the greatest novels of realist fiction. Tolstoy is also regarded as worlds best novelist by many. In addition to writing novels, Tolstoy also authored short stories, essays and plays. Also a moral thinker and a social reformer, Tolstoy held severe moralistic views. In later life, he became a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His non-violent resistance approach towards life has been expressed in his works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You, which is known to have a profound effect on important 20th century figures, particularly, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohandas Gand In this anthology the critic August Nemo presents seven short stories that bring the most emblematic elements of the style of this important author: God Sees the Truth, But Waits Papa Panovs Special Christmas, Three Questions Work, Death and Sickness - A Legend How Much Land Does a Man Needs? The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Alyosha the Pot.

Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to american author H. P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft created a new brand of horror, discarding ghosts and witches and instead unleashing nightmarish fiends to whom mankind is a hapless tiny spot of dwindling sanity in a malevolent universe. This selection chosen by the critic August Nemo, reveals the mesmerizing narrative style of the visionary american writer. H. P. Lovecraft has influenced many great writers and creative minds like Stephen King, Guillermo del Toro, Clive Barker, John Carpenter, Mike Mignola, Ridley Scott, H. R. Giger, Joyce Carol Oates, Michel Houellebecq, August Derleth, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, Ramsey Campbell, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitl n R. Kiernan, William S. Burroughs, Neil Gaiman and Jorge Luis Borges. Works selected for this book: The Call of Cthulhu, The Outsider, Pickmans Model, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Colour out of Space, The Dunwich Horror and The Music of Erich Zann. Bonus content: Notes on Writing Weird Fiction. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles

E a de Queir s foi o nico romancista portugu s a conquistar fama internacional em sua poca - atualmente o autor j foi traduzido para mais de 70 idiomas. Em seu tempo ele era pol mico por cr ticar as institui es nacionais, o clero e os costumes da classe m dia em suas obras. Seu romance O Crime do Padre Amaro foi o seu primeiro grande trabalho, um marco inicial do Realismo em Portugal. Os contos presentes nessa obra s o: - Singularidades de uma rapariga loura- Um Poeta L rico- No Moinho- O Tesouro- Civiliza o- A Aia- O Defunto

Originally a physician, in 1887 Arthur Conan Doyle published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. This is a collection of the 7 best short stories of one of the most iconic writer ever to have been published, Arthur Conan Doyle. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: A Scandal In Bohemia, The Five Orange Pips, The Disintegration Machine, When the World Screamed, The Great Keinplatz Experiment, The Horror of the Heights and The Ring of Thoth. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles

Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to the british author Virginia Woolf. The English novelist, critic, and essayist Virginia Woolf ranks as one of Englands most distinguished writers of the middle part of the twentieth century. Her novels can perhaps best be described as impressionistic, a literary style which attempts to inspire impressions rather than recreating reality. Works selected for this book: A Haunted House, Kew Gardens, An Unwritten Novel, Solid Objects, The Mark on the Wall, Mrs. Dalloway in the Bond Street and The Lady in the Looking Glass.

Na cole o Sete Melhores Contos o cr tico August Nemo apresenta autores que fazem parte da hist ria da literatura em l ngua portuguesa. Neste volume temos Fernando Pessoa, o mais famoso poeta portugu s e figura central do Modernismo. Consagrado escritor, Fernando Pessoa tamb m foi astr logo, cr tico liter rio, tradutor, correspondente comercial e inventor. Seu legado permanece vivo at hoje. Os contos presentes nessa obra s o: - O banqueiro anarquista- Eu, o doutor- Na farm cia do Evaristo- F bula- A pintura do autom vel- O vencedor do tempo- Um grande portugu s

Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to the New Zealander writer Katherine Mansfield, a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer and poet who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. At the age of 19, she left New Zealand and settled in England, where she became a friend of writers such as D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: The Garden Party, The Daughters of the Late Colonel, Bliss, Prelude, At the bay, Je ne parle pas francais and How Pearl Button was Kidnapped. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles

Welcome to the book series 7 best short stories specials, selection dedicated to a special subject, featuring works by noteworthy authors. The texts were chosen based on their relevance, renown and interest. This edition is dedicated to the worlds most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes is a private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a consulting detective, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard. Works selected for this book: A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-headed League, A Case of Identity, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Five Orange Pips, The Man with the Twisted Lip and The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle. For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection

Machado de Assis foi um escritor brasileiro, considerado por muitos cr ticos, estudiosos, escritores e leitores um dos maiores sen o o maior nome da literatura do Brasil. Escreveu em praticamente todos os g neros liter rios, sendo poeta, romancista, cronista, dramaturgo, contista, folhetinista, jornalista e cr tico liter rio. O cr tico liter rio August Nemo selecionou os seguintes contos para este livro: - Ad o e Eva;- Missa do Galo;- O Espelho;- A Igreja do Diabo;- A Cartomante;- Teoria do Medalh o;- A Carteira. Conto b nus: - O Alienista.