The Good Little Devil and Other Tales by Pierre Gripari
- Title : The Good Little Devil and Other Tales
- Author : Pierre Gripari
- Publisher : Pushkin Children\'s Books
- ISBN Code : 1782690085
- Pages : 293
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"There once was a good little devil - did you read that right? Yes you did: not a wicked little devil but a good one, and boy, was he in a fix! Instead of doing bad things like forgetting his homework and playing tricks on his teachers, this little devil kept trying to be good. He did all his homework - and sometimes enjoyed it! He was never rude and he even encouraged sinners to say sorry. His parents were at their wits' end. So the little devil struck out on his own ... Elsewhere in this collection, a naughty pig swallows the North Star, a man battles a hairy frog and a potato falls in love with a Sultan. Throughout these thirteen tales, clever young people find nifty ways to overcome greedy kings, wicked witches, unlucky spells and even silly names. And there's a big dash of magic to help them on the way!"--Back cover.
The Witch in the Broom Cupboard and Other Tales by Pierre Gripari
- Title : The Witch in the Broom Cupboard and Other Tales
- Author : Pierre Gripari
- Publisher : Pushkin Press
- ISBN Code : 1782690662
- Pages : 144
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Absurd fairy tales, very sensibly told There once was a good little devil - did you read that right? Yes you did: not a wicked little devil but a good one, and boy, was he in a fix! Instead of doing bad things like forgetting his homework and playing tricks on his teachers, this little devil kept trying to be good. He did all his homework - and sometimes enjoyed it! He was never rude and he even encouraged sinners to say sorry. His parents were at their wits' end. So the little devil struck out on his own. On his quest to learn to be good, our little devil meets all kinds of people, from priests to police and from the Pope in Rome to Little Jesus himself. But will the angels let a little red devil with black horns into Heaven? In these thirteen tales, clever young people find nifty ways to overcome greedy kings, wicked witches, unlucky spells and even silly names. And there's a big dash of magic to help them on the way! In these tales, the giants, witches and mermaids of traditional fairy tales leap from the page, animated by a very modern spirit. Blessed with a healthy disrespect for authority, the author took great pleasure in upsetting the natural order of the fantastic.
The Silver Acre, and Other Tales by William Carleton
- Title : The Silver Acre, and Other Tales
- Author : William Carleton
- Publisher :
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- Pages : 238
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The Peace Egg and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
- Title : The Peace Egg and Other Tales
- Author : Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
- Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
- ISBN Code : 3734053404
- Pages : 96
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Reproduction of the original: The Peace Egg and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
A FOREST TRAGEDY AND OTHER TALES. by GRACE GREENWOOD
- Title : A FOREST TRAGEDY AND OTHER TALES.
- Author : GRACE GREENWOOD
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- Pages : N.A
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The Life and Adventures of a Very Little Monkey and Other Tales. by the Author of "Moravian Life in the Black Forest" "Stories of My Pets" Etc by Beatrice Batty
- Title : The Life and Adventures of a Very Little Monkey and Other Tales. by the Author of "Moravian Life in the Black Forest" "Stories of My Pets" Etc
- Author : Beatrice Batty
- Publisher :
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- Pages : 114
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The Good Fridolin and the Wicked Thierry, and Other Tales by Christoph von Schmid
- Title : The Good Fridolin and the Wicked Thierry, and Other Tales
- Author : Christoph von Schmid
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- Pages : 159
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Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Title : Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales
- Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Publisher : OUP Oxford
- ISBN Code : 0191605689
- Pages : 448
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This selection of twenty of Hawthorne's tales is the first in paperback to present his most important short works with full annotation in one volume. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The Fair of Emyvale, and the Master and Scholar. Tales, Etc by William Carleton
- Title : The Fair of Emyvale, and the Master and Scholar. Tales, Etc
- Author : William Carleton
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- Pages : 123
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The Gathering Dark and Other Tales by Andrew Ian Dodge
- Title : The Gathering Dark and Other Tales
- Author : Andrew Ian Dodge
- Publisher : iUniverse
- ISBN Code : 059561146X
- Pages : 202
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The Sage of Wales' adventures continue in this exciting new collection by Andrew Ian Dodge In a short novel, The Sage must help his friend, Reginald Wiggenbottom, discover strength out of legend in order to save his unborn son from a nasty conspiracy Followed by three additional short tales First, the Sage must help a man come to grips with a dangerous family legacy. In the second, he must stop an overly detailed writer from accidentally freeing the Elder God, Cthulhu, from his watery cave and so bringing about the end of mankind. And finally, he must devise a way to keep an evil offshoot of Islam from raising a bloodthirsty pharaoh.
The Devil's Heir and Other Tales by Honoré de Balzac
- Title : The Devil's Heir and Other Tales
- Author : Honoré de Balzac
- Publisher :
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- Pages : 188
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The Bookseller by N.A
- Title : The Bookseller
- Author : N.A
- Publisher :
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Curiosities of Detection; or, the Seacoast station, and other tales by Robert Curtis
- Title : Curiosities of Detection; or, the Seacoast station, and other tales
- Author : Robert Curtis
- Publisher :
- ISBN Code :
- Pages : 320
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The Christmas tree, and other tales, adapted from the Germ. [of J.C. von Schmid]. by Frances Anne Kemble
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- Title : The Christmas tree, and other tales, adapted from the Germ. [of J.C. von Schmid].
- Author : Frances Anne Kemble
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The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales by W.W. Jacobs,Gary Hoppenstand
- Title : The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales
- Author : W.W. Jacobs,Gary Hoppenstand
- Publisher : Chicago Review Press
- ISBN Code : 0897336682
- Pages : 256
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The Monkey’s Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and the Macabre, Compiled by Gary Hoppenstand, brings together a unique collection of W. W. Jacobs’s horror stories never before collected. There are eighteen stories altogether in this collection of the macabre and supernatural. Jacobs’s own boyhood memories of South Devon Wharf lend an authenticity to the many stories with nautical backgrounds or that feature seamen as protagonists.
The Tangierman's Lament, and Other Tales of Virginia by Earl Swift
- Title : The Tangierman's Lament, and Other Tales of Virginia
- Author : Earl Swift
- Publisher : University of Virginia Press
- ISBN Code : 9780813926223
- Pages : 232
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Go where the story is--that’s one tenet of journalism Earl Swift has had little trouble living up to. In two decades of covering the commonwealth, Swift has hiked, canoed--even spelunked--a singular path through Virginia. He has also stopped and listened. This collection brings together some twenty Virginia tales wherein hardship is revealed as tragedy, and humor appears as uncanny, illuminating strangeness. The Pulitzer-nominated title story takes us to the Chesapeake island of Tangier, home to a Methodist enclave over two hundred years old, with an economy almost wholly dependent on the blue crab. The gradual exodus of the island’s young people and the dwindling crab hauls point to an inevitable extinction that finds a dramatic metaphor in the erosion of the island itself, which is literally disappearing beneath its inhabitants’ feet. An epic piece of reporting, "When the Rain Came" revisits the August night in 1969 when Hurricane Camille descended on Nelson and Rockbridge counties, bringing with it a deluge of nearly Biblical proportions that killed 151 people. It was later characterized by the Department of the Interior as "one of the all-time meteorological anomalies in the United States." Swift looks beyond the extraordinary numbers to find the individual stories, told to him by the people who still remember the trembling floorboards and rain too heavy to see, or even breathe, through. Other stories include a nerve-wracking inside look at the Pentagon on the morning of 9/11, the travails of a failed novelist turned folk-art demigod, an account of a 1929 Scott County tornado (deemed the deadliest in Virginia history), and a profile of Nelson County swami Master Charles, who boasts a corps of meditative followers, a mountain retreat in Nellysford, and an incomplete resume. Each piece reconfirms Virginia as a land uncommonly rich in stories--and Earl Swift as one of its most perceptive and tireless chroniclers.
On Picket Duty and Other Tales by Louisa May Alcott
- Title : On Picket Duty and Other Tales
- Author : Louisa May Alcott
- Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
- ISBN Code : 1427018774
- Pages : 148
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On Picket Duty and Other Tales (1884) is a collection of short stories by Louisa May Alcott that are mostly didactic and moral in tone. On Picket Duty deals with a group of soldiers on guard duty who discuss their courtships and marriages.
How Wilka Went to Sea, and Other Tales from West of the Urals by Mirra Ginsburg,Charles Mikolaycak
- Title : How Wilka Went to Sea, and Other Tales from West of the Urals
- Author : Mirra Ginsburg,Charles Mikolaycak
- Publisher : Random House Value Pub
- ISBN Code :
- Pages : 128
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A retelling of ten traditional Finno-Ugric and Turkic tales representing nine separate cultures of the Soviet Union.
Public Opinion by N.A
- Title : Public Opinion
- Author : N.A
- Publisher :
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- Pages : N.A
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The Writings of Charles Dickens: Christmas books, Tales and sketches by Charles Dickens
- Title : The Writings of Charles Dickens: Christmas books, Tales and sketches
- Author : Charles Dickens
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Sexual Chemistry and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution by Brian Stableford
- Title : Sexual Chemistry and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
- Author : Brian Stableford
- Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
- ISBN Code : 1434443477
- Pages : 216
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This collection brings together the ten earliest stories in Brian Stableford’s series of "Tales of the Biotech Revolution," all written in the 1980s, except for one anomalous example from the 1960s. The dates in some of the stories, located a comfortable distance in the future when the stories were written, have now long past, revealing certain anomalies of early expectation; but they have been left unaltered, as nostalgic samples of yesterday’s long-dead and perhaps much-lamented tomorrows. The collection begins and ends, as is surely only appropriate, with flamboyant utopian fantasies boldly asserting the perfectibility of humankind and the world of which the species has custody. Great science-fiction reading by a master of the form!
Florence Dalbiac by Mrs. S. C. H. Tremayne
- Title : Florence Dalbiac
- Author : Mrs. S. C. H. Tremayne
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- Pages : 234
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The Spectator by N.A
- Title : The Spectator
- Author : N.A
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Rails Trails and Other Tales by Meynardie Blanchard
- Title : Rails Trails and Other Tales
- Author : Meynardie Blanchard
- Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
- ISBN Code : 9781477133149
- Pages : 315
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Rails Trails and Other Tales weaves the reader through the romance and adventure of hopping freight trains and being out in the wilderness. Along with others, there are stories of dogs, ducks and commentaries on the misunderstood mule. Stories lived and stories handed down, kept alive with the telling and given longevity with the pen. Adventure and experiences through which the reader can get an idea of how life in the open and on the move can get into ones psyche to the point that wondering becomes solace to a wayward spirit. Some experiences in life we pursue and acquire, others just come along and happen to us when we put ourselves in their paths. Either way experiences and adventures are elements in life that give substance to our memories. We may not be able to experience all we wish, but we can, visit some experiences lived by others. You, reader may not be able to wander in the fi rst person but here you can sit back and do some arm-chair wandering and have a look at some other tid-bits of life. Also you may get a little look into what can happen sometimes when one just casts his way into the winds of chance. Meynardie
Devils, Women, and Jews by Joan Young Gregg
- Title : Devils, Women, and Jews
- Author : Joan Young Gregg
- Publisher : SUNY Press
- ISBN Code : 9781438404790
- Pages : 275
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Analyzes and illustrates the demonization of women and Jews in medieval sermon stories, retelling over one hundred of these tales in modern English.
Riddling Tales from Around the World by Marjorie Dundas
- Title : Riddling Tales from Around the World
- Author : Marjorie Dundas
- Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
- ISBN Code : 9781578063734
- Pages : 226
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Seventy- nine tales that show how riddles pervade storytelling worldwide
Old Nick of the Swamp: and other tales. Illustrated by N.A
- Title : Old Nick of the Swamp: and other tales. Illustrated
- Author : N.A
- Publisher :
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- Pages : N.A
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Growing Point by N.A
- Title : Growing Point
- Author : N.A
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The Wonderful Chirrionera and Other Tales from Mexican Folklore by Barbara Whitehead
- Title : The Wonderful Chirrionera and Other Tales from Mexican Folklore
- Author : Barbara Whitehead
- Publisher : Heidelberg Pub
- ISBN Code :
- Pages : 32
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A retelling of four traditional Mexican tales: The Wonderful Chirrionera, Charge This to the Hat, Three Bits of Advice, Sandal Leather.
A Case of Conscience and Other Tales by Martin Armstrong
- Title : A Case of Conscience and Other Tales
- Author : Martin Armstrong
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- Pages : 287
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Private Parts and Other Tales by Christopher Hope
- Title : Private Parts and Other Tales
- Author : Christopher Hope
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- Pages : 164
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The Werewolf, and Other Tales by Herberto Sales
- Title : The Werewolf, and Other Tales
- Author : Herberto Sales
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- Pages : 112
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The Elves by Ludwig Tieck
- Title : The Elves
- Author : Ludwig Tieck
- Publisher :
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- Pages : 152
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The Devil and Pierre Gernet by David Bentley Hart
- Title : The Devil and Pierre Gernet
- Author : David Bentley Hart
- Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
- ISBN Code : 0802817688
- Pages : 172
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Brilliant scholar and wordsmith David Bentley Hart turns his mind and imagination to narrative fiction in this volume, The Devil and Pierre Gernet, a thought-provoking collection of four short stories and one novella. Anticipating questions about his shift in genre, Hart writes that "God is no more likely (and probably a good deal less likely) to be found in theology than in poetry and fiction." These stories -- "The Devil and Pierre Gernet," "The House of Apollo," "A Voice from the Emerald World," "The Ivory Gate," and "The Other" -- beguile and entrance the reader through Hart's engrossing, opulent writing style and the complex characters he evokes and explores. Often bedazzling, sometimes heartbreaking, and ultimately mesmerizing, Hart's wide-ranging stories are united by a common thread of haunting religious and philosophical questions about this life and the next. Here is fiction to fully engage both the mind and the heart.
Bungling Pedro & Other Majorcan Tales by Alexander Mehdevi
- Title : Bungling Pedro & Other Majorcan Tales
- Author : Alexander Mehdevi
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- Pages : 117
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Ten tales indigenous to Majorca, an island of Spain.
The Kidnapping of Ettie and Other Tales by Brown Linnet
- Title : The Kidnapping of Ettie and Other Tales
- Author : Brown Linnet
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- Pages : 312
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The Novels and Tales of the Renowned John Boccacio by Giovanni Boccaccio
- Title : The Novels and Tales of the Renowned John Boccacio
- Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
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- Pages : 483
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Plain tales from the hills, 1886-1887. Soldiers three and other stories by Rudyard Kipling
- Title : Plain tales from the hills, 1886-1887. Soldiers three and other stories
- Author : Rudyard Kipling
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art by Robert Walsh,Eliakim Littell,John Jay Smith
- Title : The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
- Author : Robert Walsh,Eliakim Littell,John Jay Smith
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Index to Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends, Second Supplement by Mary Huse Eastman
- Title : Index to Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends, Second Supplement
- Author : Mary Huse Eastman
- Publisher : Faxon Company
- ISBN Code : 9780873050821
- Pages : 370
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This second supplement to the original volume and first supplement of this index includes the large number of applicable titles published in the fifteen years following the publication of that book. The title index is arranged with the primary entries using the best known title while offering cross references to variant titles. A double asterisk marks source material which might need abridging or adapting before use. References to stories in the preceding volumes are indicated by the marks #1, #2, #1-2, for the 2nd edition, 1st supplement, or both.