7 Best Short Stories By Gertrude Atherton

Author : Gertrude Atherton
Publisher : Tacet Books
ISBN 13 : 3969692768
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 7 best short stories by Gertrude Atherton written by Gertrude Atherton and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Gertrude Atherton was an American author. Her bestseller Black Oxen was made into a silent movie of the same name. In addition to novels, she wrote short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on such issues as feminism, politics, and war. She was sometimes controversial, especially for her anti-communism and her white supremacist views.Works selected for this book:The Bell in the Fog; The Striding Place; The Dead and the Countess; The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number; A Monarch of a Small Survey; The Tragedy of a Snob; Crowned with One Crest.If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Author : Charlotte S. McClure
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gertrude Atherton written by Charlotte S. McClure and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 - June 14, 1948) was a prominent and prolific American author. Many of her novels are set in her home state, California. Her best-seller Black Oxen (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name. In addition to novels, she wrote short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on such issues as feminism, politics, and war. She was strong-willed, independent-minded, and sometimes controversial.

Author : Gertrude Atherton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781482743944
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Stories written by Gertrude Atherton and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short StoriesBy Gertrude Atherton

Author : Gertrude Atherton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781546610410
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories written by Gertrude Atherton and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mrs. Atherton has written an original and unusually able book." -Black and White "Not one of the stories could be called commonplace; they are strong and cleverly written, as might be expected from their author." -Country Life "That find gift of imaginative insight that has always stood Mrs. Atherton in good stead, is seen at its best in some of these short stories....The best that is in the book is very good indeed." -Vanity Fair "Mrs. Atherton has done work far above the average before, but there are one or two tales in this collection that bring her very close to the company of the immortals." -Bystander "'The Monarch of a Small Survey,' and 'The Tragedy of a Snob,' are, to our thinking, the pick of the bunch. The description in the first of the scene where a doctor refuses morphia to a morphia maniac, with the direct intention of ending her wretched life and freeing her husband from lifelong bondage, is tragic in its intensity....In the third, Mrs. Atherton has painted with much skill the disenchantment of a very ordinary young man who has unexpected come into a fortune, but finds that mere money will not always open the way to the best fashionable circles." -The Bookseller "A book to mark down to be read." -Week's Survey "A certain rough power of presentation and an insight into character, especially feminine character." -The Academy and Literature "Something unique in weirdness, mystery and wickedness." -New York Observer "The same ability shown by this author in her brilliant novels named 'The Conqueror' and 'Rulers of Kings,' is evident throughout these shorter tales. The writer's aptitude for dramatic development is notably present in the titular one, as well as in that entitled 'Talbot of Ursula' at the close of the book." -The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature "These tales are exceedingly well written, and are the product of an original mind." -Public Opinion Contents I. THE BELL IN THE FOG II. THE STRIDING PLACE III. THE DEAD AND THE COUNTESS IV. THE GREATEST GOOD OF THE GREATEST NUMBER V. A MONARCH OF A SMALL SURVEY VI. THE TRAGEDY OF A SNOB VII. CROWNED WITH ONE CREST VIII. DEATH AND THE WOMAN IX. A PROLOGUE (TO AN UNWRITTEN PLAY) X. TALBOT OF URSULA

Author : Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Publisher : Aegypan
ISBN 13 : 9781606642641
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sleeping Fires written by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton and published by Aegypan. This book was released on 2009-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a San Francisco of simple, stately homes and wooden sidewalks -- in a time when the ladies of Rincon Hill would take their carriages to Market Street, and then gather to discuss the fortunes being made and lost in this veritable Southern Arcadia of a city. Even after the Civil War, the North suffered defeat after defeat in California. The South had its last stronghold there -- defiantly aristocratic in the face of the common Northerners, whose arrivals were never quite welcome. In San Francisco numerous hopes centered upon young Dr. Talbot, who seemed well along the road to fortune. Although often surrounded by beautiful and vivacious girls, he always avowed he had seen too much of babies, and should die an old bachelor. Besides, he loved them all the girls -- when he did not damn them roundly, which he sometimes did . . . to their secret delight. But now he affronted them by marrying someone no one had set eyes upon; and he even lacked the grace to go to his native South, in marrying an outsider. He had gone to Boston, of all places, to find a wife Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948) wrote such novels rich in historical detail as The Californians, The White Morning and What Dreams May Come.

Author : Gertrude Atherton
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775456056
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bell in the Fog written by Gertrude Atherton and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American author Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton achieved significant literary acclaim during her career, garnering comparisons to luminaries like Henry James and Ambrose Bierce. This collection of spine-tingling gothic tales will please fans of the genre who don't want to sacrifice literary quality when it comes to scary stories.

Author : Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781499551617
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Striding Place written by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Striding Place is a horror short story written by Gertrude Atherton and first published in 1896. Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 - June 14, 1948) was a prominent and prolific American author, many of whose novels are based in her home state, California. Her best-seller Black Oxen (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name. In addition to novels, she wrote short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on such issues as feminism, politics, and war. She was strong-willed, independent-minded, and sometimes controversial. Atherton's first publication was "The Randolphs of Redwood: A Romance," serialized in The Argonaut in March 1882 under the pseudonym Asmodeus. When she revealed to her family that she was the author, it caused her to be ostracized. In 1888, she left for New York, leaving Muriel with her grandmother. She traveled to London, and eventually returned to California. Atherton's first novel, What Dreams May Come, was published in 1888 under the pseudonym Frank Lin. In 1889, she went to Paris at the invitation of her sister-in-law Alejandra Rathbone (married to Major Jared Lawrence Rathbone). That year, she heard from British publisher G. Routledge and Sons that they would publish her first two books. William Sharp wrote in The Spectator praising her fiction and would later invite Atherton to stay with him and his wife, Elizabeth, in South Hampstead. In London, she had the opportunity through Jane Wilde to meet Oscar Wilde, her son. She recalled in her memoir Adventures of a Novelist (1932) that she made an excuse to avoid the meeting because she thought he was physically repulsive. In an 1899 article for London's Bookman, Atherton wrote of Wilde's style and associated it with "the decadence, the loss of virility that must follow over-civilization."

Author : GERTRUDE ATHERTON
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book BLACK OXEN written by GERTRUDE ATHERTON and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2022-05-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Tacet Books
ISBN 13 : 3967248550
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 7 best short stories by Gertrude Stein written by Gertrude Stein and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherwood Anderson in his public introduction to Stein's 1922 publication of Geography and Plays wrote: "For me the work of Gertrude Stein consists in a rebuilding, an entirely new recasting of life, in the city of words. Here is one artist who has been able to accept ridicule, who has even forgone the privilege of writing the great American novel, uplifting our English speaking stage, and wearing the bays of the great poets to go live among the little housekeeping words, the swaggering bullying street-corner words, the honest working, money saving words and all the other forgotten and neglected citizens of the sacred and half forgotten city." Check out this seven short stories by this author carefully selected by critic August Nemo: - Ada. - Miss furr and Miss Skeen. - France. - Americans. - Italians. - A Sweet Tail. - In the Grass.

Author : Gertrude Horn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bell in the Fog written by Gertrude Horn and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Excerpt: which he could retreat unhaunted by the child's presence. He took long tramps, avoiding the river with a sensation next to panic. It was two days before he got back to his table, and then he had made up his mind to let the boy live. To kill him off, too, was more than his augmented stock of human nature could endure. After all, the lad's death had been purely accidental, wanton. It was just that he should live--with one of the author's inimitable suggestions of future greatness; but, at the end, the parting was almost as bitter as the other. Orth knew then how men feel when their sons go forth to encounter the world and ask no more of the old companionship. The author's boxes were packed. He sent the manuscript to his publisher an hour after it was finished--he could not have given it a final reading to have saved it from failure--directed his secretary to examine the proof under a microscope, and left the next morning for Homburg. There, in inmost circles, he forgot his children. He visited in several Read More