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Bram Stoker

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors. Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work. This edition is dedicated to the Irish writer Bram Stoker, best known today for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre, which Irving owned. This book contains the following writings:Novels: Dracula; The Lair of the White Worm; The Dualitists. Short Stories: The Castle of the King; A Star Trap; The Secret of the Growing Gold; The Burial of the Rats; Draculas Guest; The Squaw; The Judges House; The Red Stockade; The Invisible Giant; Crooken Sands; A Dream of Red Hands; Greater Love; The Coming of Abel Behenna. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

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Masters of Prose - Bram Stoker

Edgar Allan Poe

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors. Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work. This edition is dedicated to the American writer Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. He is also generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Poe was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. This book contains the following writings:Short 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; The Black Cat; The investigations of C. Auguste Dupin; Ligeia; King Pest; The Devial in the Belfry; The Man that was used up; The Gold Bug; Four Beasts In One The Homo Cameleopard; The Balloon Hoax; Ms. Found In A Bottle; The Oval PortraitBiographical: Death of Edgar Allan Poe by Rufus Wilmot Griswold; Edgar Poe and his Critics by Sarah Helen Whitman; Death of Edgar A. Poe by N. P. Willis. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Masters of Prose - Edgar Allan Poe

Franz Kafka

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors. Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work. This edition is dedicated to the writer Franz Kafka, a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. The term Kafkaesque has entered the English language to describe situations like those found in his writing. This book contains the following writings:Novels: The Metamorphosis; The Trial. Short Stories: A hunger artist; In the penal colony; The judgment; Before the law; A country doctor; a report to an academy; First sorrow; Children on a country road; Unmasking a confidence trickster; The sudden walk; Resolutions; Unhappiness; Rejection; The street window; Clothes; Passers-by. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Masters of Prose - Franz Kafka

Guy de Maupassant

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors. Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work. This edition is dedicated to the French writer Guy de Maupassant, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms. Maupassant was a protégé of Gustave Flaubert and his stories are characterized by economy of style and efficient, seemingly effortless dénouements (outcomes). His first published story, "Boule de Suif", is often considered his masterpiece. This book contains the following writings:Novels: Pierre and Jean; Bel Ami; Mont Oriol; Notre Coeur. Short Stories: Boule de suif; Two friends; The lancer's wife; The prisoners; Two little soldiers; Father Milon; A coup d'etat; Lieutenant Lare's Marriage; The Horrible; Madame Parisse; Mademoiselle Fifi; A Duel. Biographical: Guy de Maupassant, by Paul Bourget; Guy de Maupassant, by Robert Arnot. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Masters of Prose - Guy de Maupassant

H.G. Wells

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors.
 
 Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work.
 
 This edition is dedicated to the English writer H. G. Wells. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and the publisher Hugo Gernsback.
 
 This book contains the following writings:
 Novels: Time Machine; The War of the Worlds.
 
 Short Stories: A Dream Of Armageddon; The Crystal Egg; The Man Who Could Work Miracles; The Flowering of the Strange Orchid; The Sea Riders; The Apple; The Argonauts of the Air.
 
 Biographical: H.G. Wells by J.D. Beresford.
 
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Masters of Prose - H. G. Wells

H.P. Lovecraft

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors.Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work.This edition is dedicated to the American writer H. P. Lovecraft, author of weird fiction and horror fiction. Lovecraft is known for his creation of what became the Cthulhu Mythos. He was virtually unknown during his lifetime and was almost exclusively published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty at the age of 46, but is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors of supernatural horror fiction.This book contains the following writings:Novels: At the Mountains of Madness; The Shadow Out Of Time; Herbert West: Reanimator; The Shadow Out of Time; The Call of Cthulhu; The Dunwich Horror.Short Stories: The Outsider; Pickmans Model; The Statement of Randolph Carter; The Colour out of Space; The Music of Erich Zann.Essays: Notes on Writing Weird Fiction.If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Masters of Prose - H. P. Lovecraft

James Joyce

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors. Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work. This edition is dedicated to the Irish writer James Joyce. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses, a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness. This book contains the following writings:Novels: Ulysses; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Short Story Collection: Dubliners. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Masters of Prose - James Joyce

Jane Austen

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors. Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work. This edition is dedicated to the English writer Jane Austen, novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her use of biting irony, along with her realism, humour, and social commentary, have long earned her acclaim among critics, scholars, and popular audiences alike. This book contains the following writings:Novels: Pride And Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Mansfield Park; Emma; Lady Susan; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion. Short stories: The History of England; Love and Friendship. Biographical: Memoir of Jane Austen, by James Edward Austen-Leigh. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Masters of Prose - Jane Austen

Joseph Conrad

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors. Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work. This edition is dedicated to the Polish-British writer Joseph Conrad, regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Conrad wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable universe. This book contains the following writings:Novels: Heart of darkness; Lord Jim; Nostromo; Typhoon. Short Stories: The idiots; An Outpost of progress; Amy Foster; Youth; An Anarchist; The secret sharer; The Return; The Brute; Because of dollars. Biographical: A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad; Joseph Conrad by Hugh Walpole. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Masters of Prose - Joseph Conrad

Jules Verne

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors. Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work. This edition is dedicated to the French writer Jules Verne. Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation was markedly different in Anglophone regions where he had often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels have often been printed. Since the 1980s, his literary reputation has improved. Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback. This book contains the following writings:Novels: Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea; Around the World in 80 Days; From the Earth to the Moon; Journey to the Centre of the Earth; Five Weeks in a Balloon. Short Stories: A Drama in Mexico; A Drama in the Air; A Winter Amid the Ice; The Blockade Runners; The Mutineers of the "Bounty"; Frritt-Flacc; Off on a Cometor Hector Servadac. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Masters of Prose - Jules Verne

Katherine Mansfield

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors. Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work. 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. 

Mansfield was diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis in 1917; the disease claimed her life at the age of 34. This book contains the following writings: Short Stories: The Garden Party; The Daughters of the Late Colonel; Bliss; Prelude; At the bay; Je ne parle pas francais; How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped; A Suburban Fairy Tale; Psychology; This flower; The Man Without a Temperament; The wrong house; Sixpence; Poison; A dill pickle; The little governess; Revelations; Life of Ma Parker; Marriage a la Mode; The Voyage; Miss Brill; Her First Ball; The Singing Lesson; The Stranger; Bank Holiday; An Ideal Family; The Lady's Maid. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Masters of Prose - Katherine Mansfield

Leo Tolstoy

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors. Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work. This edition is dedicated to the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received multiple nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and nominations for Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902 and 1910 and the fact that he never won is a major Nobel prize controversy. This book contains the following writings:Novels: War and Peace; Anna Karenina. Short Stories: God Sees the Truth, But Waits; Papa Panov's Special Christmas; Three Questions; Work, Death and Sickness A Legend; How Much Land Does a Man Needs?; The Death of Ivan Ilyich; Alyosha the Pot; Diary of a Lunatic; The Coffee-House of Surat; Too Dear!; After the Dance. Biographical: Trotskys 1908 tribute to Leo Tolstoy; The Life of Tolstoy: First Fifty Years by Aylmer Maude. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Masters of Prose - Leo Tolstoy

Louisa May Alcott

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors. Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work. This edition is dedicated to the American writer Louisa May Alcott, who has devoted herself mainly to juveline literature. Alcott was inspired by her own life experiences to write her stories. Little Women, her best-known novel, presents the portrait of a middle-class American family of her time, highlighting their moral values: civism and love for their country and dedication to home and neighbor. This novel has been made into films for cinema, TV and series many timesThis book contains the following writings:Novels: Little Women; Jo's Boys; Jack and Jill; Behind a Mask; An Old Fashioned Girl; Eight Cousins. Short Stories: A Modern Cinderela; My Red Cap; A Christmas Dream, and How it Came to Be True; An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving; Aunt Kipp; Rosy's Journey; The Brothers; Grandma's Story; Nellys Hospital. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Masters of Prose - Louisa May Alcott

Mark Twain

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors. Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work. This edition is dedicated to the American writer Mark Twain. He was lauded by the NY Times as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel". Twain was born shortly after an appearance of Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it" as well; he died the day after the comet made its closest approach to the Earth. This book contains the following writings:Novels: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; A Connecticut Yakee In King Arthurs Court; The Prince and the Pauper. Short Stories: About Barbers; A Dog's Tale; A Ghost Story; A Monument to Adam; Eve's Diary; Extracts from Adam's Diary; The Stolen White Elephant; Advice for Little Girls; The Californian's Tale; The Private History of a Campaign that Failed; A Telephonic Conversation. Biographical: Mark Twains Obituary. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Masters of Prose - Mark Twain

O. Henry

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors. Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work. This edition is dedicated to the writer O. Henry, one of the greatest American short story writer of the 19th century and one of the most popular authors of his time. O. Henry's stories frequently have surprise endings. In his day he was called the American answer to Guy de Maupassant. While both authors wrote plot twist endings, O. Henry's stories were considerably more playful, and are also known for their witty narration. This book contains the following writings:Short Story Colletions: The Four Million; The Voice of the City; The Trimmed Lamp; Options; Sixes and Sevens. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Masters of Prose - O. Henry

Robert Louis Stevenson

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors. Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work. This edition is dedicated to the writer Robert Louis Stevenson, a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. A celebrity in his lifetime, Stevenson's critical reputation has fluctuated since his death, though today his works are held in general acclaim. He is currently ranked as the 26th most translated author in the world. This book contains the following writings:Novels: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; Treasure Island; The Black Arrow. Short Stories: The Waif Woman; New Arabian Nights; The Bottle Imp; Thrawn Janet; Markheim; The Body Snatcher; Olalla; A Lodging For the Night; The Sire de Maletroit's Door; Littell's Living Age; The Clockmaker; The Scientific Ape. Biographical: Robert Louis Stevenson by G. K. Chesterton. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Masters of Prose - Robert Louis Stevenson

Rudyard Kipling

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors. Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work. This edition is dedicated to the English writer Rudyard Kipling, born in India, which inspired much of his work. He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics; with a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers. Henry James said, "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its youngest recipient to date. This book contains the following writings:Novels: The Light That Failed; Kim; Captains Courageous; The City of Dreadful Night. Short Stories and Collections: The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book; Indian Tales; Just So Stories; Debits and Credits; Limits and Renewals; Thy Servant a Dog. Biographical: Rudyard Kipling by John Palmer. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Masters of Prose - Rudyard Kipling

Saki (H.H. Munro)

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors.Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work.This edition is dedicated to the British writer Saki, pen name of H. H. Munro. His witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered by English teachers and scholars as a master of the short story, and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.This book contains the following writings:Short Stories and Collections: The Chronicles of Clovis; Beasts and Super-Beasts; The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers; The Unbearable Bassington; When William Came; Reginald.Biographical: Saki, by Rothay Reynolds.If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Masters of Prose - Saki

Virginia Woolf

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors. Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work. This edition is dedicated to the British writer Virginia Woolf, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf became one of the central subjects of the 1970s movement of feminist criticism and her works have since garnered much attention and widespread commentary for "inspiring feminism". Her works have been translated into more than 50 languages. A large body of literature is dedicated to her life and work, and she has been the subject of plays, novels and films. Woolf is commemorated today by statues, societies dedicated to her work and a building at the University of London. This book contains the following writings:Novels: Orlando; Mrs. Dalloway;Jacob's Room; Night and Day. Short Stories: A Haunted House; Kew Gardens; An Unwritten Novel; Solid Objects; The Mark on the Wall; Mrs. Dalloway in the Bond Street; The Lady in the Looking Glass. Essays: A Room of One's Own. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Masters of Prose - Virginia Woolf

George Orwell

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors. Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work.

This edition is dedicated to the English writer, essayist, journalist and critic George Orwell.

Orwell produced literary criticism and poetry, fiction and polemical journalism; and is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier, documenting his experience of working-class life in the north of England, and Homage to Catalonia, an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War, are as critically respected as his essays on politics and literature, language and culture.

Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"—describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices—is part of the English language

This book contains the following writings:

- Animal Farm;
- Nineteen eighty-four;
- Down and Out in Paris and London;
- Burmese Days;
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying;
- Homage to Catalonia;
- Coming Up for Air;
- The Road to Wigan Pier;
- Review of Adolph Hitler's "Mein Kampf";
- Politics and the English Language;
- Shooting an Elephant;
- And more 50 essays!

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