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 walking. A common activity for man, walking can be a form of physical exercise, spiritual practice and philosophical tool. Being so universal, the habit of walking has certainly been addressed many times by literature - in this volume you will find seven examples of this relationship between literature and walking.This book contains the following texts: Walking, and the wild by Henry David Thoreau; Walking Tours by Robert Louis Stevenson; Walking an Antidote to City Poison by Sydney Smith; A Stout Pedestrian by Walter Scott; Lake Scenery by William Wordsworth; The Exhilarations of the Road by John Burroughs; Is Walking Selfish? by Arnold Haultain. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!
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- Volym 62 i 7 best short stories - specials
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Engelska
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Of the Just Shaping of Letters
Albrecht Dürer
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The Purple Land : Being the Narrative of One Richard Lamb's Adventures in The Banda Orientál, in South America, as Told By Himself
W. H. Hudson
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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Joan Aiken
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The Nightingale and the Rose : (Original 1888 Edition): Annotated
Oscar Wilde
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The Purple Land That England Lost
William Henry Hudson
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The Purple Land : Richard Lamb's Comic Adventures through Banda Oriental
William Henry Hudson
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The Devoted Friend
Oscar Wilde
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Cuentos de Allan Poe II
Edgar Allan Poe
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The Invisible Man
H.G. Wells
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Walden by henry david thoreau
Henry David Thoreau, Masterpiece Everywhere
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The Diary of a Madman
Guy De Maupassant
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The Editor : How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
Sara B. Franklin
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7 best short stories - Boxing
Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Robert E. Howard, Ring Lardner, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Ghost Stories
Sheridan Le Fanu, Saki (H.H. Munro), Elizabeth Gaskell, M. R. James, Lafcadio Hearn, O.Henry, Rudyard Kipling, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Russian Authors
Leo Tolstoy, Leonid Andreyev, Maxim Gorky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Halloween
W. W. Jacobs, M. R. James, Lafcadio Hearn, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Leonid Andreyev, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Christmas
Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, Mary E. Freeman, Henry van Dyke, Stephen Leacock, Leo Tolstoy, O.Henry, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Morality Tales
Stephen Leacock, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Kate Chopin, Guy De Maupassant, Matsuo Bashō, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Thanksgiving Day
Louisa May Alcott, Mary E. Freeman, William Dean Howells, O.Henry, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Francis K. Ball, Edward Payson Roe, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - American Civil War
Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Kate Chopin, Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Thomas Nelson Page, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - World War I
Rudyard Kipling, Katherine Mansfield, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Arthur Conan Doyle, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Feminist Fiction
August Nemo, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Edith Nesbit
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7 best short stories - Feel-Good Stories
George Ade, H.G. Wells, Anton Chekhov, T. S. Arthur, Oscar Wilde, O.Henry, Nathaniel Hawthorne, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Victorian Romance
William Schwenck Gilbert, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, George Moore, August Nemo
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