7 best short stories - Autumn

Maxim Gorky · Honoré de Balzac · Edgar Allan Poe · James Joyce · Louisa May Alcott · E.T.A. Hoffmann · August Nemo

may 2020 · 7 best short stories - specials Libro 55 · Tacet Books

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The air cools down and the days begin to shorten; the leaves changing color put us in contact with the passing of time in a visible way. The autumn has served as inspiration for several writers that you confer in this volume, through great seven short stories. This book contains: - One Autumn Night by Maxim Gorky. - The purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe. - Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac. - A Painful Case by James Joyce. - An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoevsky. - An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott. - The Elementary Spirit by E. T. A. Hoffman.

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Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (28 March 1868 18 June 1936), primarily known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method, and a political activist. Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868). Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (24 January 1776 25 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist.