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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by imperfections that did not exist in the original. Imperfections could be in the form of blurred text, ...
Short-Stories-Old-And-New
Short Stories Old and New by C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso) Smith etting. The events take place in Susa, the capital of Persia, in the reign of Ahasuerus, or Xerxes (485-465 B.C.). This foreign locale intensifies the splendid Jewish patriotism that breathes through the story from beginning to end. If the setting had been in Jerusalem, Esther could not have preached the noble doctrine, "When in Rome, don't do as Rome does, but be true to the old ideals of home and race." Plot. "Esther" seems to me the best-told story in the Bible. Observe how the note of empty Persian bigness versus simple Jewish faith is struck at the very beginning and is echoed to the end. Thus, Ahasuerus ruled over one hu...
Short Stories Old and New
Alphonso Smith (28 May 1864 - 13 June 1924) was an American Professor of English, college dean, philologist, and folklorist. Professor Smith's collected and edited short stories in this title is a must read for anyone interested in literature. His chosen stories in this volume are: 1. Esther - from Old Testament 2. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves 3. Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving 4. The Gold-bug - Edgar Allan Poe 5. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 6. The Great Stone Face - Nathaniel Hawthorne 7. Rab & His Friends - Dr. John Brown 8. The Outcasts of Poker Flat - Bret Harte 9. Markheim - Robert Louis Stevenson 10. The Necklace - Guy de Maupassant 11. The Man Who Would Be King - Rudyard Kipling 12. The Gift of the Magi - O. Henry
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