Books with author Steven E. Burt

From America's #1 horror author for young adults (9-18). 4th in Stories to Chill the Heart series. Oddest Yet won horror's highest prize, the 2004 Bram Stoker Award (tie with Clive Barker's Abarat), Even Odder was 2003 Bram Stoker Nominee (runner-up to JK Rowling's Harry Potter), Odd Lot won silver Ben Franklin for y.a. horror/mystery/suspense and ForeWord's Honorable Mention for Best Horror Book 2001.Popular school author-visitor.

Large Print Edition. Oddest Yet won the 2004 Bram Stoker Award for Young Readers, the horror genre's most coveted award. Nine weird tales from Steve Burt, who also writes the FreeKs paranormal teen detectives series that has won 4 Mom's Choice golds, the Moonbeam Children's Book Award for teens, the Florida Book Festival Grand Prize, the Florida Authors & Publishers President's Award silver, and the New England Book Award.

Monsieur Aristide Brisson, the fat little proprietor of the Hotel du Nord a modest house facing the Place Puget at Toulon turned uneasily in his sleep, as though fretted by a disturbing dream; then he awoke with a start and rubbed his eyes. A glance at the dark windows showed that the dawn was yet far distant, and he was about to turn over and go thankfully to sleep again when a sudden remembrance leaped into his brain. In an instant, he had bounded from the bed, struck a match, and, after a look at his watch, lighted a candle. Then he returned to the bed, and, without compunction, grasped the plump arm of Madame Brisson, who was sleeping peace- fully, and shook her roughly. Wake, Gabrielle, wake 1he cried in French, of course. Madame Brisson, who was also little and fat with a white skin that was her pride, opened her eyes, stared an instant, and then sat up in bed. Heavens, Brisson! she cried, her hand to her throat.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at

In the companion volume of this series, “Men of Action, “ theattempt was made to give the essential facts of American history bysketching in broad outline the men who made that history—thediscoverers, pioneers, presidents, statesmen, soldiers, and sailors—and describing the part which each of them played.It was almost like watching a great building grow under the handsof the workmen, this one adding a stone and that one addinganother; but there was one great difference. For a building, the plansare made carefully beforehand, worked out to the smallest detail,and followed to the letter, so that every stone goes exactly where itbelongs, and the work of all the men fits together into a completeand perfect whole. But when America was started, no one had morethan the vaguest idea of what the finished result was to be; indeed,many questioned whether any enduring structure could be reared ona foundation such as ours. So there was much useless labor, oneworkman tearing down what another had built, and only a few ofthem working with any clear vision of the future.

He still remained delicate, however, and at the age of twenty was sent to Europe. The air of France and Italy proved to be just what he needed, and he soon developed into a fairly robust man.With health regained, he returned, two years later, to America, and got himself admitted to the bar. Why he should have gone to this trouble is a mystery, for he never really seriously tried to practise law. Instead, he was occupying himself with a serio-comic history of New York, which grew under his pen into as successful an example of true and sustained humor as our literature possesses. The subject was one exactly suited to Irving's genius, and he allowed his fancy to have free play about the picturesque personalities of Wouter Van Twiller, and Wandle Schoonhovon, and General Van Poffenburgh, in whose very names there is a comic suggestion.

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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.

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.

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.