Books with title Two Short Stories

Anton Chekhov was a famous Russian playwright, also considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature. His three short stories in this book have boys as the leading characters.Boys.Two Russian boys, inspired by Mayne Reid's adventure novels, set out on a journey to California.The Runaway.Seven year old boy admitted to a provincial hospital try to adjust himself to an eerie but interesting surrounding.Whitebrow.A hungry and nervous she-wolf sneaks into the keeper's hut to steal a lamb but takes a cub of a keeper's dog by mistake.

Are you loking for a wonderful Christmas gift? This Christmas, give the gift that keeps on giving...This collection of magical short stories will delight readers of all ages with the joy of reading. Five short stories await your reading pleasure.Amazon.com: Top 500 Reviewer Dennis Waller: "An Interesting Perspective to a Historical Tale" a review of: Boudicca: Warrior Queen"This Love Story Has It All" a review of: Looking for Catarina"Mystical, Magical, Enchanting Journey" a review of: StoryTellers1. "What you are depends on the stories you read." Five must-read stories are told: Journey of a Hero, True Love, Impossible Love, A Woman at War & lastly, Peace. Who is a hero/heroine? Answer: Anyone who does something requiring courage, bravery, disregarding one's own personal safety. Could someone be a hero/heroine without even being aware of their actions? Yet the journey, a quest if you will, for riches, wealth, and power, will be undertaken. True Love is a love that conquers all obstacles to be together, and in this second story, there will be a seemingly unconquerable obstacle. Our hero will risk everything for the woman he loves...Impossible Love, we know this story well, for have we all not loved? Under circumstances when it would have been the wiser course of action not to have loved? Impossible Love is not bound by the dictates of reason and logic... In the fourth story, when love does not live anymore, then it must be WAR, and there is no war more terrifying, than when it is a wronged Woman At War.In the final story, we seek PEACE, and a seemingly innocent hero, unaware of anything except the present moment, must make a choice. Will it be the right choice? Read this book to find out the surprising answer...Why Read A Short Story?"[The short story creates] a vivid realization for the reader of that which moved the author to write, be it incident, be it emotion, be it situation.... thus the art of the short story becomes as much an art of tone as of incident." ~ H. S. Canby"The first necessity for the short story...is necessariness. The story, that is to say, must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough, acute enough to have made the writer write.” ~ Elizabeth Bowen"The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space." ~ Julio Cortazar"The real challenge is to pull as much of life as a story can bear into the fewest possible pages: to produce, if possible, that hallucinatory point in which time past and time future seems to co-exist with time present, that hallucinatory point which to me defines the good or great short story..." ~ Maurice Shadbolt"The essence of the short story is to isolate, to portray the individual person, or moment, or scene in isolation...detached from the great continuum...at once social and historical.... the short story is a natural form for the presentation of a moment whose intensity makes it seem outside the ordinary stream of time, or the significance is outside the ordinary range of experience." ~ Wendell Harris"I see today a new art of narration, a novel literature and category of belles-lettres, dawning upon the world. And this new art and literature--for the sake of the individual characters in the story, and in order to keep close to them and not be afraid--will be ready to sacrifice story itself.... The literature of individuals is a noble art, a great earnest and ambitious human product. But it is a human product. The divine art is the story. In the beginning was the story.... Within our whole universe the story only has authority to answer the cry of heart of its characters, that one cry of heart of each of them: 'Who am I?'" ~ Isak Dinesen

Mystery and excitement?Story 1"Sleep well, and by the way, my name is Chad Quest. Before leaving, I must warn you, not to open that door over there, it must remain closed!" Story 2The place had this feeling that made us wish we had not come in, the kind you would get in a wax museum from the past.Story 3The others stayed up watching the shadows moving. Waiting and listening for some creature to move slowly and quietly, creeping through the darkness. Story 4They were right in front of me.Suddenly, they started throwing rocks at me. Story 5Therefore, I told her to look outside and see for herself. "I can't believe my eyes, but it's true," she exclaimed. Story 6Maybe if we sing a song, God will hear us and send an angel or somehow help us find our way out of this cave.Story 7These are not just seeds; these seeds are extraordinary, he said.You will love these stories of Mystery and excitement.Each Story is short enough to keep the attention of all ages, and the best part of all these stories end with a fun twist or a message of encouragement.

Excerpt from Six Trees: Short StoriesHE elm-tree had his field to himself. He stood alone in a wide and deep expanse of wind-swept grass which once a year surged round him in foaming billows crested with the rose of clover and the whiteness of daisies and the gold of buttercups. The rest of the time the field was green with an even slant of lush grass, or else it was a dun sur face, or else a glittering level of snow; but always there stood the tree, with his green branches in the summer, his gold ones in the autumn, his tender.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

----------Seven Stories:-----------Amy and JoyA mother understands love of another mother towards her off-springsBabuInner beauty (beauty of one's heart and soul) is the ultimate beauty King's AssistantIn order to win, one must be honest, bold and straight forwardLike Father Like SonThe greatest giving is giving someone something most precious to youThey are BadAn innocent and pure heart will win in the endThieving The ThievesThe way you steal from someone, in the same way someone can steal from youTwo FightersNo one is more powerful than nature

These two short stories are a mixture of fun and fear (although not too much fear). Both are easy to read by yourself or to be read out loud. For children up to the age of 12, both stories involve two brothers getting themselves in to trouble, and getting themselves out of it again. They will keep the reader on the edge of the seat! Great bedtime tales.