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A Catechism of Short-Hand upon the system of Dr. John Byrom ...

A Catechism of Short-Hand upon the system of Dr. John Byrom ...

Robert Cabbell ROFFE

Robert Cabbell ROFFE, John BYROM (Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.) notes the article the, the preposition trans, and the termination it:y, expressing the plural number by the addition of a short s. V and F are both represented by the ...
Short Meditations on the Bible and Peanuts

Short Meditations on the Bible and Peanuts

Robert L. Short

Offers Christian interpretations of the basic philosophies embodied in the Peanuts cartoon strip
The Parables of Peanuts

The Parables of Peanuts

Robert L. Short

This book‘s wise observations are as timeless as they are timely. "Short . . .succeeds in making theology enjoyable." ––Christian Century ". . . a real delight from beginning to end.
Short-Short Story

Short-Short Story

José Flávio Nogueira Guimarães

This book proposes a study of a new postmodern prose fiction genre, the short-short story.
Robert Bloch's Psychos

Robert Bloch's Psychos

Robert Bloch

Featuring a never-before-published short story from Stephen King and edited by the world-renowned and award-winning author of "Psycho", Robert Bloch, this collection includes 22 masterworks harvested by the Horror Writers Association.
Once Upon a Universe: Not-so-Grimm tales of cosmology

Once Upon a Universe: Not-so-Grimm tales of cosmology

Robert Gilmore

She (and we) must have entered, in short, one of the worlds created by Robert Gilmore, physicist and fabulist.
Seven Crow Stories

Seven Crow Stories

Robert J. Wiersema

Robert J. Wiersema. FIRST EDITION Seven Crow Stories © 2016 by ... Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Wiersema, Robert J., author Seven crow stories / Robert J. Wiersema. Short stories. Issued in print and electronic ...
Dreamtime: A Collection of Short Stories

Dreamtime: A Collection of Short Stories

Robert Steiner

Dreamtime: A Collection of Short Stories dissects a wide range of social problems by merging realism with fantasy and the supernatural.
50 great American short stories

50 great American short stories

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... OF THE SNEAKERS Edited by Robert S. Gold 75 SHORT MASTERPIECES Edited by Roger Goodman THE SNOW WALKER by Farley Mowat STORIES OF THE MODERN SOUTH Edited by Benjamin Forkner and Patrick Samway, SJ.
A Short History of Physics in the American Century

A Short History of Physics in the American Century

David C. Cassidy

Robert A. Millikan, Autobiography (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1950), 178, also 165, 168. 11. ... For more on Millikan, see his Autobiography and Robert H. Kargon, The Rise of Robert Millikan: Portrait of a Life in American Science (Ithaca, NY: ...
The BBC International Short Story Award 2012

The BBC International Short Story Award 2012

Clive Anderson

Short Stories. Includes all the short-listed stories in the world's biggest prize for the short story form.
The BBC International Short Story Award 2012

The BBC International Short Story Award 2012

Lucy Caldwell

Short Stories. Includes all the short-listed stories in the world's biggest prize for the short story form.
The Short-Short Story: A New Literary Genre

The Short-Short Story: A New Literary Genre

José Flávio Nogueira Guimarães

This book proposes a study of a new postmodern prose fiction genre, the short-short story.
A Companion to the American Short Story

A Companion to the American Short Story

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1912/1914. The House of Pride. The Complete Short Stories ofJack London. Vol. 2. Eds. Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz, III, and I. Milo Shepard. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993. 1455–66. — — — . “The Dream of Debs.” 1909/ 1914.
Insight English Skills 10

Insight English Skills 10

Insight Publications Staff

Short story: The honey thief 'The most intelligent of creatures' is taken from The honey thief, a collection of short stories from Afghanistan, written by Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman. 'Tenderly evocative', 'poetic', 'dreamy', 'wise' and ...
The Hunter: A gripping and terrifying short story

The Hunter: A gripping and terrifying short story

Chris Carter

A thrilling ebook exclusive short story from Sunday Timesbestselling author Chris Carter. Meet Robert Hunter, the youngest Homicide Detective the Los Angeles Police has ever recruited, on his first day.
Two Letters and Short Rules of a Good Life

Two Letters and Short Rules of a Good Life

Robert Southwell

These three important works by the Elizabethan Jesuit martyr, including a previously unknown letter of Robert Cecil, demonstrate Southwell's skill as a prose stylist in the service of English Catholicism.
Selected Short Stories, Henry Lawson

Selected Short Stories, Henry Lawson

Robert Beardwood

Insight Text Guides - Henry Lawson's Selected Short Stories is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text.
The Short Sharp Life of T. E. Hulme

The Short Sharp Life of T. E. Hulme

Robert Ferguson

Unusually among poets of his generation, he was convinced of the rightness of Britain's role in the war (and criticised Bertrand Russell for his pacifism.) Robert Ferguson offers the first modern biography of Hulme, drawing upon access to ...
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young ...

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young ...

Jeff Hobbs

Presents the life of Robert Peace, an African American who became a brillant biochemistry student at Yale University, but after graduation lived as drug dealer and was brutally murdered at the age of thirty.
One Day, the End: Short, Very Short, Shorter-than-ever Stories

One Day, the End: Short, Very Short, Shorter-than-ever Stories

Rebecca Kai Dotlich

Very short stories, averaging three pages each, told by a little girl.
Writing the Northland: Jack London's and Robert W. Service's ...

Writing the Northland: Jack London's and Robert W. Service's ...

Barbara Stefanie Giehmann

Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz and Milo I. Shepard ed. The Complete Short Stories of Jack London. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. 115–126. ---. “The End of the Story.” The Turtles of Tasman. 1911/1916. Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz  ...
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young ...

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young ...

Jeff Hobbs

When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with the man who would be his college roommate for four years, Robert Peace.
Weapon

Weapon

Robert Mason

Robert Warren, Joe Garcia and Jim Ruiz, each holding a Coke, emerged from the store and walked to the van. “Your turn,” Warren said to Garcia. Garcia, short and dark with hairy, muscular arms, snatched himself up into the driver's seat with ...

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