Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Short Stories - This guide to writing compelling, memorable short stories gives you all the essentials without wasted words. It tells you how and where to get ideas, how to establish and sustain excitement, how to create live, colorful characters, and how to plot, develop and bring home your story. It even includes exercises to help you perfect your story-telling skills. Full of tips and techniques that work, it makes an indispensable, reliable collaborator. You'll find it ideal whether you're studying alone or supplementing a creative or fiction writing course, conference or workshop.
The short story is especially adapted to supplement our high- school reading. It is of a piece with our varied, hurried, efficient American life, wherein figure the business man's lunch, the dictagraph, the telegraph, the telephone, the automobile, and the railway "limited." It has achieved high art, yet conforms to the modern demand that our literature--since it must be read with despatch, if read at all--be compact and compelling.
The melancholy death of oyster boy and other stories
That's just a hilarious little scary poems with funny illustrations by a well-known producer, director and extraordinary man Tim Burton! Nice way to practice english, relax and just have fun!
Oscar Wilde - The Canterville Ghost and other stories Penguin Readers Level 4 (1700 words)
For three hundred years, the ghost of Canterville Chase frightened everybody in the house. Then, one day, an American family come to live there. The ghost tries hard to frighten them but he learns that this family is different.
In the other stories Lord Arthur Savile has to commit murder before he can marry the lovely Sybil and we find out the secrets of the beautiful Lady Alroy. Classic short stories from Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
Short Stories For English Courses
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