Thirteen Stories
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Excerpt fromThirteen Stories: To-day in warfare all the niceties of old-world tactics are fallen into contempt. No word of outworks, ravelins, of mamelons, of counter-scarps, of glacis, fascines; none of the terms by means of which Vauban obscured his art, are even mentioned. Armies fall to and blow such brains as they may have out of each other's heads without so much as a salute. And so of literature, your "few first words," your "avant-propos," your nice approaches to the reader, giving him beforehand some taste of what is to follow, have also fallen into disuse. The man of genius (and in n...
Chapters (260)
- Thirteen Stories
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- CRUZ ALTA
- IN A GERMAN TRAMP
- THE GOLD FISH
- A HEGIRA
- SIDI BU ZIBBALA
- LA PULPERIA
- HIGGINSON’S DREAM
- CALVARY
- A PAKEHA
- VICTORY
- ROTHENBERGER’S WEDDING
- LA CLEMENZA DE TITO
- SOHAIL
- NOTES.
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