Gabriele D'Annunzio

Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- The great stone face / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- My terninal moriane / Frank R. Stockton -- The indian's hand / Lorimer Stoddard -- A good-for-nothing / Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen -- [The Damned Thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W/The_Damned_Thing) / Ambrose Bierce -- The phonograph and the graft / O. Henry -- "To make a Hoosier holiday" / George Ade -- The lotus eaters / Virginia Tracy -- Out of the storm / Mulloy Finnegan -- Mrs. Protheroe / Booth Tarkington -- In each other's shoes / George Parsons Lathrop -- The polite horse / Henry Beach Needham -- The duel / Nikolai Teleshov -- The hanging at La Piroche / Alexandre Dumas, fils -- A work of art / Anton Chekhov -- The bit of string / Guy de Maupassant -- [Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia) / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Love and bread / Jean August Strindberg -- The suicide club / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Boless / Maxim Gorki -- The mummy's foot / Theophile Gautier -- The end of candia / Gabriele d'Annunzio -- The cloak / Nikolai Gogol -- Railroad and churchyard / Björnstjerne Björnson -- The sire de Malétroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The thief / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The beauty spot / Alfred de Musset -- The long exile / Leo Tolstoy.

This powerful novel by Italy's renowned Decadent writer depicts the passionate struggle of two gifted artists for supremacy in love and art. A talented young writer, Stelio Effrena is infatuated with Foscarina, an actress at the peak of her fame. Together they dream of creating an ideal, popular theater. But Stelio's obsession with his own ideas and jealousy of her following steer him away from Foscarina, to ward the attractions of a younger woman. Tormented by this knowledge, Foscarina's love becomes desperate and she is overcome by a sense of foreboding at her own loss of youth. One of the great works of fin-de siecle European literature, The Flame was drawn from D'Annunzio's stormy relationship with Eleonora Duse. Such an exposure of the private lives of two of Italy's most public figures caused a scandal when the book first appeared in 1900.