Download or read book 7 Best Short Stories: Morality Tales written by Stephen Leacock and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the functions of literature is to share experiences and reflections, thus improving the community as a whole. It is in this spirit that the authors compiled here wrote stories full of important lessons. Critic August Nemo selected seven short stories with timeless messages: - The Aged Mother by Matsuo Basho - The Five Boons of Life by Mark Twain - The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones by Stephen Leacock - Work, Death and Sickness by Leo Tolstoy - The Father by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - Emancipation. A Life Fable by Kate Chopin - An Uncomfortable Bed by Guy de Maupassant