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Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young...

Un romanzo composto da dieci racconti, cesellati con la finezza di Carver e Salinger. Dieci movimenti che ritraggono Sofia lungo trent'anni della sua vita: dalle estati d'infanzia sulle sponde del lago alla scoperta della passione per il teatro, attraverso le profonde e fragili luminosità dell'adolescenza. Un'esistenza che percorre la storia di una generazione, le sue passioni, le sue medicine, le sue città. Ci sfiora, Sofia, mentre si posa indimenticabile nel cuore del lettore.

“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.” —William Faulkner Winner of the National Book Award Forty-two...

Step into the sharp, idea-driven imagination of Isaac Asimov with this carefully selected collection of classic short fiction.

This classic science fiction masterwork by Isaac Asimov weaves stories about robots, humanity, and the deep questions of existence into a novel of shocking intelligence and heart. “A must-read for science-fiction buffs and literature enjoyers alike.”—The Guardian I, Robot, the first and...

Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find he has been transformed into a gigantic insect. This extraordinary tale of imagination was written by Kafka against the backdrop of increasing turmoil in central Europe and remains not just an affecting tale but a disturbing allegory.

"He travels fastest who travels alone...but not after the frost has dropped below zero 50 degrees or more." (Yukon Code) Jack London’s best short story.

The snick of a lock. The squeak of door hinges. The creak of a floorboard... Nothing is more mysterious than footsteps in the dark. Are those approaching steps that of friend or enemy? Lover or killer?

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter...

SF 소설가 곽재식의 소설은 당연히 SF적인 내용을 담고 있습니다. 이 단편집만 해도 초공간 도약 항법도 나오고, 인공지능도 몇 가지 나오고, 외계인과의 퍼스트 컨택트도 나옵니다.

The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots.

Five great American short story writers, dating from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, are represented here. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they nevertheless caught the mood and concerns of the day in a way that was distinctly American.

Emilia Pardo Bazán es una de las grandes escritoras e intelectuales europeas de finales del siglo XIX y la introductora del naturalismo literario en España. Los pazos de Ulloa (1886) novela en la que retrata la decadencia del mundo rural gallego, es considerada su obra maestra. Además de las novelas, La madre naturaleza (1887) o Insolación (1889) escribió ensayos y poemas y numerosos cuentos, más de quinientos, que agrupó en varias colecciones.

If our memories make us who we are, who is a man without any? Nameless has only a gun, missions from a shadowy agency, and one dead aim: dispense justice when the law fails. As he moves from town to town, driven by splintered visions of the past and future, he's headed toward the ultimate confrontation in this propulsive series of short thrillers by number one New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.

Åbenhed og kommunikation er vigtige elementer i et parforhold. Det står der i hvert fald i den artikel, hun har læst hos frisøren. Men da hun prøver at tale med sin kæreste om hans seksuelle fantasier, bliver hun alligevel usikker og flygter ned i metroen, hvor hun tænker det hele igennem, mens hun observerer de andre passagerer ...
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Irse Kræmer er en dansk forfatter. Hendes erotiske titler spiller på antydningens kunst, og de seksuelle elementer bliver behandlet på indirekte og psykologisk vis.

The Apology of Socrates, written by Plato, is a Socratic dialogue of the speech of legal self-defense which Socrates spoke at his trial for impiety and corruption in 399 BC. Specifically, the Apology of Socrates is a defense against the charges of "corrupting the youth" and "not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel" to Athens.

"The Brat": Lisa, is a rich girl loved to steal things. She loved the thrill of it. When the judge has had enough of her, he sends her to a correctional facility where the guards make sure she gets loaded with punishments. Lisa knew that daddy’s money would always get her out of any trouble. Until now, when she sees that there are things that her daddy’s money can’t get her out of. Things that she can’t talk to him about. It's difficult for her to take the punishments that she deserves. Will Lisa see the error of her ways, or will the punishments continue?

CSA Word continues its ever-popular series of classic short stories, featuring writers such as Jerome K. Jerome, Louisa May Alcott and Saki, read by such respected and revered readers as Derek Jacobi, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and passions.

With the South Seas as a background for such stories as "The Pacific", "Mackintosh", "The Fall of Edward Barnard", "Red", "Rain", and "The Pool", we experience scenes of passionate love, tragedy, and violence - all described in Maugham's beautiful prose.