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Award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer Andrew Porter returns to the short story form in this masterful and elegiac new collection. “Porter has quietly become one of the United States’ most reliably great fiction writers.” —NPR Enter the world of San Antonio, Texas. All of these...

From New York Times bestselling author Denise Hunter comes a collection of three contemporary Christian romances perfect for avid romance fans, featuring second-chance romance, enemies-to-lovers tension, and small-town romance. Lake Season Exes Kimber Klein and Jesse James reconnect when they...

Dieses Hörbuch enthält folgende Abschnitte: Die Wandelbarkeit der Literatur, Begräbnisse auf dem Lande, Die Gasthofsküche, Die Westminster-Abtei, Weihnachten, Die Landkutsche, Weihnachtsheiligabend, Der Weihnachtsfeiertag, Das Weihnachtstagsmittagessen, Klein-Britannien. Der amerikanische Prosa-Künstler Washington Irving hat mit seinen Erzählungen einen prägenden Einfluss auf die amerikanische Literatur ausgeübt. Das liegt an seiner sehr angenehmen Sprachgestaltung und dem Realitätsbezug des gewählten Gegenstands.

Two Full-Cast Dramatisations of the award-winning Shusaku Endo's novels. This collection features two full-cast dramatisations of Shusaku Endo award-winning novels, The Golden Country and A Forty Year Old Man. The Golden Country - Based on the facts of the persecution of Japanese Christians in...

Twenty-two short stories by Graham Greene, arranged in pairs to be read as either a duel or a duet. A Penguin Classic Few twentieth-century writers are as celebrated for their craft as Graham Greene, whose acclaimed political thrillers and morally complex characters influenced generations of...

A surreal, pathbreaking debut story collection from a contemporary Chinese Malaysian voice, exploring themes of diaspora, neocolonialism, and cultural lineage Smalltown Godzilla introduces anglophone readers to a bold new voice in Mahua literature—a vibrant tradition of ethnic Chinese writers...

For fans of Curtis Sittenfeld and Katherine Heiny, a comic and incisive collection of linked stories about women unraveling under the weight of politeness, partnership, and performative perfection. “Formally inventive, expertly crafted, and alive with a generous sense of humor, Just Don't Ask...

Der amerikanische Prosa-Künstler Washington Irving hat einen prägenden Einfluss auf die amerikanische Literatur ausgeübt. Das liegt an seiner sehr angenehmen Sprachgestaltung und seiner Genreübergreifenden Virtuosität.

Black Star Line is a genre-defying story collection in the vein of Octavia Butler and Jordan Peele that fuses speculative fiction, Sci-Fi, and magical realism to explore Black life at the edge of collapse and possibility. Spanning virtual worlds, haunted cities, and dystopian futures, the...

An evocative collection about the gap between the people we aspire to be and our flawed realities from “a radiant new voice” (Megha Majumdar). Both expansive and intimate, Bad Neighbors follows protagonists who strive to be the parents, lovers, siblings, friends, and children they’d like...

From New York Times bestselling author Denise Hunter comes a collection of four contemporary Christian romances perfect for avid romance fans, featuring second-chance romance, friends-to-lovers, marriage-of-convenience, and small-town romance. Barefoot Summer Madison McKinley returns home...

From a fresh voice in American literature, in the vein of Tony Tulathimutte and Lucia Berlin, comes a linked collection of short stories inspired by the author’s Pennsylvania hometown that interrogates the rural-urban divide with warmth, wry humor, and welcome audacity Hicksters explores the...

From the author of the modern classic Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl comes a sly and sultry, subversively funny, and unabashedly queer anthology centered on the zodiac. Mary Oliver strives to save a harried, hissing, and half-drowned muskrat from the banks of a river. A centaur beats his...

Boyle, a virtuoso of the American short story, creates daring imaginative leaps as he affirms the sheer joy of storytelling in this propulsive new work. A timely masterpiece, The End Is Only a Beginning underscores T. C. Boyle’s reputation as “one of the greatest storytellers in this...

Six interlinked stories from a #1 New York Times best-selling author, illuminating the fragile-yet-resilient ties that bind family, friends, and lovers. A master of American realism and of the short story, Andre Dubus III here explores what poet Ellen Bass calls “this visceral bloody union...

In this brilliant sliding doors debut, a Chinese American couple's love story is told and retold Elizabeth and Simon are newly married. Elizabeth is waiting for her green card and spends the winter in Chicago staining her fingers with pomegranate seeds, dreaming of home. Elizabeth and Simon...

Dieses Hörbuch enthält folgende Abschnitte: Vorwort, Die Seereise, Roscoe, Das Weib, Rip van Winkle, Englische Schriftsteller über Amerika, Landleben in England, Das gebrochene Herz, Die Kunst des Büchermachens, Ein königlicher Dichter, Die Dorfkirche, Die Witwe und ihr Sohn, Die Schenke zum Eberkopfe in Eastcheap. Der amerikanische Prosa-Künstler Washington Irving hat mit seinen Erzählungen einen prägenden Einfluss auf die amerikanische Literatur ausgeübt. Das liegt an seiner sehr angenehmen Sprachgestaltung und dem Realitätsbezug des gewählten Gegenstands.

Dieses Hörbuch enthält folgende Erzählungen: Unordnung und frühes Leid, Gefallen, Wunderkind, Vision, Luischen, Der Tod, Der Wille zum Glück, Gladius Dei, Ein Glück, Anekdote, Die Hungernden, Wie Jappe und Do Escobar sich prügelten, Das Eisenbahnunglück, Tobias Mindernickel, Gerächt. In der Stilistik Thomas Manns liegt dieses markant-prägnant-charmante Element, das einen sofort in seinen Bann zieht.

15 brand-new short stories inspired by and in honour of legendary writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Featuring Ann Leckie, Karen Joy Fowler, Charlie Jane Anders, Kelly Link, Ai Jiang and many others. Revolution in the Heart is a collection of 15 brand new stories by a group of celebrated authors, all...

A exquisitely wrought, deeply personal collection of short stories from a remarkable new voice from Sudan A young girl grows jealous of her mother’s lemon tree, which may be more sentient than she knows. A college student confronts tragedies past and present when police attack a university...