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"Les vitamines du bonheur" est un recueil de douze nouvelles considéré comme le chef d'œuvre de l'auteur. Il nous fait vivre des tranches de vie intemporelles, loin des clichés du rêve américain. "Tout le monde rêve. Si tu ne rêvais pas, tu deviendrais fou. J’ai lu des trucs là-dessus. C’est une soupape. Les gens rêvent quand ils dorment. Ou alors, ils deviennent dingues. Mais moi, quand je rêve, je rêve de vitamines. Tu comprends ce que je te dis ?"

Ernest Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing contains fourteen stories of varying length. Some of them have appeared in magazines but the majority have not been published before. The characters and backgrounds are widely varied. Some stories included are “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” a story...

A sterling collection of short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and others, The Golden Ball and Other Stories is a riveting compendium of shocking secrets, dastardly crimes, and brilliant detection—a showcase of Dame Agatha at her very best. Is it a gesture of goodwill or a sinister trap that...

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See how the Egyptian peasant woman creates a new story every moment of her day—women are a crown on our Egyptian heritage.

In this charming and heartwarming retelling of the classic It’s a Wonderful Life, Camille Pagán introduces us to Bailey, a dutiful yet sharp-witted 30-something who finds herself on the verge of a nervous breakdown as Christmas Eve approaches. As if it wasn’t enough that Bailey’s husband just cheated on her, the family business she’s been running since her parents died, which employs most of her small town, is about to go under. But even as she’s questioning whether her life has any meaning, Bailey bumps into a handsome stranger who claims to know her.

In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit. Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language Moore has become famous for, these nine glittering tales marked the introduction of an extravagantly gifted writer.

Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner-Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.

S tem nazivom je Franci Pavšer zelo rad nagovorjal svoje prijatelje in znance. Večini moških je ta nadimek godil, nekateri so se nelagodno namrščili, vsi pa so se po nekaj stavkih muzali. Ženskam vseh starosti pa je ob srečanjih zaklical: "Poslušaj, mlada dama!", kar je navduševalo zlasti zrele dame. Franci je možakarje okrog sebe pogosto poimenoval kar Jože in velikokrat se je v kakšni prijetni družbi zgodilo, da so se začeli vsevprek klicati Jože in tako so vsi kmalu postali Jožeti, s Francijem vred.

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...

Bandits & Rebels is an anthology of some of Jules Verne’s earliest work, including the first appearance of a submarine in his fiction. As well as his interest in science, it illustrates his geographical and historical range, with San Carlos, a story about smugglers in Spain; a story about the siege of Rome in 1848; and Martin Paz, about an indigenous uprising in Peru in the 1830s. The audiobook includes a detailed introduction by Sorbonne professor and Verne expert Daniel Compére.

Classic short stories by a beloved virtuoso of language, craft, and madness from the American South “His writing was anarchic and wonderfully funny. He sounded like what you’d get if you stirred three heaping teaspoons of Thomas Pynchon and Terry Southern into a jar of Eudora Welty...

Much of Richard Matheson's work has found its way into pop culture: The title story became a memorable episode of television's The Twilight Zone, and more recently, Will Smith starred in the blockbuster movie I Am Legend. Stephen King has declared Matheson to be one of his favorite writers. Find out why as you listen to the classic horror story of a man who peers out of his airplane window to see a gremlin destroying the wing.

La rovina della casa degli Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) è un racconto del terrore scritto da Edgar Allan Poe. Il racconto venne pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1839 sul periodico The Graham's Lady and Gentleman's Magazine ed è anche conosciuto come "La caduta della casa degli Usher". Il narratore del racconto è l'esempio dell'uomo occidentale, scettico, dell'illuminista che crede nella logica e nella scienza, con la quale ha la pretesa di poter spiegare qualsiasi fenomeno del mondo sensibile.

No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's unforgettable novella - first included in his 1990, award-winning collection Four Past Midnight and made into a highly acclaimed miniseries - about a terrifying plane ride into a most unfriendly sky is now available as a stand-alone publication. The flight...

Blair Martin’s days rarely vary: she gets up, goes for a run, and then heads to work at a Manhattan literary agency where she nurtures authors through the publishing process. Her nights, spent alone in her too-large apartment, are similarly predictable. Then on an ordinary Wednesday, Blair enters her office building and spies a lost wallet. When Blair tracks down the owner, they arrange for a simple exchange. But the young woman, Maya, seems so vulnerable, much like Blair’s own daughter, Faith, who died tragically just last year, and Blair is unable to simply walk away.

A lush and elegant collection of tales—many having appeared in various “Best Of” anthologies—teeming with frightful and tragic events, yet profoundly and intimately human. These chilling tales will engross and enthrall. For listeners of Kelly Link, Carmen Maria Machado, and Angela Carter, this is a must have collection of ghostly tales set to deliver a frisson of terror and glee.

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio. This electric short story begins in October on the island of Rhodes, a veritable paradise of privacy, beauty and calm, or so Hercule Poirot has imagined. The reality is quite startlingly different. The...

Vid första anblick trodde jag att det var en bild på mig och kunde inte förstå varför en av de där privata bilderna han tagit på mig hamnat i vår familjedator. Så jag klickade på bilden för att se om jag misstagit mig. Jag skulle aldrig ha klickat. Så snart bilden visades för mig rasade min värld... "Sviken" är en novell om otrohet och verkligheten bakom den lyckliga fasaden. Garanterat en novell som inte lämnar någon oberörd och baserad på en sann historia. Den är stark, gripande och ärlig.

Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences.