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Venture beyond the familiar and discover the fragile line between tranquility and turmoil in 12 gripping and unnerving short stories, masterfully crafted by Tove Jansson. From a professor stranded in a picturesque Spanish village to a holiday in Finland disrupted by an intrusive child, each tale unravels the unsettling facets of journeys that veer off course. Brilliantly evoking the shifting scenes and restlessness of summer, "Travelling Light" is guaranteed to surprise. Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson (1914-2001) is globally cherished for creating the Moomin universe.

“One of Coelho’s strongest.”—Kirkus Reviews “The book casts a curiously sweet spell.”—Entertainment Weekly From the author of beloved international bestseller The Alchemist, a daring novel that explores the sacred nature of sex and love and invites us to confront our own prejudices...

AN IRISH TIMES TOP 100 IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY 'Exquisite . so intricately wrought, so strange and beguiling as to entirely bewitch.' GUARDIAN 'Pure magic.' COLM TÓIBÍN 'Lyrical, thoughtful, but with a thick, dark strain of melancholy running through.' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY A...

Un célibataire qui vibre au rythme des Beatles et du Kansai. Un chirurgien collectionneur d'aventures mais amoureux sans espoir. Un barman hanté par le fantôme de sa femme, ou encore le Samsa de Kafka épris d'une inconnue bossue. Neuf ans après Saules aveugles, femme endormie, Haruki Murakami retourne à la forme courte. Dans ce recueil comme un clin d'œil à Hemingway, des hommes cherchent des femmes qui les abandonnent ou qui sont sur le point de le faire. Entre mystère et fantaisie, ces récits d'isolement, rythmés par la musique, laissent entrevoir la magie du maître.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Sealed inside a steel sphere no wider than a coffin, the explorer Elstead is lowered five miles down into the lightless deep – further than any living man has ever gone – to see what the ocean floor conceals. His colleagues on the surface expect...

Representing every phase of E. M. Forster’s career as a writer, the fourteen stories in this book span six decades – from 1903-1957 or even later. Only two were published in his lifetime. Most of the remaining stories remained unpublished because of their overtly homosexual themes; instead...

La Main est une nouvelle fantastique de Guy de Maupassant parue en 1883. "Or, j'appris un jour qu'un Anglais venait de louer pour plusieurs années une petite villa au fond du golfe. Il avait amené avec lui un domestique français, pris à Marseille en passant. Bientôt tout le monde s'occupa de ce personnage singulier, qui vivait seul dans sa demeure, ne sortant que pour chasser et pour pêcher.

Ferdinand von Schirach erzählt von milden Frühsommermorgen, verregneten Nachmittagen und schwarzen Nächten. Seine Geschichten spielen in Berlin, Pamplona, Oslo, Tokio, Zürich, New York, Marrakesch, Taipeh und Wien. Es sind kurze Geschichten über die Dinge, die unser Leben verändern, über Zufälle, falsche Entscheidungen und die Flüchtigkeit des Glücks. Schirach erzählt von der Einsamkeit der Menschen, von der Kunst, der Literatur, dem Film und immer auch von der Liebe.

A través de las cinco historias que conforman este audiolibro, Jordi Sierra i Fabra se hace eco una vez más de la tan necesaria crítica social y llamada de atención a los temas que más preocupan en nuestro mundo actual. Este audiolibro es la secuela de "Material sensible: Cuentos crueles", y en él nos plantea algunos de los dramas de la humanidad: qué ocurre cuando se vende un niño en un país africano, por qué algunas familias rechazan el nacimiento de un bebé si es una niña, o las consecuencias del acceso a la armas en la vida de un niño, entre otros.

What defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the efforts of early pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe, the genre was originally synonymous with the anecdote or tale and seen more as entertainment than art. However it has become far more than that, and this Very Short Introduction considers afresh the form's ongoing innovations in plot construction, capacity for psychological insight, and ability to offer intensely concentrated perceptions.

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio. Whilst dining at the Bantrys, Miss Marple is asked to tell a murder mystery. She recounts the time she could tell from a man’s behaviour that he was planning to kill his wife. But at the time of the...

The expected never happens... a man calls unexpectedly on his mistress and sees another man leaving her flat. Accusing her of being unfaithful, he quarrels with her, strikes her. She dies. Leaving unseen, he tips off the police so that the other man is arrested and charged... Has he achieved "The Perfect Murder"? A tantalising opening to "A Twist in the Tale", a fantastic collection of short stories from bestselling author Jeffrey Archer.

There were times when Bertie Wooster, the fictional narrator of these stories, was thought of as being at least a trifle feather-brained. However, he had a valet who seemed to know everything about everything. These are among more than 300 short stories written by a man who began a short-lived career in banking after his college days. However, it didn’t take long for P. G. Wodehouse to decide he didn’t like that kind of job, and he began writing in whatever spare time he had.

In the not-too-distant future, 2185 AD, anti-gerisone is the new drug that stops ageing. People are now living into their hundreds until it's time to take their own big trip up yonder, and in the case of the Ford family and Gramps, the notable patriarch, families are living and fighting together in one home for much longer. Eventually there are no prisons, slums, asylums, poverty, wars, or disease. and 200 years later the population of the US is set at 40 million people. But since no one gets any older, someone must volunteer to die if a baby is born.

In Vietnamese: Nguyen Cong Hoan was cultivated in love with literature, cultivated with patriotism, protested against unjust oppression, and his eyes were full of splendor. When he started to write, he did not write poetry, but went straight into prose, as he thought prose is just as common as words. From the beginning, he sought to write in a simple, bright, easy to understand way. Due to reading poetry, he had a vision of life with a poet's soul, all of which has created his own style.

A Dublinesos, Jame Joyce reuneix quinze relats que recreen episodis de la seva ciutat. Les diverses històries s'encreuen i els personatges van i vénen, desapareixen i reapareixen, de manera que s'ha vist en aquest llibre una novel·la amb un únic personatge: Dublin.

You will find 10 easy-to-listen-to, engaging, and fun stories that will help you to expand your vocabulary and give you the tools to improve your grasp of the Spanish language.

In Spanish Stories for Beginners, Vol. 2: You will find 10 easily understandable, engaging, and fun stories that will not only help you to dramatically expand your vocabulary, but will give you the tools to improve your grasp of the Spanish language.

Ambrose Bierce brings to life the heart rendering stories of divided loyalties, splitting families, states, countries, and individuals. He writes of the glory in beginning and savagery in the doing. Here is a moving anti-war series of stories if ever there was one. A must read by all students of American History and Literature, though perhaps best understood by older adults.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads this Joseph Conrad classic tale of two white traders, Carlier and Kayerts, comical and pathetic, who move from polite society to the Congo, where they hope to become wealthy on the "Dark Continent" by spreading commerce and civilization to black Africa. But as was often the case, the longer they are away from civilization, the more the refinements of civilization slip away, along with their sanity.