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Thomas Mann's later short stories published between 1925 and 1953 explore his abiding interest in human nature and his surroundings. Disorder and Early Sorrow and Mario and the Magician originate from Mann's own experiences: domestic life at the height of inflation under the early Weimar...

The Dance of the Seagull is the fifteenth darkly humorous adventure starring Inspector Montalbano from bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. Inspector Montalbano is awake at dawn, sitting on his porch, when his attention is caught by a seagull which falls from the sky, performing a strange dance...

Satire, Zeitkritik & scharfsinniger Humor – ausgewählte Texte von Kurt Tucholsky aus den Jahren des Umbruchs nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, eindrucksvoll gesprochen von Jürgen Fritsche. Über das Hörbuch: Mit seinen Glossen, Gedichten und satirischen Texten wurde Kurt Tucholsky zu einer der...

With a new introduction by Colm Toibin. From one of the greatest story writers of our time, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, two O. Henry Prizes, and the celebrated author of Brokeback Mountain, comes a collection that includes three new stories and the most iconic stories of Annie Proulx’s...

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...

Humor, Gesellschaftskritik & brillante Beobachtungen – eine Auswahl der schönsten Texte von Kurt Tucholsky, pointiert gesprochen von Jürgen Fritsche. Über das Hörbuch: Mit seinen Glossen, Essays und Kurzgeschichten gehört Kurt Tucholsky zu den scharfsinnigsten und unterhaltsamsten...

Geheimnisse, Schuld & das Unheimliche – acht meisterhafte Kurzgeschichten von Nathaniel Hawthorne, atmosphärisch gesprochen von Jürgen Fritsche. Diese Sammlung vereint acht eindrucksvolle Geschichten voller psychologischer Tiefe, düsterer Symbolik und geheimnisvoller Atmosphäre. Zwischen Traum und Wirklichkeit, Schuld und Versuchung entfaltet Hawthorne seine unverwechselbare Welt des Rätselhaften und Moralischen. Hawthorne verbindet phantastische Motive mit feiner Menschenkenntnis und erschafft zeitlose Geschichten über Gewissen, Isolation und die dunklen Seiten der menschlichen Seele.

A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child. ‘Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and David would reach for each other’s hand, and smile, and breathe...

The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing’s first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid. Set in Rhodesia, ‘The Grass is Singing’ tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who...

This bold and genre-defying prose debut by the prizewinning poet incorporates social, historical, and supernatural elements to create a collection that is both contemporary and timeless, communal and deeply intimate Kimberly Blaeser's singular stories center Anishinaabe characters who bring...

The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick's short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre. This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick's work includes the influential 'We Can Remember It For You Wholesale' and 'The Electric Ant', as well as a litany of...

A wintry collection of Longmire stories by the beloved author of the New York Times bestselling series Walt Longmire, sheriff of Absaroka County, investigates a series of eccentric small-town crises in fifteen holiday-inspired stories. An old dog mysteriously escapes the animal shelter night...

Ein unvergessliches Weihnachtsfest, dreimal Zeit sich zu verlieben Die romantischste Zeit des Jahres lässt die Herzen dreier Paare in miteinander verbundenen Liebesgeschichten höherschlagen. Da ist zum Beispiel Lauren, die ihren Augen nicht traut, als sie in Little Christmas eintrifft: Die...

Tales of the Samurai collects together a series of gripping stories of Japan's legendary warrior class. Bringing to life their way of life and the code of honour known as bushido that drove them, these stories provide an extraordinary window into feudal Japanese society. Filled with epic battles, daring deeds and incredible sacrifice, these tales expertly combine historical fact with legendary storytelling.

'Profoundly surreal, intensely melancholic and boldly exploratory.' - DAMODAR MAUZO 'N. Prabhakaran's tales restore our sense of delight, not just in this literary form but in the crying human need for retrieving, remembering, retelling experience.' - ANJUM HASAN 'Vividly imagined and narrated...

In the linked stories of Reservoir Bitches, 13 Mexican women prod the bitch that is Life as they fight, sew, skirt, cheat, cry and lie their way through their tangled circumstances. From the all-powerful daughter of a cartel boss to the victim of transfemicide, from a houseful of spinster seamstresses to a socialite who supports her politician husband by faking Indigenous roots, these women spit on their own reduction and invent new ways to survive, telling their stories in bold, unapologetic voices.

Dans ce recueil de romans et contes, Théophile Gautier, poète et romancier du XIXe siècle, déploie un art singulier où l’amour frôle le désespoir et où l’élan vital se heurte à la mélancolie. Entre rêve et réalité, le fantastique affleure, faisant vaciller les certitudes; les images sont ciselées, la phrase musicale, la beauté poursuivie comme un mirage.

Au fil d’une suite de récits, Alphonse Daudet explore les liens fragiles entre l’art et la vie privée: la notoriété qui grise et tourmente, la fidélité mise à l’épreuve, les cancans qui enflent, l’amour et le style qui façonnent un destin. Dans ces femmes d’artistes se dessinent des intérieurs où l’atelier côtoie la coulisse des sentiments, entre admiration, jalousie et dévouement.

Dans ces nouvelles aux demi-teintes, E. Edouard Tavernier prête voix aux existences modestes et aux hasards de la rue. On y croise Plutarque, ainsi baptisé un soir chez un marchand de vins pour un livre ramassé devant un lycée; sous l’averse qui lave les trottoirs et tient à distance promeneurs et sergents de ville, les gueux trouvent le loisir de s’abriter sous la tente d’un café.

Sous un ciel chauffé à blanc, où l’ombre prend des teintes de pervenche, Jean Aicard saisit un été de lumière et de poussière, de parfums d’immortelles et de voix villageoises. En tableaux brefs et sensibles, il fait renaître le potier voisin, le savetier, le maçon; la bastide et le village; la rudesse de l’azur et le rêve obstiné d’un peu d’ombre.