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The eight stories here show Wells in various moods and foreshadow his celebrity. These are uncanny tales, resonating strangely, despite arising from ordinary thoughts, interactions, and memories. Wells shows just how fantastic the everyday can be, if one only pauses to reflect on missed chances, suggestions of what might have been, bleak premonitions of blessed futures whose utopian promise is destroyed by new forms of war.

Short Horror Stories Collection: 3 Terrifying Tales for Sleepless Nights will drag you deep into a vortex of PSYCHOLOGICAL TERROR that linger long after the final word.

The Last Leaf is a short story by O. Henry published in his 1907 collection The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories. The story first appeared on October 15, 1905, in the New York World. The scene of the story of The Last Leaf is the Greenwich artist colony in New York City. Over the past century, it has developed from a poor literati settlement to a world-famous art center and tourist attraction.

Cuentos modernos sobre la felicidad, la compasión y el amor que nos iluminarán y entretendrán. Durante sus viajes y su labor como monje budista en los últimos 30 años, Ajahn Brahm ha reunido una gran cantidad de historias conmovedoras, divertidas y profundas. Si bien la filosofía...

The correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer reveals, piece by piece, the painful details of a devastating affair between their spouses. With each commiserating scratch of the pen, they confess their fears and bare their souls. They share the bewilderment over how things went so wrong and come to wonder where to go from here. Told entirely through the letters of two comforting strangers and those of two illicit lovers, Evidence of the Affair explores the complex nature of the heart. And ultimately, for one woman, how liberating it can be when it’s broken.

In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt-of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown ("The Soul Is Not a Smithy"). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity.

The unabridged, digital audiobook edition of "Man from the South", a short, sharp, chilling story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale, read by the actor Stephen Mangan. In "Man from the South", Roald Dahl, one of the world’s favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a man takes part in a very unusual bet, one with appalling consequences.... "Man from the South" is taken from the short story collection Someone Like You.

هذا الكتاب هو الجزء الثاني لكتاب )يعني إيه راجل( الصادر عام ٢٠١١ ولكنه ليس إعادة طبع لإصدار قديم، ولكنه جزء ثاني برؤية مختلفة لزمان اختلفت فيه التعريفات، فأصبح من...

"Die Nacht, die Lichter" ist ein literarisches Panoptikum von Glückssuchern, Losern, Träumern und Heimatlosen - packend, authentisch und gewaltig. Clemens Meyer erzählt in seinen Geschichten von der Hoffnung, einmal im Leben den großen Gewinn einzustreichen, von verpasster Liebe, von Außenseitern, die den Weg zu sich selbst suchen. Der preisgekrönte Senkrechtstarter der Literaturszene trifft nicht nur gekonnt die Töne, sondern vor allem den Nerv der Zeit.

Ranging from Texas, to Chile, to New Mexico and New York, in this new collection Berlin writes about the good, the bad and everything in between: struggling young mothers, husbands who pack their bags and leave in the middle of the night, wives looking back at their first marriage from the distance of their second.... Evening in Paradise is a careful selection from Lucia Berlin's remaining stories - a jewel box follow-up for her hungry fans.

J. R. R. Tolkien was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor best known as the author of fantasy works like "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings." Listen as Tolkien reads "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil," "The Hoard," "Perry-The-Winkle," and "The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon." Also included is a reading of "A Elbereth Gilthoniel" in Elvish and "The Road Goes Ever on," sung by William Elvin with music by Donald Swann.

El mundo de Sol está habitado por Antonio, su Toño, y por sus padres; también por Luna, la radio y Bollín. La mujer de al lado es una historia sobre la memoria, la soledad y la inesperada fuerza que reside en los rincones más frágiles del corazón.

David Huerta cree en el talante subversivo de la gente que lee libros. La certeza de que hay algo revolucionario en la relación del lector con la página escrita anima esta colección de ensayos y reseñas, publicados entre 2001 y 2008 en el suplemento Hoja por Hoja , ejemplos nítidos de cómo se pueden colocar las obras del ayer en la coyuntura presente o de qué debe hacerse para convertir un párrafo aislado, un verso huérfano, en la clave para entender un fragmento de la realidad.

En los cuentos de Julio Cortázar, el juego es cosa seria: está en la estructura de los relatos, en el fino tejido de los diversos planos narrativos e incluso en las reglas que se imponen los propios personajes a riesgo de pagar con la vida. Acaso ello explique el gusto cortazariano por la transgresión, esa tendencia a disolver el orden establecido.

Twisted Tales takes us through scenes of familiar human conditions. From complete inebriation through a marriage without love via a gambling addiction ruining lives past the sometimes mean streets of Hamburg then onto to the sunshine of Thailand.

"وإذا كان الشيء بالشيء يذكر، فالشيء بالشيء يحَّس... فما بالك والشباب شباب مصطفى والطرف الآخر صاحبة هذا القوام والوجه والعيون .. سوزان! أربعة عيون وكل ما سواها عدم،...

Un periodista freelance que busca el dinero para comprarle un ataúd a su difunto padre, un desempleado cuya esperanza gira alrededor de un sofá abandonado frente a su casa, un adolescente que encuentra el amor gracias a la adicción al NyQuil de su padre, un hombre desesperado que roba una pistola de agua para su hijo y protagoniza un milagro equivocado: así es la vida en Levittown, uno de los proyectos suburbanos más grandes del Caribe.

What is a sensitive classical pianist doing in a sleazy WWII Parisian cabaret? Why is he keeping his Chopin sheet music inside the piano bench every night? Which two people from his past have scarred his soul forever? Winter Pale, a young beautiful foreigner, a girl with a painful past of her own, recounts his story and, with it, delves deep into her own soul.

Real English-speaking people don’t speak like your textbook…so it’s no wonder you feel unprepared when it’s your turn to speak! Try the StoryLearning method, and dive into a real-world, gripping drama between six characters that helps you learn authentic spoken English in the process.

Letters from the Olive Tree is a literary historical fiction short story set in the early twentieth century. Giovanni Olivi, the second son of a proud but impoverished Tuscan farming family, is bound by tradition and cut off from inheritance. He leaves behind the only life he’s known and the woman he loves, Ersilia Innocenti, in search of opportunity in America, promising to make a life abroad and one day send for her.