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Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a café before eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend's kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, the author of Lolly Willowes reveals her mastery of the short story, celebrated by the New Yorker for decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner is a tragicomic chronicler of the heart's entanglements.

Disturbing and delightful, this tiny collection of tales offers ninety-nine glimpses into the darkest, strangest corners of the world we think we know. “A closed box contains many things; an opened box only one.” Clever, vanishing children. Parents who gnaw flesh beneath the floorboards...

Neue, aberwitzig Erzählungen aus einem Jahr außer Rand und Band, die genau da weitermachen, wo 1913 – Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts aufhört! Florian Illies erzählt mit Poesie, Witz und sprachlicher Eleganz von seinen neuen Funden aus dem letzten Jahr vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg: Hermann Hesse flieht auf Skiern aus seiner Ehe, Marcel Proust besticht seine Kritiker mit Gebäck, Giacomo Puccini hat keine Lust mehr auf ein Duell – und Rilke hat natürlich wieder Schnupfen, diesmal in Bad Rippoldsau.

Dieses Hörbuch enthält folgende Erzählungen: Crainquebille, Putois, Gedanken eines Hundes, Die Krawatte, Die großen Manöver von Montil, Der verkannte Patriot, Das doppelte Gesicht, Der Siegelring, Die Signora Chiara, Die rechtschaffenen Richter, Der Christ des Ozeans, Ein Traum, Sancta Justitia, Hausdiebstahl, Der kleine Schornsteinfeger. Die Schriften der französischen Prosa-Ikone Anatole France wurden zu Beginn des letzten Jahrhunderts vom Vatikan auf den Index verbotener Bücher gesetzt.

Wasteland Girls is a collection of lyrical, incisive and luminous stories by the Sunday Times bestselling author of Tall Bones and Our Last Wild Days. These stunningly powerful stories explore the wildness and beauty of the American heartlands, a place where lives are lived on the margins, but...

Karen King-Aribisala brilliantly transposes Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to modern-day Nigeria in this magnificent tale of forty very different travellers thrown together on a bus journey from Lagos to the new capital, Abuja. Carefully selected by their hostess – an enigmatic figure who calls...

Lose track of time in the world of Jodi Taylor with eight eclectic and hilarious short stories from St Mary's, Time Police HQ and Frogmorton Farm - collected together for the very first time. Includes two brand-new short stories, exclusively published first in this collection. --- Christmas Pie...

"Exquisite writer" (Julia Phillips), psychiatrist, and conjurer of the uncanny Joanna Pearson returns to the short story with virtuosic intensity, insight, and intimacy. The stories in More Happy Love speak to the many faces of mid-life's quiet revolt. A psychiatrist meets her late husband’s...

A magnificent collection that traces the lives of young, working-class people navigating love, grief, survival, and the pursuit of something more In eight breathtaking stories, Locals explores what we owe each other as children, parents, lovers, and friends—and what it means to find a sense of...

Dieses Hörbuch enthält folgende Erzählungen: Der Bajazzo, Der Weg zum Friedhof, Wälsungenblut, Der Kleiderschrank, Enttäuschung, Der kleine Herr Friedemann, Beim Propheten, Schwere Stunde, Tristan, Mario und der Zauberer. In der Stilistik Thomas Manns liegt dieses markant-prägnant-charmante Element, das einen sofort in seinen Bann zieht. Man sieht dadurch jede beschriebene Szene sofort bildlich vor dem geistigen Auge Gestalt annehmen und kann die Gefühle und Stimmungen der einzelnen Charaktere sehr gut nachempfinden.

An unforgettable, piercingly intimate collection from a celebrated, once-in-a-generation writer whose stories are “powerhouses of feeling and depth” (Mary Gaitskill) Across the sixteen short stories in Crush, the acclaimed poet and fiction writer Souvankham Thammavongsa makes a stunning...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...