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The Russian novel has a reputation that is immense, both in narrative and in length. Unquestionably though the ideas, themes and characters make many novels rightly revered as world class, as icons of literature. Whilst Tolstoy, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Pushkin and Chekhov are a given in any Russian collection we also explore and include Andreyev, Korolenko, Turgenev, Blavatsky and many others to create a world rich and dense across a sprawling landscape of diverse people, riddled with the class and unfairness in perhaps some of the most turbulent times that Russia has ever experienced.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. A new century dawns, one in which America would become pre-eminent as its industrial might and military power rose above all others. In literature too its authors tackled new forms and new ideas, they shied away from little, immersing themselves and their readers in the promise of a new Century.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. The zenith of Empire is bookended by two catastrophic wars that slaughter vast swathes of humanity. And yet authors manage to record and create fragile libraries of humanity, its talents, its dreams and increasingly its nightmares.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow on 11th November, 1821 to distinguished multi-ethnic parents from a Lithuanian background. His childhood years were at the family home in hospital grounds which also contained an orphanage, an insane asylum and a cemetery for criminals. The young Fyodor often disobeyed his father by talking to the ill in the hospital gardens. In 1846 he published his first novel ‘Poor Cow’ to great literary acclaim. As he began his next work he was arrested and incarcerated for treason and participation in the political and literary Petrashevsky Circle.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. For America, as the century closes, she is becoming less isolated. Her industrial might, her rising military power are pulling her ever closer into the entangled globe of nations. Her authors flex ideas and lexicons with riveting tales of this astonishing society.

Based on the theme ‘The Art of Listening’, the fifth year of the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation short story writing competition attracted a record number of entries. Three finalist stories were chosen by the special Jane Austen Literacy Foundation judging panel including Caroline Jane Knight (Jane Austen’s fifth great niece and the Founder of the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation), Susannah Harker (Jane Bennet, BBC Television Pride & Prejudice 1995) and Natalie Jenner (International bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society) and published online for a public vote to choose the winner.

വായനക്കാരുടെ ഹൃദയത്തിലേക്ക് ഭീതിയുടെ നഖമുനകൾ ആഴ്ത്തിയിറക്കുന്ന ഭീകരകഥകൾ. കാലാതിവർത്തിയായി നിലകൊള്ളുന്ന ക്ലാസിക് ഹൊറർ കഥകളുടെ വിശിഷ്ട സമാഹാരം. നോർഫക്കിലെ ഭീകര അനുഭവങ്ങൾ, പ്രേതവാഹനം, ദുർഭൂതം, ഉടലില്ലാത്ത തല, ശവമോഷ്ടാക്കൾ, ഡ്രാക്കുളയുടെ അതിഥി തുടങ്ങിയ ഇരുപത് ഭീതിയുണർത്തും കഥകൾ.

Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of more than twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of honored crime writers Agatha Christie, Malice Domestic, Volume 6 jumps the pond between Britain and America to deliver 100 percent pure suspense in all its spine-tingling glory. The ten mysteries included here are read by Stephanie Beacham, Christopher Cazenove, Reed Diamond, Judy Geeson, Patrick Macnee, and Emmy winners Juliet Mills and William Windom.

"മാധവികുട്ടി രചിച്ച കടൽ മയൂരം, രാത്രിയുടെ പദവിന്യാസം, ആട്ടുകട്ടിൽ എന്നീ കഥകൾ അടങ്ങുന്ന സമാഹാരമാണ് ഇത്.

Celebrate a decade of Critical Role with this anthology featuring the perspectives of ten characters who fought alongside – and against – Vox Machina, with a foreword by cast member Liam O’Brien. In these ten stories, see the legendary adventuring party anew through the eyes of some of the most memorable characters whose lives were touched by Vox Machina.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】小泉八雲（ラフカディオ・ハーン）夫人である著者が綴った、八雲に関する記録。八雲が日本へ渡ったのは明治23年のことである。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】「からたち」は、古くから垣根として使われた植物であり、茨のような鋭い棘を持つ。特に明治や大正時代の建物や寺院に多く見られるが、現代の東京では急速に姿を消しつつある。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】その夜、省線電車で寒さに震えていた「僕」は、ある男から外套を貰う。男は人から貰う側より与える方になりたいという。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】ある街道の断崖に鶺鴒が巣を作り、三羽の雛を育てていた。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】ある時、漁師が海で大きなヒラメを釣る。ヒラメが自分は魔法をかけられた王子だと言うので逃がしてあげる。漁師は小屋に帰り、その出来事をおかみさんに話す。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】”私”と弟は、亡き父の遺骨を郷里へ送り、菩提寺で葬儀を執り行うために準備を進めていた。父は東京で弟一家と暮らしていたが、持病の脚気が悪化し亡くなった。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】坂口安吾は、葬式や通夜といった儀式を無意味で退屈なものとし、葬式に出席しない主義を貫いている。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】寺田は京都生まれの歴史教師で、一途で生真面目な性格だった。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】下野富田村の菊世は、峯の寺に住む阿闍利を深く尊敬し、定期的に供物を届けていた。阿闍利は清廉な暮らしを送り、村人たちに安らぎを与える存在である。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】理由のある怪談と理由のない怪談が紹介される。前者は因縁や怨霊に基づくものであり、後者は天狗や魔の仕業として説明されることが多い。