Walter Serner's first story collection, published in German in 1921, brought to narrative form the philosophy of his earlier Dada manifesto/handbook, Last Loosening: A Handbook for the Con Artist & Those Who Wish to Be One-life is a con job and demands the skills of a swindler.
Originally published in French in 1925, Whiskey Tales immediately established the reputation of the Belgian master of the weird, Jean Ray (1887-1964), whose writings in the coming years would come to chart out a literary meeting ground between H.
Zwei Meistererzählungen Thomas Manns in einem Band »Tonio Kröger« enthält nicht nur »das ganze Gefühl meiner Jugend«, wie Thomas Mann über seine berühmte Erzählung aus dem Jahr 1903 schreibt.
Ein tief in der japanischen Kultur verankerter Brauch ist das Hanami-Fest, bei dem man im Frühling in Parks oder an Flüssen zusammenkommt, um der Blüte der japanischen Kirschblüte (Sakura) beizuwohnen.
Si bien Dostoievski alcanzó la fama gracias a novelas monumentales como Crimen y castigo o Los hermanos Karamázov, sus cuentos, menos conocidos para el lector hispanohablante, tienen también un valor extraordinario.
An alien race makes a chilling first impression in this story that "e;evokes difficult moral issues"e; from the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author (SF Site).
The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author delivers a prescient tale that "e;explores the inanity of conformity with a hopelessly superficial future humankind"e; (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Sagittae Angelorum, "e;arrows of angels,"e; offers a collection of literary works in poetry, short stories, and drama by four innovative authors--Jeremy Joosten, Joelle Joosten, Dominic Nootebos, and Lucas Smith.
Set sail on the high seas with this collection of 21 unforgettable short stories featuring dashing rogues, daring rebels, and wily pirates searching for treasures of all kinds, including a forgotten journal, a heavenly sword, a young girl's lucky sock, and even the Fountain of Youth.
Este es el séptimo tomo de la serie Cuentos de la calle Marne, en los cuales se compendia la escritura llevada a cabo durante treinta años por Ernesto Thomas González (1968), desde 1989, hasta el 2018.
Singular, es una colección de cuentos de ciencia ficción que plantean al lector una perspectiva recelosa hacia un futuro misterioso, lleno de interrogantes.
Com sua prosa lírica e humor perspicaz, Coelho Neto retratou magistralmente a efervescência das mudanças sociais no Brasil do final do século XIX, utilizando-se da crônica para reivindicar melhorias cidadãs, abordar questões de segurança e urbanização, além de enaltecer as sutilezas do cotidiano e a vida das pessoas comuns.
Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and destiny.
Verwegen, rotzig, zart: Fragile Intimität und weibliche Selbstfindung in einer Welt voller UngewissheitenEine junge Frau trifft ihren ersten Freund – und dessen Hund Petal, der bald nur noch auf sie hört.
पुस्तक 'इन्द्रधनुष' में विभिन्न प्रकार की प्रेम कहानियों को पेश किया गया है। यह एक रोमांचक संग्रह है, जो आधुनिक युवा ज़माने के प्यार और रिश्तों के विविधता को प्रस्तुत करता है। यह संग्रह दस रोमांचक और संवेदनशील कविताओं का समावेश करता है, जो आकर्षण, सच्चे प्यार, दोस्ती, विवाह, और अनजाने संबंधों की कहानियों को एक खास रूप से बयां करती हैं।यह संग्रह लेखिका 'श्राबोनी बोस' द्वारा लिखा गया है, जो अपनी अनूठी शैली और लेखनी के लिए प्रसिद्ध हैं। संग्रह के प्रमुख विषयों में प्रेम, दोस्ती, अनजाना प्यार, विवाह, त्याग और विविध संबंध शामिल हैं, जो आपके दिल की तारों को छूने के लिए तैयार हैं।इस सुंदर संग्रह को पढ़कर आप अपने जीवन के रिश्तों को समझने और महसूस करने के नए अंशों को खोजेंगे। यह संग्रह आपके मन को प्रेरित करेगा, आपको संबल देगा और आपको प्यार की सार्थकता का अनुभव कराएगा।"
Playful, kinetic, and devastating in turn, You Were Watching from the Sand is a collection in which Haitian men, women, and children who find their lives cleaved by the interminably strange bite back at the bizarre with their own oddities.
The contributors of this anthology make up a wide spectrum of South Africans: black, white, men and women, established and budding who write in either English or Afrikaans.
Playful, kinetic, and devastating in turn, You Were Watching from the Sand is a collection in which Haitian men, women, and children who find their lives cleaved by the interminably strange bite back at the bizarre with their own oddities.
Isaac Asimov's Robot series - from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels - contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction.
Bodies from the Library brings into the daylight the forgotten, the lost and the unknown, and the 2023 volume is another indispensable collection for crime fans.
A wonderful new collection of tales exploring Henry James's favourite 'international theme': the experiences of Americans in Europe, and the meeting of the old world and new.
Twenty-one genre-bending stories of bestial transformation, accidental murder, erotically-challenged dictatorship, and other tales of darkness, absurdity, and confusion.
