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.
Gathering Irving's major short-fiction collections-from The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon to The Alhambra, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveller, Woolfert's Roost, and The Crayon Papers-this volume traces the formation of an American prose tradition in dialogue with European romance, travel writing, folklore, and genteel satire.
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.
Award-winning author, screenwriter, and editor Gary Phillips gathers his most thrilling, outlandish, and madcap pulp fiction in an 17-story collection that straddles the line between bizarro, science fiction, noir, and superhero classics.
»Ich bestehe aus Literatur« Franz KafkaMit seinen oft unvollendet gebliebenen, bis heute ihr Rätsel nicht offenbarenden Romanen, Geschichten und Parabeln ist Franz Kafka eine der maßgeblichen Säulenfiguren der modernen Literatur.
The stories in I'm Here dramatize life in the Alaskan interior, describing the difficult lives of people in Fairbanks, Alaska as they move through the long, brilliant days of summer into the deep winter months.
»Ich bestehe aus Literatur« Franz KafkaMit seinen oft unvollendet gebliebenen, bis heute ihr Rätsel nicht offenbarenden Romanen, Geschichten und Parabeln ist Franz Kafka eine der maßgeblichen Säulenfiguren der modernen Literatur.
From Atlantis to the Third Reich and beyond, these thirteen original tales of cerebral science fiction and horror explore the evils that abound when humanity wields extraordinary minds as weapons, whether to wage war or prevent it.
Whisna, el jardín de las luces es una fábula que acaso halle su inspiración más pura en las obras del gran Rudyard Kipling, no sólo por su exotismo, o la caracterización antropomórfica de algunos animales, al estilo del Libro de la selva, sino también por el poderoso hálito de misterio que la impregna, la búsqueda de un misticismo primigenio, a veces casi chamánico, que pervive, al margen de los vaivenes del mundo, en ese lugar mítico, oculto en la jungla, que es el secreto "jardín de las luces".
Criada por un rey y una reina estrictos e inflexibles, la delicada Victoria crece soñando que algún día será rescatada por un príncipe encantador tal y como ocurre en los cuentos de hadas.
"e;Brief Encounters"e; is a captivating collection of short stories that invites readers on a journey through a tapestry of human experiences, woven with intricacy and depth.
A collection of short fiction from one of nineteenth-century Russia's greatest novelists, the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
A groundbreaking voice in contemporary Latin American literature, Maria Fernanda Ampuero's writing is "e;raw and savage"e; as she confronts machismo, inequity, and violence in this acclaimed short story collection (Vistazo).
In their stunning fiction debut, queer Indonesian writer Norman Erikson Pasaribu blends together speculative fiction and dark absurdism, drawing from Batak and Christian cultural elements.
Escape de la Casa de Papel, el título elegido para esta obra, es resultado de un juego de palabras que representa a las organizaciones deseosas de escabullirse de la obsolescencia de circuitos burocráticos y recurrentes hacia la digitalización o informatización de sus procesos internos.
