In English for the first time, the collection that launched Jean Ray's reputation as the Belgian master of the weird taleAfter the commercial failure of his 1931 collection of fantastical stories Cruise of Shadows, Jean Ray spent the next decade writing and publishing under other names in the stifling atmosphere of Ghent.
Ce livre est une création de Manuel Garcia, une véritable mine de plaisirs interdits et de rencontres passionnées, spécialement conçue pour satisfaire les appétits érotiques les plus audacieux des lecteurs gays adultes.
From the award-winning pen of Achmat Dangor comes a subtle and multi-layered collection of short stories that showcases an unusual and illuminating take on 'the struggle years', and how the past impacts on us in a variety of ways.
In these stories, readers will meet women like: the fallen starlet who revives her career by voicing a wretched dog-man in an animated horror film; the surrogate nearing her due date who, hoping for greater profit, runs off to Mexico with her valuable cargo; the meals-on-wheels driver with an eating disorder who survives on bits picked from the dinners of her clients; the casting agent who hires a performance artist to nurse her new baby; the young professional who, seeking eligibility for an exclusive dating service, pretends severe colorblindness; the dangerously protective mother who attempts to destroy her child's faith in his physical senses.
After performing a perilous service for the future Emperor, the peasant Chen Hsi-wei turns down the customary rewards in favor of receiving an education.
In the late summer of 1978, Allen Ginsberg and Arthur Russell left the building they shared in New York City to spend a week together in the Catskill Mountains.
Once upon a time, the stories that came to be known as ';fairy tales' were cultivated to entertain adults more than children; it was only later that they were tamed and pruned into less thorny versions intended for youngsters.
Las circunstancias difíciles han rodeado la vida del autor de Cuentos de la calle Marne, obra que se desglosa en varios tomos y que este, el tercer tomo, reúne una serie de relatos concebidos durante su reclusión psiquiática.
Er galt als »König der Romantik«, brachte Deutschland mit seinen Übersetzungen Shakespeare und Cervantes nahe, war genialer Entdecker, Förderer, Vorleser – doch seine eigenen frühen Erzählungen, in denen er Wahnsinn, Raserei, Furcht und Schrecken literaturfähig macht, gilt es erst noch zu entdecken.
In her debut short story collection, Quednau offers unsettling examinations of "e;what really happened"e; with rich, complex characters that might equally arouse our suspicions or sympathy: we pay attention.
Featuring an anonymous client and a trail of murderous crimes, delve into the thrilling depths of Victorian England in this short Sherlock Holmes story.
Um homem capaz de encontrar dinheiro no chão, a atriz que encanta o público apenas com uma leitura silenciosa, o poeta que desperta a paixão na mulher amada com as palavras.
Named one of Electric Literature 25 Best Novels of 2014, here is "e;a darkly funny romp through some collective nightmare version of Baltimore"e; (AskMen.
In 1951 Randolph Turpin defeated Sugar Ray Robinson to win the World Middleweight Championship and temporarily became one of the most famous sportsmen in Britain.
Estos textos breves que editamos por primera vez compilados en nuestros idioma y que en su origen fueron publicados en la revista Atlantic Monthly a principios del siglo XX, narran la infancia y juventud de Zitkala-Ša y la lucha por encontrar su propio espíritu en un mundo en que se veía presionada para dejar a un lado su identidad nativoamericana.
Los relatos de esta antología no son sexis, no hablan sobre el placer de las mujeres en el sexo, sino que abren un diálogo hacia otra problemática: la falta de placer y de erotismo en las relaciones sexoafectivas.
Arthur Conan Doyle famously killed off Sherlock Holmes in 1893, in the short story 'The Final Problem', but was tempted to bring him back to life ten years later, in the thirteen tales that comprise The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
