Short stories

Es sind Geschichten vom Ausbrechen aus dem gewohnten Leben und von Ereignissen, die alles ins Wanken bringen: Viola Rohner beherrscht es, auf wenigen Seiten ganze Schicksale zu kondensieren.

Das neue Buch des amerikanischen Literaturstars Dave EggersJunge Amerikaner, die sich in ihrem Vaterland alles andere als zu Hause fühlen, bevölkern die Geschichten in Dave Eggers' Erzählungsband.

Life Is ShortArt Is Shorter is not just the first anthology to gather both mini-essays and short-short stories; readers, writers, and teachers will get will get an anthology; a courses worth of writing exercises; a rally for compression, concision, and velocity in an increasingly digital, post-religious age; and a meditation on the brevity of human existence.

A woman who cannot leave her house loses everything, her only companion a garrulous radio talk show host; a house fire sets into motion the end of a marriage; a teenage girl cannot extract herself from a doomed relationship with a heroin addict.

Touch Me Not (1887) is a novel by Jose Rizal.

From childhood on, Ernest Hemingway was a passionate fisherman.

Dos mujeres articulan décadas de amistad en torno a la pizza.

Celebrate the resilience of the human spirit through the stories of everydayspeople whose ordeals allowed them to experience first-hand the healing powersof second chances.

First published as a special issue of Robin Dudding' s literary magazine Islands (Vol.

*Winner of the Rome Prize for Literature 2018-19*Named one of the Best Books of the Year -BookforumSynopsisWith all the brilliance, bravado, and wit of his award-winning debut, A Questionable Shape, Bennett Sims returns with an equally ambitious and wide-ranging collection of stories.

With a voice that is both sophisticated and deeply Southern, author John Rowell evokes the memory of the great Truman Capote in this wonderful collection of short stories, peopled with unforgettable, endearing characters and filled with wry insights.

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE STORY PRIZE Named a BEST BOOK OF 2022 by Oprah Daily, Vogue, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and Electric Lit From a prizewinning author comes an ';electric.

Praise for Sallie Bingham:"e;Sallie Bingham binds her collection together with sheer talent.

Immerse yourself in the rich storytelling tradition of Ancient Egypt with Flinders Petrie's second collection of tales.

First published in 1878, this book contains volume IV of "e;Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag"e;, a six-volume collection of classic children's stories by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888).

Carrer Marsala, which won prizes from the City of Barcelona and the Generalitat de Catalunya-neither of which Bauca bothered to accept-is a relentless monologue delivered by a paranoid hypochondriac obsessed with dental hygiene, sex, and his own squalid rooms in Barcelona.

The people in these eight interlaced stories are "e;bound together by the worst sort of grief,"e; the kind that can devour you after someone close takes his or her own life.

Written by Victor Hugo in 1834, "e;Claude Gueux"e; is a short story considered to be an example of early 'true crime' fiction.

Folk tales take us beyond our own boundaries into unknown lands.

A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of the masters of the Golden Age - thrills, spills and chills perfect for Halloween.

This 2006 collection of short stories is in line with the unsettling, engrossing style of Has other two collections that have been translated into English, the critical and commercial successes Flowers of Mold and Bluebeards First Wife.

Vom Autor des Bestsellers »Monsieur Ibrahim und die Blumen des Koran«Eine Frau besucht den Mörder ihrer Tochter über Jahre im Gefängnis.

An essential anthology of fifteen short stories which provides students with an international selection of works by acclaimed modern writers: from Nobel Laureates (Nadine Gordimer, V.

The western culture of divorce is slowly creeping into our society.

A series of semi-autobiographical sketches and stories detailing life in Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1930s and '40s.

The stolid landscape of Chicago turns dreamlike and otherworldly in these "e;miraculous tales .

The Laughing Prince; A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales.

From the inventor of detective fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher is a slow-burn masterpiece of gothic horror, full of supernatural forces and chilling psychoanalysis.

This early work by Jerome K.

Food can bring together families, communities, and cultures.

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A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of the masters of the Golden Age - thrills, spills and chills perfect for Halloween.

In this short story from the "e;stunning"e; collection More of this World, Maybe Another, a young man grapples with childhood trauma as he comes of age (Dorothy Allison, award-winning author of Bastard Out of California).

What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world?

All 51 Hercule Poirot short stories presented in chonological order in a single volume - plus a bonus story not seen for more than 70 years.

'A thrill for the sickos among us' JIA TOLENTINO'Utterly inimitable' RAVEN LEILANI'Unrelentingly brutal and gut-bustingly funny and spares no one' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO'Symbiotically serious and funny' MEGAN NOLAN'The funniest, darkest thing' ST VINCENTLONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTIONAn audacious, original and unforgettable novel-in-stories that follows a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection throws their lives and relationships into chaos.

Perhaps more than any region, the American South is haunted by the mythology of the vampire, returned from the dead to drain life from the living.

An Italian Renaissance Sextet is a collection of six tales offering a unique view of the history of Renaissance Italy, with fiction and fictional modes becoming gateways to a real, historical world.

Achy Obejas writes stories about uprooted people.

A Quill & Quire Best Book of the YearA Globe & Mail Best Short Fiction TitleA National Post Best Short Fiction TitleA January Magazine Best Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2014 Ethel Wilson Fiction PrizeLonglisted for the 2014 Frank O'Connor Award"e;Complicated, passionate, genuine.

Stories take us into other worlds so that we may experience our own more deeply.

This early work by Jerome K.

* A married woman has a BDSM-tinged encounter at a work conference* Two young boys on a sleepover feel the first stirrings of desire* In an artificially generated afterlife, anything can be sexual if you want it to be* A young widow on a sleeper train shelters a criminal in her carriage* A bisexual woman cheats on her wife with a baker* Anyone can hire a holographic gigolo in 2098 - but one client gets a lot closer than she'd intended* Female friends, sharing a hotel room, give in to long-repressed feelings* The Rapunzel myth is rewritten.

For more than a decade, the literary quarterly Glimmer Train has sought out and championed the most compelling short fiction written today, by both established luminaries and fresh new voices.

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS OVERCOMING YOUR CHILD'S FEARS AND WORRIESDoes your child suffer from fears and worries that affect their behaviour or keep them awake at night?

Journalist Asa Lee Pinion pursues the elusive Count Raoul De Marillac, on the way he encounters four of the Count's friends calling themselves "e;The Club of Men Misunderstood"e;.