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The extraordinary range of work gathered here is united by a fascination with how everyday interactions can transform our lives in unpredictable ways. These are stories of lonely people, outcasts and misfits, and the ghosts that inhabit our intimate spaces. The result is a compelling, arresting and, at times, devastating collection – not least in the title story, which was inspired by the tragic true events of the 1943 Cavan orphanage fire.

On the storm-swollen Aisne in northeastern France, an alcoholic actor combats both his demons and nature’s tempests. Along the Main and Rhine in Germany, a kindhearted logger has but one wish: to travel with the lumber from his small Franconian hometown to the end of the river in the Netherlands, where it feeds into the majestic North Sea. In a bucolic vale in the French region of Brittany, two families, divided by religion and an unnamed stream, sustain a centuries-old feud, their resolve no match for the constantly shifting flow of water.

Elizabeth Gaskell, famed author of Cranford, is cherished for her incise social observations and portrayals of the changing nature of English life through the Industrial Revolution of the Victorian era. In Cousin Phillis, Paul Manning has only recently left home to work on the railway line for the dashing Mr Holdsworth. Lodging with an Independent Minister on the outskirts of London, he becomes acquainted with his distant cousins, where he is delighted to meet his genial relations, and not least his cousin Phyllis

A window dresser who sees the world as a creative playground. A Jewish grandmother's try as Chaucer's Wife of Bath. A look at the perils of online dating. A struggling artist examining her life. Bestselling author Meredith Allard (The Loving Husband Series, When It Rained at Hembry Castle) presents her first short story collection.

Kafka Açlık Sanatçısı nı ilk olarak 1922 yılında Die neue Rundschau adlı Alman edebiyat dergisinde hikaye olarak yayımladı. Açlık Sanatçısı'nın da içinde olduğu bu grup, Kafka'nın bizzat yayına hazırladığı son hikayeleriydi. Açlık bir sanat olabilir mi? Sanatçının kendini 'sanatçı' hissetmesi ya da 'var olduğunu' düşünmesi tamamen insanların onun sanatına olan ilgileri ile doğru orantılı mıdır? Aynı kafesete bir insan mı yoksa bir panter mi daha çok ilgi çeker? Panterden zevk almak için hiçbir felsefeye gerek yoktur ve fizikselliği açlık sanatçısından çok daha etkileyicidir.

Before the Hooded. Before Hurnungaz and Wulfrun of Scarsdale and before Caerne, the Sheriff of Nottingham and the Black Bishop. William of Gisborough is a young man, serving in the King's Army, fighting in the Holy Land. He is making a name for himself as a capable and competent warrior, serving under Captain Hwitbei. He believes in the cause, in the Holy War. One night, half asleep, watching a sensuous dancer practicing her art, his rest and composure is disturbed by the arrival of a commanding brother, a servant of The Christ of the East.

This book is a true-to-life collection of 30 short stories from physicist and electrical engineer Roman Litovsky chronicling his family’s harrowing emigration journey in 1989 from Ukraine to the United States during the height of the impending collapse of the USSR. It details his life in Kyiv, traveling throughout Europe to gain freedom from the oppressive Soviet regime, settling in the U.S., and his life after that with a great engineering career at a prominent U.S. electro-acoustic company.

If you are a fan of shorter literary works like novellas and short stories, this anthology is sure to have something that will interest you. Starting off with a novella about the legacy of enslaved people in the United States, the compilation draws you into the minds of the characters in each story. Some are tender and loving, while others are stark and even a little bit disturbing. Regardless, the stories capture the vivid imagination and personal experiences of the author as she gives us a cross-section of life on this earth — and sometimes what might come afterwards.

How do you protect a secret no one ever told you? Agnethe, a young Norse girl living in 882 Danelaw, finds herself alone and needs to answer that question. Now, she'll have to find a way to learn the secret or risk endangering more realms than her own. One mysterious woman could be the key if Agnethe can find her. To make matters worse, she's forced to leave her home and live with abusive relatives just as she starts to experience strange premonitions she doesn't understand. When she meets a handsome visitor, he offers her the security she craves, but will his love keep her from her true ...

Оповідання Мати Миколи Хвильового є яскравим прикладом української літератури XX століття. У центрі сюжету знаходиться героїня, мати, яка намагається справитися з трагічною втратою свого сина в результаті політичних репресій.Автор досліджує глибокі емоційні переживання матері та показує, як вона впорядковує своє життя в умовах репресивного режиму. Через призму розповіді про одну жінку Хвильовий описує страх, біль та мучення, що переживають багато людей у подібних ситуаціях. Розповідь вразливо розкриває теми жертовності, втрати і боротьби з тоталітарним режимом.

Southern Historical Fiction A Visit to the Rural South that will Bless Your Heart ROADSIDE STAND Burley Collins was a wanderer—had been all his life. Stopping here, staying a while there, doing this and that, learning more with each adventure. He stopped to rest where the old man used to have a stand where he sold odds and ends. The old man was gone and the stand was falling apart, but the view was as good as ever. He set his things down and looked around again, taking everything in. There was really nothing to keep him there long...except, perhaps, whatever was hanging from that tree ...

Фавст — новела українського письменника Григорія Косинки, написана в 1923-му році й опублікована в журналі "Український засів". У ній головний герой проведений крізь тюремні випробування: муравйовські застінки і білогвардійську катівню.Розповідається про трагічну долю селянина з Поділля Прокопа Конюшини, який, не стерпівши наруги, створив загін і боровся проти нападників.

Thank You, Mr. Darwin is a short story of epistolary fiction. The author Anaxagoras Pen writes Charles Darwin a letter. The letter writer tell a wild and humorous story about his father. The short story has a surprise ending.

She needs to start over after the loss of her husband, he needs to let go of the past. Can they find a way to be the remedy for each other's broken heart? June Hillman's life was turned upside down after the sudden death of her husband. The bank showed no mercy, quickly repossessing their family apothecary in Yuma, Arizona. June, along with her four-year-old son, move back to her childhood home of Little Ridge, ready to start over. When she returns, she finds the town has hardly changed, except for her first love, Daniel Wentworth. A broken heart is enough to make any man swear off women, ...

Glass Stories is a collection of two short stories set in the Muranów neighborhood of Warsaw, Poland over 250 years apart. The two young protagonists—an immigrant servant woman named Paolina, who is being punished for something she didn’t do, and Moishe, a young Jewish boy in the Warsaw Ghetto who wants to fight his Nazi oppressors—struggle against impossible odds.

A collection of short stories about the extremes we often find ourselves in—sometimes of our own making. Each story uses the adverb “so” in its title, emphasizing the extreme function of the following adjectives (tired, snowy, long, alive, dense, rude). McDowell uses fantasy, literary fiction, historical fiction, and speculative fiction genres to capture his explorations of the human experience.

Die tatsächliche Anzahl derer, die wegen ihrer sexuellen oder geschlechtlichen Präferenz verfolgt, misshandelt, deportiert oder getötet wurden, ist bis heute nicht geklärt. Ihnen ist diese Geschichte gewidmet. #gegendasvergessen. Tom ist Architekt. Für ihn zählen messbare Größen, etwas Handfestes, Reales. Er lebt im Hier und Jetzt. Und er lebt gut. Mit seinem Verlobten Jack in New York. Tom war noch ein Kind, als der sogenannte "Unzucht-Paragraph" in Deutschland abgeschafft wurde. Geschichte ist für ihn etwas Abstraktes, worüber alte Männer bei einem Glas Whisky palavern

A string of pearls makes its way through three generations of women in the Clarendon family. Their behavior changes but will respect for family tradition survive?

London Tales is a collection of short stories from Tim Walker that offer dramatic pinpricks in the rich tapestry of London's timeline, a city with two thousand years of history. The stories offer glimpses of imagined lives and dramatic moments, starting with a tribal perspective on the Roman invasion followed by the terror of Boudica's destruction of the fledgling city.

Daniel Spitzer gilt heute als einer der bedeutendsten Satiriker und Humanisten Wiens. Seine Erzählungen sind humoristisch und apokryphisch, ein echter Genuss. Inhalt: Der Maulaufreißer von Wien (Juli 1865) - Die Enterprise des pompes funèbres (April 1867) - Politik und schlechtes Wetter (März 1887) - Johann Strauß und Richard Wagner (Jänner 1877) - Die Götterdämmerung (November 1879) - Die Corruption in Österreich (September 1872) - Reisebericht eines Wiener Spaziergängers (August 1872) - Ein Bad in der Renaissancezeit (Juni 1881).