Anthologies & Short Stories

A treasure chest of timeless short stories by some of the world's greatest authors....

Here in one recording is every Sherlock Holmes story ever written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....

The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for 10 whole and very bloody years.... 

First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond....

Now, for the first time ever, the guardians of her legacy have approved a brand new novel featuring Dame Agatha's most beloved creation, Hercule Poirot....

कहानियां मनोरंजक और आनंदप्रद दोनों हो सकती हैं।....

The great legacy of The Iliad is its shattering revelation of what it means to be human in the face of life's uncertainty and fleeting mortality....

Zindagi Aais Pais, a short story collection, is Nikhil's second book after the remarkable success of his debut book Namak Swadanusar. In this book, Nikhil continues taking his listeners along for a journey that tries to solve the riddles of basic human existence....

In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet, reasoned the detective, like Hercules, he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters....

On a road trip through Africa, two English people - Bobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for African boys; and Linda, a supercilious "compound wife" - are driving back to their enclave....

The great adventure story tells of Odysseus, a veteran of the Trojan War, who - through a landscape peopled with monsters, sea nymphs, evil enchantresses, and vengeful gods....

Fine-art aficionado. Master of disguise. Jewelry expert. Historian. Gentleman. Burglar. Arsene Lupin is all of these and more....

This collection introduces you to the small island town of Four Points, where the men are big and strong and come in groups of four....

In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don't know what to do with themselves - and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives, hers, and ours....

This is a collection of stories written by the world famous writer Rabindranath Tagore. This collection includes stories such as Goongi, Prem ka Mulya and Nayi Roshini....

Jack 'No Middle Name' Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex-military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age....

The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories is a bizarre and colorful collection containing the finest short stories by the iconic Russian writer Nikolai Gogol....

Malgudi Ki Kahaniyan (Hindi) is a set of stories that are based in the fictional town of Malgudi. The town of Malgudi is a South Indian village created by the author and offers a valuable peek into the quality of rural life during the pre-independence era....

A beautiful heiress has been found dead on a train. A playboy has been stabbed through the heart during a costume ball....

John Moffat stars as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in seven more BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations....

In this astounding book, David Eagleman entertains forty fictional possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology and love....

The Ultimate Horror Collection is a fully-indexed collection of over 60 classic horror stories, read by four Audie-winning narrators....

Read by two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks. A collection of 17 wonderful short stories showing that Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor....

Night Train at Deoli is a collection of stories, most of which are set in the valleys of Uttarakhand, a place where the author himself grew up....

From the author of science-fiction classics such as The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? comes a collection of 13 short stories of dystopic visions performed in a vividly dramatic narration by Andy Harrington....

"Ho messo insieme scritti che contengono dichiarazioni di poetica, tracciati di rotta da seguire, bilanci critici, sistemazioni complessive del passato e presente e futuro, quali sono andato successivamente elaborando e mettendo da parte durante gli ultimi venticinque anni. È ponendosi come esperienza conclusa che la successione di queste pagine comincia a prendere una forma, a diventare una storia che ha il suo senso nel disegno complessivo. Stando così le cose, posso ora raccogliere questi saggi in volume, cioè accettare di rileggerli e farli rileggere."

Lachen ist gesund, sagt man. Nach der Lektüre dieser Kurzgeschichten müsst Ihr damit rechnen, 100 zu werden. Mindestens. Kennt Ihr auch diese Zeiten, wo das Leben uns zu piesacken und alles schiefzugehen scheint? Ja? Dann findet ihr Euch bestimmt in Susi Purols Geschichten wieder, denn: Manchmal steht sie sich selbst im Wege, dann muss sie sich auch wieder zur Seite räumen. Es kann auch passieren, dass sie sich einfach nur dusselig anstellt. Oder die anderen. Eher die anderen. Außerdem ist sie ein absoluter Kuriositäten-Magnet und schnappt Dinge auf, bei denen sie sich am Boden kringelt.

Ruskin Bond is a master of the short story. This pitch-perfect collection brings together the very best tales he has written in the 21st century. The book starts with the title story, ‘Song of the Forest’, which has never been published before, and includes extraordinary pieces of fiction like ‘A Man Called Brain’, ‘Rhododendrons in the Mist’, and ‘Miracle at Happy Bazaar’. Dazzling, comic, and gripping, Song of the Forest is the latest masterpiece from India’s most beloved writer.

This is the first collection of strange stories by contemporary writer Mark Samuels. The themes that thread through these nine accomplished stories are drawn from the great tradition of the twentieth-century weird tale, and they are suffused with a distinctly cosmopolitan European feel. Mark Samuels writes about the fundamental fears of modern life, especially the effects of isolation and the dislocation that city dwellers can experience in their inhospitable, man-made environment.

Privatdetektiv Eric Holler und Kriminalhauptkommissar Werthofen geraten in eine Intrige, bei der nichts so ist, wie es scheint. Die Ermittlungen führen sie schließlich auf die Spur eines Mannes, der in Gelsenkirchen ein Blutbad veranstalten will.

Around three and a half thousand years ago, members of a small community of Bronze Age people spent several days away from their usual activities of farming, hunting, weaving and food processing in order to construct a burial mound.

La vida en la sociedad urbana actual está llena de sorpresas como se describen en estos catorce cuentos. Ellas ocurren de improviso y afectan radicalmente la vida de quienes viven este tiempo, cambiando cómo se percibe el pasado y el presente, cuando algo, hasta ese momento desconocido, irrumpe.

Deolindo Venta-Grande e Genoveva vivem uma paixão à primeira vista: três meses em que vivem de amores. Mas Deolindo, marinheiro, parte em uma longa viagem de instrução – 10 meses no mar. O casal jura esperar um pelo outro. Ele o cumpre e, na volta, a procurar; ela, no entanto, unira-se nesse meio-tempo a um mascate.

The themes that thread through these nine accomplished stories are drawn from the great tradition of the twentieth-century weird tale, and they are suffused with a distinctly cosmopolitan European feel. The White Hands: You may recall Alfred Muswell, he whom devotees of the weird tale will know as the author of numerous articles on the subject of literary ghost stories but who died in relative obscurity just over a year ago.

„Puchar od Pana Boga” to zbiór opowiadań, w których sport stanowi pretekst do opowieści o sprawach najważniejszych: życiu i śmierci, miłości, przyjaźni i pasji. Ota Pavel pisze o zwycięstwach i porażkach równie ujmująco jak o sarnach i rybach. Doskonała lektura dla czytelników ceniących szczerość, wrażliwość i piękno. „Może każdy z nas dostanie puchar od Pana Boga, ale będą one różnej wielkości, w zależności od tego, jak zachowywaliśmy się na tym świecie. Jeden będzie zrobiony na przykład z nieba. Inny ze złotych gwiazd. A jeszcze inny z Drogi Mlecznej”.

"The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" and was published in 1904.

Partiendo desde la idea de que todo es inciatico, Alejandro Jodorowsky nos presenta un libro interpretativo que si bien podría ser de los sueños, se acerca al lenguaje coloquial de los chistes desde un punto de vista filosófico zen. Los chistes nos muestran una satirización de la realidad, una manera de ver a lo cotidiano como algo tan absurdo y real, algo que le podría suceder hasta al más proclive de los seres sin encontrar un razón o un sentido más que algo que paso.

Narrador da história do padre Teófilo e Eulália, o sacristão é um ex-seminarista que conhece profundamente os bastidores do mundo eclesiástico. Não chegou a ordenar-se padre, por conta de amores que o teriam afastado em definitivo do caminho do altar, sendo, no entanto, um refinado observador da psiquê humana.

"Príncipe ou condutor de ônibus?" O protagonista de "A segunda vida", José Maria, está prestes a voltar à Terra depois de ter morrido; recusando a esta escolha do tipo de vida que lhe é oferecida, prefere – e ganha – o direito de nascer consciente da vida passada. Ao leitor do século XXI, o conto de Machado de Assis oferece uma curiosa analogia com a "second life".

Em "Ex-cathedra", Machado de Assis apresenta a história de Caetaninha, jovem de 14 anos que vive com seu querido padrinho Fulgêncio. Ela andava sempre preocupada com o excesso de leitura do homem, que respirava livros. Até que um dia chega um rapaz órfão, da idade dela, parente de Fulgêncio. Tudo muda para Caetaninha.