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A young woman, staying in her great aunt’s historical home while in town for a funeral, experiences a ghostly encounter one night but soon realizes it might just be a relative wishing her one final farewell.

Spending summer vacation at his grandparents’ boring seaside town was not at the top of Bennet’s vacation list. Like a modern-day Little Red Riding Hood, he discovers that his grandparents have a certain terrifying, lupine quality at the full moon.

Mansarovar 3, the third volume in Munshi Premchand's celebrated collection of stories, continues to explore the depths of human emotions and societal complexities. In this volume, Premchand masterfully addresses themes of justice, morality, and compassion, weaving tales that reflect the struggles and aspirations of everyday people. His stories are known for their rich character portrayals and thought-provoking narratives, offering timeless insights into human nature.

This audiobook Folk Tales for Children makes a strong case that well-chosen stories give children good role models and increase their empathy for others. It doesn't just hand children simplistic moral precepts, but give them the opportunity to think about and discuss moral choices. Folk Tales for Children is a compilation of 50 short stories for children. Language used is elementary and simple. Each story comes with a caricature type illustration in black & white to retain interest of young listeners. The moral at the end of the story summaries precisely what the child is supposed to learn!

Agatha Christie demonstrates her unparalleled mastery with Three Blind Mice and Other Stories—a classic compendium of mystery and suspense, crime and detection, whose title novella served as the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest running stage play in the history of the London theater. A...

புதுமைப்பித்தனின் சிறுகதைகள் தான் அவருக்கு எழுத்துலகில் தனி இடத்தை அளித்தன.

In Agatha Christie’s classic, Three Act Tragedy, the normally unflappable Hercule Poirot faces his most baffling investigation: the seemingly motiveless murder of the thirteenth guest at dinner party, who choked to death on a cocktail containing not a trace of poison. Sir Charles Cartwright...

அமரர் கல்கியின் சிறுகதைகள் தொகுப்பு - 3.

రావణుడు - ఆర్యావర్త వైరి: రావణుడు - ఆర్యావర్త వైరి అనే ఈ పుస్తకం అమీష త్రిపాఠి రాసిన 'రామచంద్ర గ్రంథ మాల' అనే సిరీస్ లో మూడో పుస్తకం. మొదటి పుస్తకం రాముని కథ మీద ఉండగా, రెండో పుస్తకం సీత యొక్క కథని మనకు చెప్పగా, ఈ మూడో పుస్తకం రావణుని కథ ని మనకి తెలుపుతుంది. ఈ పుస్తకం లో ప్రధానం గా రావణుని జీవితం మీద రచయిత తన దృష్టి ని నిలిపాడు. లంకాధిపతి గా రావణాసురుడు ఏం చేసాడు. చరిత్ర లో నే కిరాతకంగా ఒక రాక్షసుని గా పేరొందిన రావణుడు నిజంగా అంత క్రూరుడా?

Guy de Maupassant today remains among France's renowned short story masters. He excels at recounting the banal daily lives of Frenchmen, which yet reveal deep moral truths. The first of these three classic tales is Boule de Suif, which relates the desperate attempts of several French citizens intent on escaping the rule of invading Prussian forces. The coach heading for Havre is conveying people of varying classes—nobility, rich and merchant—to a woman of comfort, whose heart and dignity prove larger than any of her fellow passengers'.

This audiobook begins with Doctor Universe and Double Trouble, connected by their main character, Grannie Annie, who happens to be a science fiction writer herself and is renowned for her deep, involved, and personal background research on different planets.

Gertrude Stein’s pioneering triptych Three Lives portrays the lives of three working-class women in the fictional American town of Bridgepoint (Baltimore). A progenitor of the "stream of consciousness" technique later adopted by Joyce and Woolf, Stein takes us into the minds of three distinct women, who are each trapped in their societal positions. "The Good Anna" follows a stern but kind German immigrant, "Melanctha" the tragic life of an African-American woman of the same name, and "The Gentle Lena" a dreamy and unopinionated servant whose passiveness becomes her undoing.

Published at the end of Flaubert’s career, Three Tales is a collection of three compelling short stories about faith, loneliness and love. In "A Simple Heart", a saint-like servant girl begins to experience religious visions of her pet parrot after enduring the loss of loved ones. "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller" presents the origin story of Julian the Hospitaller, who renounces the violence of his past and cares for the indigent. "Herodias", the final story, retells the beheading of St. John the Baptist, and the seduction of Herod by Salome.

In diesem Hörbuch sind 3 Novellen von Franz Werfel zusammengefasst, die sehr unterschiedliche Themen behandeln. Im "Tod des Kleinbürgers" geht es um die erstaunliche Widerstandskraft, die Karl Fiala aufbietet, um dem Tod, der seine Familie um den Genuss der Lebensversicherung bringen würde, ein zeitliches Schnippchen zu schlagen.

Die Werke von H. G. Wells werden mit Recht dem Kanon der Welt-Literatur zugerechnet, weil sie das widerspiegeln, was dem jeweiligen Zeitgeist entspricht und weil ihre Erzählungen von dem handeln, was von zeitloser Ästhetik und Würde ist.

When Xander MacKenzie gets the job of assassinating a prominent FBI agent, it's his chance to prove he's still got what it takes. Except sometimes, even the best plans go wrong–and Xander's luck is quickly running out...

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Cuentos cortos, emotivos, profundos y universales, para todas las edades. Autor: Rosario Gomez Narrador: Laura Robayo Hemos aprendido a volar como los pájaros, y nadar como los peces, y todavía no aprendemos... a vivir como hermanos... – Martin Luther...

From Elmore Leonard, the author who has influenced more writers than any other, comes a thrilling story of law in the Old West, upheld by the barrel of a six-gun. Deputy Paul Scallen will earn his one hundred fifty dollars if he can get his prisoner Jim Kidd on the train to Yuma Prison. But the...

Edgar Allan Poe ocupa un lugar de honor en la historia de la literatura sobre todo debido a sus cuentos, en los que se revela como un avanzado a su tiempo, como un faro en el llamado "romanticismo oscuro", como el padre de la novela detectivesca, un maestro de la narrativa de terror, un pionero de la ciencia ficción...y sin duda uno de los creadores cuya influencia ha sido más profunda y duradera.