Showing results for "Balls" in Anthologies & Short Stories

A sterling collection of short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and others, The Golden Ball and Other Stories is a riveting compendium of shocking secrets, dastardly crimes, and brilliant detection—a showcase of Dame Agatha at her very best. Is it a gesture of goodwill or a sinister trap that...

Outshone by a gregarious stepsister and overbearing stepmother, Lady Athena Cummins is used to fading into the shadows. Beloved only by her youngest sister, Persephone, Athena has accepted her destiny as a spinster. But Persephone has a different scheme in mind, and conspires to send Athena out for one night of fun at Lord Finchley’s masquerade Christmas Ball. The masked beauty catches the Lord’s eye but, determined to avoid the wrath of her stepsister, Athena leads Lord Finchley on a wild chase to discover her true identity.

Join three bestselling regency romance authors, Heidi Ashworth, Annette Lyon, and Michele Paige Holmes, for three new regency romance novellas in A Midwinter Ball.

Guests are arriving to celebrate Christmas at Lady Holly's ball, and at the top of each guest's wish list is a last chance to find true love before the new year. Amid the sumptuous delicacies, glittering decorations, and swell of the orchestra, every duchess and debutante, lord and lackey has a hopeful heart.

Three delightfully intriguing short stories from the pen of Katherine Mansfield (born Wellington, New Zealand, 1888 - died Fontainebleau, France, 1923). In "Bliss" the listener is introduced to 30-year-old Mrs Bertha Young. She has everything…. The nameless He and She in "Psychology": He is 31; she is 30. She has invited him to tea. Their discourse turns to the future of the psychological novel.... Exactly when the ball began 18-year old Leila would have found it hard to say. This, "Her First Ball", is an enthralling experience but, at the same time, quite terrifying.

"Der Ball der Bälle“ ist eine Erzählung von Jörg Zemmler die auf Basis eines Gesprächs mit Karoline Wegert (geboren 1921) beruht. Ich habe in Wien, Kaisermühlen, siebzig Jahre lang im gleichen Haus gewohnt. Alle hier nennen mich Lintschi, das kommt von Karoline. Daraus wurde zuerst Lina, dann Lini und dann eben Lintschi.

Her First Ball is a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in The Sphere on 28 November 1921, and later reprinted in The Garden Party and Other Stories. A young girl called Leila has come to the city to stay with her cousins. They are going to a ball. Leila is very excited: this is her first ball. Once there, she is both excited and terrified. After dancing with several young boys her own age, she dances with a wrinkly balding man who has been coming to balls for a while.

Im Rausch des geschriebenen Wortes entfacht Ball ein groteskes, experimentelles, abstraktes, kunterbuntes, bildgewaltiges Sprachspiel, das die Grenzen der Logik, sagen wir leicht dehnt und teils (über)strapaziert, aber in so sympathischer und lebensfroher Weise, dass nur ewige Miesepeter und ewige Meckerliesen keinen Spaß daran finden können.

Uma das primeiras histórias de Kate Chopin, este conto, publicado em 1892, retrata um pouco da vida e dos hábitos dos moradores da região da Acadiana, na Louisiana (EUA). A história de dois casais se transforma rapidamente durante um baile.

¿Porqué estaría dispuesta una mujer a entregar su anillo de brillantes a cambio de una entrada a la ópera? UN BAILE DE MASCARAS"-¿Mi billete? -respondió ella-. No lo tengo."-Pues, entonces, tomadlo en la taquilla."La mujer del dominó volvió bajo el peristilo, registrando vivamente todos sus bolsillos."-¡No traigo dinero! -exclamó-. ¡Ah! Este anillo...

A crossroads for the people of Europe and the Mediterranean, Marseille is a city that does not discriminate. It embodies the down-and-dirty, tough-guy side of France, but what it lacks in sophistication, it makes up for in spirit. Still, in its shadows lurks a not-so-distant darkness....

Wer mit dem ewig-alten Weisen das Spielen lernt, der entdeckt die Welt mit neuen Augen. Nicht festhalten wollen, sondern wieder los-lassen ist dabei die wichtige Spielregel.