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In the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a young cavalry officer is invited to a dance at the home of a rich landowner. There - with a small act of attempted charity - he commits a simple faux pas. But from this seemingly insignificant blunder comes a tale of catastrophe arising from kindness and of honour poisoned by self-regard. Beware of Pity has all the intensity and the formidable sense of torment and of character of the very best of Zweig's work. Definitive translation by the award-winning Anthea Bell.

Winner of the 2019 Banjo Prize for Fiction She's isolated. Trapped. Hunted. An almost unbearably tense Australian survival thriller. Not much daylight left now. So begins the field diary of Alix Verhoeven, whose impulsive acceptance of an offer to spend Easter on a remote island has turned into...

Published in Harper's Magazine in 1946, "Beware of the Dog," by Roald Dahl, is a short story that recounts the experiences of Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot Peter Williamson after he is shot down during a World War II bombing mission.

Wealthy Hermosa Beach housewife Nancy Hadley is no pushover. So when her philandering husband, Roger, is caught in flagrante with an opportunistic widow on their racing yacht, Nancy sticks it to him. She tells him she wants a divorce - with the yacht, Bucephalus, part of the deal, too. Roger would rather make Nancy's life a living hell than give up his boat. But Nancy has other plans.

November, 1940. Tom Tyler, Detective Inspector of the small Shropshire town of Whitchurch, is a troubled man. The preceding summer had been a dark one for Britain, and even darker for Tom's own family and personal life. So he jumps at the opportunity to help out in the nearby city of Birmingham, where an explosion in a munitions factory has killed or badly injured several of the young women who have taken on dangerous work in support of the war effort.

A BBC Radio 3 drama that was developed with a community group in Byker, Newcastle which takes a journey into the reality of neglect as one child's life spirals out of control. Originally broadcast as part of the 'Drama on 3' collection on 25 October 2009. In a fractured society Lives a...

Aunque alguna vez mi tío Mosco ha sido motejado injustamente de tacaño, argüirse en su favor la repulsa, el asco casi científico que experimenta ante los libros usados. Mi tío jamás compará un libroe que haya sido léido anteriormente por otra persona, ya que sostiene la teoría -teoría compartida en líneas generales por mi abuelo- de que un libro leído es como una mujer sin virgo.

பிச்சை என்கிற ராஜாவும், கீதாவும் காதலர்கள். ஆனால் கீதா தன் பெற்றோர் சம்மதித்தால் தான் திருமணம் என்று கூறுகிறாள். கீதாவின் வீட்டிற்கே தான் கல்யாணமானவன் என்று கூறி ராஜா குடிவருகிறான். காதலி கீதாவையே தன் மனைவி நரசம்மாவாக அறிமுகப்படுத்துகிறான். மாடிவீட்டு நரசிம்மன் குண்டூர் நரசம்மாவின் தந்தையை அழைத்து வருகிறார். இதனால் சிக்கலுக்கு மேல் சிக்கல் உருவாகிறது. பெற்றோரே தாலி எடுத்து கொடுக்க புத்திசாலித்தனமாக பிச்சை, கீதாவின் கழுத்தில் எப்படி தாலிகட்டினாரா வாசித்து அறிவோம்… மனைவிகள் ஜாக்கிரதை