Showing results for "Boxes" in Short Stories

Meet Harlow Torrent, part-time journalist and full-time Slip Witch and her crazy witch family in this ten-book cozy mystery box set.

Andy Wofford, middle-aged father and English teacher at a third-tier private school, receives a surprising invitation for a drink from an old college classmate. Once awkward and forgettable, Michael Kinnick has become a famous, wealthy, and absurdly confident lifestyle guru. Of all the people who’d want to catch up, why Michael? After thirty divergent years, why now? Mildly apprehensive, Andy is also very curious.

While T.C. Boyle is known as one of our greatest American novelists, he is also an acknowledged master of the short story and is perhaps at his funniest, his most moving, and his most surprising in the short form. In The Relive Box, Boyle's sharp wit and rich imagination combine with a...

د. محفوظ .. الذي ترك لنا صندوق عجيب .. هذا الرجل مات فقيراً ولم يترك لنا إلا هذا الصندوق في قبو داره .. الصندوق يحوي مذكرات وملاحظات عن تلك القصص الغريبة التى مرت به فى حياته ذلك العجوز لم يترك إرثا لم يترك إلا هذا الصندوق العجيب دعنا نفتحه سويا لنعرف ماذا يخبئ____

In the village of Yiwei, a fallen wasp nest unfurls into a beautifully accurate map. In a field in Louisiana, birdwatchers forge an indelible connection over a shared glimpse of a Vermilion Flycatcher, and fall. In Nineveh, a judge who prides himself on impartiality finds himself questioned by a mysterious god. On a nameless shore, a small monster searches for refuge and finds unexpected courage.

Drei Romane verfasste Franz Kafka - allesamt sind sie unvollendet geblieben. Dennoch sind sie faszinierende Literatur, die nach Kafkas Tod von dessen Freund Max Brod veröffentlicht wurden. Sven Görtz spricht: Amerika oder "Der Verschollene", "Der Prozess", "Das Schloss".

From the author of such classics as Breakfast of Champions and Cat's Cradle comes this collection of unabridged short fiction originally published in some of America's most popular magazines of the 1950s and 60s. Vonnegut himself selected his best early works for this collection, and he reads the preface and afterword to boot!

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a prominent sociologist, novelist, and writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. In the short story "If I Were a Man", a married woman named Mollie Mathewson yearns with all her heart to be a man and is suddenly transported into the body and mind of her husband, Gerald. Through the character of Mollie, Gilman illustrates the roles and attitudes of women in early 19th-century society. The utopian novel Herland describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, with an ideal social order free of war, conflict, and domination.

Guy de Maupassant - Frankreichs großer Erzähler. Diese Hörbuch Box präsentiert zahlreiche seiner Geschichten und Novellen, darunter: "Der Horla", "Nutzlose Schönheit", "Julie Romain", "Blutrache", "Wer weiß?", "Die Maske", "Vater Milon", "Fräulein Fifi", "Idyll", "Die Landpartie" und viele mehr. Mit dabei: Ein pdf-Dokument mit Titelliste.

Heinrich von Kleist (1777 - 1811) war wie kein zweiter Schriftsteller seiner Zeit auf vielen Gebieten der Literatur unterwegs; er war Novellist, Verfasser von Kurzgeschichten, Dramatiker, Komödiant und Theoretiker. Das vorliegende Hörbuch befasst sich mit Kleists Prosa. Mit dabei sind: "Das Erdbeben in Chili", "Michael Kohlhaas", "Die Marquise von O", "Das Bettelweib von Locarno", "Über das Marionettentheater", "Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden".

Joseph Roth war ein begnadeter Erzähler, der in knappen Worten ganze Welten entstehen ließ. Der Schauplatz seines Werkes war die Donaumonarchie, der Vielvölkerstaat, dessen Untergang Roth zeitlebens betrauerte. Die große Hörbuch Box beinhaltet Roths größte Werke: Die Romane "Hiob" und "Radetzkymarsch" sowie die Erzählungen Stationschef Fallmerayer, Triumph der Schönheit, Die Büste des Kaisers, Legende vom heiligen Trinker, Der Leviathan.

Daniel Defoe (c. 1660-1731) was an English trader, author, and journalist. Defoe was a prolific writer, publishing more than 300 works on a range of topics including economics, politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology, and the supernatural. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719).

Diese große Hörbuch-Box versammelt zahlreiche Kurzgeschichten Tschechows sowie die ungekürzten Bühnenwerke "Drei Schwestern" und "Die Möwe". Kurzgeschichten: "Die Dame mit dem Hündchen", "Der böse Knabe", "Der Orden", "Der Rächer seiner Ehre", "Das Gewinnlos", "Der Tod des Beamten", "Der Dicke und der Dünne" und viele mehr.

Mr. Hammond, who is travelling on the American steamer "The Spartan", is suspicious about two passengers after having witnessed their conversation on the deck. They were talking about a secret square box, a mechanism, and the fact that the world will soon hear of it...

There came a soldier marching down the high road-one, two! one, two! He had his knapsack on his back and his sword at his side as he came home from the wars. On the road he met a witch, an ugly old witch, a witch whose lower lip dangled right down on her chest.

Rainer Maria Rilke war nicht nur meisterhafter Poet, der in seinen Gedichten ganze Welten erschuf – er konnte auch mit dem größeren Pinsel malen. Seine Erzählungen lassen – trotz ihrer Kompaktheit – den Hörer eintauchen in eine neue Welt. Und nach dem Hören ist man noch lange in Nachdenken versunken.

A passenger travelling on the American steamer, The Spartan, becomes suspicious after overhearing the conversation of two other passengers. He suspects they want to destroy the ship with a bomb. He was wrong....

William Wymark Jacobs (1863-1943) was an English author of short stories and novels, well known for his comedies involving rural Essex characters. His most famous story, "The Monkey's Paw" (1902) is a tale of intense psychological horror. "The Old Man of the Sea" is a farcical comedy about a young man, George Wright, who tries to win a lady’s hand by pretending to be the only heir of a rich uncle.

These fifteen genre-bending stories are set against a backdrop of sudden violence and profound regret, populated by characters whose circumstances and longings drive them to the point of no return... and sometimes even further. Traversing the back roads of the south and beyond, these stories probe the boundaries of imagination, taking the listener to the fringes of a society where the world looks different, and once you visit, you won't ever be the same.