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Former model Astrid Lane lives a quiet life as a caterer, far from her days as rock star Callum Blake's famous wife. When a retrospective about the 1970s music scene sparks renewed interest in that era, Astrid's estranged daughter Zara reaches out about a podcast discussing her father's career—and a long-buried tragedy that changed their family forever.

Selected from the best of the world's short fiction, 50 Great Short Stories brings together writings by great masters of the genre. Carefully picked for their timeless quality, listeners are sure to be delighted by the inclusion of such favourites as 'The Gift of the Magi', 'The Lady with the Dog', 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', 'Rain' and 'Mrs Packletide's Tiger', to name but a few.

Discover the best of short fiction in this collectable edition featuring fifty of the greatest stories from around the world. This exquisite collection showcases a curated selection of timeless short stories from renowned authors across the globe. With its beautiful design and captivating narratives, this collectible edition is a treasure for literature enthusiasts.

Satyajit Ray is well known for his contributions to Indian literature. His short stories often explore the macabre and the supernatural and are often marked by keen characterization. This collection brings together Ray’s best short stories - including such timeless gems as ‘Professor Hijibijbi’, ‘Ratan Babu aur Veh Admi’ and ‘Bhakt’. A collection of 12 short stories.

Immerse yourself in the world of literature with the World's Greatest Short Stories deluxe hardbound edition. Featuring a carefully curated selection of timeless tales from renowned authors, this beautifully designed anthology is a must-have for every audiobook lover's collection. A timeless collection of literary gems!

Here in one recording is every Sherlock Holmes story ever written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Originally appearing in serial form, these famous stories are here presented in the order in which they were first published beginning in 1887. Included in this definitive, award-winning collection are four novels and 56 short stories, a total of 60 titles. The 56 short stories are aggregated into five named collections, just as they were originally published in book form.

एक ही पुस्तक में तीन लघु उपन्यास। जलावतन-तन के थोड़े-से बरसों में, मन की अन्तर-सतह में उतर जाने की वह कहानी है, जो जलते बुझते अक्षरों में लिपटी हुई है।

Urdu bhaasha ke prakhyaat kahaaneekaar Saaadat hasan Manto vishv katha sahitya kaa ek aisa naam hai, jisase sahitya kee samajh aur prem rakhne vaala pratyek paathak parichit hai. Manto ne apane jeevan kaal mein samaaj kee jis gandagee aur ghinaunepan kaa anubhav kiya tatha jindagee ke jahar ko mahasoos kiya, use hee apnee kahaaniyon mein utaara. Manto kee kahaaniyaan ek arth mein manovaigyaanik sansanee paida karne vaalee kahaaniyaan hain.

தமிழில் எழுதப்பட்ட மிக மிக அழகான வரிகள், குழப்பும் வரிகள், காட்டாற்றைப் போல் கோபித்துக்கொண்டு பாயும் வரிகள், நீரோடை போல் மெதுவாகத் ததும்பும் வரிகள்..

Stories Short and Sweet by Ruskin Bond is a collection of his choicest short stories, capturing the myriad facets of life in the hills. Humour, nostalgia, love, friendship, trust and betrayal - Bond captures every mood that makes our life worth remembering.

Some of the world's finest short fiction has originated in and continues to flow from the cities, villages, rivers, forests and plains of Bengal. This selection features 21 of the very best stories from the region.

The charm of travelling by a train as it speeds its way out of a tunnel or a jungle and passes through nondescript villages and towns is unmatched. There also exists a joyful curiosity in unfolding the mysterious lives and destinations of its passengers. Ruskin Bond has been writing tales about the hinterland for decades, but this is the first time his stories revolving around trains and railway stations of small-town India have been brought together in a single collection.

This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Fyodor Dostoyevky's greatest works: 15 novels and novellas, 18 short stories, a short study of Dostoyevsky by Virginia Woolf, and two books of non-fiction - his Letters and European travel journal.

Suffused with warmth and passion, the stories in Falling in Love Again showcase the myriad variations of romantic love - fleeting, intimate, joyous, heartbreaking. Featuring classic stories by Ruskin Bond, such as 'The Eyes Have It' and 'The Girl from Copenhagen', this stirring collection captures the range of feelings that are indubitably part of the infinite spectrum of love.

Dive into the compelling world of Saadat Hasan Manto, celebrated for his incisive and daring stories that lay bare the complexities of human nature and society. This collection features a selection of Manto's most powerful works, each offering a unique perspective on themes of love, loss, and societal struggle.

Forty-eight of H.P. Lovecraft’s most important stories are brought together in this collection–available only from Audible–selected and with introductions by the award-winning, best-selling Lovecraft editor Leslie S. Klinger. Howard Philips Lovecraft was the early 20th-century genius who, almost singlehandedly, pioneered horror and scientific fiction, only to die in near-obscurity. Rediscovered by critics and scholars in the 1970s, Lovecraft’s work has influenced—by their own admission—every major horror or science-fiction writer of today.

Meri Priya Kahaniyaan contains the favourite stories by the fierce and celebrated poet Amrita Pritam, selected by her. Amrita Pritam, the first female Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist, and the leading voice of 20th-century Indian literature, was awarded Jnanpith in the year 1982. She authored more than a hundred compositions and has left a special mark in the stories, just like her poems, which are about female sexuality, self-realisation and the pain of loss at a time when women mostly wrote on conservative themes.

When acclaimed mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers first began compiling anthologies of the best crime stories in the 1920s and ’30s, the genre was in the flush of its first golden age. While it is hard to imagine today - after every possible mystery plot has been told, retold, subverted, and played straight again by hundreds of writers over nearly a century - in Sayers’s day there were still twists that had never been seen, and machinations of crime that would shock even jaded Jazz Age fans.

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

Collected for the first time anywhere, the nine tales in The Egg and Other Stories highlight Andy Weir's trademark wit and unexpected twists. For the few who have yet to experience The Martian, it's a perfect appetizer. For passionate Weir fans, it's a delicious dessert.