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Acclaimed author Lionel Shriver—author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, and the vivid psychological novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, now a major motion picture—probes the mystery of charisma in a razor-sharp new novel that teases out the...

"I will say no more about this lacerating book except to urge it upon all who care about literature in our difficult era." — Boston Globe "A sly and merciless lampoon of revolutionary romanticism. . . Kundera commits some of the funniest literary savaging since Evelyn Waugh polished off...

All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such...

Caleb Allard is dying. His legacy haunts him: a pointless career and two dysfunctional children estranged from one another. Then a voice arrives. Immense. Debilitating. It fills Caleb’s skull, promising the one thing Caleb wants more than anything else—a purpose for his miserable life. It tells him of a young boy with miraculous abilities living in the Texas hill country. Find the boy, find your purpose.

When a child is born with a serious flaw in her character caused by an imbalance of chemicals in her mind making her incapable of controlling her actions and emotions, it can be dangerous to her as well as others. This story depicts a child who is born with such a flaw, but hides it well. Her family senses she is different, but find it difficult to accept as they see small clues that are quickly hidden.

शोर. अंतर्मन का कोलाहल या कहें की शून्यता, बाहर की अव्यवस्थित व्यवस्था से अलग, चिंतित मन का व्यथित लेकिन व्यवस्थित सुर है जो किसी भी इंसान को जीने की वजह भी देता है और जीने का उद्देश्य भी लेकिन आख़िर यह शोर पनपता ही क्यूँ है?

Es un cuento extenso o novela corta de 1899 del escritor polaco-británico Joseph Conrad, que aborda temas como el colonialismo, el choque de culturas, el racismo y la violencia humana. La traducción del título a la mayoría de las lenguas opta por la palabra «tinieblas» en vez de «oscuridad», que es la que se corresponde literalmente con darkness. Es quizá el trabajo más conocido de su autor.

La metamorfosis (en alemán: Die Verwandlung, también traducido como La transformación) es una novela corta escrita por Franz Kafka en 1915. La historia trata sobre Gregorio Samsa, cuya repentina transformación en un enorme insecto dificulta cada vez más la comunicación de su entorno social con él, hasta que es considerado intolerable por su familia y finalmente perece.

जब इंसान अंदर से टूटता है तो वो अपनी बात समझाने के तरीके ढूँढने लगता है । और जब अंदर भावनाओं का ज्वार उठ रहा हो और सुनने वाला कोई न हो, तो वो खुद के लिए फैसलें लेता है ।

La metamorfosis o La transformación (Die Verwandlung, en su título original en alemán) es una novela corta escrita por Franz Kafka en 1915. La historia trata sobre Gregorio Samsa, cuya repentina transformación en un enorme insecto dificulta cada vez más la comunicación de su entorno social con él.

La metamorfosis o La transformación (Die Verwandlung, en su título original en alemán) es una novela corta escrita por Franz Kafka en 1915. La historia trata sobre Gregorio Samsa, cuya repentina transformación en un enorme insecto dificulta cada vez más la comunicación de su entorno social con él. Con un volumen de unas 70 páginas impresas, es el más largo de los relatos que Kafka terminó y publicó durante su vida.

Youth, although written over a century ago, is just as relevant to humans today and I believe for all time. Here Conrad addresses the dimming of our mortal light, that subtle realization in all of us that we are no longer as vital as we once were. That mark in time when we acknowledge to ourselves that we are aging, growing old, dying.

Alan is wrenched from this life by suicide. Dusty, haunted by the loss of the man he thought he knew, must deal with his own regrets before accepting one final task for his friend. Every step takes Dusty further from the friend he remembers and closer to the man he is becoming.

What if teachers in the United States were compelled to carry guns to school? Would it prevent school shootings or compound the problem? Set in Minnesota in the very near future, ‘Teach and Protect’ is a short story which discusses these questions from the perspective of an elementary school teacher.