Showing results for "The Rural" in Short Stories

Welcome to Travers Corners, a dusty Montana town, where nothing much has happened since Herbert Hoover stopped for gas. Travers Corners, like most small towns, has no newspaper, no radio station; but here, large trout - no better than large trout, fictitious trout - await the angler. And apart from spreading gossip outside the McCraken’s General Store, the residents of Travers Corners love nothing more than fly fishing. Scott Waldie’s delightful cast of characters breathes life into this tiny, out-of-the-way town.

Estos catorce relatos que Kafka publicó en 1920 reúnen narraciones visionarias cuyos protagonistas—el médico que acude al lecho de un paciente una noche de tormenta, el artesano cuya ciudad ha sido invadida por una temible tribu nómada, el mensajero imperial que jamás llegará a su destino—son hijos de una época en que la vida ha quedado entregada a una lógica impenetrable y la comprensión del mundo resulta inconcebible.

Un médico rural tiene que ir a visitar a un enfermo que está en un pueblo vecino, pero su caballo ha muerto y no tiene medio de transporte. Un palafrenero acude en su ayuda y le presta dos caballos, aunque sus verdaderas intenciones no son altruistas. Atravesando una fuerte tormenta de nieve, el doctor llega hasta el hogar del paciente. Una vez allí, tiene la sensación de haber sido víctima de un engaño y teme ser objeto de nuevas burlas.

A celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry, the five stories in Fidelity return listeners to Berry's fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, and the familiar characters who form a tight-knit community within.

Firmly rooted in the modern American West, this story collection follows women and families who feel the instinctual, inexplicable pull of a home they must work to protect from the effects of economic inequity and climate catastrophe. A 74-year-old nun turns to eco-sabotage to stop a fracking project. A woman delivers her own baby in a Nevada ghost town. A young farmer hides her chicken flock from the government during a bird-flu epidemic. An ornithologist returns home to care for her rancher father and gets caught up trying to protect a breeding group of endangered sage grouse.

Set largely in the 1990s, the 12 linked stories in Joel Mowdy’s first book take place in and around Mastic Beach, a community on New York’s Long Island that’s close to the wealthy Hamptons but afflicted by widespread poverty. Mostly in their teens and early 20s, the characters struggle to become independent in various ways, ranging from taking typical low-paying jobs - hotel laundry, janitorial, restaurant, and landscaping work - to highly ingenious schemes, to exchanging sexual favors for a place to stay.

Pubblicata nel 1926, questa raccolta di prose brevi parla di Capri, della terra lombarda, di donne incontrate per strada, di solitudini.

Ganghofers Geschichten aus den Bergen sind etwas für Herz und Gemüt. Sein "Schweigen im Walde" erzählt von unglücklicher Liebe und neuem Glück in der Einsamkeit des Geißtals - hier in einer spannenden Hörspielfassung!

Verga ci racconta la storia di Jeli, ragazzo povero che vive da solo insieme alla pecore che porta al pascolo. Attraverso il suo rapporto conflittuale con Don Alfonso, ricco rampollo di famiglia, assistiamo alla graduale emarginazione di Jeli che, a causa della sua povertà e della sua condizione sociale, viene sempre più marginalizzato.

An ailing farmer in rural Iran unearths an extraordinary find: two parsnips, grown together and looking for all the world like entwined lovers. For now, the sublime treasure is his secret. Wrapping it in a silk handkerchief, he nestles it away in a dresser drawer. Day after day, he gazes at their unmistakable rapture, reminded of the long-gone youthful passions he once shared with his wife. So, too, he mourns the inevitable - the eventual decay of the parsnips in love. When he decides to share his discovery with the world, his life and the lives of those around him connect and change.

Erzählungen aus der Bergwelt mit ihrer Liebes- und Gebirgsromantik sind Ludwig Ganghofers Spezialität. In "Schloß Hubertus" lässt der passionierte Jäger den Zuhörer eine Jagd auf den Adler, den König der Lüfte, miterleben.

Wer kennt sie nicht, die "Herrgottschnitzer von Ammergau"? Zwar entstand diese Geschichte schon vor 140 Jahren, aber sie hat nichts von ihrer Romantik eingebüßt. Ludwig Ganghofer beschreibt die Menschen und die Berge, wie es nur einer kann, der dort zu Hause war - hier zu erleben in einer spannenden Hörspielfassung!

Luigi Pirandello ci presenta i Siroli, coppia di anziani mezzadri siciliani costretti a una vita di miseria e sofferenza. Una quotidianità orrenda fatta di fatiche bestiali, malattia e povertà estrema, che però i due anziani sopportano nel segno di una fede cieca e assoluta. Hanno sacrificato tutto per far studiare loro figlio Giovanni in seminario.

Alberto has been alone for the majority of his life, making his way as a restaurant worker and at the beck and call of wealthy and entitled Don Antonio. This time for hire, Alberto arrives at Antonio’s summer house prepared to attend to its regular maintenance. Instead he finds only Antonio’s heartbroken wife, Lola, and a task that could alter his loyalty to his employer forever.