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„Und doch in den Tod" ist eine Erzählung von Rainer Maria Rilke aus dem Jahr 1896: Ein Augustmorgen ging goldsohlig an mir vorbei in den Wald. - Ich lag da im krausen, glitzernden Moose und schaute ihm nach. Ich sah, wie er lichtgrüne Reflexe auf den silberweißen Kies schleuderte, als streute er Malachitkristalle um sich her.

Seasoned Tales is a collection of seven short stories for every mood, for every season, for every genre from fantasy to romance to ghost story to something quietly, unexpectedly moving, and one for every kind of reader you have ever been. In spring, young Margaret learns about fun from a...

She lost her memories in the crash. Now she's inherited a manor that knows exactly who she is. Still reeling from the crash that killed her parents, Dr Gemma Walker can't stand the sight of blood, can't sleep, and can't stop the flashbacks that aren't hers. When it is revealed that she's heir to a vast island estate, Gemma follows the trail to Honey Bay to claim her inheritance. Instead of a warm welcome, she's met with suspicion, accusations - and Dean Singer, the infuriatingly handsome lawyer who's certain Gemma is lying about who she is.

Before he was feared, he was forgotten.Maestro Arthur Bell was the greatest operatic voice of his generation — applauded by thousands, beloved by none. On the night the werewolves came, his theatre burned, his audience scattered, and Arthur fled into the sewers beneath a dying city with...

Read by the author, Travis Baldree. From international bestseller Travis Baldree, Tales from the Territory is a beautiful collection of cosy fantasy tales, set in the much-loved world of Legends & Lattes. There are many tales yet untold . . . 'GOBLINS & GREATCOATS': Chaos goblin Zyll is involved...

In a time when the undead bloodsuckers of legend have become a shadow of their former selves thanks to novels like Twilight and the Stackhouse series, horror author C. Dennis Moore returns the icons to their former glory with his collection of six short stories, Bloodletting (previously...

Rip Van Winkle lives in a nice village at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains. One autumn day he escapes his nagging wife by wandering up the mountains. After encountering strangely dressed men, rumored to be the ghosts of Henry Hudson's crew, who are playing nine-pins, and after drinking some of their liquor, he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep. He wakes up 20 years later and returns to his village.

Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of 86 stories, now we have 89 in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don't know what to do with themselves - and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives - and hers - and ours. 

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Struggling to switch off your thoughts at night?Boring Bedtime Stories To Put YOU To Sleep Extra Fast is a calming collection of 20 slow, gentle, and wonderfully uneventful stories created to help quiet a busy mind, release daily stress, and guide you naturally towards deep, restful sleep.Each...

A Selection of Short Stories by Leo Tolstoy read by Bart Wolffe.

Using, or rather mimicking, traditional forms of storytelling, Gogol created stories that are complete within themselves and only tangentially connected to a meaning or moral. His work belongs to the school of invention, where each twist and turn of the narrative is a surprise unfettered by...

In this reissue of her debut collection, Madeline Cash, the author of Lost Lambs, skewers our late-stage-Capitalist reality into a strange, but ultimately life-affirming collage of stories. Life is absurd, so is Earth Angel. A biblical plague rains sentient frogs, a childless millennial throws a...

In this short, funny, sci-fi tale, every human being on Earth suddenly receives a specific superpower. Everyone, that is, except Dale. But instead of moping around, Dale fools a world of superheroes into believing he was blessed with the power of making a perfect cappuccino. His business takes off beyond his wildest dreams—at least, until he meets Brenda, his personal supervillain, the only person on the planet with a perfect superpalate.

‘If you find my stories obscene or filthy, then the society you are living in is obscene and dirty,’ once said Manto. While Manto was time and again accused of obscenity, his stories addressed several social issues. With his astute understanding of the complexity of human nature and his ability to write griping stories, Manto was considered one of the most powerful voices of his time. This collection brings together some of Manto's finest stories including 'Chor', 'Mausam ki Shararat' and 'Paseena'.

Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, American Book Award winner and Essence best-selling author Tananarive Due’s work is both riveting and enlightening. In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by otherness. Featuring an award-winning novella and 15 stories, Ghost Summer: Stories is sure to haunt and delight.

"The Classic Collection of Franz Kafka. Novellas and Stories" brings together a selection of extraordinary works by Franz Kafka, one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. This collection showcases Kafka's unique literary style and his exploration of existential themes, alienation, and the human condition. "The Metamorphosis" is a haunting novella that follows the bizarre transformation of Gregor Samsa into a giant insect, exploring themes of identity, isolation, and the absurdity of human existence.

यह किताब उन बेहद मामूली औरतों के नातमाम क़िस्सों का जोड़ है जो अपने हालात या हादसों के चलते औचक ही ख़ास हो गईं। इन कहानियों में उन आम औरतों का उजास और अँधेरा, उनके आकर्षण और विकर्षण, उनके डर और पछतावे, उनके हासिल नाहासिल सिमटे हुए हैं।

First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway's most important and compelling early writing. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war, the often-uneasy relationship between men and women, sport and sportsmanship. Pared down, gritty, and subtly expressive, these stories show the young Hemingway emerging as America's finest writer.

Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified—but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot...