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A sportscaster and a kindergarten teacher vie for the last copy of a bestselling dessert cookbook. To prove how badly they want it, each tries to outdo the other with meme-like, dessert-inspired lines.

O. Henry, the pseudonym of the American writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), is best known for writing stories full of wit, wordplay, and warm characterizations, and particularly for their clever twist endings. This volume contains 20 of O. Henry's best and best-loved stories. They are marked by coincidence and surprise endings as well as the compassion and high humor that have made O. Henry's stories popular for the last century.

This is a collection of Hindi-language pieces written by Sanjay Vyas. It talks about the ordinary things and events of our day-to-day life. What makes this book different is the way it has been written. Instead of talking about things in and around the mundane world in the usual boring way, it tells the tales of these. Each piece magnifies the ordinary to such an extent that it makes it look surreal.

John Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes common to them all, giving them new meaning in the context of this collection.

ജിയോവന്നി ബോക്കാസിയോയുടെ പ്രശസ്തമായ പുസ്തകം ദി ഡെക്കാമെറോൺ ഇൻ മലയാളം, പ്രണയത്തിന്റെയും കാമത്തിന്റെയും കഥകളാൽ പ്രശസ്തമാണ്, ലൈംഗികത മുതൽ ദുരന്തം വരെയുള്ള എല്ലാ സാധ്യതകളിലും ഇത് പ്രത്യക്ഷപ്പെടുന്നു. ഈ മധ്യകാല സാങ്കൽപ്പിക കൃതിയിൽ 100 കഥകളുണ്ട്, അതിൽ വിറ്റ്, വിറ്റിസിസം, പ്രായോഗിക തമാശകൾ, തുടങ്ങിയ വിഷയങ്ങളുണ്ട്.

No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L'Amour, who portrays the human side of westward expansion - the good and the bad - before the days of law and order. Collected here are seven stories penned by America's favorite Western author.

१९४८ च्या गांधी हत्येनंतर देशात जे दंगे झाले त्यात ज्यांचा संबंध हि नाही अशी अनेक कुटुंबे होरपळली गेली नंतर घरांची डागडुजीही झाली पण आपलाच शेजारी आपला घात करील याची कल्पना हि नसलेल्या मानसिकतेचे वर्णन "वावटळ" मध्ये केले आहे.

Nicole has wanted to own a haunted car her entire teenaged life, and when she finally finds one - a junker of a Chrysler Neon with its own tragic backstory - her best friend, Johnny, has some serious doubts. Would a demon even want to possess a Chrysler Neon? But when the two of them take it for a test drive, Johnny’s doubts begin to fade: The steering wheel burns hot, the car traps Johnny in the back seat, and is Nicole even driving? Or is the car driving itself? They soon find themselves forced to face the potential evil controlling the car, and possibly even themselves.

Daudet's atmospheric Letters from a Windmill, combined with Jerome K. Jerome's wonderfully idle ramblings. He was indeed the original founder of The Idler and famous for his classic novel Three Men and a Boat.

Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) needs no introduction. One of the greatest stars of Urdu literature, Manto published over 20 collections of short stories in a literary career spanning almost two decades. Several of these have been adapted into films and plays that have won a multitude of awards and his stories about the 1947 Partition remain some of the best accounts ever written on the catastrophic event.

Set against the background of Dublin at the turn of the century, Joyce's celebrated collection of short stories recount a series of unremarkable incidents in the lives of ordinary men and women. Stylistically straightforward, it is Joyce's eye for detail, matched only by his interest in the habits and patterns of daily life and celebration of the unique wit and landscape of the Irish, that makes these stories so enchanting.

Mrs Zant has recently lost her beloved husband, and while walking in the Kensington Gardens, the spot where she and her deceased husband declared their love for each other, she feels his presence trying to warn her of some coming danger. Mr Rayburn witnesses it all, and he'll have to fight his own incredulity regarding the supernatural and his gut feeling that the disturbed young woman is telling the truth.

Miriam was raised in a society without children. To offset the devastation of climate change, state-of-the-art birth control has made daycares and playgrounds things of the past. As tempting as the government inducements are to remain child-free, Miriam’s curiosity about the people who “drop out” of society to become parents grows. When she finds a like-minded partner, she must choose between the rewarding comforts she knows and the unknowable mysteries of being a mother.

The Shadow on the Wall brings together Ruskin Bond’s most chilling works of fright and terror. The 21 stories in this book include classics such as ‘A Face in the Dark’, ‘The Chakrata Cat’ and ‘Susanna’s Seven Husbands’, along with a dose of eerie new tales that have never been published before.

This is one of the defining novels of English writer Julian Barnes. An entertaining melange of stories starting with a contemporary account of the launch of Noah's Ark takes us into unexpected areas of human foibles, activities, and tendencies.

Arthur Conan Doyle is well known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, but he also wrote numerous works in which the great detective played no part. Included here are a selection of the best, ranging from science fiction to tales of supernatural terror and rip-roaring adventures set in Jacobean and Regency England.

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and passions.

இதுவரை சிறுகதை, நாவல், கவிதை, கட்டுரை, திரைக்கதைகளின் நாவல் வடிவம் என 50 - க்கும் மேற்பட்ட நூல்கள் எழுதியிருக்கிறார்.

Zacharias is his maternal grandfather’s namesake, though he has never met said grandfather or any other extended family members. He represses questions he has as a way of trying to protect himself and his mother, Dorothée, who is prone to bouts of depression. But he cannot ignore his reality forever and in adolescence, Zacharias begins to commit small acts of rebellion leading to a final act that goes horribly wrong and leads him to exile and a new life where he promises himself never to look back.

बच्चों के लिए रस्किन बॉण्ड की पसंदीदा कहानियाँ. कोई विवेकवान व्यक्ति अगर अपने भीतर बच्चों-सा उत्साह, वैसी जिज्ञासा, विस्मय और कल्पनाशीलता जगा सके तो वह रस्किन बॉण्ड की तरह बच्चों का प्रिय लेखक बन सकता है. लेकिन यह इतना आसान होता तो रस्किन इतने प्रसिद्ध ही क्यों होते? बड़ों का ज्ञान बच्चे एक दिन हासिल कर लेते हैं, लेकिन बच्चे अपनी नई आँखों से रंग-बिरंगी दुनिया को जैसे देखते हैं, महसूसते हैं और कल्पना के परों पर जैसी उड़ान भरते हैं, वह बड़ों को दुबारा कभी हासिल नहीं होता.