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हम उम्र के आगामी पड़ावों पर आगे बढ़ते तो जाते हैं लेकिन हमारी स्मृतियाँ अक्सर ही हमें पीछे मुड़कर देखने पर मजबूर करती रहती हैं। अगर कुछ स्मृतियाँ वाक़ई ऐसी हों कि उन्हें दर्ज किया जा सके, फिर तो वे अपने लेखक या लेखिका से ख़ुद को दर्ज करवा ही लेती हैं–रचनाओं की शक्ल में।

The story centers on an impoverished clerk who is dedicated to his job as a routine copyist but not recognized for his hard work. Younger clerks mock him for his dedication. His threadbare overcoat is mocked as well. He saves up to buy a new one and wears it for one glorious evening, only to have it stolen that night. He dies soon after from his great loss. Thereafter, his ghost is reported to haunt that part of St. Petersburg where the coat was stolen.

Multicast narration featuring Hugh Fraser, Joan Hickson, David Suchet, and more Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Christie’s wildly unconventional investigator, Parker Pyne, all make appearances in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories—a riveting collection of short stories featuring a host...

In Mansarovar 4, Munshi Premchand masterfully continues his exploration of human nature through a series of thought-provoking short stories. Each narrative delves deep into the social, moral, and emotional struggles faced by individuals in a rapidly changing society. Premchand's characters—ranging from the downtrodden to the privileged—navigate themes of love, sacrifice, betrayal, and justice, shedding light on the complexities of human relationships.

Fourteen engaging stories from one of India's master story-tellers Semi-autobiographical in nature, these stories span the period from the author's childhood to the present. We are introduced, in a series of beautifully imagined and crafted cameos, to the author's family, friends, and various...

A darkly funny short story about one woman’s reflections on the routes she’s taken through life and the detours she’s made along the way. Doubts and guilt swirl through her mind as she rides the train to her fertility appointment. Each stop stirs up introspective thoughts on her marriage, the loss of her baby, and the lover who got away—contemplations that push her ever closer to wondering if she’s made the right decisions.

"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing of any value in the world. Slipping into nihilism with the "terrible anguish", he is determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl, however, begins the man on a journey that re-instills a love for his fellow man.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Lust by Roald Dahl, read by Mark Heap, Derek Jacobi, Richard E Grant, Gillian Anderson, Shane Rimmer, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Jessica Hynes. We fall not in love but in lust . . . Lust, in all its myriad forms, consumes us. What won't we do to achieve our...

Brought to you by Penguin. For the characters in after the quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man: did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Miyake left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach...

Emmy award-winning actor Sir Derek Jacobi reads all 12 stories from this last collection to feature Holmes and Watson.

हिन्दी कहानी की साहित्यिक यात्रा में 'उसने कहा था' पहली आधुनिक कहानी मानी जाती है। यथार्थवाद पर आधारित यह कहानी गुलेरी ने 1920 के दशक में लिखी जिस पर प्रेमचन्द ने सान चढ़ाई। चंद्रधर शर्मा 'गुलेरी' की लोकप्रियता का मुख्य कारण तो उनकी यह कहानी है ही लेकिन उन्होंने कहानियों के अतिरिक्त निबंध, आलोचना-समीक्षा, विमर्श और शोध जैसी उस समय की अविकसित विधाओं में भी लिखा। उनकी लेखन-शैली अनूठी और बहुत प्रभावपूर्ण थी।

A teenage Anita fights with her first wave of infatuation, a grown-up girl goes through crests and troughs of her various firsts, a married woman struggles with the meanderings of her mind at various stages of her married life, a love story told from a child observer's perspective, and a story of a man's yearning to feel his roots in another part of the globe. Mundane details of ordinary lives and the darker recesses of the minds of these marginalized characters are played with strokes of myriad colours to bring forth the strangeness, unpredictability and adventure that life holds.

The fourth volume of classic Sherlock Holmes stories on audio, brilliantly performed by John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson.

The fourteen short stories in To Cut a Long Story Short show Jeffrey Archer’s great skills with a wide variety of character, of subject and of setting, but all with that trademark twist in the tale. Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from the quirks of the legal profession - and those who are able to manipulate both sides of the Bar - to the creative financial talents of a member of Her Majesty’s diplomatic service - but for a good cause.

Read by David Suchet The classic Evil Under the Sun, one of the most famous of Agatha Christie’s Poirot investigations, has the fastidious sleuth on the trail of the killer of a sun-bronzed beauty whose death brings some rather shocking secrets into the light. The beautiful bronzed body of...

A lowly government clerk, Akay Akakiyevich, must scrimp and save to purchase a new coat for the cold Russian winter in “The Overcoat”. But after one night of basking in the warmth of his new coat and the respect of his colleagues, Akaky’s one-of-a-kind overcoat is stolen. In his pursuit of justice, Akaky receives no help and is consumed by the loss of his prized possession. In “The Viy”, Gogol recounts a popular folk story in which a monstrous creature, known to Little Russia as the king of gnomes, helps a witch get revenge on a young student who escaped from her trap.

Lord Arthur Saviles's Crime is a masterpiece of polished cynicism, in which poison, explosive clocks and finally murder forerun married bliss. Each of the eight stories here were published in the heyday of Wilde's career, between 1887 and 1891.

சிவன், தன் படைகளைத் திரட்டத் தொடங்கிவிட்டார். நாகர்களின் தலைநகரான பஞ்சவடியை அடைந்தவுடன், தீமையின் உண்மையான...

Do you like listening to Horror Stories? You believe that the best time to watch a scary film is night? Is it your life-long dream to befriend ghosts? If yes, we have something just right for you!

आज़ादी के पाँच दशक पूरे होने और आधुनिकता के तमाम आयातित अथवा मौलिक रूपों को भीतर तक आत्मसात् कर चुकने के बावजूद आज भी हम कहीं-न-कहीं सवर्ण और अवर्ण के दायरों में बँटे हुए हैं। सिद्धान्तों और किताबी बहसों से बाहर, जीवन में हमें आज भी अनेक उदाहरण मिल जाएँगे, जिनमें हमारी जाति और वर्णगत असहिष्णुता स्पष्ट दृष्टिगोचर होती है। ‘जूठन' ऐसे ही उदाहरणों की श्रृंखला है जिन्हें एक दलित व्यक्ति ने अपनी पूरी संवेदनशीलता के साथ ख़ुद भोगा है।