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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.

The expected never happens... a man calls unexpectedly on his mistress and sees another man leaving her flat. Accusing her of being unfaithful, he quarrels with her, strikes her. She dies. Leaving unseen, he tips off the police so that the other man is arrested and charged... Has he achieved "The Perfect Murder"? A tantalising opening to "A Twist in the Tale", a fantastic collection of short stories from bestselling author Jeffrey Archer.

An imprisoned man is certain that his supposed murder victim is very much alive... a female driver is pursued relentlessly by a menacing figure in another vehicle... a young artist gets the biggest break of her career... a restless beauty manages the perfect birthday celebration... an escaped Iraqi on Saddam Hussein's death list pays an involuntary visit to his homeland... How will they react? How would you? "Twelve Red Herrings" is the third collection of irresistible short stories from master storyteller, Jeffrey Archer.

Doce relatos nacidos al abrigo del otoño. El paisaje otoñal no solo tiñe el paisaje de grises y ocres, también mueve las mentes creativas a la introspección. Lo que alumbró el otoño son historias donde las frivolidades del mundo se alzan contra los protagonistas. El consumismo exacerbado, la constante búsqueda del éxito, las apariencias morales en la política y la publicidad hunden las esperanzas y el romanticismo.

Arsène Lupin ? Ce Robin des Bois moderne met son intelligence, sa force physique et son sang-froid au secours de "l'innocence persécutée". Un caractère à la fois séduisant, torturé et mystérieux, lui ont assuré son succès auprès de nombreux lecteurs. Içi sont rassemblées l'intégrale des 36 nouvelles qui mettent en scène le personnage d'Arsène Lupin, encore que parfois il se fasse passer pour un certain Jim Barnett.

The chilling classic that inspired the new Netflix horror drama, "The Fall of the House of Usher". Venture, if you dare, into the House of Usher... The narrator visits his friend, Roderick Usher in his decaying mansion, only to witness the harrowing unravellings of Usher's mind and the dark family secrets lurking beneath the crumbling ancestral home. A classic tale of gothic horror that has haunted readers for generations.

En los márgenes de la vida cotidiana pasean los «nadies»: personas anónimas y proletarias que luchan por encontrar su lugar en el mundo y cumplir sus sueños. Cuentos en la tierra de los nadie reúne diez relatos que dan voz a estas figuras invisibles, reflejando con realismo las esperanzas, desilusiones e injusticias de su lucha diaria.

In Gesellschaft ihrer Frauen wollen der Küster, der Gutsverwalter und ein Kleinbürger der russischen Stadt S. den Tag auf einer Wolga-Insel verbringen. Dorthin bringen soll sie Kirchendiener Jerjoma. Für den Nachmittag stehen angeln und die Zubereitung einer schmackhaften Fischsuppe auf dem Programm. Einzig Jerjoma kann die Fahrt anfangs nicht genießen, denn er wird von der Gesellschaft gepiesackt und bekommt nichts zu essen. Der Ausflug hält für ihn dennoch andere begehrenswertere Genüsse als Fischsuppe bereit.

Quattro avventure investigative con al centro Saverio Lamanna e Peppe Piccionello, i due improbabili investigatori isolani immaginati da Gaetano Savatteri sempre dentro situazioni strane e incontri un po' paradossali. Storie che si leggono come un unico romanzo in cui si ride senza sosta, ci si commuove talvolta, e sempre sotto il velo comico va in scena mascherata la miseria umana.

One secret. One cult. One cosmic being. When his uncle dies, it’s up to Francis Wayland Thurston to finally uncover the family secret. For too long, recounts of dreams becoming reality had cast a sombre shadow over the family. And it seems these dreams didn’t die with the uncle. But when Francis discovers hidden notes of a mysterious cult, the truth turns darker than anyone could have ever imagined. A monster is on the rise. But one that is worshipped by those touched by evil, rather than feared.

En este volumen se recopilan relatos donde lo sobrenatural se erige en protagonista y en los que Violet Hunt da prioridad a personajes femeninos asociados a la Nueva Mujer, ideal feminista de finales del siglo XIX. En «El telegrama» vemos como un amante aguarda ser correspondido por su amada y cuando todo apunta a que así será, se encuentra muy enfermo. En «La boina azul» somos testigos de la historia de Christina Daunet, última descendiente de ilustre abolengo, que ve cómo su casa se va desmoronando.

August Strindberg belongs to the same generation of authors as the Russian Chekhov and the Norwegian Ibsen. Strindberg stands at the crossroads of such decisive influences as those of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Schiller, Zola, Byron, or Freud's precursors such as Bernheim. He absorbed the aesthetic trends of his time, particularly naturalism. Four of his short stories are presented in this audiobook: The German Lieutenant; Unwelcome; Over-refinement; Paul & Peter.

A widow spends weeks haunting a cemetery, desperate to track down an unknown woman who keeps leaving flowers on her husband’s grave; A daughter searches a foreign city for her father, trying to understand why he disappeared forty-five years ago; A former gay lover of Roger Casement stands among the crowds at his state funeral in 1965, paying silent homage to the closeted world they were forced to inhabit at the dawning of the Irish State. A writer at a book launch comes face to face with the person secretly responsible for his success.

Gustave Flaubert is one of the major figures of French literature. He was known for his scrupulous devotion to his style, sometimes working for a whole week to achieve a single page; he was made famous by his first novel, Madame Bovary. "A Simple Soul", sometimes translated as "A Simple Heart", is a short story containing a lifetime of human emotions. After her one and only love purportedly marries a well-to-do woman to avoid conscription, the simple servant Félicité picks up work in a widow's house.

Descubra o que acontece com o infortunado jovem detetive de Nápoles que viaja até uma cidade na encosta de uma colina italiana para descobrir "Quem matou o prefeito" e a trajetória do pretensioso estudante na "Estrada para Damasco" cuja vida muda drasticamente quando descobre as origens da riqueza de seu pai. Deleite-se com as histórias de uma mulher dos anos 1930 que ousa desafiar os homens em sua Universidade da Ivy League em "Um cavalheiro e uma acadêmica", enquanto outra jovem mulher pede uma carona e recebe mais do esperava em "Uma hora desperdiçada".

An underemployed chef is pulled into the escalating violence of his neighbour's makeshift porn channel. An elderly piano student is forced to flee her home village when word gets out that she's fucked her thirty-something teacher. A hose pumping cava through the maquette of a giant penis becomes a murder weapon in the hands of a disaffected housewife.

Visceral and poetic, these short stories reveal everyday miracles and trivialities, human desires and anxieties in a very recognizable reality. The woman who cooks soup for the lover whose fidelity she questions, the man who loses courage when faced with the birth of his child, the married couple who know they have embarked on their last summer together. In English for the first time, readers of Tove Ditlevsen and Tove Jansson will be thrilled to discover the debut short story collection of a celebrated Danish writer.

La escuela es mucho más que un edificio o que una etapa, es el escenario de encuentros inolvidables, lecciones de vida y detalles cotidianos que acaban condicionando toda una vida.

En esta recopilación de relatos cortos, atravesados por una poesía casi impalpable, el educador y escritor Carlos de la Hoz recolecta toda una serie de paisajes del mundo al que le ha dedicado más de tres décadas de su vida: la educación.

Salas docentes, lecciones y esperanzas de los maestros, libros de texto, costumbres y rebeldías estudiantiles.

Un enquêteur se présente à la porte de Mme Lechat muni d’un album photos : sur ces photos, elle se découvre mariée à un homme qu'elle ne connaît pas... Ensemble, ils vont tenter de résoudre ce mystère. La piste les conduit dans un centre pour handicapés, où vit sa soeur. De nouveaux albums y sont retrouvés. Ils découvrent qu'elle-même a reçu la visite d'un étrange photographe. Comment donner une vie à ceux qui n'en ont pas...

M. FOLLET, encadreur de métier, a une vie enserrée dans des cadres, dont il ne déborde jamais : sa femme, son fils, sa boutique. Son fils n'entend pas prendre sa suite et choisira un autre cadre : le Cadre Noir, mû par la passion du cheval. Le père voudra alors montrer à son fils qu'il peut lui aussi sortir du cadre. Mais n'en sort pas impunément qui veut. Tout a un prix.