Category: Single Authors Short Stories

Pierre Pinton, en parcourant ce sud de l. a. France si riche et si convoité, eut l'avantage de pouvoir rencontrer des gens du cru de divers départements qui lui racontèrent des histoires, des anecdotes, des légendes, des contes ou de mystérieuses manifestations. Ce livre regroupe les plus intéressants, tels qu'il les a notés lors de ses rencontres merveilleuses avec des gens attachants et tant épris de leur can pay. L'Histoire est faite d'histoires, los angeles connaissance de l'accumulation des connaissances acquises au lengthy des siècles et le progrès ne peut se forger qu'en rebondissant sur le goé qui nous est légué. Raconter – même des légendes ou des contes ou des vies passées – ne peut que contribuer à nous faire évoluer.

i could no longer be good. i've got what a few may perhaps say is an...interesting brain. here's a selection of many of the titillating, provocative and downright bizarre issues that rattle round during this grande cabeza of mine!

You've been warned...

These 3 novellas from the acclaimed German author Gertrud von le fortress, newly translated for the 1st time into English for this quantity, are from her later works of ancient fiction, within which she screens her mastery as a dramatist of ideas.

The spouse of Pilate imagines the gradual, laborious transformation of an aristocratic girl, who's pointed out within the New testomony, from a pagan right into a Christian saint, as she is now commemorated within the Byzantine Church. 

Plus Ultra takes us into the excessive politics of early sixteenth century Europe, and into the soul of a lonely younger woman at courtroom who understands she has attracted the intoxicating yet harmful awareness of the Emperor Charles V himself.

At the Gate of Heaven takes the conflict among astronomical discoveries and the Roman Inquisition trial of Galileo because the backdrop for harrowing reflections approximately man’s position within the cosmos. 

In those novellas von le castle vividly recreates scenes from remote places in bygone eras.  much more memorable are her lyrical portrayals of conflicts within the souls and minds of strong humans. those are thought-provoking tales by way of a prepared observer of humanity.

selection of brief tales and poems ready by means of the writer in 2004 while suffering from an sickness that may end up deadly a similar 12 months. That previous Suburban Angst on 14 years after his debut assortment The social gathering gown of which the NME stated "In this funny, perceptive and sometimes painful ebook Coyne, like he regularly used to, places it at the line."
Born in Derby, England Kevin Coyne was once a musician whose song used to be as uncompromising as his portray and writings and echoed what the mum or dad referred to as "the eccentric humanity of the veteran singer."

Crónica y recuento de sensaciones y sentimientos que toman los angeles forma de cuentos, cartas, párrafos y novelas. Retratos muy humanos de personajes que se empeñan en vivir frente a las opresivas circunstancias que los rodean.

"What baby wouldn't be extremely joyful via the tale of bewildering matzoballs, staggering latkes, strange site visitors to a Bar Mitzvah, and a puppy with a mysterious and fascinating heritage?

These are the contents of Cynthia Goren's ""Tales from a Jewish Grandmother"".

In this assortment, tales for the very younger and for the older baby subtly yet convincingly tension the significance of admire and endurance either for every different and for all of nature. The whimsy of the sooner tales will convey giggles to the more youthful set; the more severe and nuanced later tales will give you the idea and substance wanted by means of an older baby.

Sprinkled with love and religion, background, and peoplehood, this anthology illustrates, particularly, the Jewish kid's thirst for the gorgeous traditions of Judaism.

""This pleasant anthology of reports, appropriate for kids of various a while, will open a kid's eyes, center, and brain to his or her connection to the dynamic and thriving tradition of the Jewish people.""

-Danny A. Brass, DVM
Book Reviewer for the nationwide Speleological Society and selection Magazine"

Audacious experimentalist and self-declared anti-writer,Subimal Misra is the grasp of latest replacement Bengali literature and anti-establishment writing. This assortment brings jointly twenty-five tales that checklist the darkish background of violence and degeneration in Bengal of the seventies and eighties. The reflect that Misra holds as much as society breaks each canon of rectitude with unfailing precision. The tales additionally plot the continual evolution of Misra s writing as he searches for a sort to do justice to the truth that confronts us.
Deeply stimulated by means of Godard, Misra makes use of montage and different cinematic concepts in his tales, which he himself calls antistories ,challenging our notions of analyzing and of literature itself. Brilliantly translated by means of V. Ramaswamy, Wild Animals Prohibited: Stories/Anti-stories startles with its blasphemy, its provocative principles and its sheer formlessness.

The publication is a set of 21 effortless to learn brief tales. each one brief tale comprises an idea which can create a beneficial influence at the socio-economic development of the rustic. The 21 fictionalized tales have narratives with relatable characters fixing a key problem utilizing the assumption. the topics mentioned are diverse and contact each element and strata of existence in our society.This is a e-book of principles, albeit the tale layout is used to make sure that you will have an stress-free time operating your means via each one proposal during this booklet. a number of or the entire principles during this e-book can have happened to you sooner or later in time otherwise you can have learn, heard or visible them some-where. evidence and knowledge which could have followed the tips have intentionally been refrained from to maintain the e-book from turning into pedantic or too text-bookish. The art that accompanies each one tale is geared toward reinforcing the significant concept of the tale in a sort that's effortless for a visible reader to soak up and imbibe. you are going to become aware of that almost all of the tales, via their important characters, try to locate creative strategies both to India's unemployment problem or key matters concerning the Indian economic climate. The employment problem confronted via India is a behemoth, given the country's large inhabitants of employable age. The complexity of discovering significant paintings for our younger women and men is an hard activity. Our employable inhabitants lacks uniformity of abilities, education and schooling. there's a marked distinction in propensities and of assets on hand to younger women and men at the foundation in their socio-economic category and the areas that they arrive from. The demographic dividend that we hold priding ourselves on may be our nemesis, if now not engaged with and channelized in a significant means, the time for that is now. we need to position our younger women and men in significant, efficient and pleasing paintings. This e-book makes an attempt a couple of solutions to such questions.

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