Titoli in Antologie e racconti brevi

Fitzgerald's tale of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences. This story was the basis for the Oscar-winning Brad Pitt film of the same name.

Mit „Das Gold von Caxamalca" schildert Jakob Wassermann die dramatischen Ereignisse rund um die Eroberung des Inkareiches durch die spanischen Konquistadoren. Im Zentrum steht das sagenumwobene Gold von Caxamalca – Symbol für Reichtum, Macht und zugleich für die zerstörerische Gier der Eroberer. Die Begegnung zwischen den Kulturen führt zu Verrat, Gewalt und einem tragischen Zusammenbruch einer ganzen Welt. Wassermann verbindet historische Ereignisse mit dichterischer Gestaltungskraft und wirft einen eindringlichen Blick auf Schuld, Machtmissbrauch und die Folgen menschlicher Maßlosigkeit.

تُغيِّب القبور الأجساد ولكن الأرواح تظل حية، طليقة، تملأ الأثير من حولنا وتتسرب إلى لحظاتنا المعيشة لتروي قصصها. التاريخ لا يموت، ولا تكف أطيافه عن التشكل، ملوك...

This fascinating, fact-inspired fiction collection from Emma Donoghue, author of the bestselling Room, is a sequence of fourteen stories about travels to, in, and from North America. With the turn of each page, the characters that roam across these pages go astray. They are emigrants, runaways...

En el corazón de un imperio milenario, el destino de familias enteras se forja entre la guerra y la pasión. Imagina un vasto imperio en constante convulsión, donde el choque de culturas occidentales y orientales desata guerras y profundas transformaciones. "China. La novela" te invita a un viaje épico que comienza en 1839, con el alba de la Primera Guerra del Opio, y se extiende, sin pausas, a través de la Revolución Cultural de Mao hasta el presente.

Sokak lambalarının sönük ışığında, kahveci çırağının camı silerken yaptığı hareket kadar sıradan; ama bir o kadar da derin öykülerle dolu bir kitap elinizde: Mahalle Kahvesi. Sait Faik, bu kitabında büyük hikâyelerin peşine düşmez. Onun dünyası, köşe başındaki manavda bekleyen yaşlı adamın gözlerinde, denize bakarken sigarasını söndüren bir gencin iç geçirişinde saklıdır. Bir fincan kahveyle başlayan cümleler, bizi insanın en sade, en kırılgan hâline götürür.

A Classic Pair: A Tale of Two Cities & War and Peace brings together two unforgettable pieces of historical fiction – by turns beautiful and devastating – from nineteenth-century literary giants, Charles Dickens and Leo Tolstoy. This magnetic pairing is brought to life by award-winning narrators, including the unparalleled Miriam Margolyes. A masterpiece of historical fiction, A Tale of Two Cities tells a story of sacrifice, redemption and the bonds that transcend even the most appalling of circumstances.

Aufbruch und Neubeginn – darum geht es in den sechs stimmungsvollen neuen Geschichten von Petra Durst-Benning. In der Winter- und Weihnachtszeit erfahren ihre beliebtesten Heldinnen und Helden, was es bedeutet, Altes hinter sich zu lassen und Neues zu wagen. Ob die Silhouettenschneiderin...

Fortune promises everything. Greed demands the rest. In The Rynard Gold Reef Company, Ltd., Sir Walter Besant delivers a sharp historical drama of mining speculation, ambition, and moral consequence. Set against the world of late nineteenth-century financial schemes and gold reef investments...

Awaiting execution and counting down the final hours of his life, an unnamed prisoner records his thoughts, fears, and fading hopes with raw honesty. As the walls close in around him, he confronts mortality, justice, and the human cost of punishment. Powerful, intimate, and deeply moving, The Last Day of a Condemned Man is both a gripping psychological portrait and a timeless plea for compassion, challenging readers to reflect on the meaning of justice and the value of human life.

Un relevante conjunto de relatos sobre la guerra civil española, escritos durante 1936 y 1937 y publicados inicialmente en varias revistas internacionales. Chaves Nogales revive en estas páginas sucesos de la guerra que conoció directamente y retrata su perspectiva como una de las voces más destacadas de la primera mitad del siglo XX.

"The Spectacles" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in March 1844 in the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. It is one of Poe's comedy tales. The narrator, 22-year-old Napoleon Buonaparte Froissart, changes his last name to "Simpson" as a requirement to inherit a large sum from a distant cousin, Adolphus Simpson. At the opera he sees a beautiful woman in the audience and falls in love instantly. He describes her beauty at length, despite not being able to see her well; he requires spectacles but, in his vanity, "resolutely refused to employ them".

"The Balloon-Hoax" is the title used in collections and anthologies of a newspaper article by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844 in The Sun newspaper in New York. Originally presented as a true story, it detailed European Monck Mason's trip across the Atlantic Ocean in only three days in a gas balloon. It was later revealed as a hoax and the story was retracted two days later.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "A Lodging for the Night: A Story of Francis Villon" is a gripping tale set in 15th-century Paris. Francis Villon, a poet and a poor master of arts, finds himself entangled in a web of crime and desperation on a snowy November night. After witnessing a...

Este relato cuenta la historia de la Sra. Kearney, que ansía ascender socialmente y asegurar un futuro prometedor para su hija Kathleen a través de la música. Kathleen es invitada a participar en una serie de conciertos organizados por el Comité Eire Abu. Sin embargo, las expectativas de éxito y reconocimiento se ven empañadas por disputas contractuales y tensiones entre la Sra. Kearney y los organizadores del evento.

"Edición revisada y ampliada. Un ameno compendio de la Historia de España y de sus gentes de mano del gran maestro de la novela histórica, Antonio Pérez Henares" Conocía todas las pieles que rozaron la superficie de sus aguas. Una obra que conjuga lo mejor del género histórico, del relato fantástico y de la leyenda popular.

Alan is able to imagine every way critical equipment might break during the launch and landing of Apollo 11. But his experience in preventing cosmic disasters does nothing to prepare him for the pressures of a hasty marriage to a woman he barely knows—or the strain of keeping up appearances amid the shifting social attitudes of the late ’60s. When a crisis at home forces Alan back to earth, he’s faced with a choice he doesn’t know how to make: whether to let go or move forward.

World-renowned pianist Gloria Banderas is at the height of her career when a curious ailment forces her to cancel a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall. The same day, she befriends one of the many free-spirited artists inhabiting the warren of apartments above the theater. With her career and marriage at a standstill, Gloria moves into an empty studio and convalesces among the poets, photographers, and dancers who eke out a living with total dedication to their art. As a return to her old routine beckons, Gloria must decide which parts of her life are worth fighting for.

On Ash Wednesday in 1908, Swiss German immigrant Fritz Hirter arrives at his children’s school, where he is the lone custodian. But soon after lessons start, a fast-moving fire breaks out—its cause is unknown, but its effects are horrifying. Although Fritz is soon cleared of any responsibility for the catastrophe, the community continues to suspect him, supremely testing Fritz and his family.

París, ciudad del amor, de la elegancia, de los sueños. Ciudad de la revolución. Rutherfurd novela la historia de París desde su fundación hasta los días de la revuelta estudiantil de 1968. "París" se desarrolla a través de las historias de pasiones, lealtades divididas y secretos guardados durante años de personajes tanto ficticios como reales, con el escenario de esta gloriosa ciudad como fondo.