Showing results for "Alice" in Short Stories

All the delightful and bizarre inhabitants of Wonderland are here: the White Rabbit and the Cheshire Cat, the hooka-smoking Caterpillar and the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Ugly Duchess... and, of course, Alice herself - growing alternately taller and smaller, attending demented tea parties and eccentric croquet games, and observing everything with clarity and rational amazement.

The Gibson sisters weren’t expecting to speak to each other ever again after Isabel ran off to New York and left Sophie alone. But here they are, years later, running the family bookstore together on Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Isabel also thought she’d left Johnny Lenox behind, but whether or not she knew it, Johnny was always going to be there for her. Five years into their happily ever after, Isabel and Johnny are making the most of their second chance at love.

Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Her parents are gone, the family bookstore is all but bankrupt, and her sister, Sophie, will probably never speak to her again. But when a mysterious letter arrives in her mailbox, Isabel feels herself drawn to the past. After years of fighting for her independence, she dreads the thought of going back to the island.

A civil rights activist and key figure in African American literary history, Alice Dunbar-Nelson made her mark during the emerging Harlem Renaissance. Violets and Other Tales is her debut (included here in full, save for three stories later updated in The Goodness of St. Rocque). The collection includes poetry, short stories, and essays offering a varied examination of class differences, racial identity, oppression, intolerance, and women’s societal roles. The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories assembles 14 of Dunbar’s short works of fiction.

Una joven madre recibe consuelo inesperado por la muerte de sus tres hijos, otra mujer reacciona de forma insólita ante la humillación a la que la somete un hombre; otros cuentos describen la crueldad de los niños y los huecos de soledad que se crean en el día a día de la vida de pareja. Como broche de oro, en el último cuento acompañamos a Sofi a Kovalevski, una matemática rusa que realmente vivió a mediados del siglo XIX, en su largo peregrinaje a través de Europa en busca de una universidad que admitiera a mujeres como profesoras.

The extraordinary range of work gathered here is united by a fascination with how everyday interactions can transform our lives in unpredictable ways. These are stories of lonely people, outcasts and misfits, and the ghosts that inhabit our intimate spaces. The result is a compelling, arresting and, at times, devastating collection – not least in the title story, which was inspired by the tragic true events of the 1943 Cavan orphanage fire.

Wenn jemand geht, der dir nahe ist, ändert sich dein ganzes Leben, es ändert sich, ob du willst oder nicht. Alles wird anders. Alice ist die Heldin dieser fünf Geschichten, alle erzählen von ihr - und davon, wie das Leben ist und das Lieben, wenn Menschen nicht mehr da sind. Judith Hermann erzählt mit fester und berührender Stimme, wie Lebenswege sich kreuzen, die Richtung ändern und unwiederbringlich auseinandergeführt werden.

In this haunting short story of loyalty and betrayal, a young woman in early 1900s Massachusetts discovers that in navigating her treacherous coming-of-age, she must find her voice first. For fatefully observant Adeline, growing up carries an ominous warning from her adulterous mother: don’t say a word. Adeline vows to never speak again. But that’s not her only secret. After her mother takes a housekeeping job at a lighthouse off the tip of Cape Ann, a local woman vanishes. The key to the mystery lies with Adeline, the silent witness.

With rich, pure prose Hoffman charts the progress of Gretel Samuelson from the time she is a young girl already acquainted with betrayal and grief, until she finally leaves home. Gretel's sly, funny, knowing perspective is at the heart of this collection, as she navigates through loyalty and loss with the help of an unforgettable trio of women: her best friend, Jill, her romance-addled cousin Margot, and her mother, Franny, whose spiritual journey affects them all.

La magia de Alice Munro, que han invocado tantos escritores y críticos literarios, con la que ha llenado de luz las vidas, los sentimientos y los diálogos más cotidianos, y que ha hecho de ella la mejor cuentista de la literatura contemporánea, ganadora del Nobel y del Booker, ya estaba totalmente afianzada en el primero de sus catorce libros de relatos: Danza de las sombras.

A space-obsessed child conjures up a vortex in his mother's airing cupboard. A musician finds her friendship with a flock of birds opens up unexpected possibilities. A rat catcher, summoned to a decaying royal palace, is plunged into a battle for the throne of a ruined kingdom. Two newlyweds find themselves inhibited by the arrival in their lives of an outsized and watchful stuffed bear.

"Il pozzo e il pendolo", "Seppellimento prematuro", "Il Gatto Nero", "Re Peste", "Il Cuore Rivelatore", "La Maschera della Morte Rossa", "Ombra", "Il Diavolo nella Torre", "Il Ritratto Ovale". 9 capolavori del maestro del terrore in voce e musica."The Pit and the Pendulum", "Premature Burial", "The Black Cat", "King Pest", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Mask of Red Death", "Shadow", "The Devil in the Tower", "The Oval Portrait". Nine masterpieces of the master of terror in voice and music.

A captivating collection of six stories from Australia's master storyteller Judy Nunn. The Long Weekend, The Wardrobe, The Otto Bin Empire: Clive's Story, Changes, The House on Hill Street and Just South of Rome.

Una hermosa colección de cuentos de la premio Nobel Alice Munro, donde el amor, que nos acecha desde el pasado o nos reclama desde el futuro, es el tema central.

A heartwarming story about an unwanted gift. Some gifts from the heart are more than what they appear to be.

Malika Moustadraf (1969-2006) is a feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrated for her stark interrogation of gender and sexuality in North Africa. Blood Feast is the complete collection of Moustadraf’s published short fiction: haunting, visceral stories by a master of the genre. A teenage girl suffers through a dystopian rite of passage; a man with kidney disease makes desperate attempts to secure treatment; and a mother schemes to ensure her daughter passes a virginity test.

"Sur le quai de la gare, un chat noir croise obliquement leur chemin. Elle déteste les chats. Plus encore les chats noirs."

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson kehren in die Waltham Abbey zurück, um Pater Brown inmitten der Unruhen innerhalb der Bruderschaft beizustehen. Doch ihre Mission ist zweigeteilt: Neben der Unterstützung von Pater Brown müssen sie auch heimlich Pflanzenproben für Dr. Blackwood beschaffen, die für seine mysteriöse „Blume des ewigen Lebens“ von entscheidender Bedeutung sind.

Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson und Pater Brown treffen sich erneut in der Waltham Abbey, um über die weitere Vorgehensweise im Fall der verschwundenen Mönche zu beratschlagen. Sherlock Holmes glaubt, dass Bruder Gabriel in die mysteriösen Fälle verwickelt ist und unter dem Einfluss einer geheimen Organisation steht, der er in die Hände gefallen ist. Außerdem ziehen Sherlock Holmes und Pater Brown Parallelen zu einer internationalen Serie von Kriminalfällen aus den 1840er Jahren, bei der der international bekannte Auguste Dupin als leitender Detektiv fungierte.

Nachdem Pater Brown, Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson in Bruder Gabriels Klosterzelle wichtige Unterlagen zu seiner Pflanzenforschung sichergestellt haben, stoßen sie in seinem Chemielabor auf einen entscheidenden Hinweis auf die mittelalterlichen Ruinen im Epping Forest. Schnell machen sie sich auf den Weg dorthin, da sie befürchten, dass Bruder Gabriel dort einem lebensbedrohlichen pflanzlichen Experiment unterzogen wird.