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From one of China’s most famous contemporary writers, here is a stunning collection of stories, selected from the best of Yu Hua’s early work, that shows his far-reaching influence on a pivotal period in Chinese literature. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Yu Hua and other young Chinese writers began to reimagine their national literature. Departing from conventional realism in favor of a more surreal and subjective approach inspired by Kafka, Faulkner, and Borges, the boundary-pushing fiction of this period reflected the cultural changes sweeping the world’s most populous nation.

Be careful what you wish for when you say you want someone to love you to death. Such is the warning by Alexander Kuprin, issued in this beautifully written and poignant story.

గ్రామస్థులు అడిగిన పది రూపాయల వరపక్షం ఇవ్వనందున వెంకట దీక్షితులు గారి రెండవ కుమార్తె సుభద్ర పెళ్లి , పీటలమీద ఆగిపోతుంది. మొదటి భార్య పోయినప్పటి నుంచి సుభద్ర మీదే మనసు పెట్టుకున్న కిరీటి రావు కూడా ఆ పెళ్ళికి హాజరవుతాడు.

"حادثة شرف" قصةٌ قصيرة كتبها يوسف إدريس في الستينات عن فتاة جميلة تعيش في الريف المصري حياةً طبيعية إلى أن يأتي اليوم الذي يظنُّ أهل القرية فيه بأنّها قد تعرضت للاغتصاب ليجتمع أهلها وأهل القرية ويقرروا أن تكشف النساء عليها ويتأكدن من ذلك...

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents is a collection of fifteen fantasy and science fiction short stories written by the English author H. G. Wells between 1893 and 1895. It was first published by Methuen & Co. in 1895 and was Wells's first book of short stories. All of the stories had first been published in various weekly and monthly periodicals.

America's black intellectuals - writers, historians, educators, and community activists - have made major contributions to the struggle for equality and human rights throughout American public life. The key streams of thought that gave rise to the intellectual traditions associated with African Americans emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries. These same traditions continue to develop and influence social and political processes today.

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels, and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction. The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents is a superb and varied collection of 15 of Wells' best stories, first published in 1894.