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Kate Chopin was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly with a Louisiana Creole background. Today she is now considered a forerunner of the feminist authors of the 20th century. This powerful story concerns a wife who learns that her overbearing husband has been killed. The short period of mourning turns to the hope of her new freedom - but then comes the very unexpected climax.

A captivating collection of 60-minute classic stories by great writers.

There is something peculiar about the hour after midnight. It is the time when darkness reigns. And strange things roam the earth. In this dazzling collection of new and original haunted tales, thirteen bestselling and much-loved authors bring this hour to vivid, spine-tingling life. So curl up, light a candle, and wait for the clocks to strike . . .

A comprehensive collection of superb classic 30-minute short stories. Perfect for commuters, joggers or bedtime listening.

two classic Kate Chopin short stories about women, their desires, and independence.

From Italy in 1733 to Edinburgh in 1831 to a series of chilling murders in London in 1870 and a lethal game of revenge decades later, a watch touches lives with misfortune - until it comes into the hands of one young woman who might be able to stop it for good. This outstanding collaboration between four outstanding novelists follows characters who are irrevocably linked by fate, each one playing a key role in breaking the curse once and for all.

A gripping collection of 30 minute stories by some of the greatest storytellers in the English language....

Una mujer que se libera. Una mujer que resuelve un dia liberarse de las cadenas que la atan, es la base del profundo estudio psicologico que hizo Stefan Zweig en "24 horas en la vida de una mujer".

From a simple robbery gone horribly wrong to a grisly murder in a secret love dungeon, this stellar collection of crime fiction short stories showcases some of today's finest voices of color. Edited by Wall Street Journal best-selling author Abby L. Vandiver, this thrilling anthology will keep you on the edge of your seat. Includes "Midnight Escapade" by Jennifer Chow, "Lucky Thirteen" by Tracy Clark, "Murderers' Feast" by H.C. Chan, "In the Matter of Mabel and Bobby Jefferson" by Christopher Chambers, and many more.

"The Hour" by James Bernard Fagan (1873-1923) was published in Poems of the Great War in 1914 on behalf of The Prince of Wales' National Relief Fund. Fagan was an Irish-born actor, poet and playwright.

> These Precious Hours is a collection of related and interconnected stories concerning loss and recovery. At the end, many of the characters meet. Declan Mulligan has lost a wife and visits Ireland to connect with a remote past. Dexter Flanagan has lost a beautiful woman to another, but writes a great love song. After a personal tragedy, Sean Dineen joins his ailing ex-wife to see the wedding of their son in Paraguay.

Eine Frau, die mit Vorfreude auf ihren Mann wartet, jedoch vergebens... Ein junges Mädchen auf der Suche nach einer Wohnung, die sich als Falle herausstellt... Ein Wissenschaftler und sein Diener, die einen Berg erkunden, welcher ein Geheimnis birgt... Zwei Gefangene, die auf ihrer Flucht eine unheimliche Entdeckung machen.... ...und einiges mehr. Geschichten, die gruseln, die einen packen, aber auch zu Tränen rühren.

Notions of the undead have fascinated and terrified humanity for centuries, and none more so than those tales revolving around zombies. From the very root of the zombie myth back in the Haitian slave days to a saturation through popular culture, zombies have crawled their way up out of their graves, refusing to stay interred. Now, as their hordes increase and their hungers grow, the undead plagues cannot be stopped. It isn't just a case of no room left on Earth. The apocalypse is here.

Frost is just an ordinary person with beautiful power of expression. This audiobook is not just about her journey through depression but a lot more other things like societal conditioning, love, attention, abandonment, etc. She effortlessly takes you along in an instance onto an engaging one-go listen. It is in the form of a monologue with several poems woven into a short story. It contains poems with striking similarity and relevance, about each one of us and our lives, about complexities in all their simple sense and poems that will make you revisit them again.