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Death in Venice (German: Der Tod in Venedig) is a novella written by the German author Thomas Mann published in 1912. The work presents a great writer who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed by the sight of a stunningly beautiful youth.
Tadzio, the boy in the story, is the nickname for the Polish name Tadeusz and is based on a boy Mann had seen during his visit to Venice in 1911.
As the story opens, he is strolling...
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A satirical collection of letters to the great voices of literary history, from Herodotus to Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, and more.
The Scottish poet and scholar Andrew Lang took a novel approach to literary criticism when he chose to address his comments to authors who could no longer receive them. Beyond both flattery and insult, dead authors proved the ideal subject for the unmitigated honesty of Lang's assessments. First published...
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With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music. He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque.
The stories in Hot Water Music dash around the worst parts of town - a motel room stinking of sick, a decrepit apartment housing a perpetually arguing couple, a bar tended by a skeleton - and depict...
4) Dreams
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Originally published in 1924, "Dreams" is a collection of short stories written by South African writer Olive Schreiner. Her second book, "Dreams" contains eleven short stories inspired by Schreiner's dreams and her experiences living on a South African farm. Olive Schreiner (1855—1920) was a South African anti-war campaigner, intellectual, and author most famous for her highly-acclaimed novel "The Story of an African Farm" (1883), which deals with...
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A few fragments of Alen's life, based on real stories, will take you on a journey of life. You never know what destiny has in store for you. While reading this short story you'll travel through time with Alen, live important moments from his life, and meet the end, which, unfortunately, is today's reality.Where does this road of reality take us? Are we going the right way?
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En sus relatos, María Rosa Iglesias cuestiona la creencia popular de que todos los inmigrantes europeos en la Argentina del siglo XX progresaron sin contrariedades. Como en su novela Aurelia quiere oír, ficcionaliza personajes verídicos: el exiliado doctor Sánchez Guisande, los rebeldes de la Patagonia trágica, el fundador de la aldea Beleiro, el maestro pizzero Andrés Iglesias. Los hace interactuar con personajes ficcionales absolutamente verosímiles,...
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Esta es la historia de Julieta, una hermosa joven de una provincia Argentina, amante de la pastelería, que migró y cumplió su gran sueño: triunfar en Francia. Después de pasar muchas dificultades, en París descubre un nuevo horizonte y a dos personas que no solamente le brindaron su amistad sino que fueron fundamentales para concretar su anhelo.
9) Lo que queda
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Ser mujer en la sociedad actual, sobre todo la colombiana, resulta una experiencia confrontadora desde muchas perspectivas. La violencia y la magia que atraviesa el cuerpo de mujer de manera paralela, influye y moldea su existencia terrenal, convirtiéndolas en víctimas y agentes de violencia, tanto para otros como para ellas mismas. Cada uno de estos relatos representa las tantas facetas y posibilidades de ser mujer, el peso de la violencia sobre...
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Die Walfische und die Fremde
Vom Tabarz
Der arme Pilmartine
Die Ode an Elisa
Drama im Zoo
Der ehrliche Seemann
Kuttel Daddeldu erzählt seinen Kindern das Märchen vom Rotkäppchen und zeichnet ihnen sogar was dazu
Rätselhaftes Ostermärchen (nur mit Ei und Eier aufzulösen)
Vom andern aus lerne die Welt begreifen (Ein Märchen)
Die wilde Miß vom Ohio
Durch das Schlüsselloch eines Lebens
Der tätowierte Apion
Jemand erzählt von Illineb
Das...
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This collection of short stories will appeal to readers who are attracted to snapshots of the human condition. While set in Australia, the stories reflect universal themes. They range over a number of genres from crime to science fiction, from human weakness to human strength, and capture pockets of life with uncanny accuracy and sensitivity.
The author, Lawrence Goodstone, is a retired public servant who spent his professional life writing for others....
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Brought back into print after 14 years and published in paperback for the first time, this leisurely meditation on the art of acting and on the author's life in that art demonstrates a good-natured sense of humor and an engaging style. In a series of essays, Broun gently knocks the theatrical world-the audience traveling from small town to small town only to have a production fold right outside of New York; the trauma of doing live TV; getting bit...
13) Aquí asaltan
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Canciones de rock & roll, una afición antigua por los cómics, una avalancha de juguete, Bruce Springsteen y una instructora de baile son algunos de los objetos y personajes que conforman las viñetas, los relatos, las estampas a través de los cuales Sergio Zurita se narra a sí mismo, a sus afectos y sus recuerdos. Esta compilación de textos breves, que atraviesa la frontera de la ficción y se interna en la realidad va de la autobiografía al...
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Im Schatten der jungen Mädchen
Die Herzogin von Guermantes (Band 1&2)
Tage der Freuden:
Der Tod des Baldassar Sylvandre, Freiherrn von Sylvanie
Violante oder die Weltlichkeit
Fragmente einer italienischen Komödie
Weltlichkeit und Melomanie
Trauriger Landaufenthalt der Madame de Breyves
Die Beichte eines jungen Mädchens
Das große Diner
Trauer und Träume in allen Regenbogenfarben
Das Ende der Eifersucht
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A volume, four stories of Enric, his boyhood as a child undercover agent in the Spanish Resistance to Fascist rule after the Civil War. Fiction based on the true life of Enric Torres, narrator in the novel To the Death, Amic Hospice Enric, the boy of To the Death, Amic works as a smuggler for The Organisation, the resistance movement in Barcelona. From France, over the high country, he brings in ammunition, leaflets. This time his job is to smuggle...
18) The Leading Lady
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She starts from a scratch, attains stardom at a cost, achieves all she can but with time loses everything she could have had. "The Leading Lady' is a strange, powerful, heart wrenching and discomforting tale that calls up nightmare images of spiritual and physical isolation. This short work of fiction will linger in your senses for longer leaving behind a strong impact.
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Una mujer se queda sin palabras frente al mar. El mar como ocasión definitiva para la escritura, para anclar en la arena los signos de lo indecible. ¿Qué es lo que escribe una mujer frente al mar? ¿Qué es lo que escribe una mujer ante la distancia insondable que impone el agua con su vaivén militante? ¿Por qué frente al mar?
Marina Deza nos impone estas preguntas con su potente puñado de textos aquí reunidos. Desde uno de ellos, la mujer...
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Sixteen stories that depict America-and the world-emerging from the wreckage of World War II From a glimpse of Coca-Cola's first appearance in a remote part of the Arabian desert to the tale of a wealthy, paranoid man building a shelter after the first hydrogen bomb tests, the stories in The Last Supper depict a world coming to grips with the new post-war reality. As always, Howard Fast has an ear for the way history echoes through the generations,...
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