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Considered one of the three most important voices in contemporary Chinese science fiction (along with Liu Cixin and Wang Jinkang), Han Song is a multiple recipient of the Chinese Galaxy Award (China's highest profile sci-fi prize), as well as the Chinese Nebula Award and Asian-Pacific Sci-fi Gravity Award. Song bridges new developments in science and subjects of cultural and social dynamics with stories of dystopia, governmental conspiracy, and subversive...
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“Familiar Studies of Men and Books” is a collection of essays by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The essays reflect Stevenson's opinions and observations on various aspects of literature and the human condition. They showcase his wit, wisdom, and style and demonstrate why he was one of the most popular writers of his time. In the essays, Stevenson discusses authors and works he admired, reflects on his own writing process, and offers insights...
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A collection of ten international stories covering a period of sixty years from the mid-twentieth century that explore human behavior in the face of remarkably unexpected circumstances. The subjects of each story find themselves faced with obstacles ranging from bearing witness to murder to the complications of greed and class superiority.
Everyday, normal events can quickly turn to loss, love, grief, or even relief, but it is our responses...
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Short Stories for Thought and Wonder is a fabulously creative literary collection for lovers of diversity and the unexpected.
It is time to reignite your sense of wonder! Immerse into blissful escapism with eight beautifully written short stories by American author and artist Avonelle Kelsey. Dreams, sci-fi, culture, philosophy, whimsy... Where will Kelsey's imagination take you next?
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En este nuevo trabajo, Loti Ambrosi nos conmueve con su percepción amorosa de las cosas, de los lugares, de la gente. El presente volumen de cuentos nos transporta a la mirada interior de esta escritora polifacética, con su humor ácido, su fantasía, su ternura. Entrañable lectura para los que aprecian los buenos detalles de la vida y el valor de vivirla intensamente.
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En este ensayo, Santiago Vizcaíno nos propone entrar en "Casa tomada", el cuento de Julio Cortázar, "por la parte trasera y por la noche".
El autor se ha propuesto huir de la interpretación, para lograr internarse en el relato, o atravesar los múltiples intentos hermenéuticos que el cuento ha provocado, para dar con esa casa esencial.
Desafío especialmente complicado si se asume que el texto del escritor argentino ha sido creado con una estructura...
7) Bloodknots
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A collection of beguiling stories from an American writer who excels at depicting the family ties that bind: fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters whose connections to one another are as fragile as they are irrevocable. Stubbornly honest, and imbued with a sensibility that speaks to the author's Jewish heritage, Ami Sands Brodoff writes with authority, passion, and razor-sharp detail about identity and the longing for human connections in the face...
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Una vida inmortal.
Una oportunidad fáustica.
Un pasado sinuoso.
Un viaje iniciático.
Una celebración imaginaria.
Un viejo sin infancia.
Un recuerdo encerrado.
Una vida a contrapelo.
Un asilo de genios.
Nueve historias para el lector que las prefiere breves. Fantásticas o realistas, nueve ejercicios de sustancia en un envoltorio pequeño y entretenido.
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A pile of sensational bizarre blood cases, a cold silent body, what kind of crimes and secrets are hidden? A calm and wise female forensic doctor, an experienced criminal investigation captain, in the face of a paper forensic identification, one by one, the blood, violence and terror behind the dissection of the body, everything seems to have no trace, but in the bizarre doomed to the curse of the murderer
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In his previous life, he was framed by his family, broke his legs, expelled from his family and died of depression!
Now he has returned from an accidental rebirth, re-cultivated the cultivation of the Immortal Emperor, and become the most powerful master of the city!
In this life, I want to be the most powerful in the world!
I want to make up for all the regrets of my previous life, and pay back the humiliation I have suffered twice!...
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This book features a collection of Cather's short stories, including Peter, On the Divide, Eric Hermannson's Soul, The Sentimentality of William Tavener, The Namesake, The Enchanted Bluff, The Joy of Nelly Deane, The Bohemian Girl, Consequences, The Bookkeeper's Wife, Ardessa, and Her Boss. A collection of reviews and essays by Cather are also included. Authors covered by the reviews include Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt...
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Dark Moon Books and editor Eric J. Guignard bring you this introduction to her work, the second in a series of primers exploring modern masters of literary dark short fiction. Herein is a chance to discover, or learn more of, the distinct voice of Kaaron Warren, as beautifully illustrated by artist Michelle Prebich.
Included within these pages are:
• Six short stories, one written exclusively for this book
• Author interview
• Complete bibliography
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Le Spinoza de la rue du marché d'Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) est paru, sous son titre original, The Spinoza of Market Street, en 1957. La traduction française en a été effectuée en 1966. Il s'agit d'un recueil de dix nouvelles qui décrivent le monde familier du shtetl, de la communauté juive de Pologne, à la fois des villages et des quartiers des grandes villes.
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Hailed by The Oxford Companion to English Literature as "Britain's most respected living horror writer," Ramsey Campbell has authored an astounding body of work for over half a century that embodies the weird, the supernatural, and the subtle, much of which is widely considered classics of dark fiction today. He has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including being made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University...
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Author of the fantastic and the bizarre, Jeffrey Ford's work has won awards and acclaim across the globe for his stories of humor, horror, and unconventional beauty. "Powerful and disturbing in the best possible way" (Gawker) and "Intensely engaging" (Publishers Weekly), Ford crosses speculative genres with literary ideals, which has earned him the World Fantasy Award (seven times), the Shirley Jackson Award (four times), the Edgar Allan Poe Award,...
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A master of the short story form, Muhammad Zafzaf is one of Morocco's greatest narrative writers. This anthology, the first collection of his work translated into English, is a tribute to the remarkable influence he exerted on an entire generation of Moroccan storytellers.
Zafzaf's stories are set within a variety of contexts, each portraying a slice of life, a simple struggle for survival in a challenging world that is changing at a rapid pace....
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For over four decades, Steve Rasnic Tem has been an acclaimed author of horror, weird, and sentimental fiction. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "A perfect balance between the bizarre and the straight-forward" and Library Journal as "One of the most distinctive voices in imaginative literature," Steve Rasnic Tem has been read and cherished the world over for his affecting, genre-crossing tales.
Dark Moon Books and editor Eric J. Guignard bring...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Les Contes de la bécasse (1883) sont le troisième recueil de nouvelles de Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), succédant à La Maison Tellier (1881) et Mademoiselle Fifi (1882).
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Contes de la bécasse de Guy de Maupassant
Chaque fiche de lecture présente une œuvre clé de la littérature ou de la pensée....
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