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  Buenos Aires Noir

  Ernesto Mallo

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  Short stories featuring “crimes of passion, politics, and perversity,” set in this tumultuous South American city (Publishers Weekly).   It is a city of contradictions and chaos; crude, transitory violence, the lack of law and order, the ubiquitously hurled insult, the thunderous boom of traffic, and honking curses. Its inhabitants love the city and hate it—from the multimillionaires of Puerto Madero to the workers in the “misery cities,” the poorest neighborhoods of Buenos Aires. Often the mansions are separated from the shanties by nothing but a single street or railroad track.   These short stories of crime and corruption from a lineup of excellent authors highlights the relations between the social and economic classes—their tensions, their cruelties, and also their love—in a city that has reinvented itself many times over.   Brand-new stories by Inés Garland, Inés Fernández Moreno, Ariel Magnus, Alejandro Parisi, Pablo De Santis, Verónica Abdala, Alejandro Soifer, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Ernesto Mallo, Enzo Maqueira, Elsa Osorio, Leandro Ávalos Blacha, Claudia Piñeiro, and María Inés Krimer.   “As editor Mallo says, Buenos Aires is a city ‘in love with its own disorder’ . . . . Murder most foul, the star attraction of almost any good noir, makes several appearances here . . . .Mallo’s well-balanced collection gives readers a glimpse of both the geography of Buenos Aires and its heart.” —Kirkus Reviews

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  The Goat's Gruff

  Honey Cummings

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  Beware of the Troll beyond the Bridge! 
  Taylor finds himself attending a risque masquerade party with his best friend Lou. The rules: No names, no clothes, and wear a fairy tale mask at all times. Arriving as the Big Bad Wolf (Lou) and Troll (Taylor) they soon find themselves at the wildest sex party in town. 
  Troll spots the Goat with her forest pals, Bunny and Fox, but he keeps losing them. At last, he finds a bridge and its then that he gets to hear the Goat’s gruff when he gobbles her up!

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  James Fenimore Cooper, Honore de...

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  Within this decade are writers of incredible ability who are able to fashion gem-like stories that astonish our ears and brains across many genres; a literary culture that seems to endlessly build and create new paths for the restless human imagination to tread. 
   
  1 - The Top Ten - The 1830's 
   
  2 - The Eclipse by James Fenimore Cooper 
   
  3 - A  Passion In The Desert by Honoré de Balzac 
   
  4 - The Shot by Alexander Pushkin 
   
  5 - The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe 
   
  6 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
   
  7 - The Dream by Mary Shelley 
   
  8 - Claude Gueux by Victor Hugo 
   
  9 - The Nose by Nikolai Gogol 
   
  10 - The White Pigeon by Maria Edgeworth  
   
  11 - Napolean and the Spectre by Charlotte Bronte

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  The Parrot

  Guy De Maupassant

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  Desiree is married to a wealthy but violent captain of a fishing trawler. For ten years of marriage he terrorizes her, until one night his boat is wrecked at sea and he is never seen alive again.Four years later, Desiree buys an ill-tempered and foul-mouthed parrot in an auction, and a new nightmare begins.

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  Love and Freindship and Other...

  Jane Austen

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  This book draws together some of Jane Austen's earliest literary efforts. It includes "Love & Freindship" and "Lesley Castle" both told through the medium of letters written by the characters. It also contains her wonderful "History of England" and a "Collection of Letters" and lastly a chapter containing "Scraps". In these offerings, we may see the beginnings of Miss Austen's literary style. We may also discern traces of characters that we encounter in her later works. G. K. Chesterton in his preface, for example, says of a passage in Love and Freindship; "... is there not the foreshadowing of another and more famous father; and do we not hear for a moment, in the rustic cottage by the Uske, the unmistakable voice of Mr. Bennet?" These works are certainly worth exploring for their own sakes and not simply as historical relics.
   
  Austen wrote Love and Freindship when she was only 14 years old, hence the typo in the title.

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  The Shades of Spring

  D H Lawrence

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  'The Shades of Spring'. In this story the hero has moved on in the world and is married yet cannot forget his old love. He retraces the steps to her farm hoping for what? He finds his old love attached to a physical young man who can give the girl what he could not - pure physical love - and this she prefers to his more intellectual love.

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