Editora: Morning Sky Studios
Who doesn’t love a little theater? When her actress friend receives death threats, a witch and her technological familiar race to find the culprit. But the show must go on, and it might be a touch of magic which becomes the showstopper. A fun short story about a woman and her computer familiar who work in IT by day and solve mysteries by night.
Welcome to the world's first bitcoin fiction anthology.Noderoid cyborgs, hidden treasure in the Sahara, and a new world order in Panama.In these twenty-one stories, some of bitcoin's brightest minds outline how the new era of sound money could affect humanity.Including stories from Knut Svanholm, Ioni Appelberg, and Niko Laamanen.Ver livro
The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories is a collection of short-stories which Forster wrote during the prewar years, most of which were symbolic fantasies or fables. It includes:The Story of a PanicThe Other Side of the HedgeThe Celestial OmnibusOther KingdomThe Curate's FriendThe Road from ColonusE.M. Forster (born January 1, 1879, London) was a British novelist, essayist, and social and literary critic. He is most renowned and admired for his novels Howards End (1910), A Passage to India (1924), and his large body of criticism.Ver livro
The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Villiers de I'Isle-Adam.Ver livro
As a child being read to was one of the greatest joys imaginable. A loved one would start a tale whilst you were all cosy warm in bed with the lights nodding off. Anything could happen but sleep would come and dreams would start and all was good with the world. Adults too long for reassurance, for comfort, for calm. Sometimes they may get that. But with classic authors such as Oscar Wilde, O Henry, Saki, Rabindranath Tagore and many others they may not. Expect the unexpected. 1 - Bedtime Stories for Adults - An Introduction 2 - Kabuliwallah by Rabindranath Tagore 3 - Springtime a la Carte by O Henry 4 - Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf 5 - Speed by Sinclair Lewis 6 - Tobermory by Saki 7 - The Ransom of Red Chief by O Henry 8 - The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde 9 - The Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather 10 - Transients in Arcadia by O Henry 11 - An Angel in Disguise by T S Arthur 12 - The Skylight Room by O Henry 13 - The Magic Shop by H G Wells 14 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry 15 - The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde 16 - The Great Good Place by Henry JamesVer livro
Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. A new century dawns, but old suffocating ideas live on. Society seems wary of change until it is forced upon it. But Europe’s authors seem to have no fear. They move in relentless pursuit with an energy that must at some near future point challenge everything. The World begins it short march to catastrophe. 1 - The Top 10 - The 1900's - The Europeans - An Introduction 2 - The Informer by Joseph Conrad 3 - Silence by Leonid Nikolaevich Andreyev 4 - Tomato Sauce by Hanns Heinz Ewers 5 - Putois by Anatole France 6 - The Devil's Horse by Ion Luca Caragiale 7 - How Treason Came to Russia by Rainer Maria Rilke 8 - The Duel by Nikolai Teleshov 9 - Cuchulain of Muirthemne. The Only Son of Aoife by Lady Augusta Gregory 10 - A Dry Spell by Eimar H Kvaran 11 - The Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 1 by John Galsworthy 12 - The Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 2 by John GalsworthyVer livro
Mary Eliza Isabella Frere (1845–1911) was an English author of works regarding India. She is most famous for her beautiful retellings of Indian fairy tales. "Punchkin" is a traditional fairy tale about a Rajah with seven daughters. When he remarries, the princesses' stepmother is determined to do away with the girls and make her own daughter the heir to the throne. A series of adventures and trials follows which leads to the overthrow of an evil magician.Ver livro
