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A writer seeking the intriguing plot that would lead to the World's Glory, or an impertinent one, for the world is full of those, stopped on one of the corners of High Street. And, from a few distance away, he pondered upon the past of concluded existence.
This is a collection of translations of six short stories of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. These six short stories are selected from his book ‘Galpaguchha’. The stories are, 'Alive and Dead' (Jeebita o Mreeta), 'Suva', 'The First Look' (Shuvadrishti), 'Hoimantee', ‘Letter from Your Wife' (Streer Patra) and 'The Anonymous Lady' (Aparichita). I have selected these stories, because first of all I enjoyed reading these stories and secondly all these six stories are concerned about the position of women in the family and in the society at that time, that is, during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. These stories depict the vulnerability of women, their lack of control over their marriage and life as a whole. Show a glimpse of life of another time and of another culture. The line of thinking may seem much different from today’s life, but in many parts of the world still there are some people who like to suppress the rights of women in the name of religion or culture. So, these stories are still relevant. Excerpts from Alive and Dead, Kadambinee cannot tolerate any more, she says sharply, ‘Oh, please, I didn’t die, did not die! How will I make you understand that I didn’t die? Let me show you that I am alive.’ From Hoimantee, ‘My life was so full to the brim on all sides, that I could not notice any gap anywhere. Suddenly, I witnessed a large void of hopelessness so near me! I couldn’t understand how and with what I would fill up this void.’ From Letter from Your Wife, Mreenal, ‘I can never understand the logic behind that it’s okay not to please me, but it’s not okay to make you unhappy.’Ver libro
Contents: • Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle • Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders In The Rue Morgue • Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes From The Underground • Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis • Charles Dickens: The Chimes • Ivan Turgenev: Mumu • Francis Scott Fitzgerald: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button • Joseph Conrad: Heart Of Darkness • Ambrose Bierce: Chickamauga • Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study In Scarlet • H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness • Nathaniel Hawthorne: Roger Malvin's Burial • Guy de Maupassant: Necklace • Leo Tolstoy: God Sees The Truth, But Waits • Anton Chekhov: The Lottery Ticket • Virginia Woolf: The Mark On The Wall • Katherine Mansfield: The Garden Party • H.G. Wells: The Star • Stendhal: Vanina Vanini • Honoré De Balzac: The Unknown Masterpiece • Mark Twain: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County • Aldous Huxley: Crome Yellow • Ernest Hemingway: Up In Michigan • Nikolay Gogol: A May Night • O. Henry: The Ransom Of Red Chief • Jack London: To Build a FireVer libro
Arianh had one wish. Yewlow made it real. And Time turned it into a regret. Anachrony takes you on a journey to the bleak future of Aegea and the darkest places of the mind. Can fate be avoided or is the future just someone else's past?Ver libro
Christmas with the family takes a dark turn in this chilling short story by the acclaimed author of “The Call of Cthulhu”.Beckoned by his family, a man travels to a snowy, seaside Massachusetts town to observe an ancient festival. His family has long celebrated it since the days when it was forbidden. But when he arrives, he notices something is off about this community . . . little details that just don’t add up. What the man witnesses at his family’s house does little to comfort him. Soon he is drawn into a world unlike any he has known, and its sights will haunt him for the rest of his life . . .Ver libro
A collection of stories exploring the struggles of the unconcious mind. Contents: Vale of the Corbies by Arthur J. Burks (Weird Tales, 1925) Dreams of an unkindness of ravens. A Dream of Red Hands by Bram Stoker (The Sketch, 1894) The sad tale of a man plagued by terrible nightmares. Thirteen Phantasms by Clark Ashton Smith (The Fantasy Magazine, 1936) A series of strange visions torment a sick man. The Lady in Gray by Donald Wandrei (Weird Tales, 1933) A strange woman and a loathsome gray slug. The Crawling Chaos by H. P. Lovecraft (Beyond the Wall of Sleep, 1943) The consequences of dabbling with opium. The Watcher at the Door by Henry Kuttner (Weird Tales, 1939) The horrible dreams of a man called Edward Keene. The Man in the Tree by Ian Gordon (That Time of the Night, 2023) A boy visited by a strange figure in a tree overlooking his bedroom window. What Waits in Darkness by Loretta Burrough (Weird Tales, 1935) A dreadful recurrent dream. A Vignette by M. R. James (The London Mercury, 1936) Nightmares connected to a haunted plantation. The Dream Snake by Robert E. Howard (Weird Tales, 1928) A terrified individual recounts the details of a recurring nightmare.Ver libro
After a long hiatus, Charity Styles is itching to get back into the fray. She’s had a succession of minor assignments, none of which provided her with the action she craves. After months of recharging and rethinking her position in the Armstrong organization, she’s on the verge of walking away, returning to what could be a more normal life. But what’s a normal life look like for a former covert assassin? Then she gets two assignments, which have nothing to do with each other. The first is to ferry a group of people out to a large mega-yacht. When it turns out that one of those people is the girl she thinks of as a niece and the mega-yacht is captained by an old friend, she sets her sails and is quickly underway. What the second assignment is, will not only test Charity’s abilities as an undercover asset to the giant Armstrong Research conglomerate, but will also assess her ability to keep a lid on her emotions when faced with the type of people she most loathes. From the Cayman Islands to the Eastern Caribbean, the coast of Brazil, and finally, the U.S. Virgin Islands, her mental state is constantly being tested. Will she find the one person who is at the head of a vast sex trafficking operation? Or will she become just another victim to the traffickers? Will she even be able to restrain her inner demons when she encounters the worst of the worst of human society?Ver libro
