Junte-se a nós em uma viagem ao mundo dos livros!

Assine para ler o livro completo ou leia as primeiras páginas de graça!

Quero ler o livro!

All characters reduced

The Ghost Patrol - cover

The Ghost Patrol

Sinclair Lewis

Editora: Avia Artis

0
0
0

Sinopse

“The Ghost Patrol” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
“The Ghost Patrol” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis.
“Donald Patrick Dorgan had served forty-four years on the police force of Northernapolis, and during all but five of that time he had patrolled the Forest Park section.
Don Dorgan might have been a sergeant, or even a captain, but it had early been seen at headquarters that he was a crank about Forest Park. For hither he had brought his young wife, and here he had built their shack; here his wife had died, and here she was buried. It was so great a relief in the whirl of department politics to have a man who was contented with his job that the Big Fellows were glad of Dorgan, and kept him there where he wanted to be, year after year, patrolling Forest Park.”
Preview.

Disponível desde: 22/03/2022.

Outros livros que poderiam interessá-lo

Audio Bundle An: The World's Shortest Stores & The World's Shortest Stories of Love and Death - cover

Audio Bundle An: The World's...

Steve Moss, John Daniel

0
0
0

The World's Shortest Stories 
 
· Publishers Weekly 'Listen Up' Award 
· ForeWord Magazine Audiobook of the Year - Silver Finalist 
 
Murder. Love. Horror. Suspense. All this and much more in the most amazing short stories ever written--each one just 55 words long!Consider for a moment 55 words. It's an absurdly tiny number. No, it's an impossible tiny number. It's what O. Henry might have conjured up if he'd only had the back of a business card to write upon. You'll find murder and suspense, horror and intrigue, love and betrayal, plus distant worlds and inner demons. All in a measly 55 words! Billboard magazine had this to say about The World’s Shortest Stories Vol. 1, “What is most impressive in this collection of great stories is the sheer variety. Let’s hope a second volume of these tiny gems will not be long in coming!” 
 
Well, here it is! The World's Shortest Stories of Love and death, and all of the horror in between. A second helping of the most amazing short stories ever written—each one just 55 words long! Imagine O. Henry's tales if he'd only had the back of a business card to write upon. Includes stories from Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, Barnaby Conrad, Neil Steinberg, Herbert Gold, Norman Lear, Larry Niven and more…

The Translator - cover

The Translator

Harriet Crawley

0
0
0

Sunday Times Best Thriller Books of 2023: 'Enthralling'
The Times Thriller Book of the Month: 'Wonderfully realised'
Financial Times Best Summer Thrillers of 2023: 'Engaging spy story…in a Moscow full of menace'
A passionate love story, centred on a devastating Russian plot to sabotage the undersea communication cables linking the US to the UK. Clive Franklin, a Russian language expert in the Foreign Office, is summoned unexpectedly to Moscow to act as translator for the British Prime Minister. His life is upended when he discovers that his former lover, Marina Volina, is the interpreter to the Russian President. Together they will try to stop the attack that could paralyse communications and collapse the Western economy.

Monkeys on a Fast - cover

Monkeys on a Fast

Kaushik Viswanath

0
0
0

"Chakku the monkey chieftain decides that the only way for his tribe of monkeys to lose
weight is by fasting. But can the hungry monkeys really stop eating? Read and listen to
this story to find out what happens one Ekadasi when Chakku's monkeys decide to fast.
This wacky tale is adapted from an old Buddhist legend of human nature."

Young Magic - Power may be good by nature or evil in design - cover

Young Magic - Power may be good...

Helen Simpson

0
0
0

Helen de Guerry Simpson was born in Sydney, Australia on the 1st December 1897.  As a 17 year old she was sent to France and then on to Oxford, England to complete her education.  Whilst there she founded the Oxford Women's Dramatic Society.  She was sent down in 1921 apparently for breaking regulations prohibiting men and women students from acting together. 
 
Her early work of poems, plays, a novel and a collection of short stories found little commercial success. It was only with ‘Boomerang’ in 1932 that her success was established.  Helen continued to write across the genres and by now had become intensely interested in politics.  She was selected to run by the Liberals for the Isle of Wight parliamentary seat in the expected General Election of 39 or 40. 
 
Sadly this coincided with the rapid onset of cancer and her health very quickly deteriorated.   
 
Helen Simpson died in Worcestershire, England on the 14th October 1940.  She was 42. 
 
In ‘Young Magic’ a young girl has definite supernatural abilities which she attempts to control.  Years later when she returns home and begins a relationship those abilities begin to reappear in a more sinister form.

Best British Short Stories 2023 - cover

Best British Short Stories 2023

Nicholas Royle

1
2
0

'Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere.'

A Torture By Hope - From their pens to your ears genius in every story - cover

A Torture By Hope - From their...

Villiers de I'Isle-Adam

0
0
0

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.