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By Sylvia Comas. 2018
El libro de cuentos de Burbujas de paz, el método para acercar a los más pequeños a la práctica del…
mindfulness. Cuatro cuentos ilustrados con los que disfrutar de la lectura y descubrir técnicas de meditación, atención y relajación. Para dejarte llevar y estar centrado en tu vida. Un libro mindfulness para toda la familia que nos enseña a estar bien paso a paso, día a día.By Sam Shepard. 2002
In these seventeen stories, Sam Shepard taps the same wellspring that has made him one of America's most acclaimed playwrights:…
sex and regret; the yearning for a frontier that has been subdivided out of existence; the anxious gulf that separates men and women; the even deeper gulf that separates men from their true selves. Filled with cruelty, sorrow and flinty humour, GREAT DREAM OF HEAVEN is Shepard at his best, exercising his gifts for diamond-sharp physical description and effortless dialogue in stories that recall the themes he has explored with such ferocity and lyricism in his work for the theatre.By Sam Shepard. 2010
From one of our most admired writers: a collection of stories set mainly in the fertile imaginative landscape of the…
American West, written with the terse lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry humor that have become Sam Shepard's trademarks. A man traveling down Highway 90 West gets trapped alone overnight inside a Cracker Barrel restaurant, where he is tormented by an endless loop of Shania Twain songs on the overhead sound system. A wandering actor returns to his hometown against his better instincts and runs into an old friend, who recounts their teenage days of stealing cars, scoring Benzedrine, and sleeping with whores in Tijuana. A Minnesota family travels south for a winter vacation but, caught up in the ordinary tyrannies of family life, remains oblivious to the beauty of the Yucatán Peninsula. A solitary horse rancher muses on Sitting Bull and Beckett amid the jumble of stuff in his big country kitchen - from rusted spurs and Lakota dream-catchers to yellowing pictures of hawks and galloping horses to - snapshots of different sons in different shirts doing different things like fishing, riding mules and tractors; leaning up against their different mothers at radical angles. Made up of short narratives, lyrics, and dialogues, Day out of Days sets conversation against tale, song against memory, in a cubistic counterpoint that finally links each piece together. The result is a stunning work of vision and clarity imbued with the vivid reverberations of myth - Shepard at his flinty-eyed, unwavering best.By Grazia Deledda, José Miguel Velloso. 1965
Los seres que pueblan estos relatos viven en una sociedad agraria cuyas raíces profundas son el paganismo y la superstición.…
Grazia Deledda muestra cómo los patrones de conducta arcaicos--los celos, la desesperación, los amores prohibidos, la traición--se agravan cuando son expuestos al rigor moral de unos códigos morales surgidos del Catolicismo, injertados en una estructura patriarcal inflexible.Es gente atrapada, para quienes el alivio de una penuria solo anuncia la llegada de otra. Relatos realistas con elementos de leyenda, de supersticiones antiguas y de tradiciones locales, que evitan los finales trillados. Porque los personajes se enfrentan a peligros reales: el hambre, la malaria, la sequía, la indigencia.Desde la mirada de Deledda, nadie es capaz de condenar a la joven que se casa con un hombre al que odia solo por huir del hambre. O de no emocionarse con el campesino que, privado de mejores palabras, compara el surgimiento de un sentimiento extraño que lo atemoriza con la mordedura de una víbora.By Adam Thirlwell, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Joanne Turnbull. 2013
An NYRB Classics OriginalThe stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in…
nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky's most dazzling conceits: a provincial journalist who moves to Moscow finds his existence consumed by the autobiography of his room's previous occupant; the fingers of a celebrated pianist's right hand run away to spend a night alone on the city streets; a man's lifelong quest to bite his own elbow inspires both a hugely popular circus act and a new refutation of Kant. Ordinary reality cracks open before our eyes in the pages of Autobiography of a Corpse, and the extraordinary spills out.g in nested narratives, wild paradox, and improbably high stakes--what would you do if a Stygian toad landed on your pillow one night and asked for help in saving the world by building a bridge to death?--the unlikely stories in Autobiography of a Corpse ask you to take a second look at the cracks in everyday reality.By John Haines. 1982
By W. Somerset Maugham. 1952
By Arthur Morrison. 2012
Without sentiment, glorification, or preaching, but with complete detachment, Morrison describes the lives of charwomen, pimps, and workers drifting down…
to destruction; their shabby attempts to retain respectability; and the perpetual danger of slipping into a life of crime for those living in the mean streets of London's East End.By A. S. Byatt. 1998
By Lore Segal. 1977
By Vanessa De Sade. 2015
In the searing heat of a post-apocalyptic Europe, humanity has had to readapt to survive. In this parallel world of…
sterile men and repressive political regimes, the tough but fragile Magda must discern whether or not true happiness can only be found in the past.By Patricia Henley. 1992
By Theodore Sturgeon. 1994
By Donald R. Gallo. 1984
Here are sixteen representative stories for the eighties, written especially for this collection by today's best-known writers for teenagers. Their…
impressions radiate through an emotional prism of hope and hate, love and death, despair and joy, in a diverse yet strikingly unified collection.By Eric Shade. 2003
These eleven interrelated stories follow strands of hope and nostalgia that bind together, or fence off, the people of Windfall.…
Eric Shade's fictional western Pennsylvania community is a place we all know: a town bypassed by the interstate, its rail line clogged with coal cars that haven't moved an inch in years. The men of Windfall still vie on the time-honored fields of contest--from bars to bedrooms to football fields--but none is sure any longer what is won or lost. Few certainties linger: the jobs are going fast and the best women are already taken.By Baird Harper. 2017
When two cars collide at an intersection in a leafy Chicago suburb, Hartley Nolan is not the person police expect…
to find behind the wheel. After all, he barely drinks; everyone knows it’s his wife who’s the alcoholic. But the bigger question on people’s minds is what brought Sonia Senn, dead at the scene, back to her hometown in such a hurry that night?In eleven tightly linked stories, Red Light Run pulls us into the inner lives of Hartley, Sonia, and a host of other characters to untangle the mounting forces that carry them to their fates. Among the ensemble in this prismatic collection are a real estate agent who seeks gossip on the market rather than houses, a trailer park developer whose entire livelihood is laid to waste by a single cigarette, a divorced mother battling her daughter-in-law for hegemony over her kitchen, a widower hell-bent on destroying the invasive species of beetle that’s wiping out his oak trees, and a down-and-out handyman with a desperate plan for revenge. And then there’s Sonia Senn, with a dark secret of her own, and Hartley Nolan, who has risen above his roots to become a commodities trader in Chicago only to end up sentenced to eight years at Grassland State Prison. With infectiously grim humor and wry insight, these characters contemplate their realities in relation to one tragic moment, propelling us toward a startling revelation about the long and sometimes crooked arc of justice. A brilliant feat of storytelling, Red Light Run is the radiant and stunning debut from Best New American Voices writer Baird Harper.By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
6 stories are: A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-headed League, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the…
Engineer's Thumb, The Final Problem, and The Adventure of the Empty House.By Philippa Pearce. 1984
By Allan Zullo. 1996
By Ruth Rendell. 1982