Stories and short stories
Cvajg Author: Zweig Stefan Code: Cvajg Date added: Monday 07 November, 2016 "And right there, in a casino, began the twenty-four hours, the most exciting of any game, which would upset my existence for years" .A master stroke. With the able pen of a master who knows how to weave the suspense and introspection knows creep into the folds of feminine sensitivity no less than in blind fury male, Zweig nails characters and readers from the beginning to the end.... |
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Dubliners Author: James Joyce Code: Dubliners Date added: Sunday 26 November, 2017 He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century.... |
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Heart Author: De Amicis Edmondo Code: Zemra Date added: Friday 08 January, 2016 Heart was issued by Treves on 17 October 1886, the first day of school in Italy. Its success was immense: in a few months it was printed in 40 Italian editions and translated into dozens of languages. Its praise for the creation of the united Italian state in the previous decade contributed to its reception, but also led to criticism from some Roman Catholic politicians for failing to depict the nature of the Holy See's opposition to the annexati... |
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Kafka Author: Kafka Franz Code: Kafka Date added: Tuesday 09 February, 2016 he plot follows a country doctor's hapless struggle to attend a sick young boy on a cold winter's night. A series of surreal events occur in the process, including the appearance of a mysterious groom in a pig shed. It begins with the doctor having to urgently attend a sick patient, but his sole horse died the night before, so his maid Rosa goes off to ask for another. She returns empty-handed — "Of course, who is now going to lend her his h... |
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Letter from an unknown woman Author: Zweig Stefan Code: Letra Date added: Tuesday 29 December, 2015 A rich and well-known writer, returning home to Vienna from one of many holidays, finds a long letter from an unknown woman. As a teenager she had lived with her poor widowed mother in the same building and had fallen totally in love with both the opulent cultured lifestyle of her neighbour and the handsome charming man himself. This passion was not lessened by the flow of attractive women spending the night with him or by her being removed to In... |
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Mumu Author: Turgeniev Ivan Code: Mumu Date added: Thursday 24 December, 2015 Turgenev wrote Mumu with such vivid images and reflections of the state of the tsarist Russia that this piece together with his other stories was credited with having influenced public opinion in favour of the abolition of serfdom in 1861. Turgenev was the first of the great Russian novelists to win fame abroad. One of his great admirers was Henry James, who wrote that "Turgenev's merit of form is of the first order" The story featured in this re... |
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Nobeliste1 Author: Autori Vari Code: Nobeliste1 Date added: Thursday 18 January, 2018 Nobel Prizes in Literature... |
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Short stories Author: Cechov Anton Code: Tregime Date added: Friday 13 November, 2015 As the story opens, the banker recalls the occasion of the bet fifteen years before. Guests at the party that he was hosting that day fell into a discussion of capital punishment; the banker argued that capital punishment is more humane than life imprisonment, while the young lawyer disagreed, insisting that he would choose life in prison rather than death. They agree to a bet of two million rubles that the lawyer cannot spend fifteen years in so... |
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Short stories and Stories Author: Balzac Honore de Code: Novela Date added: Tuesday 24 November, 2015 ... |
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Stories and short stories Author: Guy_de_Maupassant Code: Mopasan Date added: Tuesday 29 March, 2016 Diamonds may not be a girl's best friend. I first read "The Necklace" in a college English short story course, more years ago than I want to say. The professor was rather odd and had (I thought) an undue hang-up with making us distill the meaning and theme of each story into a sentence that we would offer up to the rest of the class for dissection. But it was one of my more memorable college courses, and this is one of the more memorable stories... |
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Swedish match Author: Cechov Anton Code: Shkrepsja Date added: Wednesday 13 January, 2016 “Chekhov Shorts”: Oh! The Public A superbly comical tale from Chekhov. One I’d definitely recommend to those looking for a taste of typical Chekovian humour A classic. The main event that takes place in this story is that the narrator and Nadya ride down a snow hill on a sled. Every time that they would ride down together the narrator would say "I love you" to Nadya, but at first either Nadya did not hear it of she did not know what was b... |
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The boy that collected feathers Author: Mehmeti Kim Code: Djaloshi Date added: Tuesday 22 December, 2015 Kim Mehmeti (b. 1955) is a leading and innovative prose writer from the Albanian community in Macedonia. He was born in Gërçec near Skopje, where he now lives and works. He is the author of eleven volumes of prose, including Lulehëna (Moon Flower), Peja 1997, Fshati i fëmijve të mallkuar (The Village of the Damned Children), Peja 1998, and Ritet e Nishanes (Nishane's Rites), Peja 2004. One of his novels has appeared in German, Das Dorf der v... |
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich Author: Tolstoy Leon Code: Ivan Ilici Date added: Wednesday 15 June, 2016 Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise, he is brought face to face with his own mortality.... |
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The escape Author: Rilke Code: Arratisja Date added: Monday 10 September, 2018 ... |
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The first birth Author: Bulgakov Mihail Code: Lindja Date added: Saturday 23 February, 2019 ... |
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The garnet bracelet Author: Kuprin Alexander Code: Byzylyku Date added: Tuesday 12 January, 2016 Reportedly, "even today, Alexander Kuprin remains one of the widest read classics in Russian literature", with many films based on his works, "which are also read over the radio", partly due to "his vivid stories of the lives of ordinary people and unhappy love, his descriptions of the military and brothers, making him a writer for all times and places."... |
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The invisible collection Author: Zweig Stefan Code: Koleksioni Date added: Monday 30 November, 2015 The Invisible Collection, subtitled An Episode of the Inflation Period in Germany is the story of Herr Kronfeld ("Forest Ranger and Economic Councillor, Retired; Holder of the Iron Cross First Class ... His signature was always followed by his style and title in full"), a unrivalled collector of woodcuts and etchings, who is remembered one day by the art-dealer Herr Rackner ("from Berlin ... the famous dealer in antiquities"). Rackner thinks that... |
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The Judgment Author: Kafka Franz Code: Denimi Date added: Friday 01 March, 2019 ... |
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The Law of Life Author: London Jack Code: Ligji Date added: Friday 03 June, 2016 The old Koskoosh began to listen with envy. Although eyesight was weakening for some time, hearing had remained keen, even with the weak voice of intelligence through in that light that had left him still behind the forehead wrinkled….... |
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Author: Oliver Sacks Code: Burri Date added: Tuesday 21 January, 2020 ... |