Resultados para "Air" en Antologías y relatos breves

No hay en la cultura española moderna fenómeno de personalidad, creatividad, gracia, hondura y libertad, de genio en suma, como Doña Emilia Pardo Bazán. Fue, junto a Galdós y Clarín, una de las más importantes novelistas españolas del siglo XIX.

Publicado por primera vez en le revista Tales Of Magic And Mystery en 1928 Aire Frio cuenta la experiencia del narrador y el porque no puede soportarlo.

Explore classic retro-futurist storytelling in Golden Age Science Fiction Short Stories Vol. 5, featuring unforgettable works by Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, and Fredric Brown. This collection delivers suspense, imagination, and thought-provoking adventures from the golden age of science fiction.

No conto "Aires e Vergueiro", Machado de Assis traz o mote recorrente do triângulo amoroso. Carlota é esposa de Vergueiro, mas acaba se envolvendo com Aires. O grupo planeja vender seus bens e viver viajando. Buscam fazê-lo com discrição, então Vergueiro vai para Buenos Aires, para esperar que Aires e Carlota aí o encontrem. Mas estes têm outo plano...

This delightful short story was the first work of Jules Verne to be translated into English by Anne T. Wilbur in 1852. Just as the balloon starts rising, a stranger jumps in with the intention of taking it as high as possible without regard to his own safety or that of the pilot. During the long journey, this mysterious passenger relates the historical background of the quest for lighter-than-air travel.

"A Pail of Air” by Fritz Leiber is a haunting and poetic science fiction short story set in a frozen, post-apocalyptic Earth where the sun has gone dark. Written in the early 1950s, this atmospheric tale follows a resilient family struggling to survive in a world turned to eternal night, where even breathable air must be collected by hand. Told through the eyes of a young boy, the story captures the stark beauty of isolation, the desperation of survival, and the enduring hope that flickers in humanity’s darkest hours.

There's a place where the dead go to record their final stories. An underground frequency that carries the last testaments of the damned and the dispossessed. Broadcasts that lurk in the black static between stations, whispering truths too terrible to tell anywhere else. This is Dead Air - you have been warned.... Acclaimed performer and cult novelist Jasper Bark presents a collection of tales more terrifying than anything you have ever heard.

Pauline falls through the floor and no one notices. A chance encounter with a “goddamn mermaid” defines a boy’s life. Scarves flying in a storm turn a wealthy child into a high priestess whether she likes it or not. A mysterious rain messes with Virgil’s memories…Set in New York and Long Island, these brilliantly crafted stories spy on the most private of human pivots and culminations, on those moments of absolute clarity when we’re on the brink of letting go. Sometimes we do, and the wind takes us. Sometimes we hold tight. Or we take a deep breath and raise our flags.

There are many variations of 'love', perhaps that is why, historically, cultures had multiple words that they tried to fold into one. This anthology explores several sides of the complicated world of 'love'. Emotions will be tugged in many directions as you follow these stories, poems, and graphical representations of what 'love' means to different people.

A man dies with his hand on a radio dial. A distinguished aristocrat finds murder at the opening night of a play. A cryptogram produces death in an English churchyard. Death on the Air and Other Stories serves as the perfect introduction to Ngaio Marsh and her creation, Inspector Roderick Alleyn, or as a nostalgic journey for her many fans.

She's looking to rebel, to tarnish her naïve "good girl" image. Lucky for her, I deal in sex. Whatever your fantasy, I deliver. Voyeurism. Threesomes. A little slap and tickle . . . If it's your kink, I can fulfill it. So yeah, life is good. Simple. Until she enters my club. Still . . . It's just sex. Our little secret. For now . . .

Erstlinge. Kein Stück Wild prägt sich so sehr ein wie das ersterlegte einer Wildart. Graf von Quadt erzählt von seinen Anfängen und ersten Jagden auf Sau, Rehbock, Hochwild und Gams. Bertram Graf von Quadt liest aus eigenen Werken. Der bekannte Jagdautor ist nicht nur mit der Feder, sondern auch mit der Stimme ein begnadeter Erzähler. Die bildreiche Sprache seiner Bücher ruft Gedanken wach, die zum Mit-und Nacherleben der Geschehnisse anregen. Als Hörfunkjournalist hat Graf von Quadt eine geschulte Stimme, mit der er seine Erzählungen zu noch intensiverem Leben erweckt.

Shortstops who run with the wolves, painted eggs that reveal deeply disturbing meanings, long-dead Hall of Famers who miraculously return to the game, an Iowa minor-league town with a secret conspiracy: these are the elements from which W.P. Kinsella weaves nine fabulous stories about the magical world of baseball.

This bundle contains three spicy novellas featuring a black female lead and a muscular, attractive, and completely dominant white male lead.

Nothing is simple for the men and women in Donald Antrim’s stories. As they do the things we all do - bum a cigarette at a party, stroll with a girlfriend down Madison Avenue, take a kid to the zoo - they’re confronted with their own uncooperative selves. These artists, writers, lawyers, teachers, and actors make fools of themselves, spiral out of control, have delusions of grandeur, despair, and find it hard to imagine a future. They talk, they listen, they hope, they dream.

Six dangerous country boys in 6 standalone spicy romance novellas -- a collection you will NOT be able to put down. This dark and steamy romance book set brings together the Earth and Air signs of the Zodiac in a binge-worthy bundle. You get more bang for your buck with the bundles and if 3 books at once isn't enough, you can get six books in the series within one juicy book bundle.

Cool Air is a short story by the American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1926 and published in the March 1928 issue of Tales of Magic and Mystery. The narrator offers a story to explain why a "draught of cool air" is the most detestable thing to him.

Ryan, an aspiring actor who recently moved to Los Angeles, gets his first acting gig in a horror movie-themed costume party at the mansion of a famous Hollywood producer in the exclusive neighborhood of Bel Air. The night he thinks could be his big break takes a surreal turn when the guests turn into the horrific characters that they are dressed as, and the movie plots begin to play out for real.

Brian Lumley's Cthulhu Mythos writings began in the 1960s when he was included in new collections by August Derleth's Arkham House. While today, the author is probably better-known for his Necroscope and Psychomech series, he has continued with his Mythos stories for over 40 years. This volume spans that career, using Derleth's suggestion that the Mythos monsters could be viewed as "Elementals", and includes a new novella-length story.

From “a marvelous new voice” (Rebecca Makkai), these “extraordinarily imaginative” (Sigrid Nunez), “revelatory” (Nicole Krauss), “superb” (Kiran Desai) stories transcend borders as they render the intimate lives of people striving for connection. WINNER OF THE AJL JEWISH...