Resultados para "Benjamin" en Antologías y relatos breves

En este relato, Scott Fitzgerald nos demuestra cómo la perspectiva es fundamental a la hora de concluir lo que se ha visto. Benjamín es un hombre que nace viejo pero a medida que pasan los años va recuperando la juventud, lo cual le va a permitir ver a la sociedad que le rodea con los ojos con gran capacidad crítica, que le permite una perspectiva completamente diferente.

En los cuentos de El comienzo del paraíso, Edmundo Paz Soldán explora cómo, al cambiar dramáticamente lo que nos rodea, nosotros también nos hemos vuelto seres extraños en este planeta. En estos cuentos impactantes y de vigoroso ritmo narrativo –escritos con una prosa envolvente capaz de construir atmósferas variadísimas– aparecen peces monstruosos de las profundidades abisales, árboles estranguladores y animales de una península devastada, que van de mutación en mutación.

Uno de los más alabados cuentos cortos de Chéjov, "La dama del perrito" cuenta la historia de cómo un hombre en un matrimonio infeliz y sin propósito en la vida encuentra la razón para vivir en una mujer casada. El amor no correspondido florecerá entre ellos pero sus vidas no permitirán que estén juntos por mucho tiempo. Atrévete a escuchar la perfecta captura de la infelicidad y la silenciosa desesperación de nuestros protagonistas por encontrarse en un mundo que ha puesto un impenetrable obstáculo entre ellos, sus vidas cotidianas.

VEINTICINCO HISTORIAS EXTRAORDINARIAS Un libro de relatos único donde caben todos los universos literarios de Lorenzo Silva y que pone de manifiesto su maestría literaria. En Afanes sin provecho, Lorenzo Silva recoge cuentos escritos en los últimos cuarenta años, entre 1984 y 2024; relatos...

Relato corto. Perfecto para leer en transporte público.

En sus novelas, Fitzgerald expresa el desencanto de los jóvenes de su generación. Se le considera uno de los más importantes escritores estadounidenses del siglo XX.

This audiobook collection includes every installment in the Blood and Ruin trilogy, an extra spicy and action-packed why choose paranormal romance series: Blood and Ruin, Blood and Wrath, and Blood and Reign.

Do not let Etgar Keret deceive you. The Israeli writer who's worked in film, illustration, animation, and radio, is a storyteller in all senses of the word. Like a conman, he'll promise you a simple story and then the next thing you know your emotional reserves have been completely emptied. It's a literary bait and switch, and he'll get you every time.

Welcome to a journey through speculative fictions, where the possibilities of tomorrow are explored like never before. In a new collaborative approach, renowned experts, armed with their deep knowledge of justice, energy, digital money, longevity and learning, join forces with talented authors to weave narratives that transcend the future that you may currently believe is inevitable.

This is the third collection of parables given to me by the Holy Spirit. They are presented here in the order in which they were given. This book contains 41 parables (short stories).

This is the second collection of parables given to me by the Holy Spirit. They are presented here in the order in which they were given. This book contains 60 parables (short stories).

Join the Librarian as he does his best to make the post-apocalyptic world a better place by protecting the weak, fighting injustice, squaring off against a group of former renaissance fair workers who have established a kingdom in the Rocky Mountains, and so on. Can one man make a difference in the face of such murderous cannibals and super smart bears? Probably not.

Santa. Zombies. The HOA. Life in the suburbs isn’t all birthday parties and bounce houses.

While taking a walk, two teen boys wander off into a research center in the middle of a remote village in Nandiland. Intrigued by the workers of this institute, their fear gets the best of them, and they decide to run away and not get caught while spying. They end up in an alternative world that has given them superpowers. Caught in the two realities, can they trust their judgement to figure out what is real?

A bizarre death in a primitive, cult-like community walled off from a futuristic society brings a enigmatic agent from the outside world to investigate. Hurst offers a genre-bending reflection on how technology defines us. Also included: an excerpt from the author's post-apocalyptic thriller The Dead Lands.

A family takes in a tarantula as one of their own suffers from cancer. McSweeney's is a literary journal based in San Francisco.

A suicide-attempt survivors' group pursues an unorthodox therapy. McSweeney's is a literary journal based in San Francisco.

This audiobook collection contains some of Fitzgerald’s best stories from the Roaring '20s. Included on the audio are the classics "The Jelly-Bean", "The Camel's Back", "May Day", "Porcelain and Pink", "The Diamond as Big as The Ritz", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", "Tarquin of Cheapside", "O Russet Witch!", "The Lees of Happiness", "Mr. Icky", and "Jemina".

Benjamin Button was literally born an old man. He lived a backwards life, for his body grew younger as the years passed him by. Come and listen to the original, unabridged story by F. Scott Fitzgerald which inspired the movie.

F. Scott Fitzgerald makes antebellum Baltimore his setting for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a fantastical tale with some Poe-like overtones about a baby born at age 70 who then lives life in reverse, his hair turning "in the dozen years of his life from white to iron-gray, the network of wrinkles on his face becoming less pronounced". What ramifications that creates for Benjamin's relationship with his father first and then later with his wife and his own son makes for some fantastical situations.