Resultados para "Happiness" en Antologías y relatos breves

Seneca's work has been distributed and read for nearly 2,000 years, yet this brand-new version of some of his best essays on how to be happy has been illuminated by UCLA Design students to kindle a spark of enthusiasm for his ideas. This illuminated book consists of four essays, each with ornamented pages and highlighted quotations created specifically for this timeless edition.

Roller-coastering from the mournful to the comical, Watson's work is both embedded in a literary heritage tied to place and at home in a universal literature of the absurd. His stories waltz with lovely and strange melancholy, infused with wit and astonishing beauty. There Is Happiness embodies the twisted hilarity and undeniable grace of an underrecognized literary genius.

Populating a small town in the Pacific Northwest, the characters in Lucia Perillo’s story collection all resist giving the world what it expects of them - and are surprised when the world comes roaring back. An addict trapped in a country house becomes obsessed with vacuum cleaners and the people who sell them door-to-door. An abandoned woman seeks consolation in tales of armed robbery told by one of her fellow housewives. Together, Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain is a sharp-edged, witty testament to the ambivalence of emotions.

In this collection - ranging from stories of love found and lost to tales of the supernatural - Ghosh masterfully traces the inscrutable ways of the human heart. The reigning queen of Bombay cinema allows a younger leading man to fall in love with her to spite her husband. A schoolmaster’s ravishing wife joins him in the small town where he works, inspires him to build a garden for her and sets about wrecking his life.

Mr Darcy's Second Chance is a compilation of three previously published Pride and Prejudice Variations.

The book is one of the most influential ethical treatises of all time. Written in 350 BC, it identifies happiness as life's goal. How do we achieve this goal? Not through the satisfactions that come from pleasure, wealth, or fame. According to Aristotle, the true path to happiness lies in contemplation of philosophic truth. This is the only action through which humans can exercise their distinctively unique trait: the ability to reason.

Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “As impeccable as [the] title story is, every entry astonishes” (The New York Times), from the National Jewish Book Award-winning author of A Play for the End of the World "Whether in Brooklyn, Kolkata, upstate New York or elsewhere, these characters...

The Lees of Happiness - one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald Tales of the Jazz Age (1922). A newlywed young woman named Roxanne and her short story-writing husband Jeffery begin married life in a home of their own, looking forward to many years of happiness and success. However, sudden tragedy strikes when Jeffery becomes blind and paralyzed due to a blood clot in his brain.

நவீனத் தமிழின் ஊற்று முகங்களில் ஒன்று புதுமைப்பித்தன். தமிழ் உரைநடைக்குப் புதிய உயிரும் புனைகலைக்குப் புதிய ஒளியும் வழங்கியவை அவரது படைப்புகள். காலத்தின் முன் மாற்றுக் குன்றாமல் இன்றும் மிளிரும் அவரது சிறுகதைகளே நமது சிறுகதைக் கலைக்கு இலக்கணமும் எடுத்துக்காட்டுகளுமாக நிலைத்திருப்பவை.

Eine berührende Geschichte über die Geheimnisse des Lebens, die Kraft der Liebe und das Öffnen einer Tür in die Zukunft. Was ist wahres Glück? Haben wir eine Bestimmung? Kann man sein Schicksal selbst gestalten, auch wenn sich alles gegen einen verschworen hat?

கி. ராஜநாராயணன், ஜானகிராமனின் குடும்பத்தைச் சேர்ந்தவர். ஜானகிராமனைப் போலவே அபூர்வமான அழகுணர்ச்சியும் ரசனையில் திளைக்கும் மனோபாவமும் கொண்டவர். இவரது கதை உலகத்தைத் தமிழ் மண்ணுக்கே உரித்தான ஒரு பழத்தோட்டம் என்று சொல்லலாம். வித்தியாசமான மனிதர்களைக் கதாபாத்திரங்களாக மாற்றும் ஆற்றல் இவர் கலை வன்மை. - சுந்தர ராமசாமி கரிசல் இலக்கியத்தின் முன்னோடி கி. ராஜநாராயணனின் தேர்ந்தெடுத்த 17 கதைகளின் தொகுப்பு இந்நூல்.