Resultados para "Tiger! Tiger!" en Antologías y relatos breves

She is the adventurer of the family. Her brother, the gentle dreamer. Even as they bond over folktales and hold each other close, their world has never felt so dangerous. Revolutionaries and pelones are in conflict, soldiers have turned into scavengers, and an escaped tiger has slipped up the mountain, looking for easy prey. As the darkest of legends becomes real, a young girl will do anything to save her brother’s life.

Explore one of literature’s most enduring short stories in The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton. Set in a semi-barbaric kingdom, this suspenseful tale follows a young man forced to choose between two doors—one hiding a beautiful maiden, the other a deadly tiger.

A couple's cat leaves offerings of dead birds freighted with mysterious import. A foreign worker helps construct a concert hall that reawakens his musical longings. A young diver hunts venomous cone snails for a lovelorn researcher. With disarming simplicity, Barrie Sherwood charts how the...

Season One explores characters who have mastered both the art of melee and magic. Author Tiger Hebert plunges the listener into a wild adventure along the ancient Crystal Coast, with a tale of a powerful Paladin of the god Corenthen. Duty-bound, he sets off to the south in search of a city that's ruled by a lich-king, in hopes of ending the desecrations that have been taking place in the temples of his god.

"The Other Tiger" was first published in the June/July 1953 issue of Fantastic Universe. Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) is regarded as one of the most-influential science fiction writers of all time. He was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

"The Lady, or the Tiger?" (1882) is about a man sentenced to an unusual punishment for having a romance with a king's beloved daughter. Taken to the public arena, he is faced with two doors, behind one of which is a hungry tiger that will devour him. Behind the other is a beautiful lady-in-waiting, whom he will have to marry, if he finds her.

In these funny, surprising, and touching stories, Gordon gets at the big stuff - art and religion, literature and madness, the supernatural, and the dark fringes of sexuality - in his own unique style, described by novelist Rivka Galchen as "Dashiell Hammett divided by Don DeLillo, to the power of Dostoyevsky - yet still pure David Gordon."

முற்போக்கு இலக்கியம் முதன்மையான நடைமுறையாக இருந்த காலப் பகுதியில் எழுத்தில் ஈடுபட்டவர் பஷீர். 'ஜீவன் சாஹித்ய பிரஸ்தானம்' (வாழ்விலக்கிய இயக்கம்) என்று அழைக்கப்பட்ட போக்கைப் பிரதிநிதித்துவப்படுத்தியவர்கள் பஷீர், தகழி சிவசங்கர பிள்ளை, பி. கேசவதேவ், பொன்குன்னம் வர்க்கி ஆகியோர். இவர்களின் எழுத்தில் புதுவகையை உருவாக்கியவர் பஷீர். நடைமுறை உலகை மாற்றிப் புதிய உலகைச் சமைப்பதற்கான அறைகூவலைப் பிற எழுத்தாளர்கள் முன்னிருத்தினர்.

If these tales were by an unknown author, they would be no more than reflections on a childhood in the early 20th century. But they gain in interest because of who wrote them, for they provide insight into the young life and mind of a great philosopher and spiritual teacher: Douglas Harding (1909-2007), author of The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth, On Having No Head, and other books. The stories open a window on Harding's early life; their autobiographical nature is only thinly disguised. After listening to them, you will understand Harding in a new and more intimate way.

அய்யர் வீட்டில் வேலை பார்க்கும் லக்ஷ்மிக்கு நிச்சயம் செய்யப்பட்ட கிருஷ்ணராஜை புலி வேடத்தில் படம் பிடிக்க மனமின்றி சென்ற அய்யர் வீட்டார்.

The Brahman, the Tiger and the Six Judges is the tale of an ungrateful tiger who gets his just desserts. The tiger has been captured but persuades the passing Brahman to release him. When the Brahman does so, the tiger announces that he intends to eat him. But the Brahman persuades him to wait until they have consulted six others before deciding his fate.

படைப்பிலக்கியத்தின் நோக்கமே மனிதநேய அடிப்படையையும், வாழ்வில் ஏற்ற இறக்கங்களையும் படிப்பவர் மனங்களில் ஏற்பட செய்வதே. திருமதி சிவசங்கரி அவர்களின் இச்சிறுகதைத் தொகுப்பு அதனை செவ்வனே நிறைவேற்றி உள்ளது.

Irish crime-fiction sensation Ken Bruen and cohorts shine a light on the dark streets of Dublin. Dublin Noir features an awe-inspiring cast of writers who between them have won all major mystery and crime-fiction awards. This collection introduces secret corners of a fascinating city and surprise assaults on the "Celtic Tiger" of modern Irish prosperity.