Títulos en Antologías y relatos breves

During the Yukon Gold Rush, a jilted lover returns to settle his score.

Un giovane cercatore tenta di trovare qualche pepita d'oro senza riuscirci. Un vecchio poco distante gli dimostra che l'esperienza, in alcuni casi, vale più dell'energia giovanile.

Il racconto è un viaggio attraverso gli anni antichi, I Guerra mondiale, II Guerra, i partigiani, i migranti, un viaggio dell'esistenza sempre attuale con la famiglia, dolce amaro come la vita.

With a horse between his thighs and a weapon in his grip, the dashing Brigadier Etienne Gerard, Colonel of the Hussars of Conflans, gallops through the Napoleonic campaigns on secret missions for his beloved Emperor and his country. He encounters danger and hair-breadth escapes but never loses his bravado, his eye for a pretty girl, his boastfulness, or his enormous vanity. Gerard is Conan Doyle’s most lovable character.

Many would have disliked to live if possessed of the peculiar features of Arthur Jermyn, but he had been a poet and scholar and had not minded, until a peculiar box object arrived from Africa and after seeing it, he went out on the moor and set himself on fire. Discover what it was about the object that explained his peculiar personal appearance, and made him end his life.

This is a story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes V collection. Dr Watson comments: 'The stage lost a fine actor' when Holmes chose to devote his formidable talents to the solution of crime. Two of these stories, "The Reigate Squire" and "The Adventure of Beryl Coronet", Sherlock Holmes demonstrates his thespian powers as he unravels the mysteries.

This is a story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes V collection. Dr Watson comments: 'The stage lost a fine actor' when Holmes chose to devote his formidable talents to the solution of crime. Two of these stories, "The Reigate Squire" and "The Adventure of Beryl Coronet", Sherlock Holmes demonstrates his thespian powers as he unravels the mysteries.

Tano è un ragazzo intelligente e acuto nelle sue osservazioni. Precocemente maturo per la perdita del padre, ucciso in un agguato da due malviventi, vive con la madre. Di lui si occupa anche una tata perché la madre è molto assorbita dal lavoro: è infatti avvocato penalista. In una bella giornata estiva, mentre gioca sul prato contiguo al giardino della sua villa, Tano trova interrato un fucile, che comincia ad intessere un dialogo col fanciullo il quale, allibito, deve accettare il fatto che "alcuni fucili parlano".

I nomi fanno il mondo' è un'opera concepita per l'ascolto in audiolibro. Piccoli romanzi in venti righe, o poco più...

This is a story from The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, Volume I collection. These six cases are among the last undertaken by Sherlock Holmes before he retired to the Sussex downs. However, the problems facing the sleuth are as diverse and challenging as ever. What with seeking the whereabouts of the stolen Mazarin Diamond, discovering the importance of being called Garrideb, encountering a mysterious murder on Thor Bridge, searching for eternal youth and the threat of a vampire in Sussex, there is no sign of Holmes' deductive powers slowing down.

To Build a Fire is the best known of all London's stories. It tells the story of a new arrival to the Klondike who stubbornly ignores warnings about the folly of traveling alone. He falls through the ice into a creek in 70-below weather, and his survival depends on being able to build a fire and dry his clothes—which he is unable to do. The famous version of this story was published in 1908.

Le note, come le onde del mare, uniscono due racconti e una lunga poesia che rappresentano tre porti, tre insenature della vita. La baia spumeggiante dell’amore acerbo durante una gita scolastica, il golfo dissacrante dell’amor proprio di tre adulti costretti a vivere nella menzogna, il...

A town that prides itself on its honesty finds itself severely tested. One of the demons Mark Twain always set out to slay was the myth that the citizens of the American republic are inherently more virtuous than others. By the invention of an elaborate hoax, a kind of giant practical joke, Twain has his hero turn the town of Hadleyburg inside out and, in the process, teach the hypocrites who dwell there a lesson in humility and moral realism.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote many types of fiction: mystery, detection, science fiction,and historical adventures. He created many memorable characters, wrote dozens of short stories and more than two dozen novels, Yet everything he wrote fell under the the shadow of Sherlock Holmes.

"A Tale of the Ragged Mountains", published in 1844, is a short story partially based on Edgar Allan Poe's experiences while a student at the University of Virginia. Set near Charlottesville, it is the only one of his stories to take place in Virginia.

"A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" highlights scientific theories of Poe's day, engages with British imperial history, and forecasts contemporary interest in psychoactive drugs, the transmigration of the soul, and the dynamics of the doctor-patient relationship.

Perhaps Blackwood's most celebrated story, The Willows was influenced heavily by his own trips down the Danube River. It tells the story of two campers who pick the wrong place to sleep for the night, a place where another dimension impinges on our own. H.P. Lovecraft considered this the finest supernatural tale in English literature.

Quattro racconti lunghi che ritraggono dei “vagabondi”, coloro che camminano sempre, a cui “il vento spazza via i pensieri dalla mente e la polvere dall'anima”, popolo a cui ha appartenuto in qualche modo lo stesso autore (due di questi racconti sono in prima persona e sono ritratti di incontri “di strada”). Massimo Gorkij è considerato il padre del realismo russo, che ritrae i più poveri, gli “schiavi” che “subiscono sempre, ma raramente si ribellano”.Edizione Madella, 1927.

The Legends of King Arthur & His Knights is an enthralling audio book read in an easily digestible format. Bringing together the many tales of the legend of King Arthur into one audio book, Sir James Knowles' descriptive narrative will transport you to times gone by.

As a lieutenant in the US Marine Corps, Michael Stuart was once considered an officer and a gentleman. But that’s all changed. Now he’s seen as a renegade, a traitor, and a thief. Stuart is a man without a country...and perhaps without a prayer. Why? Because in a daring plot to foil the Japanese puppet regime in China, he set out to reinstate the country’s true emperor. Known now as The Red Dragon, Stuart is a soldier of fortune in war-torn Manchuria - and a man of honor in a world of treachery.

La vita di Benjamin Button inizia in modo molto insolito. Fatica parecchio a farsi accettare così com'è, poi, col passare degli anni tutto diventa più facile...