Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.

The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment ...

"I've never written a line that I'd be ashamed for my young daughters to read, and I never shall write such a line!" Thus Jack London, well along in his career. And thus almost any collection of his adventure stories is acceptable to young readers as well as to their elders. So, in sorting over the few manuscripts still unpublished in book form, while most of them were written primarily for boys and girls, I do not hesitate to include as appropriate a tale such as "Whose Business Is to Live."

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Final part in the Blessed Trilogy

Himeko continues her path as a professional musician. While her professional life is going smoothly, her private life is still a struggle. But when she becomes friends with a young idol, she discovers a new side of herself. How will she handle caring for someone younger and being a guide and teacher to her?

Still struggling with her emotions, Himeko still has trouble dealing with the people around her. But when love starts coming into the picture, will she be...

The Writer of Wirlt presents 10 inspiring stories with an unusual look at the creation and the relationship between Creator and creature. He uses the metaphor of a writer who gives his characters the knowledge that they were made up by him, in order to playfully address very serious actual questions such as: What is the relationship between a long history and a recent creation? Can we deduce from scientific observations regarding the creation how the creation took place? If there is a Writer ...

'One of our major novelists' Salman Rushdie'One of our finest living authors' New York TimesA dazzling new collection of short stories, spanning 15 years of writing, from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of Goose and Where Reasons End

The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo

MacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Tenth of December

The 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of po...

A masterful and eerie collection of ghost stories from Sunday Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson

Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips.

We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs.

We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they hau...

Grasses, trees and the lovable grouch of the Lowlands

For many years, no one knew the Dutch writer A.L. Snijders (b. 1937). But in 2001 he started writing zkv's, very short stories. He sent them to his children and some friends, not thinking about publication. Now, fifteen years later, we have about 2,500 zkv's ('zeer korte verhalen'), collected in ten books.

Some of them were translated into German and published (by Reclam Verlag) but English translations were not available. Until-in 2011-t...

Colophon

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