Showing results for "Cages" in Literary Fiction

A powerful allegorical tale about humanity and dignity and the ease with which we can justify brutality. Two mysterious strangers appear at a hotel in a small country town. Where have they come from? Who are they? What catastrophe are they fleeing? The townspeople want answers, but the strangers are unable to speak of their trauma. And before long, wary hospitality shifts to suspicion and fear, and the care of the men slides into appalling cruelty.

In "The Great Good Place", a man searches for peace and respite from the demands of success. The fascinating, searching novella In the Cage tells of a young girl in a Mayfair post office becoming more aware of the great social world and of a certain gentleman's affairs through the telegrams that he sends.

Based on a true story, Meira Chand's The Painted Cage explores the tragedy of a Victorian woman who becomes the victim of her own sensuality. In Yokohama, Japan, on the morning of 5 January 1897, the trial begins of Amy Redmore, charged with the murder of her husband Reggie, ex-secretary of the Yokohama United Club.

Carter Coleman delivers a novel about the Rutledge brothers: Cage, the golden boy, Nick, slow to blossom but full of potential, and Harper, struggling to live up to his brothers. When the tragedy of Nick’s death throws Cage into the vicious cycles of manic depression, Harper and his family discover the true strength of love in their attempt to hold together a broken home.

Digger, an 85-kilo wrestler, and Sadie, a 26-year-old speed swimmer, stand on the verge of realizing every athlete's dream - winning a gold medal at the Olympics. Both athletes are nearing the end of their careers, and are forced to confront the question: what happens to athletes when their bodies are too worn to compete? The blossoming relationship between Digger and Sadie is tested in the intense months leading up to the Olympics, which, as both of them are painfully aware, will be the realization or the end of a life's dream.

Don’t miss the latest Natchez Burning novel, SOUTHERN MAN Death is the end, and if a man doesn't speak before it silences him, then his deepest secrets go with him. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles comes an e-original novella featuring former prosecutor Penn Cage, a story...

Frightened, my wife nudges me awake, certain that she heard a noise somewhere in the house. I hear the intruder a moment later. Our home is in a run-down part of town where burglaries and robbery have become commonplace. Worried about our 18-month-old in an adjoining room, I get up, grabbing a golf club I know to be in our closet, and go out to investigate. There's just sufficient light to illuminate the form of a man close to me in the hall.

Wie in einem romantisch-erotischen Märchen lebt Boschardt mit seinen Fantasiegestalten und Dämonen und trifft, spät und nach lebenslanger Suche, plötzlich und unerwartet auf Shalibi, eine faszinierend exotische und bedingungslos liebende junge Frau, in der er sich verliert.

En Cage Wide Open, un hombre aparentemente normal da una idea de su inusual composición y perspectivas de la vida, sus intentos de escapar de los confines de lo ordinario, sus asombrosas transformaciones y su interminable búsqueda del amor supremo.

"كان جسده النحيل مشبعًا بالدفء من النار المتوهجة الصاعدة من جسم مدفأة محاطة بالحجر الفخاري الأحمر وقد وضعت في ركن زاوية الغرفة وتوزعت فوقها تماثيل نحاسية وخزفية...

"انطلق الباص من محطة الاسكندرية صباح العاشر من أيلول قاصدًا القاهرة وهو يقلّ ستين راكبًا..كانت الآنسة لمياء جالسة في أحد المقاعد، وراحت تتصفح جريدة الأهرام...

من مقدمة المجموعة شخصياته مسلوخة من نماذج المجتمع اللبناني، حتى لنخالها بيننا كل يوم، تحاورنا، نحاورها، نتعرف إليها في سهولة، فنحسنا في هذا الكتاب أليفين مع...

"أقلعت الطائرة من مطار دمشق الدولي باتجاه باريس وعلى متنها مئة وستون راكبًا...كان ذلك في الخامس عشر من أيلول.. على مدرجات المطار وقف المئات من المودعين يلوّحون...

"أنجز عصام وفاتن معظم كتاباتهما هنا خلال الصيف، حيث تترك النوافذ والأبواب مفتوحة ليدخل ما أمكن من النسيم القادم من الشاطيء، يُنعشهما بينما ينحنيان فوق الطابعة...