Showing results for "Maria" in Anthologies & Short Stories

Twenty short stories about losing one's sense of home: a sleep study gone wrong, a pair of ghostly baby shoes that won't leave a grieving father alone, a serial killer who lurks in the shadows of suburbia, a halfway house haunted by an unorthodox kind of ghost, a hallucinogenic plant that compiles the most gruesome elements of past and future; penned by some of horror fiction's best upcoming authors, these are just a few of the terrifying tales in 'Under the Stairs: An Anthology of Homebound Horror.'

The Irish Classics Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 9 classic works of fiction and poetry by Irish authors, read by an award-winning cast of narrators. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including James Joyce; Bram Stoker; Oscar Wilde; W.B. Yeats; Elizabeth Bowen; and more.

Three works of fiction, two by Mary Wollstonecraft, and one by her daughter Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein. In Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary, the heroine flees her young husband in order to nurse her dearest friend, Ann, and finds genuine love, while Maria tells of a desperate young woman who seeks consolation in the arms of another man after the loss of her child. And Mary Shelley's Matilda - suppressed for more than a century - tells the story of a woman alienated from society by the incestuous passion of her father.

La famiglia di Don Nuccio D'Alagna è flagellata da un virus mortale. Le sue figlie muoiono una dopo l'altra, così come sua moglie. Resta in vita soltanto Agata, l'ultima figlia di Don Nuccio, che però è gravemente malata. Uno spaccato di vita contadina in cui fede e superstizione rappresentano un appiglio disperato in un mondo fatto di povertà e miseria.

Marco Saverio Bobbio, notario a Richieri, con il passare degli anni ha perso la fede in Dio. Finché un inaspettato mal di denti gli farà riconsiderare il suo rapporto con la religione cristiana.

"Un fratello per legge" è un racconto breve inedito sul significato della parola "adozione".

Rainer Maria Rilke war nicht nur meisterhafter Poet, der in seinen Gedichten ganze Welten erschuf – er konnte auch mit dem größeren Pinsel malen. Seine Erzählungen lassen – trotz ihrer Kompaktheit – den Hörer eintauchen in eine neue Welt. Und nach dem Hören ist man noch lange in Nachdenken versunken.

Pelea de gallos narra desde diferentes voces el hogar, ese espacio que construye...

Como todo el mundo sabe, cuando el Príncipe Azul despertó a la Bella Durmiente, se casó con ella y se la llevó a su reino. Pero las historias no siempre acaban en el momento feliz, sino que la vida sigue y comienzan los problemas. Esta es la verdadera historia de cómo la Bella Durmiente se...

This collection of gripping crime stories has become a classic. The idyllic village in the Swiss mountains with its iconic luxury hotel is not what it seems: Some of the guests do not have relaxation and winter sport on their minds - but murder. Death comes in many guises and in the most unlikely locations: in the cosy surroundings of hotel bars, on sunlit ski slopes and on thin ice.

After a great deal of romantic strife, Maria Lucas finds herself married to Mr. Jonas Card in a desperate attempt to extricate herself and her sister Charlotte from a dire financial situation. Mr. Card, however, truly loves Maria and has vowed to woo her. Alas, she views him only in friendly terms. But when it seems that Mr. Card's feelings have changed, Maria sets out to discover why. And through a series of unexpected events, Mr. Card succeeds in wooing his wife without saying a word.

Set against the tropics and megacities of the Americas, Maria, Maria takes inspiration from wild creatures, tarot, and the porous borders between life and death. Motivated by love and its inverse, grief, the characters who inhabit these stories negotiate boldly with nature to cast their desired ends. Brimming with sharp wit and ferocious female intuition, these stories bubble over into the titular novella, "Maria, Maria"—a family drama set in a reimagined California rainforest that explores the legacies of three Marias, and possibly all Marias.

Carl Manner, 79, hat sich vor wenigen Monaten aus dem operativen Geschäft des familieneigenen Unternehmens zurückgezogen. Jetzt sitzt er mir gegenüber, weißhaarig, feingliedrig, eine durch und durch elegante Erscheinung, ein Sir. Die stahlblauen Augen leuchten. Manner blieb zeitlebens Single, er war, wenn man so will, der Christian Rainer seiner Generation.

A literary revelation! Her Body and Other Parties was nominated for the National Book Award and 2017 Kirkus Prize. Based on the book, a series is being made that was announced by the producers to be “a feminist Black Mirror”. It contains eight spicy, boundary-crossing stories about the universal female experience: the relation between sex and power, objectification, the tyranny of the beauty canons, stereotypes, misogyny, and violence.

Clássico de Machado de Assis, o conto "Maria Cora" é daqueles cuja tensão impede a interrupção da escuta. Movidas a paixão, a protagonista Maria Cora e as personagens Dolores e Prazeres ilustram a crítica do autor ao falso moralismo burguês. O enredo gira em torno do assassinato de João da Fonseca, com um narrador presente e participante, que contribui para colocar o ouvinte bem próximo das cenas.

Azul Cobalto reúne 12 contos que foram publicados em Portugal: "Lídia", "Calor", "Uriel", "A princesa espanhola", "Com a mão firme e doce", "Raízes", "Laura e Juliana", "Efémera", "Eclipse", "Leonor e Teresa", "Transfert" e "Azul Cobalto". A pedido de Maria Teresa Horta, a obra foi editada no Brasil com o texto original, no português de Portugal, porque a autora discorda do acordo ortográfico assinado entre os países lusófonos. A poetisa, ficcionista e jornalista portuguesa Maria Teresa Horta lança no Brasil Azul Cobalto, livro de contos editado pela editora Oficina Raquel (Rio de Janeiro).

Herr A. ist ein armes Würstchen. Ständig tappt er in eine der zahllosen Fallen, die das Leben für die Männer ausgelegt hat. Typisch Mann eben. Da ist die Liebe, die Auseinandersetzung mit seiner Frau beim Schuhkauf, beim Fußball und beim Heimwerken, Probleme mit den Kindern und auf der Arbeit, die Beobachtung der Geminiden, die Sache mit der Diät und schließlich der Wettstreit mit den Igeln. Als Retterin in allen Notlagen erweist sich seine Frau.

„Die verrückte Maria“ ist eine Weihnachtsgeschichte von Johannes Epple die auf Basis eines Gesprächs mit Charles Wey beruht. – Nach einem zehnstündigen Flug von New York über Frankfurt nach Wien waren wir todmüde. Meine Schwester Christie und ich verbrachten unseren Weihnachtsurlaub in Europa, sie den von ihren Kindern und ich den von meinem Marketingjob. München und Paris stehen noch auf der Liste aber ich sollte nach der Reihe erzählen.

Em "Amor de Maria", Inglês de Sousa traz a triste história de Mariquinha, a mais linda moça de Vila Bela. Em meio ao cenário idílico da Amazônia, ela vê chegar à vila o belo Lourenço de Miranda, filho do Capitão Amâncio, que logo se torna alvo do desejo de Lucinda, filha do juiz local. Está formado o triângulo amoroso, cujo desfecho está no malfadado conselho de Margarida, preceptora de Mariquinha.

Der lebenslustige Schulmeister findet immer einen Grund zur Freude und was das Leben nicht bietet, erschafft seine Phantasie. Da er sich selbst die wichtigsten Neuerscheinungen auf dem Buchmarkt nicht leisten kann, schreibt er sich seinen "Werther" und seine "Kritik der reinen Vernunft" selbst.