Showing results for "confidence" in Anthologies & Short Stories

Real English-speaking people don’t speak like your textbook…so it’s no wonder you feel unprepared when it’s your turn to speak! Try the StoryLearning method, and dive into a real-world, gripping drama between six characters that helps you learn authentic spoken English in the process.

Romantic comedy, light and slightly awkward by Henry James with his characteristic observations of character, motivations and relationships. Two young men, best friends, deeply interested in the same woman. The background is Europe at the turn of the century and the world of ex-pats. With time and several countries, they each discover love.

In the stories of Confidence, there are ecstasy-taking PhD students, financial traders desperate for husbands, owners of failing sex stores, violent and unremovable tenants, aggressive raccoons, seedy massage parlors, experimental filmmakers who record every second of their day, and wives who blog insults directed at their husbands. There are cheating husbands. There are private clubs, crowded restaurants, psychiatric wards. There is one magic cinema, and everyone has a secret of some kind.

Longlisted for the 2024 Story Prize From the author of Confidence and The Comedown comes a wildly imaginative story collection about queerness, neurodivergence, sexuality, and self-discovery. Frumkin’s latest book is a deliciously entertaining collection of five genre-defying stories that...

Little Bit of Pride reveals the struggles and trials endured by a troubled youth who strives with all his being to be the best son a father could love. Met with many failures, he decides to leave home and search for his true inner self within. Learning how to conquer his shame, he is faced then again with perilous dangers of returning home. In an effort to save his family and friends, he discovers his true inner strengths and regains self-pride, honor and shows courage above and beyond by placing his own life at risk to preserve his homeland and the lives of those he holds dear to his heart.

En 1897 viajó a Alaska, en plena fiebre del oro. De regreso a su ciudad natal, comenzó a escribir los relatos de sus viajes.