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突然知道自己是个弃儿的雷米，被养父卖给跑江湖的艺人。四处流浪的旅途中，他总希望有一天能找到亲生的父母；然而无常的世事，却一次次把他推向绝望的深渊……突然知道自己是個棄兒的雷米，被養父賣給跑江湖的藝人。四處流浪的旅途中，他總希望有一天能找到親生的父母；然而無常的世事，卻一次次把他推向絕望的深淵……

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Zu sagen, kein Musiker sei weniger bekannt als Berlioz, mag paradox klingen. Jedermann glaubt, ihn zu kennen. Lärmender Ruhm umgibt seine Person und sein Werk. Das musikalische Europa hat seinen hundertsten Geburtstag gefeiert. Deutschland macht Frankreich den Ruhm streitig, sein Genie geformt und gefördert zu haben. Russland bereitete ihm einen triumphalen Empfang, der ihn über die Gleichgültigkeit und Feindseligkeit von Paris tröstete, und es hat durch den Mund Balakirews gesagt, er sei der "einzige französische Musiker" gewesen.

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) is better known by the pen name Saki. He remains hugely popular as a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture. 'The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh' is a tale recounted by a traveller on a train to a fellow passenger. It concerns the bizarre circumstances of the mysterious disappearance...and reappearance after eight years...of his formidable and tyrannical aunt.

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage. When the Duke of Serbia does her the honour of joining her house party, despite her left-wing leanings, Sophie is determined to make a good impression. So she hires an emergency chef who is an expert in making Byzantine omelettes. Within a very short time the entire household is thrown into disarray....

Hector Malot (1830-1907) scrisse più di 70 opere. La più famosa è indubbiamente “Senza famiglia” (1878), romanzo di formazione, in cui Remi, di 8 anni, viene venduto ad un artista di strada. Il romanzo non era stato inteso dall’autore come libro per ragazzi, anche se tale divenne la sua fama. Ed in effetti è godibilissimo anche dagli adulti, e le avventure di Remigio ci accompagnano in un viaggio storico geografico nella Francia del 1800. Numerosi gli adattamenti cinematografici, e anche la produzione giapponese di “anime”, Remi e le sue avventure

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) is better known by the pen name Saki. He remains hugely popular as a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. The Lost Sanjak' is the last-minute account by a condemned man, speaking to the prison chaplain, telling the astounding story of how he came to be condemned to hang for the murder of...himself!

The Penance is an edgy and at times horrifying tale about a normally amiable man who has killed the cat belonging to his neighbour's children, on the grounds that he suspected it of attacking his chickens. His efforts to make up for this awful deed are met with hostility, and the children take the opportunity to plan a dire revenge.

La maitrise de Soi est un état d'âme particulier, une qualité de supériorité et de puissance qui permet de faire ce que l'on veut et rien que ce que l'on veut. C'est la faculté qui nous permet de discuter tous nos actes et de contrôler tous nos mouvements, dans le but d'économiser notre énergie pour l'utiliser le plus avantageusement possible. C'est la force qui, sous tous les rapports, met l'individu qui la possède au-dessus des autres.

"Niemand kennt die Rezeptur des Glücks" - so beginnt der Kolumbianer Héctor Abad sein Handbuch zur kulinarischen Aufhellung des Gemüts. Und fährt fort mit weisen, bisweilen höchst bizarren Verordnungen den zahlreichen Variationen des Unglücks zu Leibe zu rücken, denen die Frauen dieser Welt, aber nicht sie allein, ausgesetzt sind - das Alter, Schwiegermütter, die Einfälle der Männer, die Verzweiflung zu zweit, um nur einige zu nennen.

Un zopilote, una araña viuda negra y una víbora de cascabel, vivían tranquilos y sin preocupaciones en un árbol grande de boab. Durante una sequía de varios años El león rey de la selva y sus ministros, todos los carnívoros, idearon la forma de tener un festín sin mucho esfuerzo; por lo tanto, so pretexto de la sequía convocaron a todos los animales para discernir que debían de hacer para que lloviera pronto antes de que murieran de sed, sin imaginar siquiera la trampa que les tendían acudieron los incautos.

Cierto día a un costado del corral se encontraba una vaca y del otro lado un cerdo, ambos enfrascados en tremenda discusión. La vaca alegaba que ella aportaba más para el consumo del ser humano, por el contrario, el cerdo decía que era el quien producía más. Alrededor de ellos los otros animales escuchaban con atención; entre ellos había dos gallinas gordas y todos tenían en cuenta que contribuían algo al hombre.

Edwardian satirist Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), who wrote under the pseudonym "Saki" tells the story of an unusual three-way domestic dispute between Egbert, his wife Lady Anne, and Don Tarquinio the cat. As often happens with Saki, there is a cynical twist at the end.

En este primer volumen de terror puedes acompañar a Ichabod Crane huyendo despavorido por el bosque... o darte cuenta de la verdadera belleza de Berenice... o bañarte en las frías aguas de un lago donde tendrás... compañía. Deja volar tu imaginación y acompaña a los protagonistas de "Viaje al horror" seguro que decides viajar menos y si ves una ventana abierta no te asomes por ella... igual ves algo que no te esperas...

Unknowingly, a man arrives on the anniversary of the “Great Tragedy” that led to his host having her large French window wide open onto the lawn on an October afternoon in the vain hope that her husband and brothers - whom he learns have been dead three years - will return through it. To his horror, the man shares in the terrors of the day.

Bertie Thropplestance stands to inherit a vast fortune from his wealthy but indomitable grandmother, a fact which has not escaped the notice of every mother of a marriageable girl in the county. But old Mrs. Thropplestance has her own ideas of a suitable mate for her grandson, and even when he romantically rescues Dora Yonelet from a rampaging elk, this cuts little ice with the dowager. The elk, however, has its own ideas....

When Theophil Eshley, the bovine painter, is called upon by his neighbour Adela Pingsford to remove a stray ox from her garden things go inevitably and comically wrong. No oxen are harmed in the course of this story, but sadly the same cannot be said of assorted chrysanthemums, drawing rooms and egos.

When Mary Hampton challenges Leonard Bilsiter to deploy his self-proclaimed Siberian magic powers to transform her into a she-wolf, nobody reckons with Clovis's cunning. Mrs. Hampton's disappearance in an Azalea bush and the coincidental appearance of a female wolf in exactly the same part of the conservatory during coffee causes considerable consternation among the house guests - with the usual hilarious results. Ingenious!

Finding himself trapped in a compartment with a set of unruly children, the Storyteller decides to take revenge by narrating a tale with a most immoral twist. This is a wonderful example of Hector Hugh Munro’s witty and multi-layered storytelling, satirizing British Edwardian society. The listener is drawn into the story along with the children and is equally horrified and delighted by the unexpected ending.

A quartet of short stories by Britain’s raconteur supreme, Hector Hugh Munro, better known under his pseudonym “Saki”. This collection brings together four of his most curious and amusing tales, all of which involve animals. Saki’s satirical take on the morals and eccentricities of Edwardian society, combined with a compelling narrative and an unexpected ending draw keep the reader hanging on until the very last word.