«Deve essere un mio difetto, ma i peccati altrui non mi scandalizzano – sempre che non mi riguardino personalmente». l. a. leggendaria sprezzatura di Maugham pervade tutti i racconti di questa raccolta, popolata di personaggi tanto più veri in quanto tratti dalla sua vita multiforme di medico, scrittore, drammaturgo e agente segreto. Il nostro insaziabile viaggiatore spazia da una bettola di Vladivostok al bel mondo della Costa Azzurra, e il suo occhio spietato mette a nudo con elegant cattiveria, o anche con dissimulata compassione, intime tragedie e abissali fallimenti di un pittoresco campionario umano: impostori di lungo corso, madri efferate, coniugi assassini – tutti in balìa della casualità della vita e della cecità delle passioni. Come Elizabeth, «una giocatrice d'azzardo, una scialacquatrice e una donna lasciva»; o come Morton che, tornato in Inghilterra, si sentiva più solo che nella giungla. E segreti ben custoditi, acrobatici patti e rischiosi tradimenti concordati ci apriranno un mondo in cui nulla obbedisce a una rassicurante prevedibilità.

VISHWAROOP (The Face of the Universe)

VISHWAROOP is a set of 20 brief tales in regards to the face of guy in the universe.

The portrait of guy, complicated, different. Like a tapestry woven with multitudinous threads. occasionally saddening, infuriating, revolting, scary, at different occasions uplifting, calming, satisfied, hopeful; yet constantly attention-grabbing, unique, even hilarious. inside it we see a kaleidoscope of pictures, all diverse, all attention-grabbing, even enlightening, a jumble we name life.

A lot of content material is grownup orientated, uninhibited, not just sexually but additionally philosophically, politically, socially, and the other manner imaginable.

The tales are unique, yet they're idea frightening, too. they're packed with philosophical musings, a lot of them are unconventional. when you like a tackle guy and the universe that's exasperatingly, even inflamingly, diverse from what loads of our non secular, political, and social leaders were featuring for millions of years, then this publication is for you.

VISHWAROOP is a Sanskrit be aware with philosophical connotations. It refers back to the cosmology and where of guy in the cosmic constitution. No position for the idea that of God is posited.

While full of philosophical principles, it's not a ebook on philosophy. it really is enjoyable fiction. guy is gifted in sensible shape, in his stark nakedness, the way in which he relatively is, no longer the best way we would like him to be. even if fiction, it's not fable. Realism doesn't suggest uninteresting. as soon as begun on a narrative, you'll now not have the capacity to placed it down. And upon getting placed it down, you are going to begin to imagine. The characters, the settings, and the tips inside of, will linger on your brain, for days, months, even years.

So, take a plunge, and also you may perhaps end up having fun with a truly assorted type of universe, submerged in fact, no longer dogma.

Neuentdeckte Geschichten eines großen Erzählers

Die Sammlung präsentiert Leonhard Frank als einen der erfolgreichsten und unterhaltsamsten Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das Resultat jahrelanger Recherchen des Herausgebers die Entdeckung unbekannter Geschichten und Erstfassungen bereichern das bisherige Erzählwerk.

Entstanden zwischen 1912 und 1961, verblüffen die Geschichten durch ihre stilistische Präzision und eine farbige Bildwelt. Die jungen Männer und Frauen, familiärer Bevormundung ebenso ausgeliefert wie den Zwängen in Schule und Beruf, büßen ihre Ideale ein und scheitern in dem Verlangen nach Anerkennung und Liebe. Geringfügige Anlässe, eine abschätzige Bemerkung, der liegengelassene Hut, ein defekter Wecker, werden zum Auslöser unerbittlicher Geschehnisse. Als substitute zur Welt der "sehnsuchtslosen Herzen" erscheinen Jahrmarkts- und Zirkusszenen und vor allem die Natur in ihrem Rhythmus von Werden und Vergehen. Franks Erzählungen von Liebe und Tod bleiben durch ihre innere Wahrhaftigkeit im Gedächtnis.

A.K.Silva lives in a small city in California .She works complete time within the clinical box and is fortunately married with 3 kids . among kinfolk existence and paintings, it used to be a problem to get those first books written .That’s why the commitment is to Multitasking girl and the second one commitment is to Husbands of those woman.

L'edizione integrale dei racconti di Luce d’Eramo, qui proposta in line with l. a. prima volta, raccoglie i testi narrativi brevi che l’autrice, con fedeltà al suo rigoroso laboratorio, ha affiancato alla scrittura dei romanzi tra il 1943 e il 1999. Oltre ai Racconti quasi di guerra, apparsi solo nel 1999 according to Mondadori, a molti anni dalla stesura originaria, il quantity comprende due raccolte preparate da Luce d’Eramo prima della sua scomparsa e mai date alle stampe, Racconti privati e Sei racconti estremi; in appendice vengono presentati invece Altri racconti, destinati a sedi estemporanee e ora recuperati. Si delinea così un percorso di scrittura e di riflessione che muove dai tragici fatti della Seconda guerra mondiale, vissuta da un’adolescente matura e volitiva, in keeping with arrivare alle inclinazioni sociali e culturali degli anni Novanta, attraverso alcune narrazioni di fantascienza, genere a lei molto caro consistent with l’“apertura mentale” che può offrire. Questi racconti, congeniali in misura e lucidità alla scrittura essenziale e scabra di Luce d’Eramo, rivelano una curiosità morale umanissima, inesausta e acuta, sia verso i fatti della Storia, dal grande conflitto al terrorismo, sia verso i nodi privati, più intricati, contraddittori e dolenti, delle relazioni personali.

Unseen by means of readers for a century, Archibald Rutledge's tale "Claws" is a fast moving event story of a tender boy, Paul, misplaced within the foreboding terrain of Spencer's Swamp, the area of the potent bobcat Claws, that's deftly evading hounds and hunters alike. whilst Paul and Claws come upon each other at a dangerous creek crossing, Rutledge's mastery of outside storytelling shines via in each evocative word.

The brief tale "Claws" used to be written for ebook in an early twentieth-century boy's journal and was once first accrued within the privately published Eddy Press variation of previous Plantation Days (c. 1913). constrained to only a number of hundred copies, the Eddy Press variation is very prized via Rutledge creditors and comprises 5 stories—"Claws," "The Doom of Ravenswood," "The Egret's Plumes," "The center of Regal," and "The Ocean's Menace"—not present in the extra generally to be had 1921 Stokes variation of outdated Plantation Days.

A venture of the arts Council SC reaping rewards the South Carolina publication pageant, this new version of Claws is illustrated in good-looking charcoal etchings by way of Southern artist Stephen Chesley. Award-winning open air author and famous Rutledge student Jim Casada presents the volume's advent and retired South Carolina conservation officer Ben McC. Moïse bargains an afterword.

Percival Christopher Wren is healthier often called a novelist, publishing twenty-eight novels from 1912 to 1941, the main well-known of which being Beau Geste (1924). Wren additionally released seven brief tale collections: Stepsons of France (1917), The younger Stagers (1917), sturdy Gestes (1929), fallacious Blades (1933), Port o' lacking males (1934), tough taking pictures (1938), and Odd—But having said that (1941). those brief tale collections contained a complete of 116 tales. there have been additionally omnibus collections released, tales of the overseas Legion (1947) and useless Men's Boots (1949), containing tales taken from Stepsons of France, strong Gestes, mistaken Blades, and Port o' lacking males. as well as the 116 tales released in Wren's brief tale collections there are a few extra goods within the gathered brief tales. "At Oxford: blameless Ernest and crafty Eintz" is a quick tale initially released in 1919 in an vague fiction journal. "The Romantic Regiment" and "Twenty-Four Hours within the international Legion" are "factual" articles initially released in magazines. "Wonderful Egypt" is an editorial (more a photographic essay) initially released within the Strand journal. the object "I observed a Vision!" initially seemed in an extraordinary psychic journal, Prediction. there's additionally a piece of writing present in an Australian newspaper, "Meaning of Dreams", the place Wren relates a few desires he had skilled. ultimately there's "Broken Glass", an unpublished brief tale. each one tale has introductory reviews by way of the editor, John L. Espley. quantity 3 of The amassed brief tales includes nineteen tales through Wren and one article through the editor. the 19 tales comprise 9 from incorrect Blades (February 1933) and ten from Port o' lacking males (March 1934), which have been initially released within the Passing exhibit, a fiction journal, from March 25 via September 2, 1933. the thing is a list of all of Wren's tales which are on the topic of each other, offering a listing of news that includes numerous characters (such as l. a. Cigale, McSnorrt, the Geste Brothers, etc.) and different relationships (stories set in India, tales in regards to the overseas Legion, tales concerning the sea, etc.).

In each existence, we meet a prophet, one that both with humor, or pointed message directs us ahead on a course, non secular or no longer. I met this sort of prophet. I met him on a bus referred to as the "L" Line. those are his stories. The which means will be yours.