The Thirteenth Night is a short story that follows Oseki Harada, a woman married to an abusive man. She leaves her home, leaving her child behind, in order to seek permission from her parents for a di…
ამ წიგნს დღიური ძალიან პირობითად ჰქვია, რადგან ის ორ ნაწილად დავწერე თბილისში უმშვენიერესი ქვეყნიდან ორჯერ დაბრუნებულმა. „მექსიკური დღიური“ მონატრებამ დამაწერინა. მინდოდა მომეთხრო ის, რაც ვნახე და გან…
"In a Grove" (藪の中, Yabu no Naka?) is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, first appearing in the January 1922 edition of the Japanese literature monthly Shinchō. Akira Kurosawa used this story as the…
Set in the early twentieth century Kolkata, Kabuliwala delicately explores the bonds of friendship, affection and parting in the relationship between a middle-aged Pathan trader and a five year old Be…
En una pequeña localidad japonesa, el matrimonio compuesto por Tetsuo y Fujiko Nire vive apaciblemente en una residencia en cuyos jardines cantan toda clase de cigarras. Son ya abuelos, y se mudaron a…
The Medium is the Massage is Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presentation of his ideas. Using a layout style that was later copied by Wired, McLuhan and coauthor/designe…
Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, bu…
A translation from the Latin of one of the most famous and enduring stories of western Christendom, the Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis, written in Ireland perhaps as early as the year 800. While th…
Shelve The Voyage of Saint Brendan: Journey to the Promised Land
In de zomer van 1914 wordt Antwerpen geheel onverwacht gebombardeerd vanuit een zeppelin. Een felle strijd volgt, maar de stad valt uiteindelijk in handen van de Duitsers. Zes jaar later probeert Paul…
This is the story of an Italian general, accompanied by his chaplain, charged with the mission of scouring Albania in search of the bones of their fallen countrymen, killed twenty years earlier during…
Die schönste Dichtung deutscher Sprache ist Hölderlins 'Hyperion' vielfach genannt worden, ein unübertroffenes Meisterwerk des deutschen Idealismus, neben dem 'Faust' der Inbegriff klassischer deutsch…
Three Dreams in a Desert is an allegorical tale written by Olive Schreiner. Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual.
He ceased to speak and commenced to regard me more attentively than ever, as though to observe the effect of his words on me. I could not refrain from starting when I heard him utter the name of Clari…
En un hospital reservado para adolescentes con patologías terminales, cinco pacientes forman El club de la medianoche. Todas las noches se reúnen para compartir historias escalofriantes, a veces inven…
Shelve El club de la medianoche (Ficción) (Spanish Edition)
After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to th…
From beloved mother-daughter duo Mary Higgins Clark, America's Queen of Suspense, and Carol Higgins Clark, author of the hugely popular Regan Reilly mystery series, comes Dashing Through the Snow, a h…
„ფსკერის სახარება“, ივა ფეზუაშვილის პირველი რომანი, ბიბლიური სლენგით მოთხრობილი ჩვენი რეალობის ან ჩვენი შესაძლო რეალობის ანარეკლია – ამბავი, რომელშიც პერსონაჟები საკუთარ თავზე ფიქრს ყველაზე არაკორექტუ…
“The mill owner's wife persists: 'A dollar, my foot! Fifty cents. That's my last offer. Goodness, woman, you can get another one.' In answer, my friend gently reflects: 'I doubt it. There's never two …
A certain eighteenth-century German noble ventured abroad for military service and returned with a series of amusingly outrageous stories. Baron Munchausen's astounding feats included riding cannonbal…
Ce livre est une oeuvre du domaine public éditée au format numérique par Ebooks libres et gratuits. L’achat de l’édition Kindle inclut le téléchargement via un réseau sans fil sur votre liseuse et vos…
'The fact is, if we followed the history of every little country in the world - in its dramatic as well as its quiet times - we would have no space left in which to live our own lives or apply ourselv…
This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight with the Lion brings to life a fast-paced yet remarkably subtle work often considered to be the masterpiece of the twelfth-century French writer Chrétie…
