This collection of short stories focuses on moments in life when something turns, a choice is made, a promise kept or broken. With vivid and precise details, these quiet tales introduce you to characters whose inner lives are both troubled and eloquent. You smell the permeating odors in a rundown Chicago apartment building, touch the texture of a bear's thick fur, feel your feet scraping against the coils of a hairy rope ladder in the bathtub. These...

These stories are a brilliant evocation of a narrow, close-knit community that of the streets of London's East End in the 1890s. Having lived and worked there, he knew that his East Enders were not a race apart, but ordinary men and women, scraping by perhaps, but neither criminals nor paupers. He chronicled their adventures and misadventures, their wooing and their funerals, with sympathy, humor and a sense of both the tragedies and comedies to be...

From the Foreword:
"And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after."

Um-m-m—maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it never necessary that he remind her to be more careful of her finger-nails and grammar? After Puss in Boots had won wealth and a wife for his young master did not that

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Escritora y periodista española, Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851- 1921), es considerada como una de las novelistas clave en el realismo y el naturalismo español del siglo XIX y principios del XX. No solo fue un referente literario, sino que su defensa de los derechos de la mujer la convirtió en una de las primeras feministas españolas. Fue la lectura de Emile Zola uno de los impulsos decisivos para que Pardo Bazán desarrollase una fecundísima carrera...

Paul Park is one of modern fiction's major innovators. With exotic settings and characters truly alien and disturbingly normal, his novels and stories explore the shifting interface between traditional narrative and luminous dream, all in the service of a deeper humanism. "Climate Change," original to this volume, is an intimate and erotic take on a global environmental crisis. "A Resistance to Theory" chronicles the passionate (and bloody) competition...

La obra contiene 17 cuentos publicados por Juan Rulfo a partir de 1945, cuando aparece el titulado "Nos han dado la tierra" en las revistas América y Pan. Rulfo comenta los relatos que sigue escribiendo en cartas a su novia Clara Aparicio. En 1951 se publica el séptimo, "Diles que no me maten", en la revista América. Gracias a la primera beca que Rulfo recibe del Centro Mexicano de Escritores puede terminar los ocho que aparecerán con los previos...

First published in 2014, this tenth-anniversary edition of the award-winning collection includes three new stories.A young mother intrudes in the life of an older woman, thinking she knows what's best. An academic becomes convinced that he is haunted by his double. Two children spy on their supposedly criminal neighbours. A man enables his cousin's predatory impulses out of loyalty, and a circus performer dreams of a perfect wedding. These characters...

Escritora y periodista española, Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851- 1921), es considerada como una de las novelistas clave en el realismo y el naturalismo español del siglo XIX y principios del XX. No solo fue un referente literario, sino que su defensa de los derechos de la mujer la convirtió en una de las primeras feministas españolas. Fue la lectura de Emile Zola uno de los impulsos decisivos para que Pardo Bazán desarrollase una fecundísima carrera...

A veteran of the Viet Nam war returns to Georgia, drives across the country and has his car break down in Wyoming. He ends up sticking around this extremely small town with its odd population.

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