Editorial: Sheba Blake Publishing
The longish short story "Adieu" is an excerpt from Honore de Balzac's sweeping masterpiece The Human Comedy. A ghost story of sorts, this tragic tale recounts the blossoming romance of two lovers whose relationship is torn asunder by the vagaries of war. When they reunite by chance years later, there is nothing left to be salvaged.
A master wedding planner meets her ultimate challenge in the #1 New York Times–bestselling author’s Regency romance novella. Beautiful Lady Margaret Dawlish, the daughter of a duke, is proud to plan the ton’s most important weddings—including that of a prince! But now it’s Lady Margaret who falls in love, with dashing Gaston Devilliers, the Duke of Perigord. This breathtaking man always ends up where he wants to be—and, in this case, that means in Margaret’s arms! And, suddenly, her best-laid plans to guard her heart come completely undone. Originally appeared in the e-book anthology Royal Weddings and in The Capture of the Earl of Glencrae. This eBook includes an excerpt from The Lady Risks All.Ver libro
The Necklace (La Parure) by Guy de Maupassant is a masterful short story of irony, vanity, and societal pressure. First published in 1884, this French literary classic tells the story of Madame Loisel, a woman born into modest means who yearns for wealth and luxury. When she borrows a beautiful necklace to attend a glamorous ball, a single careless decision sets off a chain of events that alters the course of her life. With its sharp social critique and devastating twist ending, The Necklace has become one of the most anthologized and taught short stories in world literature. Maupassant’s clear, concise style and deep understanding of human nature are on full display in this tale of pride, sacrifice, and misplaced values. This full audiobook captures the tension, elegance, and tragic irony of Maupassant’s original French narrative in a voice that blends subtle emotion with literary depth—perfect for fans of classic literature, moral tales, and psychological realism.Ver libro
Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. In the canon of literature one British author is instantly recognizable across several genres for his many classics. In this volume H G Wells once more demonstrates, across a range of short stories, that his fabled talents remain undimmed. A Spring Harvest Geoffrey Bache Smith was born in Staffordshire on 18th October 1894. He attended King Edward’s School, Birmingham at the same time as J.R.R. Tolkien, where they founded the literary “Tea Cup and Barovian Society”. Geoffrey was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the 19th (Service) Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers, the ‘3rd Salford Pals’, and took part in the Battle of the Somme. He was wounded by shrapnel on 29th November 1916 and died from his wounds on 3rd December 1916. He was buried in Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty, France. 1 - The Top 10 - H G Wells - An Introduction 2 - The Magic Shop by H G Wells 3 - The Man Who Could Work Miracles by H G Wells 4 - The Flowering of the Strange Orchid by H G Wells 5 - The Stolen Bacillus by H G Wells 6 - The Cone by H G Wells 7 - Aepyornis Island by H G Wells 8 - The Sea Raiders by H G Wells 9 - The Crystal Egg by H G Wells 10 - The Valley of Spiders by H G Wells 11 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 1 by H G Wells 12 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 2 by H G WellsVer libro
Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, literary voices of the Vietnamese-American diaspora as well as Vietnam-based authors speak to the experience of those who left and those who stayed in THE COLORS OF APRIL, a collection of new short fiction curated by award-winning translators and editors Quan Manh Ha and Cab Tran. For much of the twentieth century, Vietnam played an outsized role on the global stage, charting the destinies of superpowers and reshaping the world’s politics. Now fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War comes an anthology of fiction that finally speaks to the global Vietnamese experience: voices of both those who left and those who stayed, what was gained and lost in the half century since, and—for the generations that followed—what it means to be Vietnamese. More than two dozen distinct literary voices are featured in this collection, including Viet Thanh Nguyen (Pulitzer Prize winner, The Sympathizer), Andrew Lam (PEN/Beyond Margins Award winner, Perfume Dreams), Barbara Tran (Lannan Foundation Award winner, In the Mynah Bird's Own Words), Vu Tran (Whiting Award winner, Dragonfish) and many more. The stories are as diverse in style, tone, and subject matter as the ancestral lands of the Vietnamese people. From the rubble of the Ancient Citadel in Quảng Trị to the makeshift orphanages outside Sài Gòn, from Palo Alto to a tony Lincoln Park apartment in Chicago, the narratives straddle continents and generations, the political as well as the personal. But what they share is much greater than their differences. They speak to a common language, to a culture steeped in history and myth and storytelling that vividly captures the enduring spirit of the Vietnamese people. Editor Quan Manh Ha is Professor of English at the University of Montana and the co-translator of Other Moons: Vietnamese Short Stories of the American War and Its Aftermath, among other titles. Co-editor Cab Tran holds an MFA from University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Vagabond: Bulgaria’s English Monthly, Black Warrior Review, The Iconoclast, and elsewhere. He teaches fiction for Gotham Writers Workshop. In 2023, Ha and Tran co-translated and co-edited Bảo Ninh’s Hà Nội at Midnight. Complete list of contributors in alphabetical order: BẢO Thương, Thuy DINH, ĐỖ Thị Diệu Ngọc, Anvi HOÀNG, HOÀNG Phượng Mai, LẠI Văn Long, Andrew LAM, LÊ Phương Anh, LÊ Vũ Trường Giang, LƯU Vĩ Lân, Vi Khi NAO, NGÔ Thế Vinh, Annhien NGUYEN, NGUYỄN Minh Chuyên, NGUYỄN Huy Cường, NGUYỄN Thị Kim Hòa, NGUYỄN Mỹ Nữ, Phùng NGUYỄN, NGUYỄN Thu Trân, NGUYỄN Đức Tùng, Viet Thanh NGUYEN, Kevin D. PHAM, Tuan PHAN, Gin TO, Barbara TRAN, Elizabeth TRAN, TRẦN Thị Tú Ngọc, Vu TRAN, VĂN Xương, Christina VO, VŨ Cao Phan, and VƯƠNG TâmVer libro
Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. A decade of catastrophic worldwide war. Empires in tectonic collision, a society heaving under the yoke, tired of sacrifice, ready for revolution. In literature ideas were explored and detailed revealing a world and people that seem so long ago but also very near. 1 - The Top 10 - The 1910's - The Men - An Introduction 2 - The Dead - Part 1 by James Joyce 3 - The Dead - Part 2 by James Joyce 4 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka 5 - The Interlopers by Saki the pseudonym for H H Munro 6 - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D H Lawrence 7 - The Revolutionist by Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev 8 - Casting the Runes by M R James 9 - Carnacki, The Ghost Finder - No 1 - The Gateway of the Monster by William Hope Hodgson 10 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson 11 - The Matador of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett 12 - August Heat by W F HarveyVer libro
50 First Dates meets Princess Bride... Roman can't help falling for the girl next door, even though she forgets who he is... every single day. He'll stop at nothing to figure out the cause of her memory loss if it means there's a chance she might fall for him.Ver libro
