Títulos em Antologias e Contos

O sonho do Major Bastos surgiu, ainda na infância, ao fazer seu primeiro aviãozinho de papel. Em sua imaginação, nesse princípio do amor pela aviação, já se via alcançando os ares. Proteger, cuidar e defender não só o país, mas também as pessoas que ama, tornou-se o lema que levaria pela vida toda. Até o dia em que, em meio a um voo de patrulhamento, sua aeronave — AS do esquadrão — sofre uma pane, fazendo com que ele e o Tenente Marcondes — seu companheiro de trabalho e melhor amigo — sejam obrigados a ejetar, transformando um exercício de rotina em um verdadeiro inferno.

Growing up in Torquay, Agatha Christie’s love of the West Country never left her and many of her finest stories are set on the moors and shores of Devon and Cornwall. This collection celebrates some of her finest countryside stories featuring a cast of Christie’s most iconic characters: Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford and Parker Pyne.

A rugged, bearded mechanic becomes my knight in shining armor. Traveling three hours to make my twin daughter's Christmas come true. I never expected him. We are the complete opposites and he infuriates me like no one else. Love was never on the cards for me. A blizzard holds up my plans and I end up staying the night with him. Everything I never thought I wanted. I thought being stranded at Christmas was the only surprise I was in for. How wrong was I?

The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Iliad, the poem is divided into 24 books. It follows the Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his journey home after the Trojan War. After the war, which lasted ten years, his journey lasted for ten additional years, during which time he encountered many perils and all his crew mates were killed..

Ai de ti, Copacabana! é o livro mais lembrado quando o nome do imbatível cronista Rubem Braga vem à tona. O livro traz crônicas do autor que se tornariam célebres como História triste de tuim, Os trovões de antigamente, O padeiro, Quem sabe Deus está ouvindo, A minha glória literária, História de pescaria, além da surpreendente crônica que dá nome ao livro - Ai de ti, Copacabana! -, na qual Rubem faz uma espécie de ode ao bairro carioca, destacando seus vícios e virtudes.

Lucas will nichts als seine Ruhe in einer Welt, die ihn einfach nicht in Ruhe lässt. Eine Kurzgeschichte vom internationalen Bestsellerautor Fredrik Backman Videospiele, Wein und Pad Thai – das ist der perfekte Abend für Lucas. Andere Menschen? Muss nicht sein. Warum denn, wenn er auch alleine glücklich sein kann? Als der dreiköpfige Vorstand der Bewohnervertretung überraschend an seiner Tür klingelt und eine Inspektion seiner Bratpfanne verlangt, ist Lucas alles andere als begeistert. Doch Abwimmeln ist nicht.

CONTENTS: 01. The Nameless City 02. The Festival 03-04. The Colour Out of Space 05-07. The Call of Cthulhu 08-17. The Dunwich Horror 18-25. The Whisperer in Darkness 26 . A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson 27-28.The Haunter of the Dark 29-33. The Shadow Over Innsmouth 34. Discarded Draft of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" 35-42. The Shadow Out of Time 43-54. At the Mountains of Madness 55-79.The Case of Charles Dexter Ward 80. Azathoth 81. Beyond the Wall of Sleep 82. Celephaïs 83. Cool Air 84. Dagon 85. Ex Oblivione.

This audiobook includes 10 Great Russian Short Stories: The Mantle by Nikolai Gogol, Mumu by Ivan Turgenev, First love by Ivan Turgenev, An Avenger by Anton Chekhov, Darkness by Anton Chekhov, The Death of Ivan Illyich by Leo Tolstoy, Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Little Angel by Leonid Andreyev, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Troublesome Visitor by Anton Chekhov.

"Hohe Herren von der Akademie! | Sie erweisen mir die Ehre, mich aufzufordern, der Akademie einen Bericht über mein äffisches Vorleben einzureichen. In diesem Sinne kann ich leider der Aufforderung nicht nachkommen. Nahezu fünf Jahre trennen mich vom Affentum..." So beginnt der Bericht Rotpeters, der sein Leben als Affe hinter sich gelassen hat und nunmehr zum Menschen geworden zu sein scheint. Eine Erzählung Kafkas aus dem Jahre 1917.

Adjustment Team is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Orbit Science Fiction (September–October 1954, No. 4) with illustration by Faragasso. A man called the Clerk approaches a talking dog, and explains in businesslike manner that "Sector T137" is scheduled for "adjustment" at 9 o'clock. He instructs the dog to bark at exactly 8:15, which the Clerk explains will summon "A Friend with a Car", which will take real estate salesman Ed Fletcher to work before 9, but while the Clerk is preoccupied, the dog falls asleep and as a result barks a minute too late.

From the Thurber Prize-winning author of New Teeth, hailed as “a triumph of sustained humor” (Sarah Lyall, New York Times Book Review), comes a hilarious and powerful collection of short stories chronicling the plight of aging millennials. ​

“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to digest.

Nos duros anos da década de 1990, uma mulher ganha a vida como namorada de aluguel para homens gays. Em uma boca de fumo no Harlem, uma travesti tem um encontro inusitado com ninguém menos que Billie Holiday. Um grupo de jogadores de rúgbi tenta pechinchar o preço de uma noite de sexo e recebe de volta o merecido.

Neste conto, a autora best-seller de Circe e A canção de Aquiles Madeline Miller, faz uma releitura feminista e corajosa do mito grego de Pigmalião, o hábil escultor que se apaixona por sua obra-prima em mármore: Galateia.

"Sagarana" traz cenários e personagens típicos do interior do país. Mais especificamente do sertão de Minas Gerais. Morros, riachos, jagunços, vaqueiros, bois e cavalos povoam as páginas das estórias magistralmente construídas por Guimarães Rosa, cuja habilidade para criar enredos e protagonistas diversos e repletos de detalhes encanta leitores até hoje e permanece influenciando gerações e gerações de escritores.

Este volume da coleção Clássicos do Medo reúne cinco obras-primas dos contos de terror e mistério da literatura de língua inglesa.

Quem se deslumbrou com a maestria narrativa, a sólida e delicada construção de personagens, a linguagem apurada e a temática brasileira de Torto arado, romance que converteu Itamar Vieira Junior em um dos nomes centrais da nossa literatura contemporânea, vai encontrar neste Doramar ou a odisseia ainda mais motivos para celebrar a ficção do autor. Num diálogo permanente com nossas questões sociais e a tradição literária brasileira, Itamar enfeixa um conjunto de histórias a um só tempo atuais e calcadas na multiplicidade de culturas que formam o país.

Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages.

On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of the fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from Return of the Jedi through the eyes of a supporting character, from heroes and villains, to droids and creatures. From a Certain Point of View features contributions by bestselling authors and trendsetting artists.

Una colección excepcional que reúne todos los cuentos de Gabriel García Márquez, ganador del Premio Nobel.