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A manufacturer and his lawyer decide to drink in the public room of a restaurant after a ball they had just attended. They are having a merry time drinking vodka and eating oysters. The manufacturer drinks more and more and becomes angrier with each drink. He later turns to his lawyer and confesses a secret to him that he has never told anyone before.

London, a huge and bustling metropolis, does not reveal itself to the casual visitor. To discover its hidden wonders, you must investigate its streets and squares on foot. Now with Londonwalks Audio Guide, you can put on your earphones, keep your eyes on the historic buildings, colorful shops, and hidden courtyards, while you listen to the history, scandal, and architectural curiosity of one of the most magnificent cities of Europe.

Etwas ist faul in Baronville, Pennsylvania. Die alte Industriestadt scheint dem Untergang geweiht: Die Zahl der Drogentoten steigt beängstigend schnell und eine Mordserie gibt FBI-Ermittler Amos Decker und seiner Kollegin Alex Jamison Rätsel auf. Eigentlich kann sich Decker, der seit einem Unfall vor vielen Jahren nichts vergisst, auf seine einzigartigen Fähigkeiten verlassen. Doch bei diesem Fall stößt der Memory Man an seine Grenzen.

Besides being a great short story writer, Anton Chekhov was also a master of the novella. One of his best is My Life, the tale of a rebellious young man so disgusted with bourgeois society that he drops out to live amongst the working classes, only to find himself once more disillusioned.

The South African Special Forces achieved exceptional results with small groups of elite soldiers instead of larger, conventional teams. The Team Secret shows that the same principle applies to the business world – a small team has a greater chance at completing projects efficiently, within a budget and on time. Teams, rather than individuals, form the DNA of many companies, and they play a pivotal role in achieving strategic and financial success. Like Special Forces teams, they must function as a well-oiled machine firing on all cylinders.

A piano tuner called Murkin, a close-shaven man with a yellow face, with a nose stained with snuff and cotton wool in his ears, came out of his hotel room into the passage. And looking at his frightened face one might have supposed that the ceiling had fallen in on him. 'Upon my word, Semyon!' he cried, seeing the attendant running towards him. 'What is the meaning of it? I am a rheumatic, delicate man and you make me go barefoot! Why is it you don't give me my boots all this time? Where are they?'

The Three Sisters is Anton Chekhov's 1901 play about the Prosorov family, who are stuck in a provincial Russian town. The sisters - Olga, Masha, and Irina - fantasize about one day returning to Moscow. Meanwhile, their brother Andrey courts village girl Natasha, and the family socializes with the soldiers stationed nearby. Dreams, longing, and illicit love drive the action of Chekhov's comic drama.

This is a story from the In the Ravine and Other Stories collection.

The forests of the Bloody Sunsets Valley are full of dangers: monsters, Reapers, strangers, and especially his comrades...the ones standing next to him. Cat has become stronger, but will it be enough to survive? Will he open the Mask? Will he understand who can be trusted, and who will trust him? Are real feelings even possible in the place where hypocrisy and deception reign supreme? The crusade to the big cities of the World of Karik is coming!

"Mon bon monsieur, ayez la bonté d'accorder votre attention à un malheureux affamé ! Trois jours que je n'ai pas mangé ! Pas un sou pour l'asile de nuit !" "Le Mendiant" est une nouvelle d'Anton Tchekhov publiée pour la première fois en 1887 dans "Le Journal de Pétersbourg". Il relate l'histoire de Skvortsov, qui est un jour accosté par le mendiant Louchkov. Il décide de lui donner quelques pièces, si ce dernier coupe du bois pour lui. Les années passent et Skvortsov voit Louchkov assis en face de lui au théâtre.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. This decade is resplendent with literature and its many prodigiously talented authors who write on as varied a range of subjects as might be thought possible. Yet each is studded with careful literary precision and narrative verve. It is a remarkable decade.

Plus que des œuvres littéraires brillantes, ce sont des portraits en creux de la société russe du XIXème siècle. Ces tableaux de mœurs nous renseignent avec talent et sagacité sur une société, des tempéraments, l'évolution d'un peuple, d'un Empire, et brosse le portrait au quotidien des hommes et des femmes, tous ces personnages qui vivent et qui peuplent ces chefs d'œuvres. La littérature en langue russe proprement dite naît au cours du XVIIème siècle, tout d'abord avec la poésie et le théâtre, mais très tôt naît une très riche tradition romanesque.

Anton Wieser, Jungencoach, lässt Jungs selbst zu Wort kommen. Statt zu fragen, was mit ihnen los ist, zeigt er seinen Lesern, was in den Jungs vorgeht. Humorvoll und im Klartext erläutert er, was Jungs tatsächlich brauchen. So schafft er Verständnis und Eltern erfahren, wie sie ihre Söhne bestmöglich ins Leben begleiten.

It is 1930, the midst of the Great Depression. After her mysterious role in a family tragedy, passionate, strong-willed Thea Atwell, age 15, has been cast out of her Florida home, exiled to an equestrienne boarding school for Southern debutantes. High in the Blue Ridge Mountains, with its complex social strata ordered by money, beauty, and girls' friendships, the Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is a far remove from the free-roaming, dreamlike childhood Thea shared with her twin brother on their family's citrus farm - a world now partially shattered.

A new urban fantasy featuring a man working on the right side of the law - with talents that come from left field. Psychometry - the power to touch an object and divine information about its history - has meant a life of petty crime for Simon Canderous, but now he's gone over to the good side. At New York's underfunded and (mostly) secret Department of Extraordinary Affairs, he's learning about red tape, office politics, and the basics of paranormal investigation. But it's not the paperwork that has him breathless.

This is a story from the In the Ravine and Other Stories collection.

Izdanie soderzhit rasskazy velikogo russkogo pisatelja Antona Pavlovicha Chehova, napisannye 1886g. Chehov sozdal novye hody v literature, sil'no povlijav na razvitie sovremennogo rasskaza. Original'nost' ego tvorcheskogo metoda zakljuchaetsja v ispol'zovanii prijoma pod nazvaniem «potok soznanija». Chehov ne stremilsja dat' otvety chitajushhej publike, a schital, chto rol' avtora zakljuchaetsja v tom, chtoby zadavat' voprosy, a ne otvechat' na nih.

Mit dem Projekt von San will Perry Rhodan die Verbindungen zu anderen Galaxien verstärken. Doch da taucht eine Fremde namens Shrell auf. Sie fordert von Rhodan, in die Agolei zu reisen. In diesem weit entfernten Sternenband soll er Reginald Bull töten, seinen ältesten Freund. Um ihrer Forderung Nachdruck zu verleihen, erschafft sie das Brennende Nichts – diese Anomalie wird die Erde und den Mond vernichten, falls Rhodan ihr nicht gehorcht.

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Vito will raus, raus aus seiner arschkalten Wohnung in Kreuzberg. Was mit einem Kater beginnt, entpuppt sich zwischen Ladendiebstahl und Mut anküssen als schonungslose Suche nach den Wurzeln seiner Einsamkeit. Anton Weil erzählt von den großen Themen seiner Generation: von Vereinzelung, Sexualität und Liebe, von Trauer und Aufbruch.