Literary Fiction

Meet Emma. Emma is sick. She can’t work because of a neurological condition, so is stuck in her family’s tiny council house. Emma is sick of being told to ‘get over it’. Her stepfather, her doctors, strangers – everyone has an opinion. Emma is sick of being the other woman. Her boyfriend Adam is perfect: he’s got a great job and an amazing home. His wife Celeste is the problem. Emma is sick of being underestimated. All she needed was a target. And now she has Celeste… Emma is sick. Just not in the way you thought.

One of 46 books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives listeners a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Gerard is 12. He hates his name, but loves flying round the streets of Glasgow on his bike, or mucking about with his gang, the Broncos. He’s a bright kid, but trouble seems to follow him. No one really knows what it’s like at home for Gerard; he’s used to carrying a lot on his small shoulders. Gerard doesn’t always make good decisions. And on one April morning, in the blink of an eye, he makes a very bad one – one that will upend his whole world.

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit.

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of Continental Europe and its male authors whose time has now come again.

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. The zenith of Empire is bookended by two catastrophic wars that slaughter vast swathes of humanity. And yet authors manage to record and create fragile libraries of humanity, its talents, its dreams and increasingly its nightmares.

Publié en 1857, Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires d’Edgar Allan Poe est un recueil de nouvelles qui plonge le lecteur dans l’univers sombre et mystérieux de Poe. Ce recueil rassemble des récits où se mêlent l’horreur psychologique, et le mystère, dans une exploration des peurs profondes et des zones d’ombre de l’esprit humain.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of 1800 to 1849 and its male authors whose time has now come again.

Dieser Roman wagt einen ungewöhnlichen Kunstgriff: Er erzählt seine Geschichte rückwärts, von ihrem vorläufigen Ende zurück zu ihrem Beginn, vom Shanghai des Jahres 2040 zurückgespult ins Jahr 2014. Im Zentrum steht die Familie Yang: der Geschäftsmann Leo, seine Frau, die enigmatische Eko, und die drei Töchter Yumi, Yoko und Kiko. Schlaglichtartig folgen wir ihnen durch die Jahrzehnte, durch Glücksmomente und Krisen, dorthin, wo alles begann, zurück zu Leos und Ekos Hochzeitstag - in dem der Keim dessen, was noch kommen soll, bereits angelegt zu sein scheint.

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. A decade of monumental change and slaughter. Many of society’s telling questions are cast aside in times of that speak of greater needs, greater priorities. For these talented authors their ideas and words keep these magnificent stories at the forefront of our literary lives.

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit.

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. A new century dawns, one in which America would become pre-eminent as its industrial might and military power rose above all others. In literature too its authors tackled new forms and new ideas, they shied away from little, immersing themselves and their readers in the promise of a new Century.

Growing up on his family’s cattle farm in western Iceland, young Orri has gained an appreciation for the beauty found in everyday things: the cavorting of a newborn calf, the return of birdsong after a long winter, the steadfast love of a good (or tolerably good) farm dog. But the outer world still beckons, so Orri leaves his no-nonsense Lithuanian Jewish mother and his taciturn father, Pabbi, to attend university in Reykjavík.

Raised in a Greek legion, Phaidros has been taught to follow his commander’s orders at all costs. But when Phaidros rescues a baby from a fire at Thebes’s palace, his commander’s orders cease to make sense: Phaidros is forced to abandon the blue-eyed boy at a temple, and to keep the baby’s existence a total secret. Years later, struggling with panic attacks and flashbacks, Phaidros is enlisted by the Queen to find her son, Thebes’ young crown prince, who has vanished to escape an arranged marriage.

" On dit qu'on ne sait rien à dix-huit ans. Mais il y a des choses qu'on sait à dix-huit ans et qu'on ne saura plus jamais. ". Tout le monde rêve d'avoir dans sa vie un Tully Dawson, le type d'ami qui vous marque à jamais, qui vous rappelle que la vie peut être différente. Écosse, été 1986. Sur fond de thatchérisme sauvage, un groupe de jeunes gars de la classe ouvrière décide de suivre Tully pour fêter la fin du lycée dans un festival de musique mythique à Manchester, la Mecque du punk rock, de la new wave, de la musique qu'on met à fond !

「源氏物語」の全54帖を1冊に凝縮！大人気古典講師ならではのユーモアあふれる文章で、たのしく一気読み！源氏物語のストーリーを1帖ごとに楽しく紹介。見どころを網羅した内容で、物語の流れがしっかりと掴めます。各帖ごとに人物相関図を掲載し、さらに物語の時代背景を学べるコラムも充実。

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents whose time has now come again.

A Oslo, una scrittrice sessantenne assiste come tutti gli anni a un concerto di Natale; siede accanto a una coppia accompagnata dalla figlia adolescente, che si mostra palesemente infastidita e viene rimproverata di continuo dalla madre. La scena fa scattare nella donna il ricordo dei suoi sedici anni, e il lettore viene catapultato nel racconto del suo passato: un’adolescenza su cui grava una figura materna opprimente, che controlla la figlia in maniera ossessiva, terrorizzata al pensiero che possa bere, fare sesso, assumere droghe.

It’s 2024, and Tobey Harlan—college dropout, temporary waiter, recently dumped—steals from the wall of his father’s house three paintings by the venerated and controversial artist Di Stiegl. Tobey’s just lost everything he owns to a Northern California wildfire, and if he can sell the paintings (albeit in a shady way to a notorious tech bro) he can start life anew in a place no one will ever find him, perhaps even Oregon. A hundred years before, Klaus Aaronsohn—German-Jewish immigrant, resident of the Lower East Side—inveigles his way into a film studio in Astoria, Queens.

クラスの女子たちが、タイムカプセルを埋めたらしい。6年3組のぼくは、親友のシンイチとヨモヤとともに、遠くの煙突の麓にある公園まで自転車で行ってみることにした――（「海の街の十二歳」）

寄り添い、寄り添われ、生きていく　動物介在療法に携わるDI犬のスピカと、そのハンドラーの凪川遥が、横紋筋肉腫を患った５歳児、強迫性障害を抱える中学生、産後うつの患者や家族たちと向き合う。

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. In this Century of profound change for women our Atlantic neighbours produced authors of extraordinary ability that dazzled us all with a range of ideas, characters and stories of such magnificence that literature would never be the same again. Genius is written in their names.

"Jane Eyre: An Autobiography" by Charlotte Brontë is a novel written in the early 19th century, specifically during the Victorian era. The story centers around Jane Eyre, an orphaned girl who faces hardship and oppression while growing up in the unkind household of her aunt, Mrs. Reed. The narrative unfolds her struggles against social class constraints and personal adversities as she searches for love, belonging, and independence. The opening of the novel introduces us to Jane Eyre's bleak existence at Gateshead Hall, where she lives with her aunt and cousins.

Una bimba solitaria si innamora dell’amante della madre e, nelle torride sieste della pensione in cui vive, inventa misteriose cerimonie che conducono entrambi sull’orlo di un profondo abisso. Da un sotterraneo abbandonato viene liberata una vecchia rimasta prigioniera per mezzo secolo, vittima di un caudillo geloso. Quando si ritrova all’aperto, nuda, i lunghi capelli bianchi che sfiorano terra, gli occhi ciechi per il buio di decenni, non ricorda neppure il proprio nome.