Modern Short Stories

Quattro grandi classici, senza tempo, della letteratura moderna. Dalla visione distopica del famossimo romanzo "1984" di George Orwell, all'altrettanto famoso, "La fattoria degli animali", dello stesso autore. Per poi arrivare alla saggezza millenaria de "Il Profeta" di Kahlil Gibran ed all'infinita dolcezza de "Il piccolo Principe" di Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, uno dei romanzi più conosciuti e letti al mondo. Narrati dalla voce e dall'interpretazione di Alex Martinelli.

This one-of-a-kind treasury brings together the talents of nearly two dozen best-selling middle-grade authors - including Shannon Hale, Brandon Mull, Ally Condie, and Jennifer A. Nielsen - who have created original short stories and modern-day fairy tales based on the lives and dreams of children they have met who all have two things in common: They have very big hopes and dreams, and they are all cancer patients.

Una moglie ama il marito, lo ama così tanto che ogni giorno si porta il suo membro al lavoro, nel cestino del pranzo accanto ai panini e ai biscotti. Un uomo che non mangia arance incomincia a manifestare una profonda e inquietante ossessione per questi frutti e la loro decomposizione. Una donna una mattina si sveglia e scopre che la sua caviglia destra è blu, poi anche l’altra caviglia, poi le gambe.

Fantasy author Ken Altabef lends his unique voice talents to a modern reading of 13 classic tales (and six poems) by Edgar Allan Poe.

Inspired by classic books like The Little Prince, these delightful fables follow a variety of charming animal characters as they embark on fantastical yet profoundly relatable quests.

In *A Quick Lunch…The Date That Ended Before Dessert*, the narrator meets a man she connected with online. After several good phone conversations, they plan to meet at a restaurant, but an hour before, he changes the location to a bar he knows. Despite the awkward last-minute change, she goes along with it. At the bar, they wait over an hour for the kitchen to open, and just as the food arrives, he abruptly ends the date, paying the bill while she’s away for a brief moment.

What links a café in Antarctica, a factory for producing electronic tracking tags, and personal spacecraft? They're among the multiple venues where award-winning writer Tania Hershman sets her unique tales in this spellbinding debut collection. This audiobook, adbridged from the original collection, is read by the author, Tania Hershman.

Clarice Lispector gilt neben Virginia Woolf als bedeutendste Schriftstellerin der Moderne. Zu ihrem 100. Geburtstag erscheint der zweite und letzte Band ihrer gesammelten Erzählungen in der gefeierten Neuübersetzung von Luis Ruby. Hannelore Hoger, eine große Kennerin und Verehrerin Lispectors, liest ihre persönlichen Lieblingserzählungen aus beiden Bänden. Mit ihrer markanten Stimme und einem tiefen Verständnis für die komplexen Gefühle, die hinter Lispectors nur scheinbar einfacher Sprache aufscheinen, verleiht sie dieser Prosa einen kongenialen Ausdruck.

We never forget the stories we were told as children. Even when they are not on the top of our mind, they lurk like palm prints on the drying cement foundations of our understanding of the world. We absorb the pluck of children in the face of adult perfidy, cheering the heroism of Hansel and Gretel or Beauty and the Beast. Counterpoised by the wickedness and cruelty of parents, stepmothers, and wolves in sheep's clothing, children's wiliness usually leaves them unharmed, if not heroic. As adults, we keep returning to them again and again in film, in theater, and in books.

Ce sont trois contes écrits par Valérie Bonenfant, lus par Fabienne Prost. Le conte J’habite une flaque d’eau est illustré de façon sonore par Julien Jammes, designer sonore. La mer a des boutons : Alerte ! La mer est malade, elle est pleine de boutons blancs sur son eau de surface, mais que lui arrive t-il ? Elle n’est pas bien du tout. Peut-on la sauver ? L’oiseau et le sac : Un conte, où parfois le vent fait voler de drôles d’oiseaux. Vous n’en avez jamais vus ? Mais, si, ils sont colorés, transparents et pas toujours propres.

The Reality Beneath is a collection of short stories written by SULI Daniel Johnson. They are written in his distinct brand of science fiction that can be defined as stories that make you think. The Reality Beneath encompasses a good example of SULI Daniel Johnson’s unique style. He takes current topics and situations and looks at them from a new perspective. The genre is technically science fiction, yet quite often, it comes very close to reality broadening the perspective to look at things in a new way. It includes:

In this short story from Nathan Englander's collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, a mental patient tries to get help from a rabbi to smooth over family problems his manic episodes cause.

Three grownup Tales from the Dreamtime in one novella…Open the door and enter the Dreamtime, the world of fairytales, the flower of all that is delightful and mysterious, frightening and amazing.

A Modern Lover was written by D H Lawrence in 1909. A young man returns home to his first love to declare his feelings for her but the moment is lost when the girl will not give herself sexually. This theme was to be explored fully in Lawrence’s novel, Sons and Lovers.

A collection of modern-day fairy tales, including "Sleeping through the Beauty", "Hearts on Fire", "The Beauty in the Beast", "The Magic of Snow Magic", and "Falling for Cindy Fellars".

Let yourself be swept away by these classic tales of hope and courage!!

- Classic tales (short stories and poems) of hope and courage from the 19th and 20th centuries

Annotated for modern listeners

The third entry in the Classic Tales series, joining "Classic Tales of Horror" and "Classic Tales of Christmas"

For adventure fans of all ages, these stories are guaranteed to intrigue, delight, and sometimes take you by surprise!

Das Flugzeug, aus Rom kommend, landet auf der Piste vor Venedig. Die Maschine ist spärlich besetzt.

Mimei Ogawa, a prolific author of short stories nearly 100 years ago, is considered to be one of the founding figures of modern Japanese children’s literature. He has also been called the Hans Christian Andersen of Japan because of how his works were influenced by Andersen. This collection contains a fresh, modern translation of one of Mimei Ogawa’s most famous works, "The Mermaid and the Red Candles", as well as several other stories that have never been translated and published in English before.

Do you ever wonder if there is a gnome living in the hole at the bottom of the old tree in the park? Have you ever felt like you weren't alone while in the woods? Did you know that elves are responsible for many of our day-to-day occurrences? If your mind ever fills with these kinds of questions, then these modern fairy tales are for you!

>"Modern Man Is Ultra Quick" is a short-story about ugliness and beauty in our surroundings - and about attachment and alienation, about trying to find one's place. We experience Leicester through the eyes of Krystof, a hardworking East-European immigrant, but as it turns out, he is not the only one feeling estranged and disenchanted. Litcast is selected short fiction.