This wonderful short story introduces us to the old, miserly Scrooge who is more interested in his money-lending and counting the pennies than he is in bothering to celebrate Christmas. Indeed, he revels in...
One of the author's first writings. The book is a collection of short stories, written in the perspective of a hunter who travels through rural Russia in the first half of the 19th century, describing the...
Natalia Levi, known as Ginzburg by her husband’s surname, is one of the most famous Italian writers of the 20th century. Her literature has a strong social content. Not in vain did she suffer exile...
Marcovaldo, or The Seasons in the City, is a set of 20 short stories, written between 1952 and 1963, each one dedicated to a season of the year. The main character is always Marcovaldo, a very poor Charlie...
Fables are very short narratives (just a few paragraphs) in which the ordinary characters are animals, intended to illustrate some point of common sense or morality: they usually end with a moral teaching....
Set of small stories connected to each other, which have as a common thread the individual search for God. They are written in a very simple way, in the style of popular stories, and suggest that God is...
Dragonsworn is another title in the series of the world of Dark Hunters, translated into 30 languages and with more than 18 million copies sold. Dragonsworn is the 27th book in...
Popular stories and folk tales collected by the brothers Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, in the nineteenth century. These are short stories (generally 2 or 3 pages long), based on popular culture and imagination,...
This edition includes stories published between 1955 (The enemy of my enemy) and 1993 (The secret of Mr. Barret, Boris and the colonel, A pull from the thread, Discouragements (Tiredness) and problems,...