Kisah-kisah dalam kumpulan ini diangkat dari dongeng timur tradisional dan diceritakan kembali oleh Marguerite Yourcenar dengan gaya bahasa sangat puitis, sarat dengan perbandingan dan metafora, dan sekaligus mengandung perasaan dan emosi sangat intens. Kisah-kisah itu bercerita tentang hidup, cinta, gairah, seni, dan kematian, maka tidak terikat pada satu masa dan satu negeri saja, melainkan m…
Presents nine short stories by twentieth-century American author J.D. Salinger most shadowed by the legacy of war. *** "This collection of stories deals mainly with sensitive and troubled adolescents and children."""
A fantastical mix of spellbinding retelling of classic stories such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and Rumpelstiltskin, along with unsettling tales inspired by other children's classics, all interspersed with the original tales of their inspiration.
Among other stories, you'll meet the husband with a jealous fixation on the family cat, the landlady who wants her guests to stay forever, the man whose taste for pork leads him astray and the wife with a pathological fear of being late.
Presents thirteen stories, selected for teenagers, from Dahl's adult writings, including "The Great Automatic Grammatizator," "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat," and "Vengeance is Mine Inc." Tales of horror and hilarity packed with imaginative characters, quirky plots, and surprise endings.
The extraordinary stories of 'Saki' are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried.
Compilation of Indonesian Christmas short stories
Menceritakan tentang wanita/perempuan yang sakit hati karena di khianati oleh kekasih dan pasangan hidupnya. Penuturannya sangat sarkastis dan apatis terhadap hubungan cinta. (by Bp. Jan Imran Meinhart Sinaga)
Kumpulan cerita pendek ini hampir seluruhnya menampilkan masalah yang muncul dalam cerita sebagai pelaku maupun rangkaian kejadian di Aceh. Sangat unik. Tokoh, alur atau plot, latar, malah media penyampaian terasa milik masyarakat Aceh. Memang bagi pengarang yang peka dan kreatif yang bermukim di Aceh mendapat berbagai tema unik untuk diangkat. Sejak masa penjajahan maupun setelah kemerdekaan…