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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a novel by the Scottish author James Hogg, published anonymously in 1824. Considered by turns part-gothic novel, part-psychological mystery, part-metafiction, part-satire, part-case study of totalitarian thought, it can also be thought of as an early example of modern crime fiction, in which the story is told, for the most part, from the point of view of its criminal anti-hero. The action...
2) The Willows
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The Willows is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird...
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"Es lunes, aunque no importa –podría ser cualquier otro día laborable–. El abogado y propietario de la oficina, por el bien de todos, designa a cada uno de sus subalternos las tareas que hay que resolver. Tres sencillas palabras, pronunciadas por el último empleado contratado, harán que, desde esos despachos, el mundo comience a tambalearse.
Con su «preferiría no hacerlo», Bartleby deja perplejo a todo aquel incapaz de ver más allá de...
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Los monólogos de Ludovico es la segunda novela con que nos sorprende William Castaño-Bedoya. En esta obra, el autor de la también conmovedora Flores para María Sucel, reafirma sus dotes de recreador de la profundidad humana.
Poco a poco, Castaño-Bedoya nos va llevando por el mundo de Ludovico. En un comienzo el lector podrá pensar que se trata de un personaje que se propone mostrarnos su limitado y aburrido mundo, pero en la medida en que el...
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Durante el otoño de 1912, en Praga, escribió Franz Kafka (1883-1924) La metamorfosis, la peripecia subterránea y literal de Gregor Samsa, un viajante de comercio que al despertarse una mañana "de un sueño lleno de pesadillas se encontró en su cama convertido en un bicho enorme". En pocos libros de Kafka queda tan explícito y tan nítido su mundo como en La metamorfosis, en la que el protagonista, convertido en bestia, sumido en la más absoluta...
6) Gutter Ball
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John's down to the last day on his rent and one whole moldy sandwich to eat. To add insult to injury, somebody left a bowling ball on the kitchen table. John's never seen it before, didn't know how it got there, or what he's supposed to do with it. It has to belong to somebody, and so he sets out to find out who. Maybe he'll pick a job or something to eat along the way, too.
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Fairy tale movies and commercials are everywhere. They are very popular. And that's great, because all those fairy tale characters need the work. All the Snow Whites, Three Pigs and a variety of Big Bad Wolves all are clients of the Madre and Gander Employment Agency. That's how Humpty Dumpty finally gets a crack into Show Business.
Madre and Gander is a casting agency where they supply all the fairy tale denizens a film production can ask for. Ethel...
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NEW WORLDS RADIATION GAME is the tale of a couple's surreal adventure as they journey through a fantasy inner space, after ingesting an unknown substance. Part sci-fi fantasy, part absurdist prose, part outsider art graphic novel, ALL BIZARRO! Non-explicit, but recommended for adults. First published and printed by Perry Mark Stratychuk in 1998.
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Mal and Loll is the same person; born in a man's body, but always struggling to accept things as they are. Mal pushes herself to the fore and Loll has to take second place in a life of manic schizophrenia and bizarre circumstances. Mal gets cancer but decides to fight to the bitter end with anybody and anything which stands in the way of her pleasure; trouble is it's not the end but the beginning.
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Este libro es fruto de la búsqueda constante de lo irreal, lo incoherente y lo fascinante. Elegantemente, el desquicio y la música de las palabras se encuentran, de manera poco inocente, para mezclar sus colores y cegar a la mismísima oscuridad, desmintiendo los miedos lógicamente ilógicos de lo desconocido, volviendo a la rutina un juego de riesgos reales y nutritivos.
El contenido emocional de esta compilación surge del florecimiento de lo...
11) My Little I
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A collection of short stories from the first person that includes peeing on one's own tires, tracking down an annoying chirp, playing a child's game for the fate of the world, a fascinating encounter by the river, an extraordinary customer, a late night visit, a guilty conscience, a college trip, a human encounter of the nonhuman kind, and the end of summer.
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Waiting for the Dawn is a great flourishing novel from ancient Africa era,a young boy name Simba lost his beloved ones after a terrible raid in their village by Chief Mapanda.His father was killed and his mother,sister and young brother were held as bounty by the enemy.Simba he will grow up to be a brave young man and conquered his fear by looking for his long lost family.On his journey with a friend,he will meet the love of his life Rudo and he will...
13) Out of the Ashes
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A selection of short stories and poems written by members of the Bingham Writing Group. Our group has authors, who are published and others, who are not published - yet
14) Oh Stupid Heart
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Carrie Hanson is in love with a different species: Trent, a pampered, uber-rich socialite who's also her boss. Everyone keeps telling her it's a train wreck looking to happen, but her heart wants what it wants. So, despite the billion and one reasons not to, Carrie commits her heart to this inter-species relationship. But while she's off being trained for her new job responsibilities, a beautiful ex-fiancée is working hard to get Trent back and Carrie...
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Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas … Population 2,456, give or take! Fugitive former celebrity chef Richard Astor-Hall has become a valued member of the community, expanding service at the Café, keeping company with local ace reporter Kate Heisel, and training his new assistant cook, Luc Massie, part-time drummer for the punk rock band OPM. Trouble is brewing when Luc falls in love with the daughter of Sook Walcott, the most ferocious tiger-mother...
16) The Syndicate
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First of all let me say that the only reason I have written this book is because Mr. Paul Newman simply does not have the ability to do so on his own. It will not escape the reader's notice when they become familiar with his persona that he would have been incapable of writing it without my own assistance. I am a ghost writer. That is to say I write other people's books for them and get paid a pittance for the privilege. My own books have not been...
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What happens when boy meets girl but girl doesn't notice boy because she shares a body with another boy?
When he's not gorging on desserts, calming his hypochondriacal mum, or getting bone-crunching hugs from his warrior dads, Virj Ofreesin spends his time writing a fantasy novel about Frayda, the elegant half of the two-headed Dwa. Life is adequately mediocre until he learns the Dwa are gravely ill, and a mystical cure grows on a planet between...
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I was feeling pretty down on myself... until I received a visit from a barely defined visitor from the depths of space. This kind, and slightly infuriating, entity explained how other outsiders, from a host of worlds, might benefit from reading my work. He gave me the confidence I needed to publish this volume of eclectic work including...
19) Schrödinger
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What happens when you meet yourself? Would you trust what you saw? What happens when you want to leave but you can't find the door? And just who are all these people who like me more than I do? A story of trying to adjust.
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