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Top 10 Short Stories, The - Psychological

The top 10 psychological short stories of all time

by Willa Cather, Mikhail Bulgakov, E T A Hoffman, E T A Hoffman, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Barry Pain, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Mansfield, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Perkins Gilman0 ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley1, Mark Rice-Oxley2, Tom MacLean3 ...

Unabridged

6 hours 25 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages 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 series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages 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 series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The German Language

The top ten stories originally written in German

by Rainer Maria Rilke, Stefan Zweig, Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, E T A Hoffman, Herbert von Kleist, Hanns Heinz Ewers, The Brothers Grimm, Heinrich Heine, Franz Kafka ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

7 hours 33 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages 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 series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

$27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages 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 series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
... Read more
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Devil, The - The Europeans - A Short Story Collection

Satanic stories by continental European authors

by Anatole France, E T A Hoffman, Niccolo Machiavelli, Charles Baudelaire, Wilhelm Hauff, Fernan Caballeron, Ion Luca Caragiale ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Mark Rice-Oxley, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

3 hours 22 min

Where there is good there is Evil. Whether you buy into that or not it makes for excellent literature. Authors have always explored the subject with abandon, able to unleash dark fears from the page without summoning them into reality or hearing them in withering hegemonic tones from the pulpit at our local church.Our fear of the Devil, whatever his temptations and rewards, is amplified by the ... Read more

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Where there is good there is Evil. Whether you buy into that or not it makes for excellent literature. Authors have always explored the subject with abandon, able to unleash dark fears from the page without summoning them into reality or hearing them in withering hegemonic tones from the pulpit at our local church.Our fear of the Devil, whatever his temptations and rewards, is amplified by the
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Mlle de Scuderi

Enriched edition. A Captivating Tale of Mystery, Romance, and Suspense in 17th-Century Paris

by E. T. A. Hoffman, Tessa Benson ...

In "Mlle de Scuderi," E. T. A. Hoffmann explores the intersections of art, identity, and morality within the vibrant cultural milieu of 17th-century France. This novella is rendered in Hoffmann's characteristic blending of fantasy and reality, utilizing rich, evocative prose that captures the enchantment and peril of the artistic world. Set against the backdrop of Paris, the narrative revolves ... Read more

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In "Mlle de Scuderi," E. T. A. Hoffmann explores the intersections of art, identity, and morality within the vibrant cultural milieu of 17th-century France. This novella is rendered in Hoffmann's characteristic blending of fantasy and reality, utilizing rich, evocative prose that captures the enchantment and peril of the artistic world. Set against the backdrop of Paris, the narrative revolves
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Weird Tales

by E. T. A. Hoffman ...

Translated by J. T. Bealby ...

E.T.A. Hoffmann was a gifted German author and composer whose most well-known work was a fantasy tale entitled "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King," which inspired Tchaikovsky's famous ballet. Hoffmann also wrote dozens of tales dealing with the uncanny and the supernatural; this collection brings together a group of his most spine-chilling short works. ... Read more

$4.99 CAD

E.T.A. Hoffmann was a gifted German author and composer whose most well-known work was a fantasy tale entitled "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King," which inspired Tchaikovsky's famous ballet. Hoffmann also wrote dozens of tales dealing with the uncanny and the supernatural; this collection brings together a group of his most spine-chilling short works.
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The Nutcracker

by E.T.A. Hoffman ...

E.T.A. Hoffman’s classic children’s tale, The Nutcracker, is perhaps best known as the basis for Russian composer Tchaikovsky’s extraordinarily popular ballet, composed in 1892 and performed throughout the world every year at holiday time.This original tale, written in 1816, tells the story of a seven year old girl, Marie Stahlbaum, and her favorite Christmas toy, a Nutcracker, who comes alive and ... Read more

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E.T.A. Hoffman’s classic children’s tale, The Nutcracker, is perhaps best known as the basis for Russian composer Tchaikovsky’s extraordinarily popular ballet, composed in 1892 and performed throughout the world every year at holiday time.This original tale, written in 1816, tells the story of a seven year old girl, Marie Stahlbaum, and her favorite Christmas toy, a Nutcracker, who comes alive and
... Read more
Stories From the Shadows - The Germans

by E T A Hoffman, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Alfred Lichtenstein ...

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestio ... Read more

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An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestio
... Read more
The Sand-man: ''I know you are all very uneasy...''

by E T A Hoffman ...

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman was born on the 24th January 1776, the youngest of three children, in Königsberg, then in Prussia but now part of the Kaliningrad Russian enclave.His parents separated when he was two and for many years life was to be provincial and, despite his talents for the creative arts and the classics, much was passing him by.At 20 Hoffman obtained employment as a clerk and to ... Read more

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Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman was born on the 24th January 1776, the youngest of three children, in Königsberg, then in Prussia but now part of the Kaliningrad Russian enclave.His parents separated when he was two and for many years life was to be provincial and, despite his talents for the creative arts and the classics, much was passing him by.At 20 Hoffman obtained employment as a clerk and to
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The Nutcracker

The Original Holiday Classic

by E. T. A. Hoffman ...

Illustrated by Arkady Roytman ...

For everyone who loves Tchaikovsky, Ballanchine, music, ballet, or Christmas, this edition of The Nutcracker is sure to enchant readers young and old.On Christmas Eve, seven-year-old Marie and her eight-year-old brother Fritz anxiously await their Christmas gifts. When their godfather—a clock builder and toymaker—arrives, he unveils an ornate clockwork castle adorned with whirling figurines for ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

For everyone who loves Tchaikovsky, Ballanchine, music, ballet, or Christmas, this edition of The Nutcracker is sure to enchant readers young and old.On Christmas Eve, seven-year-old Marie and her eight-year-old brother Fritz anxiously await their Christmas gifts. When their godfather—a clock builder and toymaker—arrives, he unveils an ornate clockwork castle adorned with whirling figurines for
... Read more
3 Stories - Dark Romanticism

by E T A Hoffman, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe ...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these mo ... Read more

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these mo
... Read more
The German Author - Six of the Best

by E T A Hoffman, Herbert Von Kleist, Thomas Mann ...

Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number.Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their ... Read more

$8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number.Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their
... Read more
The Billion Dollar Spy

A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

by David E. Hoffman ...

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold WarWhile driving out of the American embassy in Moscow on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA’s Moscow ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold WarWhile driving out of the American embassy in Moscow on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA’s Moscow
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