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A quartet of short stories by the mastermind of practical jokes, Hector Hugh Munro, better known under his pseudonym “Saki”. This collection brings together four of his most ingenious tales, all of which involve one character playing a prank on the others. The results range from the comic to the macabre… but all are brilliantly narrated with Saki’s superb ironic wit. The Stampeding of Lady Bastable.

When the prematurely middle-aged J.P. Huddle is recommended to take an “unrest-cure” by a friend, he little realizes that the other passenger in the railway compartment, the prank-loving Clovis, will take this as a personal challenge. The havoc which Clovis’s macabre and at times shocking practical joke causes is beyond anything that the sleepy hamlet of Tilfield has seen before. Hector Hugh Munro at his most macabre.

Bertie Thropplestance stands to inherit a vast fortune from his wealthy but indomitable grandmother, a fact which has not escaped the notice of every mother of a marriageable girl in the county. But old Mrs. Thropplestance has her own ideas of a suitable mate for her grandson, and even when he romantically rescues Dora Yonelet from a rampaging elk, this cuts little ice with the dowager. The elk, however, has its own ideas....

When the Momeby family’s baby goes missing, their neighbour Miss Gilpet undertakes to find the child. Her immediate success turns out to be less of a miracle and more of an embarrassment for all.

When Mr. Cornelius Appin announces that he has succeeded in teaching the cat, Tobermory, to speak, nobody in the house party believes him. But when Tobermory makes his entrance and begins to reveal the kind of personal secrets only a cat can know about the assembled company, chaos breaks out. Tobermory must be destroyed at all costs. Hector Hugh Munro at his most masterful!

突然知道自己是个弃儿的雷米，被养父卖给跑江湖的艺人。四处流浪的旅途中，他总希望有一天能找到亲生的父母；然而无常的世事，却一次次把他推向绝望的深渊……突然知道自己是個棄兒的雷米，被養父賣給跑江湖的藝人。四處流浪的旅途中，他總希望有一天能找到親生的父母；然而無常的世事，卻一次次把他推向絕望的深淵……   

The stories in this collection are from The Chronicles of Clovis (1911) and Beast and Superbeasts (1914).

Un zopilote, una araña viuda negra y una víbora de cascabel, vivían tranquilos y sin preocupaciones en un árbol grande de boab. Durante una sequía de varios años El león rey de la selva y sus ministros, todos los carnívoros, idearon la forma de tener un festín sin mucho esfuerzo; por lo tanto, so pretexto de la sequía convocaron a todos los animales para discernir que debían de hacer para que lloviera pronto antes de que murieran de sed, sin imaginar siquiera la trampa que les tendían acudieron los incautos.

Cierto día a un costado del corral se encontraba una vaca y del otro lado un cerdo, ambos enfrascados en tremenda discusión. La vaca alegaba que ella aportaba más para el consumo del ser humano, por el contrario, el cerdo decía que era el quien producía más. Alrededor de ellos los otros animales escuchaban con atención; entre ellos había dos gallinas gordas y todos tenían en cuenta que contribuían algo al hombre.

La maitrise de Soi est un état d'âme particulier, une qualité de supériorité et de puissance qui permet de faire ce que l'on veut et rien que ce que l'on veut. C'est la faculté qui nous permet de discuter tous nos actes et de contrôler tous nos mouvements, dans le but d'économiser notre énergie pour l'utiliser le plus avantageusement possible. C'est la force qui, sous tous les rapports, met l'individu qui la possède au-dessus des autres.

L'autosuggestion est la forme de la pensée la plus puissante que l'homme ait à sa disposition. Hector Durville, connu pour ses ouvrages sur le magnétisme, aborde ici cette question d'un point de vue à la fois théorique et pratique. Contenu : théorie ; pratique ; l'autosuggestion pendant le sommeil ; auto-magnétisation ; l'attitude, les gestes et les mouvements ; absorption de l'énergie ; cherchez et vous trouverez ; la suggestion ; suggestion mentale ; pour éviter les suggestions des autres.

When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. After the disaster, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar received exclusive access to the miners and their tales, and in Deep Down Dark, he brings them to haunting, visceral life. We learn what it was like to be imprisoned inside a mountain, understand the horror of being slowly consumed by hunger, and experience the awe of working in such a place-underground passages filled with danger.

When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped 33 miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking 69 days. After the disaster, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar received exclusive access to the miners and their tales, and in Deep Down Dark he brings them to haunting, visceral life.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Truth by Hector Macdonald, read by Simon Ludders. For fans of Nudge, Black Box Thinking and The Art of Thinking Clearly, a fascinating dive into the many ways in which ‘competing truths’ shape our opinions, behaviours and beliefs. True or false? It’s rarely that simple. There is more than one truth about most things. Eating meat is nutritious, but it’s also damaging to the environment. The Internet disseminates knowledge, but it also spreads hatred. As communicators, we select the truths that are most useful to our agenda.

SonicMovies are premium audios with strong vocal performances enhanced by music and sound effects to such an extent they sound like movies. Included here are 13 classic horror tales.

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En este primer volumen de terror puedes acompañar a Ichabod Crane huyendo despavorido por el bosque... o darte cuenta de la verdadera belleza de Berenice... o bañarte en las frías aguas de un lago donde tendrás... compañía. Deja volar tu imaginación y acompaña a los protagonistas de "Viaje al horror" seguro que decides viajar menos y si ves una ventana abierta no te asomes por ella... igual ves algo que no te esperas...

Hector Malot (1830-1907) scrisse più di 70 opere. La più famosa è indubbiamente “Senza famiglia” (1878), romanzo di formazione, in cui Remi, di 8 anni, viene venduto ad un artista di strada. Il romanzo non era stato inteso dall’autore come libro per ragazzi, anche se tale divenne la sua fama. Ed in effetti è godibilissimo anche dagli adulti, e le avventure di Remigio ci accompagnano in un viaggio storico geografico nella Francia del 1800. Numerosi gli adattamenti cinematografici, e anche la produzione giapponese di “anime”, Remi e le sue avventure

Zu sagen, kein Musiker sei weniger bekannt als Berlioz, mag paradox klingen. Jedermann glaubt, ihn zu kennen. Lärmender Ruhm umgibt seine Person und sein Werk. Das musikalische Europa hat seinen hundertsten Geburtstag gefeiert. Deutschland macht Frankreich den Ruhm streitig, sein Genie geformt und gefördert zu haben. Russland bereitete ihm einen triumphalen Empfang, der ihn über die Gleichgültigkeit und Feindseligkeit von Paris tröstete, und es hat durch den Mund Balakirews gesagt, er sei der "einzige französische Musiker" gewesen.

"Niemand kennt die Rezeptur des Glücks" - so beginnt der Kolumbianer Héctor Abad sein Handbuch zur kulinarischen Aufhellung des Gemüts. Und fährt fort mit weisen, bisweilen höchst bizarren Verordnungen den zahlreichen Variationen des Unglücks zu Leibe zu rücken, denen die Frauen dieser Welt, aber nicht sie allein, ausgesetzt sind - das Alter, Schwiegermütter, die Einfälle der Männer, die Verzweiflung zu zweit, um nur einige zu nennen.