Showing results by publisher "SAGA Egmont" in Anthologies & Short Stories

Un enquêteur se présente à la porte de Mme Lechat muni d’un album photos : sur ces photos, elle se découvre mariée à un homme qu'elle ne connaît pas... Ensemble, ils vont tenter de résoudre ce mystère. La piste les conduit dans un centre pour handicapés, où vit sa soeur. De nouveaux albums y sont retrouvés. Ils découvrent qu'elle-même a reçu la visite d'un étrange photographe. Comment donner une vie à ceux qui n'en ont pas...

Una historia atmosférica situada en un rincón repleto de libros en el Londres del siglo XIX. Una maravillosa novela. Un retrato de los lugares en los que los libros y las historias te pueden transportar a la vida real. Una joya de libro para todos aquellos que alguna vez soñaron con tener un rincón propio repleto de libros y de sueños...

M. FOLLET, encadreur de métier, a une vie enserrée dans des cadres, dont il ne déborde jamais : sa femme, son fils, sa boutique. Son fils n'entend pas prendre sa suite et choisira un autre cadre : le Cadre Noir, mû par la passion du cheval. Le père voudra alors montrer à son fils qu'il peut lui aussi sortir du cadre. Mais n'en sort pas impunément qui veut. Tout a un prix.

Cécile est complexée par son physique. Lors d'une soirée entre copines, l'une d'elles prétend qu'il existe une recette minceur inédite. Est-ce pour blaguer ? Un jour, Cécile passe devant un sex-shop. L'occasion va lui être donnée de se fournir en quantité quasi illimitée de ce fameux "produit minceur", dont les hommes sont si prodigues. Ses copines constatent qu'elle a maigri et s'interrogent. Cette recette minceur n'est certes pas à mettre entre toutes les mains...

A widow spends weeks haunting a cemetery, desperate to track down an unknown woman who keeps leaving flowers on her husband’s grave; A daughter searches a foreign city for her father, trying to understand why he disappeared forty-five years ago; A former gay lover of Roger Casement stands among the crowds at his state funeral in 1965, paying silent homage to the closeted world they were forced to inhabit at the dawning of the Irish State. A writer at a book launch comes face to face with the person secretly responsible for his success.

Gustave Flaubert is one of the major figures of French literature. He was known for his scrupulous devotion to his style, sometimes working for a whole week to achieve a single page; he was made famous by his first novel, Madame Bovary. "A Simple Soul", sometimes translated as "A Simple Heart", is a short story containing a lifetime of human emotions. After her one and only love purportedly marries a well-to-do woman to avoid conscription, the simple servant Félicité picks up work in a widow's house.

Ready yourself for this carefully crafted collection of quotes from some of the greatest minds the world has ever seen! Featuring world-famous playwrights, philosophers, activists, Presidents and physicists, from Churchill and Shakespeare to Gandhi and Einstein, this is an entertaining and inspiring compilation covering everything from Ancient Rome to modern-day Britain.

Descubra o que acontece com o infortunado jovem detetive de Nápoles que viaja até uma cidade na encosta de uma colina italiana para descobrir "Quem matou o prefeito" e a trajetória do pretensioso estudante na "Estrada para Damasco" cuja vida muda drasticamente quando descobre as origens da riqueza de seu pai. Deleite-se com as histórias de uma mulher dos anos 1930 que ousa desafiar os homens em sua Universidade da Ivy League em "Um cavalheiro e uma acadêmica", enquanto outra jovem mulher pede uma carona e recebe mais do esperava em "Uma hora desperdiçada".

An underemployed chef is pulled into the escalating violence of his neighbour's makeshift porn channel. An elderly piano student is forced to flee her home village when word gets out that she's fucked her thirty-something teacher. A hose pumping cava through the maquette of a giant penis becomes a murder weapon in the hands of a disaffected housewife.