Ergebnis für "Ein Kind" in Anthologien & Kurzgeschichten

Die Geschichten der besonderen Kinder wurden nicht nur mündlich überliefert, sie wurden aufgeschrieben und für die Nachwelt erhalten. Reiche Kannibalen, die sich von den Gliedmaßen der Besonderen ernähren, eine Prinzessin mit einer gespaltenen Zunge, die Geschichte der ersten Ymbryne, ein Mädchen, das Geister sehen kann und deren tote Schwester ihre beste Freundin ist, ein Junge mit einer ganz besonderen Beziehung zum Meer und ein Wald voller besonderer Tiere.

Jeder Verlust ein Gewinn! Pina Parasol ist professionelle Verliererin. Aufregende Abenteuer warten, wann immer sie für ihre Kundschaft etwas verschwinden lassen soll. Quer über die Kontinente führen Pinas Reisen – von Paris aus in die flirrende Hitze der ägyptischen Wüste, an eisige Plätze in der Antarktis und in geheimnisvolle Meerestiefen. In vierzehn Kurzgeschichten entdeckt Pina die Welt, ihre schönen Seiten und die bedrohlichen Schatten eines nahenden Übels.

Begleitet die Froschkönigin auf ihrer Reise. Es geht nicht auf eine Kreuzfahrt oder auf Weltreise, nein, das ist unserer Froschkönigin zu normal. Wenn sie auf Reisen geht, reist sie durch Bücher. Entdeckt Geschichten, neue Welten und erlebt Abenteuer.

Die Märchen der Brüder Grimm sind die am weitesten verbreiteten Geschichten deutscher Sprache. Viele Ausgaben sind in irgendeiner Form, meist für Kinder, bearbeitet. Diese Gesamtausgabe bietet die Märchen so, wie sie von den Brüdern Grimm selbst herausgegeben wurden.

Eduard Fährmann sitzt wegen Diebstahl und Unterschlagung im Gefängnis. Sein Sohn Paul, der von seiner Mutter vernachlässigt wird, möchte ihn daraus befreien. Doch vor Ort angekommen, wird Paul von einem Wächter angeschossen. Als Eduard Fährmann von dem angeblichen Tod des Jungen erfährt, kann er außer sich vor Kummer fliehen. Doch wohin? "Des Kindes Ruf" ist eine Kurzgeschichte. Sie wurde bereits in "Aus dunklem Tann" (Band 43 der Gesammelten Werke) veröffentlicht.

Werner Meier, der bekannte Liedermacher und Kabarettist, erzählt in 15 bairisch-verqueren Geschichten von seiner Bauernbuben-Kindheit zwischen Kuhmist, Zinkbadewanne und dem Besuch eines japanischen Bischofs. Ganz ohne falsche Sentimentalität – mal verschmitzt, mal tiefgründig und mal poetisch-leise – so kommen sie daher seine Geschichten. Fein verwoben mit dem zeitgeschichtlichen Hintergrund nehmen sie einen sofort mit auf den kleinen oberbayerischen Bauernhof der Fünfziger- und Sechziger-Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts.

Es war einmal ein Prinz, der wollte eine Prinzessin heiraten. Aber das sollte eine wirkliche Prinzessin sein. Da reiste er in der ganzen Welt herum, um eine solche zu finden, aber überall fehlte etwas. Prinzessinnen gab es genug, aber ob es wirkliche Prinzessinnen waren, konnte er nie herausfinden. Immer war da etwas, was nicht ganz in Ordnung war. Da kam er wieder nach Hause und war ganz traurig, denn er wollte doch gern eine wirkliche Prinzessin haben.

Thrilling crime stories about cars, driving, and the road from the world's bestselling and critically acclaimed writers. Like fiction, cars take us into a different world: from the tony enclaves of upper crust society to the lowliest barrio; from muscle car-driving con men to hardscrabble kids...

A searing, unflinching collection of stories set in Nigeria that explores community expectations, familial strife and the struggle for survival. A one-eyed chicken, a chimpanzee forgotten in a cage, a tormented daughter searching for a link to past lives. Everday madness and monsters are...

Stoppe das Gedankenkarussell mit sanften ASMR-Erzählungen für sofortige Entspannung und einen tiefen, ruhigen Schlaf. Diese ereignisarmen, atmosphärischen Klangwelten dienen als dein sicherer Rückzugsort nach einem übervollen Tag. Spüre, wie sich dein Atem ganz natürlich verlangsamt und...

A definitive collection of new and selected stories by a master of the form “Comparisons might be drawn to writers ranging from Jorge Luis Borges and Haruki Murakami to Margaret Atwood and J. D. Salinger. All of Lethem’s stories are enlivened by his wit and provocative wordplay.”...

Joe Fleming, a youth of twenty, earning his livelihood as a sailmaker and supporting his mother and sisters by his trade, augments his income by prize-fighting before so-called sporting clubs. On the eve of his marriage to Genevieve, an employe' in the Silversteins' candy shop, Joe is to fight his last bout before a club, having promised Genevieve to give up "the game," which, while it seems wrong to her, is to him a clean and manly as well as lucrative occupation.

Harmon Tomeral and his friends wanted nothing more than to go to space, and they have beaten the odds, time and again. They developed a mech and won the Top Fleet Marine Competition. They brought back a battlecruiser from an unknown system and made it their own. They made allies who helped them achieve great victories, and they ultimately founded new colonies in what has become known as the Salvage System.

Run, run, as fast as you can. You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man!

Voiced by the renowned comedian Rik Mayall, this utterly superb performance will have your children in fits of laughter from start to finish.

The late, great Richard 'Rik' Mayall was a pioneer of alternative comedy in the '80s who formed a famous comedy partnership with Ade Edmondson and featured in numerous cult classic sitcoms, including The Young Ones, Bottom, Blackadder and Guest House Paradiso, among others.

When three college guys take summer jobs at a tiny café in the Traverse City airport, they expect espresso burns, tourist chaos, and long shifts. What they don’t expect is lakeside swims, late-night jam sessions in a creaky boathouse —and feelings that refuse to stay in their assigned lanes. Jack’s got a guitar and a “straight” label he’s never questioned. Devon’s got a flute, a swimmer’s build, and zero kissing experience. Dave’s got a harmonica, impeccable comedic timing, and absolutely no problem stirring the pot.

Magic is often seen as wondrous and benevolent. But T.W. Grim, a celebrated author of eerie NoSleep tales, offers a different kind of sorcery: one that pulls at the very threads of reality, weaving tales of terror and wonder.

Finally moving on, Carrie has her eyes on a newcomer to Pride, but just when things are starting to heat up, Josh strolls back into town. No longer a boy, but the man of all her fantasies. She knows she must play it cool or risk losing her heart again. Josh left Pride to try and find himself, but after two years of searching the world and himself, he returned back home a little wiser and with a new mission. Seeing Carrie again had been a shock to his system, but watching her hang on the arm of another man had been an even bigger shock.

How does a Mexican American, the son of poor immigrants, leave his border home and move to the heart of gringo America? How does he adapt to the worlds of wealth, elite universities, the rush and power of New York City? How does he make peace with a stern, old-fashioned father who has only known hard field labor his whole life? Troncoso tells his luminous stories through the lens of an exile adrift in the 21st century, his characters suffering from the loss of culture and language, the loss of roots and home as they adapt to the glittering promises of new worlds that seem so empty. 

This collection of short stories displays Ed Gorman's talents as a masterful storyteller across a range of genres.

A mysterious and beautiful girl who teaches arrogant young men about true love, a lonely traveling salesman who learns that his passenger is Death, children who can absorb the psychic pain of their parents, a desperately pursued serial killer who hides his face under gauze in a hospital room, and a woman who loves the alien infant nobody else wants - these stories and 10 others make up this collection by award-winning author Ed Gorman. Here are stories that led him to be called "one of the best" by Dean Koontz and "one of the most original writers in crime fiction today" by Kirkus Reviews. Here, you'll find the extraordinary range of storytelling skill and powerful emotions that won Gorman the prized International Fiction Award.

Included in Different Kinds of Dead, and Other Tales are "Different Kinds of Dead", "Deathman", "A Girl Like You", "Loverboy", "Muse", "Riff", "The Brasher Girl", "Survival", "Masque", "Second Most Popular", and others.

This collection reveals the extraordinary range of storytelling skill and powerful emotions that won Gorman the prized International Fiction Award. His protagonists, gritty and gruff, are strangely likable, and his writing, according to Mystery News, is "powerful, disturbing, [and] often poetic".

Curious Tales of Redemption is a modern parable collection from comedian and writer Andy Kind, weaving humour, wonder and grace into four unforgettable stories for all ages. Each tale begins in the ordinary and ends somewhere eternal: a talking tree that learns its true purpose, an exhausted Easter Bunny who meets the real giver of gifts, two children who find healing in their tears, and a planet of machines rediscovering their Maker.