Ergebnis für "Life Begins" in Anthologien & Kurzgeschichten

A brilliant new collection of stories from one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers of our time. Alice Munro’s peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again everywhere apparent in this brilliant new collection. In...

The Journey Begins is the first book of short stories in the series Life on the Road. All of the stories in this collection are inspired by real-life events experienced by the author in her years on the road traveling full-time. Debra says, “It was great fun embellishing these events as fiction.” She jokes, “I changed the names to protect the guilty.” You will find drama, suspense, romance, and laughter in this audiobook.

Moments of change, chance encounters, twists of fate that create a new way of thinking or being: The stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. The collection includes four powerful pieces, "autobiographical in Feeling", set during the time of Munro's own childhood, in the area where she grew up.

Representing every phase of E. M. Forster's career as a writer, the fourteen stories in this book span six decades–from 1903-1957 or even later. Only two were published in his lifetime. Most of the remaining stories remained unpublished because of their overtly homosexual themes; instead they were shown to an appreciative circle of friends and fellow writers, including Christopher Isherwood, Siegfried Sassoon, Lytton Strachey and T. E. Lawrence.