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"Телеграмма" — рассказ Константина Паустовского, опубликованный в 1946 году в журнале "Огонёк". В центре сюжета рассказа — последние дни жизни и смерть живущей в деревне пожилой женщины, приехать проститься с которой не успевает её дочь, давно уехавшая в город.

Journey to the mysterious world of Venus in Stanley G. Weinbaum's classic sci-fi tale, The Lotus Eaters. Following the adventures of Hamilton and Patricia, explorers on a strange and perilous planet, the story introduces an unforgettable alien species—the peaceful yet enigmatic Lotuses, who live in a trance-like state. As the protagonists navigate Venus's hostile landscape, they uncover secrets that challenge human understanding of life and consciousness.

Before you is a timeless classic that will never cease to warm your heart and fill the long winter evenings with anticipated wonders and merry celebrations. This collection of Christmas stories by famous authors is the best gift for the holidays. These festive stories range from touching and magical to funny and sad. They include the best classic works of literature; whose themes involve the nativity and the magic of Christmas. Prepare yourself to experience true holiday magic and create new Christmas traditions as you read through these classics year after year.

The Thing on the Doorstep is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos universe. It was written in August 1933 and first published in the January 1937 issue of Weird Tales. Daniel Upton, the story's narrator, explains that he has killed his best friend, Edward Derby, and that he hopes his account will prove that he is not a murderer.

Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media. The fables originally belonged to the oral tradition and were not collected for some three centuries after Aesop's death.

"The Jest of Droom-Avista" by Henry Kuttner is a short, poetic story set in the alien city of Bel Yarnak. It tells of a metallic doom that spreads from a single point, transforming the city's glory and beauty into a cold, lifeless state.

The narrative begins on a bench at the Monte Carlo casino, where an incredible similarity leads to the accidental swap of two small black handbags. One belongs to Veronica Steyning, a young English governess, and the other to a mysterious woman of Spanish appearance. Inside the mistakenly taken reticule, Veronica discovers a coded message, setting off a chain of unpredictable events.

"Hotel Evidence" is a brilliant new collection of short stories from the award-winning master of the form, Helen Simpson. With her signature wit, sharp observation, and profound empathy, Simpson explores the quiet complexities, sudden fractures, and unexpected truths embedded in everyday life and human relationships. Moving from the comical to the poignant, these finely crafted narratives offer a powerful, kaleidoscopic look at modern existence, shifting identities, and the invisible ties that bind us together.

The Elusive Bullet by John Rhode is a finely crafted Golden Age detective story that showcases the author's hallmark precision, ingenuity, and methodical approach to crime-solving. Featuring the meticulous Dr. Lancelot Priestley, one of classic detective fiction's great analytical minds, the story presents a baffling case in which science and logic are the keys to the truth. When a seemingly straightforward shooting results in a death under circumstances that defy explanation, the physical evidence tells an impossible story: the bullet that should solve the crime appears to have vanished.

"Time Pussy" is an early science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. "Time Pussy" was the third of three stories Asimov wrote for John W. Campbell for a new category of science fiction tall tales in Astounding Science Fiction called "Probability Zero".

"The Secret Sense" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in Cosmic Stories in March 1941. It takes place against the background of an ancient and highly developed culture living in large underground cities on Mars. The Martians couldn't taste and their hearing was bad, but they had a secret sense all their own.

Where the Trail Forks is a late 19th century work of literature and is fiction. London's main purpose in this text is to entertain his readers by revealing to them an exciting fictitious event. London ties his story in with naturalism by describing natures terrain and landscape in many instances. Throughout the story there are many encounters with nature itself as well as wild animals such as dogs. Jack londons diction in this piece can be related to the diction reflecting the time period this work of literature was written.

Short story written by Jack London The Son of the Wolf consists of a single man who is known as Mckenzie or "Scruff". The story tells of the hardships of what single men had to endure on the frontier. Often men would venture on journeys that may consist of months or even years just in order to find the right suitor. Scruff had been the toughest of the tough and had lasted the longest on the frontier without the company of a woman. This story connects with naturalism by showing that nature can be just as cruel as it can be forgiving if someone is alone on the frontier.

The collection Tales of the Jazz Age includes the short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Jelly-Bean ; May Day ; Porcelain and Pink ; Tarquin of Cheapside ; Oh Russet Witch! ; The Lees of Happiness ; Mr. Icky ; Jemina, The Mountain Girl.

The Law of Life is a short story by the American naturalist writer Jack London. It was first published in McClure's Magazine, Vol.16, March, 1901. In 1902, it was published in a collection of Jack London's stories, The Children of Frost, by Macmillan Publishers. This short story covers the last 5 hours of the old and dying Inuit chief Koskoosh. His tribe needs to travel in search of clothing and shelter so he is left to die because of his age and inability to see properly. Even his son has to leave him because he has a new family to feed and take care of.

An Odyssey of the North is a short story by Jack London that explore the wild and rugged nature of the northern coast of British Columbia. This story is filled with adventure and capture the beauty of nature and the mysteries of the sea. Naass, a young Aleut man, wins a young woman of the tribe, Unga, only to have her stolen from him on the night of their marriage celebration by a seven-foot-tall, yellow-haired white man, Axel Gunderson. Naass spends years tracking his nemesis, determined to claim his bride and take vengeance.

Jack London — a writer whose works are enthusiastically read all over the world. His collection Love of Life is one of the brilliant pearls of his Northern stories cycle. Alaska is the place where each person should reveal their own real features. The North makes equal the poor and the rich; the intense cold does not take into account the infirmity; harsh, biting wind is indifferent to the social status, and a wild beast does not discriminate between social standings.

Set in the beauty of the Sierra Nevada mountains, All Gold Canyon is at once a depiction of the quotidian realities of a hard-working gold miner's life, a meditation on the fragility of nature in the face of man's ambition, and a thrilling, no-holds-barred tale of Wild West violence.

To the Man On the Trail is a classic adventure short story  by the American writer Jack London, was published in 1900. This is f story about a stranger who stops to rest at Malemute Kid's cabin. He tells the other men a little about himself. A little later, the men hear another story about the stranger from the authorities.

The short story Sis' Becky's Pickaninny of "The Conjure Woman" now follows John as he reproaches McAdoo for all of his superstitious beliefs and how they lack foundation, commenting that these traditions are the reason why Southern Black people are destined for a life of continued acquiescence and little prosperity. This opinion stemmed from McAdoo's assertion that carrying a rabbit foot leads to good luck. John is concerned for Annie's health, since the main reason they moved to the countryside was to improve her health due to her current bouts of depression and anxiety.