House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories

House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other

✍ Yasunari Kawabata 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 🌐 en-US ⚖ 119 KB 👁 1 views

Three surreal, erotically charged stories from Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata. In the three long tales in this collection, Yasunari Kawabata examines the boundaries between fantasy and reality in the minds of three lonely men. Piercing examinations of sexuality and human psychology--and w

House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other

House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories

✍ Yasunari Kawabata 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 🌐 en-US ⚖ 119 KB

Three surreal, erotically charged stories from Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata. In the three long tales in this collection, Yasunari Kawabata examines the boundaries between fantasy and reality in the minds of three lonely men. Piercing examinations of sexuality and human psychology--and w

The House Of The Sleeping Beauties

📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 62 KB

Nobel prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata is noted for his combination of a traditional Japanese aesthetic with modernist, often surreal trends. In these three tales, superbly translated by Edward Seidensticker, erotic fantasy is underlaid with longing and memories of past loves. In the title s

Sleeping Beauties

✍ Stephen King 📂 Fiction 🏛 Heyne Verlag 🌐 German ⚖ 652 KB

Die Welt sieht sich einem faszinierenden Phänomen gegenüber. Sobald Frauen einschlafen, umhüllt sie am ganzen Körper ein spinnwebartiger Kokon. Wenn man sie weckt oder das unheimliche Gewebe entfernen will, werden sie zu barbarischen Bestien. Sind sie im Schlaf etwa an einem schöneren Ort? Die zurüc

Sleeping Beauties

✍ Stephen King; Owen King 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 Scribner;Cela, Cnib 🌐 English ⚖ 509 KB

**In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?** In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a coco

The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories

✍ Brian J. Showers 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Mercier Press/Swan River Press 🌐 English ⚖ 473 KB 👁 1 views

The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories infests the author's Dublin neighbourhood with an authentic population of ghosts, ghouls and goblins. Brian J. Showers has filled each story with fascinating regional history, local atmosphere and architectural details that are clearly visible today. While