10 books that will allow half an hour to fly to a new life and return



Short stories are good that they need no more than half an hour. Think about it: we're going to head to work, and then comes up, read to the end, we realized and penetrated - and all for some 30 minutes
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< Website gathered for you 10 copyright collections with stories that will make a trip on the subway or waiting in line at a short unforgettable adventure.



Ray Bradbury "A Medicine for Melancholy» h3> «When all is lost, hope remains," - says the hero of one of the stories. These words could be the epigraph to the entire collection, the pages of which there will always be a place for the sad smiles and kind of miracles. Reading these stories, we risk to get sick from love and heal with the same love.



Neil Gaiman "Fragile things» h3> This collection contains scary, strange and funny stories. History - it is also fragile things, people and butterflies, hearts and dreams, they are made up of three dozen frail letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or are woven from invisible words that disappear hardly sounded. But some survived all storytellers, and others - and the land where they were born
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Joanne Harris "Tea with the birds» h3> Faith and Hope escape from the nursing home into the most fashionable shoe store in London. Witches coven is going on two decades of school graduation. A young woman tries to literally follow the recipes from the cookbook her mother in law. The collection looks like an elegant crystal bowl with stories-candy who want to savor the endless long evenings.



George Martin "Tower from the ashes» h3> The Mechanic on a distant planet is an ancient city and travel from star to star. Dragon of the Ice sacrifice love for the sake of the girl with an icy heart, and eternally young adventurer travels between worlds in search of his beloved. Stories like Martin's, as twins, and yet each of something else, very special.



Gabriel Garcia Marquez 'Eyes blue dog » h3> Why beautiful woman turned into a cat? Why Negro Nabq made angels to wait? What happens in the old town of Macondo with the arrival of the rainy season? Marquez plays with styles and trying his hand at various literary genres, groping looking for their future artistic credo, becoming a Master.

Stephen King "After the Sunset» h3> «After the Sunset" - a "baker's dozen" of stories, each of which is able to frighten the reader with the strong nerves and delight even the most sophisticated connoisseur of "horror". Thirteen - a good number. But how easy is it together with the heroes of King survive thirteen meetings with someone whose nature we can not understand? And how easy is it then to explain to someone what it was?



Andre Maurois "Violets on Wednesdays» h3> Morua - it is ironic with hints of romance and sentimentality. Among these short sketches there is a small novel in letters, and psychological novels, and theatrical sketches and story-skit. Mauroy - a true psychologist by vocation, he subtly and beautifully reveals the human essence and nature, family, love and friendship
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Milorad Pavic "Scary love stories» h3> About these books the reader may shatter, like a bird of glass. Writer invent their alphabet chameleon where you can get lost in the maze, because each room a thousand voices and tones. It's not just the text - is a musical canvas, woven from the 33 notes in Russian
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Tatyana Tolstaya "Night» h3> This book should be taken with caution in hand. We must be prepared to ensure that all the pages will be just as in life. Or almost everything one heroine struggles to get married, the other - to keep up with invented the idol, the third - to become a full and all-powerful mistress ... a communal apartment. And it's all so ridiculously absurd because in worldly cruel. Just like in life.



Somerset Maugham "Six stories written from the first person» h3> Elegant, witty stories-anecdotes. Heroes - from the high society of London "cheerful twenties": fashionable beauties, literary lions, Man About Town, "the noble gentlemen." And with each of them with pleasure Maugham takes off the mask of external respectability, and with his usual angry and well-aimed humor.

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