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This book includes Chekhov's works from 1880-1885, i.e. humoresques, short stories, and sketches, starting with Letters to a Learned Neighbor, which Chekhov considered the beginning of his literary career.
Young Edek lives with his elderly father who tries to keep his son by his side. The boy's longing for freedom and a girl clashes with his father's possessiveness. The pigeons symbolize unattainable freedom. The conflict leads to a tragic ending.
Through these stories, Moravia explores themes of social inequality, the struggle for survival, and human frailty, portraying them with a mix of humor, irony, and realistic observation.
The Christmas Pudding Adventure (1960) is a collection of six crime stories by Agatha Christie, in which five cases are solved by Hercule Poirot and one by Miss Marple.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, the messenger of a lost generation, paints a portrait of the era between the two wars in this collection of eleven stories: hedonism that bites, moral decay that intoxicates, and youth that burns like fireworks.