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Road Hazards    by Juan LePuen
Price: $0.99 USD. 3110 words. Published by Fario  on May 22, 2012. .

"We'll spend five minutes talking with some people, go from one station to the next with others, live two or three years, or even twenty, with others still. At bottom, though, we do nothing but run into each other (how long doesn't matter), run into each other and always by chance. And always part company."
Wedding Song    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 2000 words. Published by Fario  on May 14, 2012. .

Failed composer Maestro Romão, ill, is seeking desperately to complete a piece of music he had abandoned in 1779, shortly after his marriage. In this brief and moving tale by the Brazilian master Machado de Assis, one of his finest, the frustrated artist Romão struggles momentarily against the oblivion that, he now sees, will be his lot.
The Gold Watch    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 3100 words. Published by Fario  on May 12, 2012. .

When Luís Negreiros returns home from the office one evening, he finds a fine watch and chain on a table in his bedroom. The watch isn't his and can't be his young and beautiful wife Clarinha's, either. Whose is it then? Luís Negreiros's suspicions are immediately aroused.
The Secret Cause    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 4180 words. Published by Fario  on May 10, 2012. .

The disquieting pleasures of a forty-year-old man are gradually made clear to a young doctor in this short story by the great Brazilian Machado de Assis. Translated by Juan LePuen.
The Man Who Was Shot    by Marià Vayreda
Price: $1.50 USD. 11970 words. Published by Fario  on May 1, 2012. .

From the mountainous hinterlands of Catalonia comes the harrowing tale of a veteran of the Carlist Wars who survives his own execution by firing squad. When he returns from his journey to the hereafter, he is a changed man, known to all of his acquaintances as L'Afusellat--the man who was shot.
The Beautiful Death    by Federico De Roberto
Price: $1.90 USD. 10330 words. Published by Fario  on March 8, 2012. .

The captain of the "Siracusa" has received orders to sail for Tangiers, where rebels have seized the Italian consulate. The blue peter is hoisted, and the sirens announcing the ship's departure echo off of the hills above Livorno. From all over the city, seamen and officers begin returning aboard--all of them, that is, but the junior lieutenant Luigi Carleoni, the ship captain's son.
The Philter    by Stendhal 
Price: $2.15 USD. 11510 words. Published by Fario  on March 7, 2012. .

"The Philter" is a dual-language edition of "Le Philtre," Stendhal's brief tale of a young Spanish woman's inexplicable passion for a circus rider from Naples. Both the original French tale and the newly translated English version are hyperlinked to facilitate swift navigation from one language to the other.
Four Stories    by Stendhal 
Price: $3.00 USD. 26140 words. Published by Fario  on February 20, 2012. .

This collection includes "Recollections of an Italian Gentleman," "The Jew," "The Chest and the Ghost," and "Philibert Lescale." All of the stories are newly translated, and two of them are appearing in English for what is perhaps the first time.
Benedictino    by Leopoldo Alas
Price: $1.55 USD. 4600 words. Published by Fario  on February 18, 2012. .

For years, the aging civil servant Abel had been saving, for just the right occasion, two bottles of a precious liquor made by the monks of a Benedictine abbey. But in a cruel irony one of the bottles is uncorked by his friend Joaquín (known as Cain) in circumstances altogether different from those he had envisaged.
The Chest and the Ghost    by Stendhal 
Price: $1.85 USD. 8340 words. Published by Fario  on February 17, 2012. .

The leathery and slender chief of police don Blas Bustos y Mosquera has a handsome young nobleman, don Fernando, imprisoned for the crime of appearing before him with a fresh complexion and a cool demeanor. Don Fernando's fiancée comes to plead his case, but her beauty merely prompts the sinister don Blas's attempts to secure don Fernando's permanent removal from his native Granada.
Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Impurity, and the Trials of the Amateur    by Juan LePuen
Price: $1.80 USD. 6310 words. Published by Fario  on February 5, 2012. .

"To me," wrote Peruvian Julio Ramón Ribeyro, "the crippled, the cretins, the beggars, and the pariahs. They come naturally to me without my having to summon them."
Recollections of an Italian Gentleman    by Stendhal 
Price: $2.20 USD. 11060 words. Published by Fario  on February 2, 2012. .

"Recollections of an Italian Gentleman" is a tale of a young man turned collaborator in a Rome occupied by French troops and then annexed to Napoleon's empire. The young collaborator recalls the events that marked these turbulent days, among them the abduction of the Pope by the French--His Holiness fiddled with his snuffbox during the entire operation--and the execution of the bandit Spatolino.
The Love Letters    by Paul Ernst
Price: $1.00 USD. 1770 words. Published by Fario  on January 28, 2012. .

The leading lady of a company of actors receives love letters from an unknown admirer. She and the oldest member of the company--the notary--continue to speculate about the admirer's identity even after it becomes clear who he is.
The Jew    by Stendhal 
Price: $1.75 USD. 6020 words. Published by Fario  on January 27, 2012. .

"Not having anything to read, I write. It's the same kind of pleasure, only more intense."
The Haiduks    by Panait Istrati
Price: $4.75 USD. 34190 words. Published by Fario  on January 22, 2012. .

It is Romania in the time of the Ottoman occupation. A band of brigands--the haiduks--has taken up arms against the Turk. Led by the lovely Floarea Codrilor, the haiduks do battle not only with the armies of mercenaries sent by the Sublime Porte, the bashi-bazouks, but also with debased Romanian aristocrats, the boyars and gospodars who would betray their native land to the foreign occupier.
José Matias    by José Maria de Eça de Queirós
Price: $2.00 USD. 8710 words. Published by Fario  on November 12, 2011. .

"José Matias," the tale of a man of leisure who is going to his grave accompanied by a very brief procession of carriages, highlights, perhaps more than any other tale of his, the gentle irony—equal parts affection and sarcasm—that makes the work of the great nineteenth-century Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queirós so delightful to the contemporary reader. Words: 8,600
The Wet Nurse    by José Maria de Eça de Queirós
Price: $1.00 USD. 2180 words. Published by Fario  on November 4, 2011. .

"A distaff does not rule like a sword."
Kleist, Cortés, and the Great Santiago Earthquake of 1647    by Juan LePuen
Price: $2.00 USD. 7840 words. Published by Fario  on November 2, 2011. .

It is generally agreed that the sources of Heinrich von Kleist's bloody tales are European, but Juan LePuen argues that, for those interested in the genesis of "Michael Kohlhaas" or "The Earthquake in Chile," such colonial American documents as Hernán Cortés's letters to Charles V make for lines of inquiry of no less promise than that of more conventional European sources.
Generous Wine    by Italo Svevo
Price: $1.99 USD. 6690 words. Published by Fario  on November 2, 2011. .

At a wedding party thrown for one of his wife's nieces, an older man is given permission to go off of his normally strict diet. Partaking too heavily of the food and wine, he becomes irascible and is rebuked in public by his wife and daughter. That night, in bed, in which, try as he might, he is unable to find a comfortable position, he has terrifying visions.
Teacher of the Year    by Juan LePuen
Price: $1.00 USD. 1740 words. Published by Fario  on October 24, 2011. .

When the standoffish head of his department summons him to her office, "Professor" John Newhouse is sure it is to let him know that he has been given the annual award for the teacher who most clearly embodies the ideals of the department's illustrious founder, Dr. Edward Nortick.
Landlocked    by Juan LePuen
Price: $1.00 USD. 1870 words. Published by Fario  on October 24, 2011. .

Barely four years removed from graduation, three friends from high school, now more interested in drink than in each other, recall the evening one of their number emerged suddenly sobered from the stranger's apartment he had disappeared into shortly before.
Separate but Equal    by Juan LePuen
Price: $1.00 USD. 2600 words. Published by Fario  on October 24, 2011. .

A high-school basketball game threatens to trigger a race riot in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
Kamikaze    by Juan LePuen
Price: $1.00 USD. 2350 words. Published by Fario  on October 23, 2011. .

The mid-1980s in a moribund Caddo Parish, Louisiana. Two emissaries from a booming Japan meet unexpectedly vicious resistance from a class of ne'er-do-well high-school students.
Failure Notice    by Juan LePuen
Price: $1.00 USD. 1970 words. Published by Fario  on October 23, 2011. .

In the brief tale "Failure Notice," a graduate student's dismal performance on his qualifying exams causes him to take a new look at his surroundings.
Ruphina    by Juan LePuen
Price: $1.00 USD. 2330 words. Published by Fario  on October 23, 2011. .

Buenos Aires, in the latter years of the Menem presidency. Signs of an impending economic and social collapse are everywhere, but the self-styled consultant of "Ruphina," intent on his more personal concerns, pays them no heed.
Cashiers and Courtesy Clerks    by Juan LePuen
Price: $1.00 USD. 2620 words. Published by Fario  on October 23, 2011. .

"When I was sixteen I got a job bagging groceries at the Albertsons on Southfield and East Kings."
The Mother    by Italo Svevo
Price: $1.20 USD. 1700 words. Published by Fario  on October 11, 2011. .

"In a valley enclosed by wooded hills, cheerful in the colors of spring, stood, one next to the other, two large, unadorned houses, stone and lime. They seemed made by the same hand, and even the gardens, enclosed by hedges and located in front of each of the houses, were of the same size and shape. But those who lived in them did not share the same fate."
The Murder on Via Belpoggio    by Italo Svevo
Price: $1.99 USD. 9010 words. Published by Fario  on October 8, 2011. .

"Everyone felt his own beloved person threatened," notes the narrator of Svevo's sarcastic tale of a bungling murderer on the loose in the city of Trieste.
Gentleman Carmelo    by Abraham Valdelomar
Price: $1.00 USD. 3820 words. Published by Fario  on September 17, 2011. .

"Thus passed through the world that neglected hero, that very dear friend of our childhood: Gentleman Carmelo, the foremost of warriors, and the final descendant of those pure-blooded and noble gamecocks, whose unanimous prestige was, for years, the pride of the entire green and fertile Caucato Valley."
The Treasure    by José Maria de Eça de Queirós
Price: $1.50 USD. 2610 words. Published by Fario  on September 12, 2011. .

"Dead how? As all of the men of the de Medranhos family were meant to die: doing battle with the Turk!"
The Broken Triangle    by Italo Svevo
Price: $1.99 USD. 6270 words. Published by Fario  on September 7, 2011. .

"I desire a lot of women, almost all of them, really. It’s my way of hating them, because they give me reason to. They won’t have anything to do with me."
Inferiority    by Italo Svevo
Price: $2.00 USD. 6520 words. Published by Fario  on August 31, 2011. .

A gentleman bets a friend of his that he will be able to cow him into turning over his wallet to him before the evening is out. In an attempt to win his bet, he and another friend, Baron Squatti, enlist the help of their intended victim's manservant, Giovanni. Genre: theater
Two Plays    by Italo Svevo
Price: $1.99 USD. 4950 words. Published by Fario  on August 29, 2011. .

"My husband exists only insofar as he bores me." --from Italo Svevo's one-act farce _An Unpublished Play_. Selection also includes the brief and lively monologue _Before the Ball_.
Mediterranean (Sunrise)    by Panait Istrati
Price: $5.00 USD. 34280 words. Published by Fario  on May 12, 2011. .

_Mediterranean (Sunrise)_ follows the young vagabond Adrien Zograffi as he sets sail from his native Romania. At sea, he meets Moussa, a Romanian Jew traveling to Alexandria, Egypt, in an attempt to bring a wayward daughter, Sarah, now being pimped by her boyfriend, back into the fold. Adrien and Moussa join forces and are witnesses to and participants in the events that seal Sarah's fate.
The Thüringer House    by Panait Istrati
Price: $4.75 USD. 45130 words. Published by Fario  on May 10, 2011. .

_The Thüringer House_ is the first of a cycle of novels written by the Romanian Panait Istrati in the early 1930's, shortly after his return, bitterly disillusioned, from a long stay in the Soviet Union. Adrien, servant in a bourgeois household headed by rich grain exporters, must reconcile his socialist ideals and his growing attraction to Madame Anna Thüringer, mistress of the house.
On the Docks in Brăila    by Panait Istrati
Price: $3.00 USD. 12370 words. Published by Fario  on May 8, 2011. .

In Panait Istrati's 1929 novella, now translated into English, fourteen-year-old Adrien Zograffi begins an apprenticeship in a toolmaking workshop on the docks of the Danube River port in Brăila, Romania. Progress, in the form of floating grain elevators, threatens to destroy the livelihoods of a large community of dockworkers. Genre: novella
The Sponge Diver    by Panait Istrati
Price: $2.50 USD. 8670 words. Published by Fario  on April 3, 2010. .

"The Sponge Diver" features the young Romanian vagabond Adrien Zograffi, this time in Greece, as he listens to the harrowing tale of a fellow Romanian drifter's season of forced labor aboard a small ship plying the Eastern Mediterranean in search of rich sponge beds. Panait Istrati (1884-1935) was once among the most popular writers in Europe.


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