The Orange Corset
by Oskar Panizza
Price: $1.00 USD. 8000 words.
Published by Fario on November 25, 2012. .
Fritz is the son of a Protestant minister whose church is in a village of eight hundred people. He will discover his life's calling when, having moved to the big city for high school, he sees an astonishing sight in the window of a shop just off a large square.
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Fario publishes English-language electronic editions of older books or shorter pieces originally published in German, Catalan, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Several original English-language stories are available as well.
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Holidays
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 3440 words. Published by Fario on November 10, 2012. .
Young José Martins, let out of class early one day, heads home with his uncle and his older sister. On the way, he and his sister try to guess the reason--a party? a birthday? an election victory?--for their unexpected dismissal from class.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3440 words. Published by Fario on November 10, 2012. .
Young José Martins, let out of class early one day, heads home with his uncle and his older sister. On the way, he and his sister try to guess the reason--a party? a birthday? an election victory?--for their unexpected dismissal from class.
A School Story
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 3920 words. Published by Fario on November 10, 2012. .
Chekhov noted that if, early in a story, mention was made of a rifle hanging on the wall, it would eventually have to go off. Hanging on the window frame of the schoolhouse in Machado de Assis's "A School Story" is not a rifle, but a paddle, complete with five holes drilled in it.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3920 words. Published by Fario on November 10, 2012. .
Chekhov noted that if, early in a story, mention was made of a rifle hanging on the wall, it would eventually have to go off. Hanging on the window frame of the schoolhouse in Machado de Assis's "A School Story" is not a rifle, but a paddle, complete with five holes drilled in it.
Trio in A Minor
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 3310 words. Published by Fario on November 5, 2012. .
In "Trio in A Minor," Machado's classic tale of a love triangle in Brazilian high society, the intrigue plays out to the tune of the old sonata of the absolute.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3310 words. Published by Fario on November 5, 2012. .
In "Trio in A Minor," Machado's classic tale of a love triangle in Brazilian high society, the intrigue plays out to the tune of the old sonata of the absolute.
Three yet One
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 4670 words. Published by Fario on November 3, 2012. .
"Her gaze was not absent, as it had been shortly before; instead, it was fixed on the flowers on the wallpaper that lined the room. She noticed, for the first time, that the flowers were daisies. And she shifted her gaze from one to the next, to see if the pattern was the same, and she found that it was. Is that not delightful? Daisies painted on paper."
Price: $0.99 USD. 4670 words. Published by Fario on November 3, 2012. .
"Her gaze was not absent, as it had been shortly before; instead, it was fixed on the flowers on the wallpaper that lined the room. She noticed, for the first time, that the flowers were daisies. And she shifted her gaze from one to the next, to see if the pattern was the same, and she found that it was. Is that not delightful? Daisies painted on paper."
A Game
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 6450 words. Published by Fario on November 1, 2012. .
"'Now, you’ve played cards with so many people, but only once, a long time ago, have you played with me, écarté. Isn’t écarté the name of that game you taught me? Let’s play a game.' Xavier started laughing."
Price: $0.99 USD. 6450 words. Published by Fario on November 1, 2012. .
"'Now, you’ve played cards with so many people, but only once, a long time ago, have you played with me, écarté. Isn’t écarté the name of that game you taught me? Let’s play a game.' Xavier started laughing."
Midnight Mass
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 3430 words. Published by Fario on October 19, 2012. .
It's Christmas Eve, 1861 or 1862. Seventeen-year-old Nogueira, a native of the provinces living in Rio de Janeiro for his studies, has arranged with a neighbor to go to midnight mass. Into the parlor where he is waiting up alone walks Dona Conceição, the thirty-year-old wife of the man in whose house he is lodging. "Midnight Mass," perhaps Machado's most beloved tale, is a Brazilian classic.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3430 words. Published by Fario on October 19, 2012. .
It's Christmas Eve, 1861 or 1862. Seventeen-year-old Nogueira, a native of the provinces living in Rio de Janeiro for his studies, has arranged with a neighbor to go to midnight mass. Into the parlor where he is waiting up alone walks Dona Conceição, the thirty-year-old wife of the man in whose house he is lodging. "Midnight Mass," perhaps Machado's most beloved tale, is a Brazilian classic.
Botany Lesson
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 6890 words. Published by Fario on October 19, 2012. .
Baron Sigismundo de Kernoberg, a single Swede of thirty-nine, wedded to science alone, suddenly finds himself roped into giving botany lessons to a neighbor's lovely young niece.
Price: $0.99 USD. 6890 words. Published by Fario on October 19, 2012. .
Baron Sigismundo de Kernoberg, a single Swede of thirty-nine, wedded to science alone, suddenly finds himself roped into giving botany lessons to a neighbor's lovely young niece.
Miss Dollar
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 9430 words. Published by Fario on October 12, 2012. .
A classified ad is offering a large reward for the return of a lost greyhound. Mendonça, a single young doctor who has found the dog, makes his way to a house on Rua de Mata-cavalos, where the reward he ultimately collects is much different from the one mentioned in the classifieds.
Price: $0.99 USD. 9430 words. Published by Fario on October 12, 2012. .
A classified ad is offering a large reward for the return of a lost greyhound. Mendonça, a single young doctor who has found the dog, makes his way to a house on Rua de Mata-cavalos, where the reward he ultimately collects is much different from the one mentioned in the classifieds.
Anecdote from the Last Prussian War
by Heinrich von Kleist
Price: $0.99 USD. 1180 words. Published by Fario on September 30, 2012. .
A lone Prussian cavalryman, a straggler from a routed army, fortifies himself with drink and sets off after three armed Frenchmen with no thought for his own safety.
Price: $0.99 USD. 1180 words. Published by Fario on September 30, 2012. .
A lone Prussian cavalryman, a straggler from a routed army, fortifies himself with drink and sets off after three armed Frenchmen with no thought for his own safety.
Arms
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 4090 words. Published by Fario on September 25, 2012. .
Fifteen-year-old Inácio has been sent to work as a runner for the lawyer Borges. Borges's wife, the full-figured twenty-seven-year-old Dona Severina, fires the young runner's imagination, and she herself finds her own ability to resist temptation sorely tested.
Price: $0.99 USD. 4090 words. Published by Fario on September 25, 2012. .
Fifteen-year-old Inácio has been sent to work as a runner for the lawyer Borges. Borges's wife, the full-figured twenty-seven-year-old Dona Severina, fires the young runner's imagination, and she herself finds her own ability to resist temptation sorely tested.
The Machete
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 4590 words. Published by Fario on September 18, 2012. .
Inácio Ramos is a cellist. His young wife, daughter of a poor shopkeeper, does not understand his art. She is drawn instead to popular music and those who play it, above all to a mediocre law student who is back in Rio de Janeiro for the holidays.
Price: $0.99 USD. 4590 words. Published by Fario on September 18, 2012. .
Inácio Ramos is a cellist. His young wife, daughter of a poor shopkeeper, does not understand his art. She is drawn instead to popular music and those who play it, above all to a mediocre law student who is back in Rio de Janeiro for the holidays.
Point of View
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 5270 words. Published by Fario on September 12, 2012. .
"Our disagreement has a natural explanation. I am a single girl, full of complications, dreams, ambitions, and poetry; you are already a woman of the house, a calm and happy wife, soon to be a mother; you see things through a different lens."
Price: $0.99 USD. 5270 words. Published by Fario on September 12, 2012. .
"Our disagreement has a natural explanation. I am a single girl, full of complications, dreams, ambitions, and poetry; you are already a woman of the house, a calm and happy wife, soon to be a mother; you see things through a different lens."
False Confidences
by Pierre de Marivaux
Price: $2.99 USD. 19450 words. Published by Fario on September 2, 2012. .
"A lover is permitted to look for ways to please, and he must be forgiven when he succeeds." Dorante, a well-bred and handsome but penniless young businessman, takes a position as an administrator for a rich and beautiful widow.
Price: $2.99 USD. 19450 words. Published by Fario on September 2, 2012. .
"A lover is permitted to look for ways to please, and he must be forgiven when he succeeds." Dorante, a well-bred and handsome but penniless young businessman, takes a position as an administrator for a rich and beautiful widow.
A Fire
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 2170 words. Published by Fario on September 1, 2012. .
In Montevideo, on shore leave, a naval officer comes across a burning dressmaker's shop. Ever the chivalrous gentleman, he ignores the flames and the smoke and rushes up the stairs to the burning workshop.
Price: $0.99 USD. 2170 words. Published by Fario on September 1, 2012. .
In Montevideo, on shore leave, a naval officer comes across a burning dressmaker's shop. Ever the chivalrous gentleman, he ignores the flames and the smoke and rushes up the stairs to the burning workshop.
Argos and His Master
by Italo Svevo
Price: $1.25 USD. 9370 words. Published by Fario on August 28, 2012. .
"Life is this way: first you have to beg for things and then you have to growl to keep them." Argos's master has been sent to the mountains for his health. Bored, he resolves to teach his hunting dog to talk. The experiment fails, but he himself--the more advanced animal--manages to learn Argos's language.
Price: $1.25 USD. 9370 words. Published by Fario on August 28, 2012. .
"Life is this way: first you have to beg for things and then you have to growl to keep them." Argos's master has been sent to the mountains for his health. Bored, he resolves to teach his hunting dog to talk. The experiment fails, but he himself--the more advanced animal--manages to learn Argos's language.
The Wedding Mass
by Federico De Roberto
Price: $3.00 USD. 39750 words. Published by Fario on August 27, 2012. .
The sculptor Lodovico Bertini turns up on a mysterious errand at the school where a friend of his is teaching Greek. He has come, it turns out, to witness the arrival of a passenger liner, aboard which is a man whose imminent return to Italy is throwing Bertini's life into turmoil.
Price: $3.00 USD. 39750 words. Published by Fario on August 27, 2012. .
The sculptor Lodovico Bertini turns up on a mysterious errand at the school where a friend of his is teaching Greek. He has come, it turns out, to witness the arrival of a passenger liner, aboard which is a man whose imminent return to Italy is throwing Bertini's life into turmoil.
Death
by Italo Svevo
Price: $0.99 USD. 6050 words. Published by Fario on August 27, 2012. .
Roberto and his wife have just dropped off their children at the station and are now alone with each other in their suddenly quiet house. This brief tale, left unfinished, is one of Svevo's most terrifying.
Price: $0.99 USD. 6050 words. Published by Fario on August 27, 2012. .
Roberto and his wife have just dropped off their children at the station and are now alone with each other in their suddenly quiet house. This brief tale, left unfinished, is one of Svevo's most terrifying.
Confessions of a Journeyman Typesetter
by Gérard de Nerval
Price: $4.00 USD. 49100 words. Published by Fario on July 24, 2012. .
Author, printer, and libertine Rétif de la Bretonne ("the French pornographer") was among the most eccentric public figures of eighteenth-century France. Gérard de Nerval, drawn to such eccentrics, examines the life of the extraordinary man whose work the 1911 Britannica deems "unfit for general perusal."
Price: $4.00 USD. 49100 words. Published by Fario on July 24, 2012. .
Author, printer, and libertine Rétif de la Bretonne ("the French pornographer") was among the most eccentric public figures of eighteenth-century France. Gérard de Nerval, drawn to such eccentrics, examines the life of the extraordinary man whose work the 1911 Britannica deems "unfit for general perusal."
The Rosary
by Federico De Roberto
Price: $0.99 USD. 3880 words. Published by Fario on July 21, 2012. .
Between prayers, as she says the rosary ("forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us"), an old woman refuses to pardon her newly widowed and destitute daughter.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3880 words. Published by Fario on July 21, 2012. .
Between prayers, as she says the rosary ("forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us"), an old woman refuses to pardon her newly widowed and destitute daughter.
Diary of a Would-be Translator
by Juan LePuen
Price: $0.99 USD. 3810 words. Published by Fario on July 7, 2012. .
"Was briefly tempted to write today but then remembered that it was Sunday and that the last thing I wanted to be was a Sunday scribbler."
Price: $0.99 USD. 3810 words. Published by Fario on July 7, 2012. .
"Was briefly tempted to write today but then remembered that it was Sunday and that the last thing I wanted to be was a Sunday scribbler."
Houseboy
by Juan LePuen
Price: $0.99 USD. 3110 words. Published by Fario on July 7, 2012. .
A recent college graduate, altogether unprepared to begin a career more in keeping with his family's expectations, moves into the servants' quarters of a large house in the hills above Berkeley.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3110 words. Published by Fario on July 7, 2012. .
A recent college graduate, altogether unprepared to begin a career more in keeping with his family's expectations, moves into the servants' quarters of a large house in the hills above Berkeley.
The Adobe House
by Juan LePuen
Price: $0.99 USD. 4100 words. Published by Fario on July 7, 2012. .
For years he has held on to the unread manuscript, a play with the unusual title "Become Krill!" But faced with yet another move, the narrator of "The Adobe House" finally decides to get rid of it. Before doing so, however, he recalls how he acquired it in the first place.
Price: $0.99 USD. 4100 words. Published by Fario on July 7, 2012. .
For years he has held on to the unread manuscript, a play with the unusual title "Become Krill!" But faced with yet another move, the narrator of "The Adobe House" finally decides to get rid of it. Before doing so, however, he recalls how he acquired it in the first place.
The Privileges
by Stendhal
Price: $0.99 USD. 2040 words. Published by Fario on July 6, 2012. .
"On 1 February and 1 June of every year the clothes of the favored man shall become as they were the third time he wore them."
Price: $0.99 USD. 2040 words. Published by Fario on July 6, 2012. .
"On 1 February and 1 June of every year the clothes of the favored man shall become as they were the third time he wore them."
The Seducer
by Frank Wedekind
Price: $0.99 USD. 2500 words. Published by Fario on June 10, 2012. .
In this short tale by the German playwright Frank Wedekind, the narrator recounts the travails he goes through in an attempt to seduce a lovely young cousin. Translated by Juan LePuen.
Price: $0.99 USD. 2500 words. Published by Fario on June 10, 2012. .
In this short tale by the German playwright Frank Wedekind, the narrator recounts the travails he goes through in an attempt to seduce a lovely young cousin. Translated by Juan LePuen.
A Crime
by Heinrich Mann
Price: $0.99 USD. 2650 words. Published by Fario on June 10, 2012. .
Cavalry captain von Hecht is stationed in the small provincial town of M. His relationship with the lovely young wife of a fat merchant by the name of Starke provides him his only distraction. But von Hecht is already thirty-six, he has gotten over the romantic notions of his youth, and in his relationship with his mistress there is real passion, dangerous passion, on only one side.
Price: $0.99 USD. 2650 words. Published by Fario on June 10, 2012. .
Cavalry captain von Hecht is stationed in the small provincial town of M. His relationship with the lovely young wife of a fat merchant by the name of Starke provides him his only distraction. But von Hecht is already thirty-six, he has gotten over the romantic notions of his youth, and in his relationship with his mistress there is real passion, dangerous passion, on only one side.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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: $0.99 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.
Price: $0.99 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.
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.
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.
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