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Final del juego (End of the Game) is a book of eighteen short stories written by Julio Cortázar. Stories ... ("The Night Face Up") Final del Juego ("End of the Game")
Blow-Up and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Argentine author Julio Cortázar, selected from three of his earlier Spanish-language collections: Bestiario (1951), Final del juego (1956), and Las armas secretas (1959).
The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories (1973) The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson (also known as The Book of Poul Anderson) (1974) — Edited by Roger Elwood; Homeward and Beyond (1975) The Best of Poul Anderson (1976) Homebrew (1976) The Night Face & Other Stories (1979) Winners (1981) (a collection of Anderson's Hugo-winners) Fantasy (1981)
The valet picks up the trumpet and prepares to demonstrate it. The boy sits erect and expectant in his chair. Part 2: The valet blows the trumpet in the boy’s face. Part 3: The boy is traveling in a horse-drawn carriage with his father and another youngster. The children are age six. It is winter and boys are cold.
Cortázar wrote numerous short stories, collected in such volumes as Bestiario (1951), Final del juego (1956), and Las armas secretas (1959). In 1967, English translations by Paul Blackburn of stories selected from these volumes were published by Pantheon Books as End of the Game and Other Stories; it was later re-titled Blow-up and Other Stories.
'Twas the Night Before Christmas History The poem, originally titled A Visit or A Visit From St. Nicholas , was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in a Troy, New York newspaper called ...
The New York City Marathon was coming up, and they were going to block the marathon—stand in the street and keep 20,000 runners from going through. We had a picture of a bunch of guys, with the ...
"Cash and jewelry was swept into pillowcases," the story read. "That went on for hours as more and more people kept showing up. By 3 a.m., the half-naked victims were stacked like cordwood on top ...