A tale of a severed hand, and the man who severed it.
Music: Joseph Haydn, String Quartet No. 18 (I) (performed by the Kodály Quartet); Gerald Fried, 'Amok Time Suite' (Star Trek)

A tale of a severed hand, and the man who severed it. Music: Joseph Haydn, String Quartet No. 18 (I) (performed by the Kodály Quartet); Gerald Fried, 'Amok Time Suite' (Star Trek)

#35: 'The Hand' by Guy de Maupassant

Short stories, with music and sound effects.

"There is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in a novel – an intense awareness of human loneliness" (Frank O'Connor, The Lonely Voice, 1962).

Fiction

Short stories, with music and sound effects. "There is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in a novel – an intense awareness of human loneliness" (Frank O'Connor, The Lonely Voice, 1962).

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#35: 'The Hand' by Guy de Maupassant

#35: 'The Hand' by Guy de Maupassant