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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Thu, 7 Mar 2013 4:58:47 PST

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Copyright free ebook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Thu, 7 Mar 2013 4:58:46 PST

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Copyright free ebook of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Pride and Prejudice

Thu, 7 Mar 2013 4:58:46 PST

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Copyright free ebook of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Adam Bede

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:12:33 PST

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The story of a beautiful country girl's seduction by the local squire and its bitter, tragic sequel is an old and familiar one which George Eliot invests with peculiar and haunting power. A bestseller from the moment of publication, Adam Bede, although on one level a rich and loving re-creation of a small community shaken to its core, is more than a charming, faultlessly evoked pastoral. However ...

Piccolo viaggio nell'anima tedesca

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:14:43 PST

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Una panoramica tra filosofia, politica e costume che guida il lettore allascoperta della personalità e dell'identità tedesca attraverso l'analisi dellinguaggio. La lingua tedesca pone, rispetto ad altre lingue europee,particolari ostacoli nella comprensione, è caratterizzata da una grandecapacità d'astrazione e, al tempo stesso, di precisione che mettono indifficoltà il lettore italiano. Questo v ...

Monsieur Ibrahim Et Les Fleurs Du Coran

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:35:45 PST

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Literary Theory

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:35:45 PST

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Rescuing the subject from deadly dry theorists and -isms, Clare Connors focuses on the real questions that emerge when ...

A New Literary History of America

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:07:52 PST

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America is a nation making itself up as it goes along - a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history. In more than two hundred original essays, "A Ne ...

Walden

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:07:50 PST

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'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of this experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumula ...

A Novel

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:07:50 PST

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In the late 1960s Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, set out to turn an ordinary book into a piece of pop art. He said that he wanted to create a 'bad' novel 'because doing something the wrong way always opens doors'. The result was this astonishing account of the famously influential group of artists, superstars, addicts and freaks who made up the world of ...

David Copperfield

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:04:58 PST

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The Sorrows of an American

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 0:16:12 PST

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My sister called it 'the year of secrets,' but when I look back on it now, I've come to understand that it was a time not of what was there, but of what wasn't. 'It is a rare writer who can both rouse the mind and grip the heart, and all the while provide the sensuous delights of image and language...a compelling narrative in which the past haunts the present of characters so vividly real they be ...

The Sound of Trumpets

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:21:46 PST

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When a Tory MP is found dead in a swimming-pool wearing a leopardskin bikini, the embittered Leslie (now Lord) Titmuss sees the ideal opportunity to re-enter the political arena. All he needs is a puppet, and Terry Flitton - inoffensive New Labourite - is perfect. Along with his beautiful, very PC wife, Terry heads blindly for the Hartscombe and Worsfield South by-election. But is he too busy lis ...

The Bell Jar

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:21:44 PST

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The Bell Jar chronicles the breakdown of the brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful Esther Greenwood, a woman slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's demise with such intensity that the character's insanity becomes completely real, even rational -- as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Suc ...

The Ghost. Film Tie-In

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:09:49 PST

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I should have said, 'Rick, I'm sorry, this isn't for me, I don't like the sound of it,' finished my drink and left. But he was such a good storyteller, ...

Discover Germany

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:09:49 PST

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11th Hour

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:07:43 PST

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Lindsay Boxer is pregnant at last! But her work doesn't slow for a second. When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, she discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. And it was taken from her own department's evidence locker. Anyone could be the killer - even her closest friends. Lindsay is called next to the most bi ...

84, Charing Cross Road

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:57:28 PST

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È Frank Doel, commesso in una vecchia libreria antiquaria londinese - "l'unica creatura al mondo che mi capisca" - a soddisfare gli stravaganti desideri di una giovane scrittrice americana appassionata di saggi del Settecento, che con lui intreccia una fitta corrispondenza. Miss Hanff sogna per anni di sbarcare nell'"Inghilterra della letteratura", di conoscere di persona Doel e la libreria cui d ...

Farther Away

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:51:48 PST

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The new book of essays from Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom. Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. Now, a new collection of Franzen's non-fiction brings fresh demonstrations of his vivid, moral intelligence, confirming his status not only as a great American novelist but also a ...

The Broom of the System

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:51:47 PST

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A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian and as serious as it is possible to be without accidentally writing a religious text. He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as "modern fiction". He's so modern he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddamn him' Zadie Smith The mysterious disappearan ...

This is Water

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:51:47 PST

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How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented o ...

La Proie

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:51:46 PST

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Le maître des âmes

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:51:46 PST

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Nice, 1920. Un jeune médecin affamé, Dario, accepte de pratiquer un avortement clandestin sur une flamboyante aventurière new-yorkaise afin de sauver de la déchéance Clara, sa femme, et leur nourrisson. Une solution qui permet à ce fils de marchand vagabond et métèque de sang grec et italien, de survivre malgré l'indifférence de la clientèle chic de la ville. Multipliant les expédients durant que ...

Les vierges et autres nouvelles

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:51:46 PST

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Le malentendu

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:51:46 PST

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Living, Thinking, Looking

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:51:46 PST

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The book is divided into three sections: the essays in Living draw directly from Hustvedt's life; those in Thinking explore memory, emotion, and the imagination; and the pieces in Looking are about visual art.

The Princess Bride

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:23:56 PST

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What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams? As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the "S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the "g ...

The Sense of an Ending

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:36:06 PST

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Ready Player One

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 19:39:19 PST

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It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. We've wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of te ...

The Summer Without Men

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:11:50 PST

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Mia is forced to reexamine her life when her husband puts their marriage on "pause" after thirty years.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:55:19 PST

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Charlie is a freshman. And while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it. Charlie is attempting to navigate his way through uncharted territory: the world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new frien ...

The Fault in Our Stars

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 3:04:25 PST

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Major Works

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:18:31 PST

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This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Coleridge's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by important criticism, letters, and marginalia - to give the essence of his work and thinking. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and radical think ...

The Book Thief

Fri, 8 Jun 2012 22:09:27 PST

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It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . . Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when sh ...

Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships

Fri, 8 Jun 2012 22:09:26 PST

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While most of us have moments of loving freely and openly, it is often hard to sustain this where it matters most—in our intimate relationships. Why, if love is so great and powerful, are human relationships so challenging and difficult? If love is the source of happiness and joy, why is it so hard to open to it fully and let it govern our lives? In this book, John Welwood addresses these questio ...

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Fri, 8 Jun 2012 17:27:16 PST

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Toys

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:09:41 PST

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Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess super-human strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks, and two beautiful children. Of course they do - they're Elites, endowed at birth with the very best that the world can offer. The only problem in their perfect world: humans. The top operative for the Agency of Change, Hays has just won the fiercest battle of his career. He has been praised b ...

Love's Executioner

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:09:40 PST

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This title consists of eight case-studies of people the author has treated, including a woman of 67, obsessively pining with love for her 32-year-old previous therapist and a woman of 19 stone who has emotional difficulties because of her weight problem. Such stories reveal the diversity of human motivation.

Germinal

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:09:40 PST

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Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted 'Germinal! Germinal!'. The central figure, Etienne Lantier, is an outsider who enters the community and eventual ...

Last Chance Saloon

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:09:39 PST

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'I'm in the Last Chance Saloon. In my decrepit, thirty-one-year-old state, I'd probably never get another man'. Tara, Katherine and Fenton have been best friends since they were teenagers. Now in their early thirties, they've been living it up in London for ten years. But what have they got to show for it? Sure, Tara's got her boyfriend - but she loves retail therapy so much more. Katherine, on t ...

Rachel's Holiday

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:09:39 PST

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Here's Rachel Walsh, twenty-seven and the miserable owner of size 8 feet. She has regular congress with Luke Costello, a man who wears his leather trousers tight. And she's fond - some might say too fond - of recreational drugs. Until she finds herself being frogmarched to the Cloisters - Dublin's answer to the Betty Ford Clinic. She's outraged. Surely she's not thin enough to be an addict? Heart ...

L' armata a cavallo

Tue, 5 Jun 2012 19:45:10 PST

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Geschichte der Musik

Thu, 31 May 2012 17:02:11 PST

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Respiro corto

Thu, 31 May 2012 3:32:59 PST

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Dopo averci raccontato come nessun altro i misfatti del Nordest italiano, e averci appassionato con le indagini dell'Alligatore, Massimo Carlotto ha deciso di allargare lo sguardo, e andare al cuore del crimine dei nostri tempi, globale e senza frontiere. Con i pregi che l'hanno fatto amare da tanti lettori: lo stile essenziale, la perfetta padronanza dell'intreccio, i personaggi che nella loro a ...

Can You Forgive Her?

Wed, 30 May 2012 16:11:04 PST

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The History of Love

Tue, 29 May 2012 15:30:04 PST

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Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, "The History of Love" by bestselling author Nicole Krauss explores the lasting power of the written word and the lasting power of love. 'When I was born my mother named me after every girl in a book my father gave her called "The History of Love"...' Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to ...

Of Human Bondage

Tue, 29 May 2012 15:27:36 PST

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Can You Forgive Her?

Tue, 29 May 2012 15:24:27 PST

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Whether or no, she, whom you are to forgive, if you can, did or did not belong to the Upper Ten Thousand of this our English world, I am not prepared to say ...

1000 Years of English Literature

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:56:20 PST

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From the 10th-century manuscript of 'Beowulf' to the work of such 20th-century authors as T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes and Angela Carter, this beautifully illustrated book presents a panorama of more than 1000 years of literature in English through original manuscripts from the British Library's unparalleled collections. Presented chronologically, the book describes the life and work of nearly 100 of t ...

Barnaby Rudge

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:55:58 PST

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As soon as the business of the day was over, the locksmith sallied forth, alone, to visit the wounded gentleman and ascertain the progress of his recovery. The house where he had left him was in a by-street in Southwark, not far from London Bridge; and thither he hied with all speed, bent upon returning with as little delay as might be, and getting to bed betimes.

The Modern Library

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:55:58 PST

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For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil, there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, and compelling. In their selection of the best 200 novels written since 1950, the editors make a case for the best and the best-loved works and argue why each should be considered a modern classic. Enlightening, often unexpected, and always e ...

Our Mutual Friend

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:52:57 PST

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With an Introduction and Notes by Deborah Wynne, Chester CollegeIllustrated by Marcus Stone Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives, but through its apparently incidental characters and scenes. The ...

Old Curiosity Shop

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:52:52 PST

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With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham.The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens' most ...

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:52:39 PST

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David Foster Wallace made quite a splash in 1996 with his massive novel, Infinite Jest. Now he's back with a collection of essays entitled A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. In addition to a razor-sharp writing style, Wallace has a mercurial mind that lights on many subjects. His seven essays travel from a state fair in Illinois to a cruise ship in the Caribbean, explore how television a ...

Oblivion

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:52:30 PST

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A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian ...He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as 'modern fiction'. He's so modern he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddamn him' ZADIE SMITH A recognised master of form and a brilliant recorder of human behaviour, David Foster Wallace has been hailed ...

Martin Chuzzlewit

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:52:15 PST

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Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century America. Martin Chuzzlewit is the story of two Chuzzlewits, Martin and Jonas, who have inherited the characteristic Chuzzlewit selfishness. It contrasts their diverse fates: moral redemption and worldly success for one and increasingly desperate crime for the other.

Dombey and Son

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:52:13 PST

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The bustling, teeming streets of mid-Victorian London with their age-old vistas and traditions come vividly alive in this novel. But year by year the new railway technology is remaking London in its own image. Dickens responds to the real contradictions of Britain's new industrial power: its potential for creation and destruction, for life and death.

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:45:45 PST

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A.S. Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. This volume contains "The Glass Coffin" and "Gode's Tale" of the Breton Baie des Trepasses, together with three other stories with medieval and oriental settings, including the title tale.

Sugar and Other Stories

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:45:44 PST

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It should come as no surprise that short stories by the author of the magical Posession are populated by erudite paranoiacs, witches, changelings, and the ghost of a dead child. A S Byatt's short fictions explore the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss and the elaborate memories we construct against it, resulting in a book that compels us to inhabit other lives and return ...

Elementals

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:45:43 PST

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In the same delectable format as the MATISSE STORIES and THE DJINN IN THE NIGHTINGALE'S EYE, this new collection deals with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion - the mysterious absences at the heart of hte fullest lives. A scholar pursues an elusive biographer, stumbling upon buried fragments of distant lives; a woman walks out of her previous existence and encounter ...

The Matisse Stories

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:45:41 PST

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This brilliant collection has been called "a masterpiece" by the Sunday Telegraph. Each of the three stories is touched in a different way by the paintings of Henri Matisse. Their subjects' lives unravel from simple beginnings -- a trip to the hair dresser, a cleaning woman's passion for knitting, lunch in a Chinese restaurant but gradually the veneer of ordinariness is peeled back to expose pain ...

Still Life

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:45:39 PST

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Frederica Potter, 'doomed to be intelligent', plunges into Cambridge University life greedy for knowledge, sex and love. In Yorkshire her sister Stephanie has abandoned academe for the cosy frustration of the family. Alexander Wedderburn, now in London, struggles to make a play about Van Gogh, whose art and tragic life give the novel its central leitmotiv. In this sequel to her much praised The V ...

The shadow of the sun

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:45:37 PST

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First published in 1964, this is the story of Anna Severell's struggle at the age of 17 to evolve her own personality in the shadow of her father, Henry Severell, a famous English novelist.

The Game

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:45:36 PST

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Cassandra is an Oxford don; Julia, her sister, a bestselling novelist. They share a set of disturbing memories of a strange childhood game and of Simon, the handsome young neighbour who loved them both. Years later Simon re-enters their lives via a television programme on snakes and intrudes into their uneasy compromise of mutual antagonism and distrust. The old, wild emotions surge back, demandi ...

Penguin English Library the Warden

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:45:27 PST

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Soon the elderly, well-meaning warden, Mr Septimus Harding, finds himself at the heart of the scandal, even as its instigator courts his daughter.Pitting the ancient institution of the Church against the new power wielded by newspaper ...

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:36:42 PST

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Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a digraced woman, and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age.

Wessex Tales

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:36:40 PST

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Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy to realism and from tragedy to comedy. In insisting on the unusual nature of any story worth th ...

Wives and Daughters

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:36:39 PST

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Miss Eyre listened in silence, perplexed but determined to be obedient to the directions of the doctor, whose kindness she and her family had good cause to know. She made strong tea; she helped the young men liberally in Mr Gibson's absence, as well as in his presence, and she found the way to unloosen their tongues, whenever their master was away, by talking to them on trivial subjects in her pl ...

Mary Barton

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:36:38 PST

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This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 1831, of a progressive mill owner. It follows Mary Barton, daughter of a man implicated in the murder, through her adolescence, when she suffers the advances of the mill owner, and later through love and marriage. Set in Manchester, between 1837-42, it paints a powerful and moving picture of working- ...

The Moorland Cottage

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:36:37 PST

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Growing up in Yorkshire, the daughter of a deceased clergyman, Maggie Browne is encouraged to devote herself to her brother, Edward, upon whom their widowed mother dotes. Through the example and guidance of her mentor, Mrs Buxton, Maggie learns that self-sacrifice is the key to living a fulfilled life. How much personal happiness will she forgo in the name of duty and devotion to her brother? Th ...

Cranford - Cousin Phillis

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:36:36 PST

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First published in serial form in Dickens's Household Words, Cranford was to achieve immense popularity as a piece of 'exquisite social painting' - 'delightful', 'tender' and 'delicate'. However, while its charm is undeniable, it is also a book of the most profound sensitivity, at times painfully moving, written in tones of affectionate irony and understatement. Its analysis of an early Victorian ...

Confessions of an English Opium-eater

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:36:23 PST

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Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is a central figure of English Romanticism. CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM EATER, his best-known work, is an account of his early life and opium addiction. De Quincey lived his full three score years and ten. But few would have predicted it, for his father and numerous of his siblings were carried off by tuberculosis. He owed his survival to opium: its powers kept ...

Pemberley Shades

Wed, 23 May 2012 17:35:09 PST

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Several years have passed since the wedding of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy and the former Elizabeth Bennet, and Lady Catherine's prediction about polluting the shades of Pemberley have not come to pass. Blessed with a son and the company of Miss Georgiana Darcy, the Darcys of Pemberley are settled into their quiet life when it is disrupted by the death of a local Rector. The search for the new one begi ...

Il torto del soldato

Wed, 23 May 2012 15:01:01 PST

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"Sono decisa a raccontare questa mia vicenda a beneficio di chi potrà capirla meglio di me" Spero in un lettore che possa un giorno spiegarmela". È una donna a lasciarsi raccontare. Ed è la sua storia di figlia, quella che racconta. Il padre, tanto anziano da passare per lungo tempo come suo nonno, ha continuato a ripetere "il torto del soldato è la sconfitta" per gran parte della sua vita. Almen ...

Il momento è delicato

Fri, 18 May 2012 18:03:17 PST

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C’era una parte poco frequentata delle edicole della stazione, quasi abbandonata, quella dei tascabili. Tra i libri accatastati, nascosti dietro un vetro, avvolti nella plastica e ricoperti di polvere cercavo le raccolte di racconti. Era un momento tutto mio, un piacere solitario e veloce perché il treno stava partendo. Studiavo un po’ i disegni della copertina, pagavo e infilavo il libro in tasc ...

The Woman in White

Mon, 14 May 2012 19:27:47 PST

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Like few novels before it, The Woman in White thrilled readers across England when it debuted in 1860. It famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit road. Engaged as a drawing-master to beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his charming friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons, and poison. ...

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Mon, 14 May 2012 1:44:44 PST

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In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World', which reveals a woman's agonised consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and ...

L'uomo senza qualità

Sun, 13 May 2012 22:07:18 PST

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In due volumi Gli struzzi 26* e 26** Questo libro in questa edizione non ha ISBN Scheda BNCF Musil, Robert L'uomo senza qualita / traduzione di Anita Rho Torino : Einaudi, 1972. 2 v. (XXXIV, VI, 1115 p. compless) ; 20 cm ( Gli struzzi ) Titolo originale: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften BN 727497. I. Rho , Anita 833.91 (ed. 17) - NARRATIVA TEDESCA. SEC. 20.

Französisch ganz leicht - Rätsel and Übungen für zwischendurch

Thu, 10 May 2012 18:14:15 PST

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Vorwort Wie oft hat man nicht zwischendurch mal ein paar Minuten Zeit zum Lernen ! Im Bus, am Strand, im Café Nutzen Sie diese Zeit zum Wiederholen und Entdecken von Neuem. Mit Französisch ganz leicht Rätsel und Übungen für zwischendurch ...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Thu, 10 May 2012 18:14:13 PST

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The chance discovery by a young peasant woman that she is a descendant of the noble family of d'Urbervilles is to change the course of her life. Tess Durbeyfield leaves home on the first of her fateful journeys, and meets the ruthless Alec d'Urberville. Thomas Hardy's impassioned story tells of hope and disappointment, rejection and enduring love. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a ...

Women Who Think Too Much

Thu, 10 May 2012 18:14:12 PST

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“Groundbreaking research . . . Women Who Think Too Much tells why overthinking occurs, why it hurts people, and how to stop.” —USA Today It’s no surprise that our fast-paced, overly self-analytical culture is pushing many people—especially women—to spend countless hours thinking about negative ideas, feelings, and experiences. Renowned psychologist Dr. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema calls this overthinki ...

Living and Working in Germany, 3rd Edition

Thu, 10 May 2012 18:14:12 PST

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Written in an entertaining style with a touch of humor, Living and Working in Germany is designed to provide newcomers with the practical information necessary for a relatively trouble-free life. Its contents include finding a job, permits & visas, health, accommodation, finance, insurance, education, shopping, post office and telephone services, public transport, motoring, TV and radio, leisure ...

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man

Thu, 10 May 2012 18:14:12 PST

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Good Omens

Thu, 10 May 2012 18:14:10 PST

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According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter—the world's only totally reliable guide to the future—the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea...

The Waitress

Thu, 10 May 2012 18:14:09 PST

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Katie Simmonds wants to be a film director. Last week she wanted to be a writer, the week before that an educational psychologist, and the week before that a florist. One thing Katie isn't short of is ambition, but she knows for certain that none of her ambitions are to be a waitress. Unfortunately, Katie Simmonds is a waitress. Hassled by customers, badly paid and stuck with the boss from hell, ...

The Wind Through the Keyhole

Wed, 9 May 2012 18:25:37 PST

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Un calcio in bocca fa miracoli

Mon, 7 May 2012 20:08:32 PST

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Il protagonista di questo libro è un vecchio scorbutico, vitale, simpaticissimo, che fa i conti con l'ostinazione della sua prostata, con un'insana passione per la portinaia e con la sua amicizia per Armando, aspirante Cupido in pensione. L'ironia e il caratteraccio invecchiando migliorano come la grappa, per questo ci diverte così tanto la sua voce cinica, borbottante, capace di battute fulminan ...

The Moonstone

Sat, 5 May 2012 14:55:35 PST

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'Here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond - bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man' When Rachel Verinder's birthday present - the Moonstone, a large Indian diamond - is stolen at her party, suspicion and the diamond's mysterious curse seem set to ruin everyone and everything she loves. Only Sergeant Cu ...

Lo Hobbit

Sat, 5 May 2012 14:50:57 PST

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Lo hobbit, che W.H. Auden ha definito "la più bella storia per bambini degli ultimi cinquant'anni", è il libro con cui Tolkien ha presentato per la prima volta, nel 1937, il foltissimo mondo mitologico del Signore degli Anelli, che ormai milioni di persone di ogni età, sparse ovunque, conoscono in tutti i suoi minuti particolari. Tra i protagonisti di tale mondo sono gli Hobbit, minuscoli esseri ...

Eine unglaubliche Entdeckung

Fri, 4 May 2012 17:52:41 PST

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Es gibt Elfen und Kobolde, und sie sind keineswegs harmlos!

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Fri, 4 May 2012 17:52:06 PST

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Two minor characters from "Hamlet" offer a novel view of the melancholy Dane.

The House of Silk Ome

Wed, 2 May 2012 23:48:17 PST

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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Wed, 2 May 2012 19:34:30 PST

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A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children", an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, ...

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp 1936-1945

Wed, 2 May 2012 13:16:03 PST

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Artemis Fowl. Der Geheimcode.

Wed, 2 May 2012 1:19:43 PST

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