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The Great Hunt

Sat, 9 Feb 2013 16:49:42 PST

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The Forsaken are loose, the Horn of Valere has been found and the Dead are rising from their dreamless sleep. The Prophecies are being fulfilled - but Rand al' Thor, the shepherd the Aes Sedai have proclaimed as the Dragon Reborn, desperately seeks to escape his destiny. Rand cannot run forever. With every passing day the Dark One grows in strength and strives to shatter his ancient prison, to br ...

Little Women

Sun, 6 Jan 2013 2:12:12 PST

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'A heart-warming tale of love, sisterhood and hardship during the New England CivilWar, Little Women tells the story of the lovable March family.

Medea

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 4:27:31 PST

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To make Medea more accessible for the modern reader, our Prestwick House Literary Touchstone EditionTM includes a glossary of the more difficult words, as well as convenient sidebar notes to enlighten the reader on aspects that may be confusing or overlooked. In doing this, it is our intention that the reader may more fully enjoy the beauty of the verse, the wisdom of the insights, and the impact ...

The Dying Animal

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 3:58:03 PST

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David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder. Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, when he left his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living wh ...

The Murder at the Vicarage

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 3:57:48 PST

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Agatha Christie's first ever Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. 'Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe,' declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, 'would be doing the world at large a service!' It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which ...

Death in the Clouds

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 3:57:22 PST

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La peste

Mon, 4 Jun 2012 19:45:30 PST

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In un ipotetico anno 194... Orano è in allarme: frotte di topi escono dalle cantine, dalle fognature, d'ogni dove e vanno a morire alla luce, contorcendosi in dolorose convulsioni. Sono i primi segni del male. La peste scoppia, dilaga. Le misure igieniche adottate isolano la città dal mondo. Gli abitanti, asserragliati, rimangono offerti alla minaccia fisica, preda di tormenti morali che nascono ...

The Ghost Writer

Fri, 1 Jun 2012 2:38:02 PST

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The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol, E. I. Lonoff. At Lonoff's, Zuckerman meets Amy Bellette, a haunting young woman of indeterminate foreign background who turns out to be a former ...

Il guardiano degli innocenti

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 3:59:44 PST

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Geralt è uno strigo, un individuo più forte e resistente di qualsiasi essere umano, e si guadagna da vivere quelle creature che sgomentano anche i più audaci: demoni, orchi, elfi malvagi... Strappato alla sua famiglia quand'era soltanto un bambino, Geralt è stato sottoposto a un durissimo addestramento, durante il quale gli sono state somministrate erbe e pozioni che lo hanno mutato profondamente ...

La leonessa bianca

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 5:12:43 PST

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Venerdì 24 aprile 1992, Louise Akerblom, titolare di un'agenzia immobiliare di Ystad, nel sud della Svezia, scompare senza lasciare traccia. Quello stesso giorno, dall'altra parte del globo, in Sudafrica, un gruppo di boeri fanatici decisi a fermare il processo di democratizzazione in atto progetta un attentato contro uno degli uomini politici più in vista del paese. E il commissario Wallander a ...

Lo straniero

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:20:51 PST

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Agostino

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:33:52 PST

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The Eye of the World

Wed, 4 Jan 2012 21:23:55 PST

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The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. But one truth yet remains, and what mortal men forget, the Aes Sedai do not... What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

Nemesis

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:44:00 PST

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In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. This is the startling and surprising theme of Roth's wrenching new book: a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 and the effect it has on a closely-knit, family-oriented Newark community and its children. At ...

The Last Werewolf

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 2:31:46 PST

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For two centuries Jacob Marlowe has wandered the world, enslaved by his lunatic appetites and tormented by the memory of his first and most monstrous crime. Now, the last of his kind, he knows he can't go on. But as Jake counts down to suicide, a violent murder and an extraordinary meeting plunge him straight back into the desperate pursuit of life.

Menzogna e sortilegio

Fri, 9 Sep 2011 4:44:21 PST

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Scritto subito dopo la seconda guerra mondiale, la Morante con questo romanzoha iniziato il suo lungo percorso letterario. "O impareggiabile prosapia! Miamadre fu una Santa, mio padre un granduca in incognito, mio cugino Edoardo unras dei deserti d'oltretomba e mia zia Concetta una profetessa regina. Sifissarono così, in solenni aspetti a me familiari, le maschere delle mie futili tragedie...". C ...

The Age of Innocence

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 0:06:28 PST

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With her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Innocence (1920), Wharton recreated the Old New York of her own childhood, in a moving tale of passion and desire. "Edith Wharton is a writer who brings glory to the name of America, and this is her best book. It is one of the best novels of the twentieth century . . . a permanent addition to literature" (The New York Times).

A Dance with Dragons

Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:21:40 PST

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Soon Dany was as clean as she was ever going to be. She pushed herself to her feet, splashing softly. Water ran down her legs and beaded on her breasts ...

The Shadow of the Wind

Mon, 30 May 2011 15:33:21 PST

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Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out 'La Sombra del Viento' by Julian Carax. But as he grows up, several people se ...

La variante di Lüneburg

Fri, 8 Apr 2011 19:49:04 PST

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SCHEDA DOPPIA da non aggiungere in libreria o, se lo si possiede, da eliminare. Verificate il codice ISBN del volume. La scheda corretta è una delle seguenti: http://www.anobii.com/books/01fd1d1325b7fb5f67/ http://www.anobii.com/books/016eecb4d5426b7dcb/

Sabbath's Theatre

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 2:09:09 PST

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AS MUCH AS AS HE WANTS TO BE THE MAQUIS DE SADE, HE IS NOT. AS MUCH AS HE WANTS TO BE SEVENTEEN, HE IS NOT. AS MUCH AS HE WANTS TO BE DEAD, HE IS NOT. He is Mickey Sabbath, the aging, raging powerhouse whose savage effrontery and mocking audacity are at the heart of Philip Roth's bold and hilarious new novel. Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly anta ...

Chourmo

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 2:44:21 PST

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Il commissario Fabio Montale ha lasciato la polizia, di cui non ha maicondiviso la politica repressiva nei confronti dei giovani immigrati etantomeno le collusioni di alcuni colleghi con mafiosi e appartenenti al FrontNational di Le Pen. Quando il figlio sedicenne di una sua cugina viene trovatomorto, dopo essere stato cacciato di casa dal patrigno a causa di un flirt conuna coetanea araba, Monta ...

Oceano mare

Sun, 30 May 2010 16:28:22 PST

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Oceano mare racconta del naufragio di una fregata della marina francese, molto tempo fa, in un oceano. Gli uomini a bordo cercheranno di salvarsi su una zattera. Sul mare si incontreranno le vicende di strani personaggi. Come il professore Bartleboom che cerca di stabilire dove finisce il mare, o il pittore Plasson che dipinge solo con acqua marina, e tanti altri individui in cerca di sé, sospesi ...

Castelli di rabbia

Sun, 30 May 2010 16:27:58 PST

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Il primo libro di narrativa di Baricco: il romanzo è ambientato nell'Ottocento, in una cittadina immaginaria, Quinnipak; è generoso nel presentare storie e personaggi, ciascuno con i suoi sogni e caratteri. E tra questi ci sono il signore e la signora Rail, che si amano di un amore tutto loro, e il bambino Penth con il suo amico Pekisch, e due bande che partono dagli estremi del paese per incontr ...

L'eleganza del riccio

Sun, 30 May 2010 16:27:40 PST

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L'eleganza del riccio, una raffinata commedia francese, è stato il caso letterario del 2007 in Francia: ha venduto centinaia di migliaia di copie grazie a un impressionante passaparola e ha vinto il Premio dei Librai assegnato dalle librerie. Siamo a Parigi in un elegante palazzo abitato da famiglie dell'alta borghesia. Dalla sua guardiola assiste allo scorrere di questa vita di lussuosa vacuità ...

Il senso di Smilla per la neve

Sun, 30 May 2010 16:27:13 PST

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Il libro inizia con il funerale di Esajas, un bambino apparentemente morto per un caduta accidentale da un tetto. Da questo fatto si sviluppa tutta la narrazione, infatti Smilla, vicina di casa del bambino non è convinta che la morte sia dovuta ad un incidente, perchè essendo originaria della Groenlandia, conosce molto bene la neve e capisce dalle orme lasciate sul tetto che c'è molto da scoprire ...

Il fu Mattia Pascal

Sun, 30 May 2010 16:26:50 PST

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Con questo romanzo, scritto nel 1904, Pirandello scrisse la prima grande "metamorfosi" della letteratura contemporanea. Mattia, bibliotecario ligure, detestato dalla moglie e dalla suocera, casualmente diventa ricco e, grazie a uno scambio di persona, inizia un viaggio che lo condurrà alla follia in una stanza dove un misterioso affittacamere, Anselmo Paleari, favorirà i suoi sdoppiamenti e le su ...

Il Maestro e Margherita

Sun, 30 May 2010 16:26:35 PST

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Siddharta

Sun, 30 May 2010 16:25:59 PST

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Chi è Siddharta? È uno che cerca, e cerca soprattutto di vivere intera la propria vita. Passa di esperienza in esperienza, dal misticismo alla sensualità, dalla meditazione filosofica alla vita degli affari, e non si ferma presso nessun maestro, non considera definitiva nessuna acquisizione, perché ciò che va cercato è il tutto, il misterioso tutto che si veste di mille volti cangianti. E alla fi ...

Io uccido

Sun, 30 May 2010 16:25:50 PST

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Un Dee-Jay di Radio Monte Carlo riceve, durante la sua trasmissione notturna, una telefonata delirante. Uno sconosciuto, dalla voce artefatta, rivela di essere un assassino. Il fatto viene archiviato come uno scherzo di pessimo gusto. Il giorno dopo un pilota di Formula Uno e la sua compagna vengono trovati morti e orrendamente mutilati sulla loro barca. Inizia così una serie di delitti, precedu ...

Il dardo e la rosa

Thu, 20 May 2010 4:18:17 PST

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Se non fosse per una macchia scarlatta nell'occhio sinistro, Phèdre sembrerebbe adatta a entrare come schiava a Casa Valeriana, i cui adepti vengono iniziati al dolore. Ma un nobile enigmatico riconosce in quella macchia un segno inequivocabile: il Dardo di Kushiel, il marchio che contraddistingue le "anguissette", coloro che amano la sofferenza per natura e non per costrizione. Così Phèdre viene ...

The Hours

Thu, 20 May 2010 1:38:25 PST

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A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and ...

A Home at the End of the World

Thu, 20 May 2010 1:38:08 PST

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Here are two decades of American life told through four people: Bobby and gay Jonathan, growing up together in a small town in the 1970s; Jonathan's mother Alice; and unconventional Clare, with whom the two grown-up men form a family ...

Flesh and Blood

Thu, 20 May 2010 1:37:52 PST

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Constantine and Mary Stassos strive to embody the American dream. Bringing up a family in 1950s New Jersey, their hopes are channelled through Billy, Susan and Zoe. But as the children grow, move away and affirm their sexual identities, the repercussions of family life permeate their relationships.

Me parlare bello un giorno

Thu, 20 May 2010 1:37:08 PST

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Un nuovo libro di racconti pieno di humor caustico del celebre autore e conduttore radiofonico americano. Dalla sua eroica resistenza ai tentativi di una logopedista di correggere un difetto di pronuncia, alle spassose imprese con Victor Mancini, nano insegnante letteralmente ossessionato dai seni femminili, alle sue peripezie con la lingua francese: ogni episodio è un'occasione per le sue osserv ...

Le nebbie di Avalon

Thu, 20 May 2010 1:15:11 PST

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Vi fu un'epoca in cui le porte tra i mondi fluttuavano con le nebbie e si aprivano al volere del viaggiatore. Di là dal regno del reale si schiudevano allora luoghi segreti e incantati, siti arcani che sfuggivano alle leggi di Natura e si sottraevano al dominio del Tempo, territori favolosi dove le più strane e ammalianti creature parlavano lingue oggi sconosciute, avevano gesti, modi e riti oggi ...

I talismani di Shannara

Thu, 20 May 2010 1:13:55 PST

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Tutti gli eredi del mitico Shannara hanno ormai superato le loro prove: la fortezza di Paranor è risorta, Walker Boh è diventato un druido, Wren è stata scelta come regina dagli Elfi e l'ardito Par ha ritrovato la leggendaria spada di Shannara. Il male continua però a minacciare le Quattro Terre, i malefici Ombrati spandono le loro venefiche esalazioni su città e campagne e il loro capo, Rimmer D ...

Il druido di Shannara

Thu, 20 May 2010 1:13:24 PST

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I quattri eredi di Shannara devono liberare le Quattro Terre dal dominio degliOmbrati e dovranno, per farlo, impadronirsi di misteriosi talismani, restituire ai druidi una roccaforte scomparsa, affrontare pericoli, creature mostruosee malefiche in un fantastico viaggio nell'ignoto, nel magico, nel favoloso cheprosegue Gli eredi di Shannara.

Gli eredi di Shannara

Thu, 20 May 2010 1:13:12 PST

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A trecento anni dalla morte di Allanon, il leggendario Druido protettore dellerazze, le Quattro Terre sono teatro di tristi cambiamenti: gli Elfi sonoscomparsi e i Nani ridotti in schiavitù, mentre le Terre del Sud sono cadutesotto il malvagio governo della Federazione, che ha rigorosamente bandito ogniforma di magia. Ma Par Ohmsford, discendente del mitico Shannara, haconservato il potere ...

La regina degli elfi di Shannara

Thu, 20 May 2010 1:12:42 PST

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Tutte le terre e tutti i popoli sono destinati a perire, gli unici che possonoimpedirlo sono gli appartenenti al popolo degli Elfi, così recita unaprofezia. Nessuno però ha più visto un elfo da almeno un secolo e moltidubitano che siano mai esistiti. Solo una vecchia cieca sembra saperne ancoraqualcosa, un antico segreto che viene rivelato solo alla bella Wren. Wrenscopre cos ...

Il ciclo di Shannara

Thu, 20 May 2010 1:12:13 PST

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Le Quattro Terre, un mondo in cui l'equilibrio imposto dall'ordine del Benevive sotto la costante minaccia di antiche forze demoniache, deve lottare aogni generazione per preservarsi dall'invasione del Male. A vegliare su diesse, attraverso i tempi, il druido Allanon, ultimo rappresentante di unastirpe di custodi della magia, e la famiglia Ohmsford, erede di una nobiltàormai dimenticata. Q ...

The Lord of the Rings

Thu, 20 May 2010 1:11:43 PST

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One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost t ...

Mattatoio n. 5

Thu, 20 May 2010 0:59:32 PST

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Per una decina di giorni, verso la fine della Seconda guerra mondiale, Kurt Vonnegut, americano di origine tedesca accorso in Europa, con migliaia di altri figli e nipoti di emigranti come lui, per liberarla dal flagello del nazismo, batté lande tedesche coperte di neve che il suo piede non aveva mai calcato. Fatto prigioniero durante la battaglia delle Ardenne, ebbe la ventura di assistere al bo ...

L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere

Fri, 14 May 2010 5:18:01 PST

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"Il suo romanzo ci dimostra come nella vita tutto quello che scegliamo e apprezziamo come leggero non tarda a rivelare il proprio peso insostenibile. Forse solo la vivacità e la mobilità dell'intelligenza sfuggono a questa condanna: le qualità con cui è scritto il romanzo, che appartengono a un altro universo da quello del vivere." (Italo Calvino) "Chi è pesante non può fare a meno di innamorars ...

Tokyo Blues

Fri, 14 May 2010 5:15:56 PST

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Qui la scheda corretta: http://www.anobii.com/books/Tokyo_Blues/9788807813047/019219184292f0dd7f/

The Witching Hour

Fri, 14 May 2010 2:31:46 PST

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Two people with special powers are drawn together to attempt to unlock the mystery of the woman's past and the secret of the man's unwelcome gift. 2 cassettes.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Fri, 14 May 2010 2:31:05 PST

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Harry Potter has to sneak back to Hogwarts, after accidentally inflating his horrible Aunt Petunia. But once there everyone is whispering about a prizoner who has escaped from the famous wizard prizon, Azkaban. His name is Sirius Black, and as a follower of Lord Voldemort he is determined to track Harry Potter down -- even if it means laying siege to the very walls of Hogwarts!

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Fri, 14 May 2010 2:30:59 PST

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Say you've spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who loathes you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by wizards, a caged snowy owl, a phoenix-feather wand, and jellybeans that come in every flavor, including strawberry, curry, grass, and sardine. Not only that, but you discover that you are a wizard yourself! This is exactl ...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Fri, 14 May 2010 2:30:54 PST

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Harry Potter is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. His best friends Ron and Hermione have been very secretive all summer and he is desperate to get back to school and find out what has been going on. However, what Harry discovers is far more devastating than he could ever have expected… Suspense, secrets and thrilling action form the pen of J.K. Rowling en ...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Fri, 14 May 2010 2:30:50 PST

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince brings us Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as Lord Voldemort becomes ever more powerful with his followers increasing day by day in this continuing battle between good and evil.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Fri, 14 May 2010 2:30:47 PST

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Harry can't wait for his holidays with the dire Dursleys to end. But a small, self-punishing house-elf warns Harry of mortal danger awaiting him at Hogwarts School. Returning to the castle nevertheless, Harry hears a rumour about a chamber of secrets, holding unknown horrors to magicians of Muggle parentage. Now someone is casting spells that turn people to stone, and a terrible warning is found ...

It

Fri, 14 May 2010 2:28:02 PST

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La peste

Fri, 14 May 2010 2:27:31 PST

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Oliver Twist

Fri, 14 May 2010 2:27:16 PST

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The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens' tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining e ...

Momo

Fri, 14 May 2010 2:26:48 PST

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La storia infinita

Fri, 14 May 2010 2:26:43 PST

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Bastiano è un ragazzino grasso e goffo perseguitato dai compagni che si fanno beffe di lui. Per sfuggire a un inseguimento si rifugia in una libreria antiquaria dove incontra un librario e un libro davvero particolari. Ha inizio così una straordinaria avventura che lo vedrà a turno lettore e protagonista attivo, in mondi magici pieni di fantastiche figure.

Madame Bovary

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:52:53 PST

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Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall, with a preface by Michele Roberts. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental ...

Emile Zola, Germinal

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:52:42 PST

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Le Rouge et le Noir

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:52:18 PST

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Au rouge des armes, Julien Sorel préfèrera le noir des ordres. Au cours de son ascension sociale, deux femmes se singularisent, comme pour figurer les deux penchants de son caractère : Madame de Rênal - le rêve, l'aspiration à un bonheur pur et simple - et Mathilde de La Mole - l'énergie, l'action brillante et fébrile. A ces composantes stendhaliennes (conception de la vie qui dépasse la stratégi ...

Richard II

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:51:56 PST

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The times have forced changes in the way we look at Richard II more than any other of Shakespeare’s plays. What to his contemporaries was a balanced dramatisation of the central political and constitutional issue of the time, how to cope with an unjust ruler, has in the last century or so been translated into the poetic fall of a tragic hero. The introduction to this new edition of the play provi ...

Macbeth

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:49:48 PST

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Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haunt him. A story of war, witchcraft and bloodshed, Macbeth also depicts the relationship between husbands and wives, and the risks they are prepared to ta ...

Julius Caesar

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:47:26 PST

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Twelfth Night

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:47:08 PST

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Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as a boy to serve the Duke of Illyria. Wooing a countess on his behalf, she is stunned to find herself the object of his beloved's affections. With the arrival of Viola's brother, and a trick played upon the countess' steward, confusion reigns in this romantic comedy of mistaken identity.

Much Ado About Nothing

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:46:48 PST

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The Players' Shakespeare series presents hardback editions of Shakespeare's plays for use in schools. The text is supported by detailed notes and is suitable for GCSE and A level.

Romeo and Juliet

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:45:38 PST

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A young man and woman meet by chance and fall instantly in love. But their families are bitter enemies, and in order to be together the two lovers must be prepared to risk everything. Set in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, "Romeo and Juliet" is a dazzling combination of passion and hatred, bawdy comedy and high tragedy.

The Merchant of Venice

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:45:28 PST

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An international team of scholars offers: - modernised, easily accessible texts - ample but unobtrusive academic guidance - attention to the theatrical qualities of each play and its stage history - informative illustrations, including reconstructions of early performances The Merchant of Venice has been performed more often than any other comedy by Shakespeare. This edition pays special attentio ...

The Tempest

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:44:57 PST

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The most poetic and magical of Shakespeare's comedies, this play contrasts lyrical fantasy surrounding the spirit Ariel and the savage Calaban, with a tale of political intrigue focused around Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, now a wizard living on a remote island.

A midsummer night's dream

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:44:47 PST

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Traditionally seen as one of Shakespeare's more romantic and enchanting plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream has more recently been seen as a darker and more sinister play than generations of schoolchildren have ever imagined. The play has usually been seen as a comical tale with confused identities and the fickleness of youthful love, as the young lovers, Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena escap ...

Othello

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:44:32 PST

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If anything, "Othello" has increased its stature as one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies ever since it was first written, between 1603 and 1604, due to the victimisation suffered by its tragic hero, Othello, as a result of his skin colour. Othello is a "noble Moor", a North African Muslim who has converted to Christianity and is deemed one of the Venetian state's most reliable soldiers. Howeve ...

Hamlet

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:44:15 PST

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A young prince meets with his father's ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his widow, murdered him. The prince devises a scheme to test the truth of the ghost's accusation, feigning wild madness while plotting a brutal revenge. But his apparent insanity soon begins to wreak havoc on innocent and guilty alike.

Barry Lyndon

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:43:50 PST

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Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:40:04 PST

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Salman Rushdie is one of the best contemporary writers of fables and parables, from any culture. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a delightful tale about a storyteller who loses his skill and a struggle against mysterious forces attempting to block the seas of inspiration from which all stories are derived. Here's a representative passage about the sources and power of inspiration. So If t ...

Baumgartner's Bombay

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:38:45 PST

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A "beautifully written, richly textured, and haunting story" (Chaim Potok), BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY is Anita Desai's classic novel of the Holocaust era, a story of profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. The novel follows Hugo Baumgartner as he flees Nazi Germany -- and his Jewish heritage -- for India, only to be imprisoned as a hostile alien and then released to Bombay at war's end. In th ...

The End of the Affair

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:38:29 PST

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The novelist Maurice Bendrix's love affair with his friend's wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz. One day, inexplicably and without warning, Sarah had broken off the relationship.

Heart of Darkness

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:34:52 PST

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"Heart of Darkness" has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also as a powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism. It reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belgians in one of the largest acts of genocide committed up to that time. Conrad's narrator encounters at the end of the story a man named Kurtz, dying, insane, and guilty of unspe ...

Faust

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:34:18 PST

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Un cofanetto che contiene due volumi dell'opera "incommensurabile", come lo stesso Goethe ebbe a chiamarla. Il Faust è per universale consenso il simbolo dell'anima umana lacerata dall'eterno conflitto tra il bene e il male, la salvezza e la dannazione. La vicenda, celeberrima, è un'affascinante storia in cui si mescolano magia e filtri di giovinezza, patti col demonio e tragedie d'amore, ambient ...

Die romantische Schule

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:33:53 PST

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Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:31:03 PST

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Jane Eyre

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:30:38 PST

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Wuthering Heights

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:30:27 PST

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The novel "Wuthering Heights" is the name of the large home of the family, located on the isolated moorlands of England. One of the main themes in this novel is love and hate between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. It is not your typical romance novel. It unquestionably has its dark moments, as well as its brilliant moments.

Pride and Prejudice

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:30:14 PST

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Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet. Her early determination to dislike Mr. Darcy is a prejudice only matched by the folly of his arrogant pride. Their first impressions give way to true feelings in a comedy profoundly concerned with happiness and how it might be achieved.

Emma

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:30:03 PST

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Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel a ...

Mrs Dalloway

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:28:11 PST

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T.S.Eliot

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:26:04 PST

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Peter Ackroyd's biography gives new insights into Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor".

Selected Poems

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:25:58 PST

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Contents: Prufrock and other observations -- Poems 1920 -- The wasteland -- The hollow men -- Ash-Wednesday -- Ariel poems -- Choruses from "The Rock."

Roxana, Or The Fortunate Mistress

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:25:44 PST

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Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own "wicked" life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. Endowed with many seductive skills, she is herself seduced: by money, by dreams of rank, and by the illusion that she can escape her own past. ...

A Sentimental Journey

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:25:21 PST

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A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly "Travels through France and Italy", Laurence Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey" through France and Italy became a hugely influential work of travel writing in its own right. This "Penguin Classics" edition includes an introduction and notes by Paul Goring. When Yorick, the roving narrator of Sterne's innovative final novel, sets off for F ...

Pamela

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:25:02 PST

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‘I cannot be patient, I cannot be passive, when my virtue is in danger’ Fifteen-year-old Pamela Andrews, alone and unprotected, is relentlessly pursued by her dead mistress’s son. Although she is attracted to young Mr B., she holds out against his demands and threats of abduction and rape, determined to defend her virginity and abide by her own moral standards. Psychologically acute in its inves ...

Trilogia della Fondazione

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:23:37 PST

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The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:22:37 PST

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One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive siezure. But who was the deadly poison really intended for?

They Do it with Mirrors

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:22:12 PST

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Murder on the Orient Express

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:21:47 PST

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Curtain

Fri, 14 May 2010 1:20:54 PST

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The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings, so it came as a shock to him when Poirot declared that one of them was a five-times murderer. The ageing detective was crippled with arthritis, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?

Come Dio comanda

Wed, 12 May 2010 6:27:19 PST

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In una landa ai margini di tutto vivono un padre e un figlio, Rino e Cristiano Zena, uniti da un amore viscerale che si nutre di sopraffazione e violenza. Tirano avanti un'esistenza orgogliosa insieme a un paio di balordi. Un giorno decidono che è arrivato il momento di dare una svolta alle loro vite. Il piano è semplice: scassinare un bancomat. I protagonisti di questa fiaba apocalittica si ritr ...

A Feast for Crows

Wed, 12 May 2010 6:24:09 PST

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George R.R. Martin sold his first story in 1971 and has been writing professionally ever since. He has written fantasy, horror, and science fiction, and for his sins spent ten years in Hollywood as a writer/producer, working on Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature films and television pilots that were never made. In the mid 90s he returned to prose, his first love, and began ...

A Storm of Swords

Wed, 12 May 2010 6:23:57 PST

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Here is the third volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already ha ...

A Clash of Kings

Wed, 12 May 2010 6:23:27 PST

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In this eagerly awaited sequel to A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. A Clash of Kings transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any you have ever experienced. A Clash Of Kings A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the for ...