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And the Mountains Echoed

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 3:50:32 PST

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The best-selling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another and how choices resonate through subsequent generations.

Isabel, la Reina

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 3:48:04 PST

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The Great Gatsby

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 3:46:57 PST

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One of the masterworks of 20th-century literature, The Great Gatsby is a novel of Jazz Age romance and the dark side of the American Dream that has been beloved for generations. Because of multiple revisions and the tight production schedule, the text of the first edition did not appear as Fitzgerald had intended. Now noted Fitzgerald biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli has produced the critical, accu ...

Der Maler und das Mädchen

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 1:01:18 PST

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Love in the Western World

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:44:18 PST

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In this classic work, often described as "The History of the Rise, Decline, and Fall of the Love Affair," Denis de Rougemont explores the psychology of love from the legend of Tristan and Isolde to Hollywood. At the heart of his ever-relevant inquiry is the inescapable conflict in the West between marriage and passion--the first associated with social and religious responsiblity and the second wi ...

Philosophy and Desire

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 0:43:23 PST

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Philosophy and Desire, the seventh book in the well-known Continental Philosophy series, examines questions of desire--desire for another person, desire for happiness, desire for knowledge, desire for a better world, desire for the impossible, desire in text, desire in language and desire for desire itself. The theme of desire is explored through readings of contemporary figures such as Merleau-P ...

Deceit, Desire, and the Novel

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 0:42:51 PST

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Persuasion

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 3:23:14 PST

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'Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth; and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect' Anne Elliot's youthful bloom has faded and she has few romantic prospects, having being persuaded to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth eight years earlier when he was a naval captain with neither rank nor fortune. But now he has r ...

Cinque storie ferraresi

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 3:22:43 PST

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Cinque storie. Quella di Lida Mantovani, ragazza madre che sposa un brav'uomoma non riesce a dargli un figlio; quella del dottor Elia Corcos, solitarioappassionato di scienza che mal sopporta la moglie; quella di Geo Josz, diritorno dal lager; quella di Clelia Trotti, anziana militante socialista mortain carcere durante l'occupazione nazista. Il libro, qui riproposto nella primaedizione del 1956, ...

Marco Polo

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:30:49 PST

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Der Besuch des Leibarztes

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 0:32:45 PST

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Tu vipera gentile

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:53:51 PST

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The Other Queen

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 5:17:08 PST

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A Room of One's Own

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 1:35:13 PST

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In "A Room of One's Own" and "Three Guineas", Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. In "A Room of One's Own"(1929), she examines the work of past women writers, and looks ahead to a time when women's creativity will not be hampered by poverty, or by oppression. In "Three Guineas"(1938), how ...

Lotte in Weimar

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 0:57:45 PST

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Forty years after their youthful association, Lotte Kestner, real-life heroine of Goethe's famous novel "The Sorrows of Werther", makes a pilgrimage to Weimer to see Goethe. Upon her arrival, Lotte, to her surprise, is greeted as a celebrity and taken up into Goethe's set.

La Mennulara

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 0:56:54 PST

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Sicilia, 1963. Maria Rosalia Inzerillo, più conosciuta come la "Mennulara" (laraccoglitrice di mandorle), è morta. Domestica della famiglia Alfallipe eamministratrice del suo patrimonio, la Mennulara è però soprattutto un misteroper la popolazione del paese. Tutti ne parlano perché si favoleggia sullaricchezza che avrebbe accumulato, forse favorita dal ...

Bring Up the Bodies

Mon, 7 Jan 2013 20:43:22 PST

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In Bring Up the Bodies, sequel to the Man Booker Prize- winning Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn.

Reading Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 8:43:27 PST

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The old man and the sea

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:11:56 PST

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The Kingmaker's Daughter

Sat, 6 Oct 2012 10:49:58 PST

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The best-selling author of The Other Boleyn Girl presents a tale inspired by the daughters of "Kingmaker" Richard, 15th-century Earl of Warwick, who uses his daughters as political pawns before their strategic marriages place them on ...

Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:44:41 PST

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1902. Illustrated with drawings on wood by eminent French and American artists. Dumas, French novelist and playwright, is now primarily recognized for his historical novels, which include the ever popular Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. The novel begins: It was on the evening of the 10th of March, 1793; ten o'clock was striking from Notre Dame, and each stroke sounding, emitted a ...

Pride and Prejudice

Fri, 3 Aug 2012 19:53:34 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.

The Catcher in the Rye

Fri, 3 Aug 2012 19:52:45 PST

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Il re e il suo giullare

Wed, 1 Aug 2012 21:52:40 PST

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Uomo dispotico e gaudente, rozzo e smodato negli appetiti, inarrivabile nelleambizioni come nelle bassezze: questo è il ritratto convenzionale che abbiamodi Enrico VIII. Ma chi fu veramente questo sovrano che fu sul tronod'Inghilterra e d'Irlanda dal 1509 al 1547? A gettare luce su questo gigantedella storia, questo re che ebbe sei mogli, delle quali due mandò a morte etre ripudi&og ...

Die schönsten Geschichten der Lagerlöf

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:09:37 PST

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EL AMOR Y LA MUERTE

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 2:18:12 PST

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En 1142, a los sesenta y tres años, moría el filósofo Pedro Abelardo, el “León de París”; veintiún años más tarde lo hacía Eloísa, su amante y esposa. Fueron enterrados juntos en un monasterio de Champaña; desde 1817 sus cuerpos reposan en una misma tumba en París. Eloísa y Abelardo protagonizaron la historia de amor más dramática y convulsa de todos los tiempos. La castración de Abe ...

Wolf Hall

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:49:34 PST

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Thomas Cromwell era il figlio di un fabbro di Putney. Un uomo capace di redigere un contratto e addestrare un falco, di disegnare una mappa e sedare una rissa, di arredare una casa e corrompere una giuria. Architetto machiavellico del regno di Enrico VIII e artefice dei destini della dinastia dei Tudor, il protagonista del pluripremiato romanzo di Hilary Mantel emerge qui in tutta la sua contrad ...

The Lady of the Rivers

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:48:37 PST

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Lacan

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:20:20 PST

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Jacques Lacan was one of the most important psychoanalysts ever to have lived. Building upon the work of Sigmund Freud, he sought to refine Freudian insights with the use of linguistics, arguing that the structure of unconscious is like a language. Controversial throughout his lifetime both for adopting mathematical concepts in his psychoanalytic framework and for advocating therapy sessions of v ...

The White Queen

Mon, 4 Jun 2012 4:14:30 PST

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Book Description THE COUSINS' WAR Book OnePhilippa Gregory, "the queen of royal fiction,"* presents the first of a new series set amid the deadly feuds of England known as the Wars of the Roses. Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England, in this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets. They are the claimants and kings who ruled England before the Tud ...

La vergine napoletana

Thu, 31 May 2012 21:57:07 PST

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Due cavalieri, uno bianco e uno nero, partono alla ricerca dell'ultimo discendente di Federico II. In un paese dilaniato dalle guerre tra fazioni e piegato dalla carestia, il modenese Giovanni Vezzani e il saraceno Yusuf Ibn Gwasi vogliono rilanciare l'utopia del grande imperatore svevo. Inseguono l'esile filo d'una leggenda: perché prima di salire al patibolo, il giovane Corradino di Svevia, nip ...

Donna di spade

Tue, 29 May 2012 2:44:47 PST

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Literary Theory

Tue, 29 May 2012 2:44:25 PST

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Literary Theory: An Anthology is a definitive collection of classic and contemporary statements in the field of literary theory and criticism. It is an invaluable resource for students who wish to familiarize themselves with the most recent developments in literary theory and with the traditions from which these new theories are derived. The anthology represents all the major schools and method ...

La santa anoressia

Tue, 29 May 2012 2:44:04 PST

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Le impressionanti analogie tra la moderna anoressia nervosa e il percorso alla santità di tante figure d'eccezione - da Chiara d'Assisi a Caterina da Siena, da Francesca Romana a Veronica Giuliani - in un affascinante racconto, ampiamente documentato. Rudolph M. Beh (1942) è professore di Storia nella Rurgers University.

Sense and sensibility

Fri, 25 May 2012 22:16:20 PST

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Il vivere inimitabile

Tue, 22 May 2012 5:01:18 PST

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Cien sonetos de amor

Tue, 8 May 2012 23:13:17 PST

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Un eroe del nostro tempo

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:30:57 PST

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Il ritratto di Grigorij Aleksandrovic Pecorin, protagonista di Un eroe del nostro tempo, è tracciato nel romanzo partendo da tre diversi punti prospettici. Se ne ottiene una figura a tre dimensioni, inafferrabile, contraddittoria, misteriosa, ma proprio per questo particolarmente viva e affascinante. Noi vediamo Pecorin attraverso gli occhi del capitano in seconda Maksim Maksimyc, uomo russo, ma ...

Naked Woman

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:37:37 PST

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Internationally bestselling author and world-famous human behaviorist Desmond Morris turns his attention to the female form, taking the reader on a guided tour of the female body from head to toe. Highlighting the evolutionary functions of various physiological traits, Morris's study explores the various forms of enhancement and constraint that human societies have developed in the quest for the ...

Blonde

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:26:06 PST

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*Audio includes an in-depth interview with the author and Michael Silverblatt, host of KCRW's Bookworm. She was an all-American girl who became a legend of unparalleled stature. She inspired the adoration of millions, and her life has beguiled generations of fans and fellow artists. The story of Norma Jeane Baker -- better known by her studio name "Marilyn Monroe" -- has been dissected for mor ...

Padri e figli

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:21:16 PST

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Lettere d'amore

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:11:30 PST

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The Red Queen

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 4:43:21 PST

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Heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, Margaret Beaufort never surrenders her belief that her house is the true ruler of England and that she has a great destiny before her. Her ambitions are disappointed when her sainted cousin Henry VI fails to recognize her as a kindred spirit, and she is even more dismayed when he sinks into madness. Her mother mocks her plans, revealing that Margaret will alw ...

The Other Boleyn Girl

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:38:49 PST

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Politics and passion are inextricably bound together in this compelling drama. The Boleyn family is keen to rise through the ranks of society, and what better way to attract the attention of the most powerful in the land than to place their most beautiful young woman at court? But Mary becomes the king's mistress at a time of change. He needs his personal pleasures, but he also needs an heir. Th ...

LORCA

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 10:36:12 PST

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Todos los fuegos el fuego

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 8:47:41 PST

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La volontà di sapere

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:20:12 PST

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"Questo volume apre una serie di studi che non pretendono di essere continui, né esaustivi; si tratterà di qualche sondaggio in un territorio complesso. Il sogno sarebbe un lavoro di lungo respiro, capace di correggersi a mano a mano che si sviluppa, aperto alle reazioni che suscita, alle congiunture che gli toccherà d'incontrare, e forse ad ipotesi nuove. I lettori che si aspettassero di apprend ...

The Closing of the American Mind

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:28:28 PST

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The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essential to understanding America today. It ...

To a God Unknown

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 22:21:39 PST

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While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph's prosperity and the farm flourishes - until one brother, scared by Joseph's pagan belief, kills the tree and brings disease and famine on the farm. Set in familiar Stei ...

Il bar sotto il mare

Sat, 3 Dec 2011 23:52:06 PST

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Civilization and Its Discontents

Mon, 3 Oct 2011 23:30:46 PST

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During the summer of 1929, Freud worked on what became this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought. It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he had been developing since the turn of the century. It is both witness and tribute to the late theory of mind - the so-called structural theory, with its stress on aggression, indeed the death dri ...

A la Recherche du Temps Perdu

Sun, 2 Oct 2011 1:33:08 PST

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What you're looking at is the entirety of Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past" in ONE VOLUME, in the original French, with no introduction, no glossary, and no footnotes. All seven volumes are there without any abridgment.

Intercourse

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 9:08:39 PST

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Andrea Dworkin, once called "Feminism's Malcolm X," has been worshipped, reviled, criticized, and analyzed-but never ignored. The power of her writing, the passion of her ideals, and the ferocity of her intellect have spurred the arguments and activism of two generations of feminists. Now the book that she's best known for-in which she provoked the argument that ultimately split apart the fe ...

Versi d'amore e di gloria

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 9:08:24 PST

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Questi volumi, composti con carattere Bembo, sono stati impresssi su carta tipo India delle Cartiere di Maslianico. Vol. I pagg. 1157 Vol. II pagg. 1164

Prose di romanzi vol. I

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 9:07:59 PST

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Prose di romanzi

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 9:07:50 PST

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I Meridiani

The Human Condition

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 9:05:56 PST

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Prose di ricerca (2 vol.)

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 9:04:36 PST

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I due volumi che raccolgono le "Prose di ricerca, di lotta di comando, di conquista, di tormento, d'indovinamento, di rinnovamento, di celebrazione, di rivendicazione, di liberazione, di favole, di giochi, di baleni", ripropongono l'edizione curata tra il 1947 e il 1950 da Egidio Bianchetti. L'edizione raggruppava in tre tomi ciò che D'Annunzio aveva pubblicato in singoli volumi secondo il "Diseg ...

Scritti giornalistici (2 vol)

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 9:03:40 PST

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Malnoto, il giornalismo di d'Annunzio segna l'atto di nascita di uno scrittore destinato a dominare la scena letteraria per più di mezzo secolo. Ma non solo perché coincide con un apprendistato presago, la collaborazione giovanile ai quotidiani doveva essere proposta integralmente alla lettura: d'Annunzio - si vedrà - è davvero un giornalista perpetuo, un autentico professionista della pagina da ...

Le vergini delle rocce

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 8:59:29 PST

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The Lacanian Subject

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 8:59:04 PST

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This book presents the radically new theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Against the tide of post-structuralist thinkers who announce "the death of the subject," Bruce Fink explores what it means to come into being as a subject where impersonal forces once reigned, subjectify the alien roll of the dice at the beginning of our universe, and make our own knotted web of our pa ...

Masses and Man

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 8:58:49 PST

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The World As Will and Representation

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 8:56:21 PST

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Volume 2 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream of post-Kantian thought. Corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in the older Haldane-Kemp translation. For the first time, this edition translates and locates all quotes and provides full index.

The World As Will and Representation

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 8:56:19 PST

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Volume 1 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream of post-Kantian thought. Corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in the older Haldane-Kemp translation. For the first time, this edtion translates and locates all quotes and provides full index.

Little Birds

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:49:51 PST

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Evocative and superbly erotic, Little Birds is a powerful journey into the mysterious world of sex and sensuality. From the beach towns of Normandy to the streets of New Orleans, these thirteen vignettes introduce us to a covetous French painter, a sleepless wanderer of the night, a guitar-playing gypsy, and a host of others who yearn for and dive into the turbulent depths of romantic experience. ...

Salome

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 2:20:21 PST

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Anna Karenin

Sun, 4 Sep 2011 21:43:31 PST

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Breve storia del verbo essere

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 3:49:04 PST

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L’interpretazione del verbo essere è come una costante che attraversa tutto il pensiero linguistico dell’Occidente sin dalle prime opere di Aristotele. E nel suo dipanarsi si intreccia con la filosofia, la metafisica, la logica e perfino con la matematica, tanto che Bertrand Russell considerava il verbo essere una disgrazia per l’umanità. Andrea Moro ricostruisce questa storia: dalla Grecia class ...

Io sono un gatto

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:10:10 PST

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Il Novecento è appena iniziato in Giappone, e l'era Meiji sembra aver restituito onore e grandezza al paese facendone una nazione moderna. Per il gatto protagonista di queste pagine, però, un'oscura follia aleggia nell'aria, nel Giappone all'alba del XX secolo. Il nostro eroe vive, infatti, a casa di un professore che si cimenta in bizzarre imprese. Scrive prosa inglese infarcita di errori, recit ...

A Farewell to Arms

Fri, 8 Jul 2011 0:18:09 PST

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Published when Hemingway was just thirty, A FAREWELL TO ARMS confirmed his stature as the greatest single influence on the American short story and novel. The best American novel to emerge out of World War I, A FAREWELL TO ARMS is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his love for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love betwe ...

Beloved

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 3:03:22 PST

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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted b ...

Che la festa cominci

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:01:25 PST

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Nel cuore di Roma, il palazzinaro Sasà Chiatti organizza nella sua nuova residenza di Villa Ada una festa che dovrà essere ricordata come il più grande evento mondano nella storia della nostra Repubblica. Tra cuochi bulgari, battitori neri reclutati alla stazione Termini, chirurghi estetici, attricette, calciatori, tigri, elefanti, il grande evento vedrà il noto scrittore Fabrizio Ciba e le Belv ...

Lolita

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:55:16 PST

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The hilarious and tragic story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged Russian man who feels passion only for young the "nymphet" Dolores Haze, whom he renames Lolita.

The Bluest Eye

Mon, 4 Apr 2011 3:32:05 PST

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The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world w ...