From his birth in 1923 to his belated paternity and public apotheosis as a spry septuagenarian in 1999, Bech plugs away, globetrotting in the company of foreign dignitaries one day and schlepping in t…
"When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the…
On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria, the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport, is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to …
Come possiamo far fronte in modo più adeguato alle aspettative che gli altri nutrono nei nostri confronti? E come imparare ad avanzare richieste realistiche e bilanciate a noi stessi? In questo manual…
Shelve Vincere la paura del fallimento: Superare ansie, timori e sconfitte per tornare a guardare al futuro
Due ragazzi sedicenni frequentano la stessa scuola esclusiva. L'uno è figlio di un medico ebreo, l'altro è di ricca famiglia aristocratica. Tra loro nasce …
In this collection of essays and epigrams, E. M. Cioran gives us portraits and evaluations - which he calls "admirations" - of Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the poet Paul Val…
Shelve Anathemas and Admirations: Essays and Aphorisms
Nel 1961, in compagnia di Alberto Moravia e Elsa Morante, Pasolini si reca per la prima volta in India. Le emozioni e le sensazioni provate sono così intense da spingerlo a scrivere queste pagine, un …
Here, at last, is the story of Philip Roth's creative life. Roth Unbound is not a biography--though it contains a wealth of previously undisclosed biographical details and unpublished material--but so…
Anche quando sarebbe diventato un pittore famoso, un’autentica leggenda, Louis Cuchas sarebbe rimasto il bambino dall'occhio limpido e svagato che sembrava non guardare niente e invece «guardava mol…
In the aftermath of the Norman Invasion of 1066, William the Conqueror was uncompromising and brutal. English society was broken apart, its systems turned on their head. What is little known is that a…
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divelight illuminates the sunken jet, …
Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to…
