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Four years after Alfie Summerfield's father left London to become a soldier in World War I he has not returned but Alfie, now nine, is shining shoes at King's Cross Station when he happens to learn that his father is at a nearby hospital being treated for shell shock. Four years after Alfie's father left London to become a soldier in World War I, he has not returned, but Alfie, now age nine, is shining shoes at King's Cross Station when he learns his father is at a nearby hospital being treated for shell shock.
This edition, in the end of book, gives reference to all the books that Pam used to write this book.
A comienzos del siglo XVII, en un lugar de la Mancha, vive un hidalgo lamado Alonso Quijano. Su afición, a la cual se dedica con pasión, es leer libros de caballerías. Las hazañas de los caballeros lo impresionan tanto que pierde la razón y decide convertirse en el caballero andante Don Quijote. Junto con su fiel escudero Sancho Panza y su viejo caballo Rocinante sale en busca de aventuras fantásticas, castillos encantados, princesas y magos... Envie de lire en espagnol ? Dorénavant, c'est possible grâce à Harrap's. Découvrez l'œuvre majeure de Cervantes dans cette version abrégée et adaptée, avec des traductions en marge pour vous aider à bien comprendre le texte, ainsi que des exercices en VO pour accompagner la lecture. Retrouvez en ligne la version audio de certains chapitres. ¡Leer en español con Harrap's!
One night two young couples run into an enchanted forest in an attempt to escape their problems. But these four humans do not realize that the forest is filled with fairies and hobgoblins who love making mischief. When Oberon, the Fairy King, and his loyal hobgoblin servant, Puck, intervene in human affairs, the fate of these young couples is magically and hilariously transformed. Like a classic fairy tale, this retelling of William Shakespeare's most beloved comedy is perfect for older readers who will find much to treasure and for younger readers who will love hearing the story read aloud.
Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with an apparent drug overdose. However, the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information, but before he could finish reading the letter, he was stabbed to death. Luckily one of Roger’s friends and the newest resident to retire to this normally quiet village takes over—none other than Monsieur Hercule Poirot . . . Not only beloved by generations of readers, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was one of Agatha Christie’s own favorite works—a brilliant whodunit that firmly established the author’s reputation as the Queen of Mystery. --back cover
When, in 1922, thirty-year-old Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, he is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel near the Kremlin. An indomitable man of erudition and wit, Rostov must now live in an attic room as some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold. Unexpectedly, the Count's reduced circumstances provide him entry into a world of emotional discovery as he forges friendships with the hotel's denizens. But when fate puts the life of a young girl in his hands, he must draw on all his ingenuity to protect the future she deserves. Hailed for its humor, intrigue, and beautifully rendered scenes, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the Count's endeavor to become a man of purpose. --back cover
En la actualidad probablemente hayan sido las diversas versiones cinematográficas, desde la época del cine mudo, las que conservan con mayor pasión la fama de la voluminosa novela Los miserables, publicada en 1862. Quizá la mejor de la prolífica producción del francés Víctor Hugo (1802 – 1885) y una de las más importantes del siglo XIX. Pobres, revolucionarios, burgueses, perseguidos y hasta un obispo, preconizador de la auténtica moral Evangélica, desfilan con una minuciosidad y maestría desconocidas hasta entonces, lo que convierte a la obra en un instrumento de denuncia que no ha perdido su vigencia y en la que el triunfo del verdadero Amor, Amor con mayúscula, recorre todos los rincones de su argumento.
Als een jonge vrouw in het Mississippi van de jaren zestig van de 20e eeuw in het geheim een boek schrijft over de levens van de zwarte hulpen van haar vriendinnen, heeft dit voor iedereen grote gevolgen.
Through the hostile landscape of the Texas–Mexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept up in the relentless tide of blood. A group known as the Glanton gang hunt Indigenous Americans, collecting scalps as their bloody trophies. At the centre of this violence stands Judge Holden: a massive, hairless man, mysterious if not supernatural, erudite and cold-blooded. He is singularly extreme in his sadistic violence. But the apparent chaos is not without order – the Glanton gang, too, are stalked as prey.
In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, young Willow and young Pearl S. Buck, the headstrong daughter of zealous Christian missionaries, bump heads and embark on a friendship that will sustain both of them through one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history.
"Since his boyhood in a poor village in Central Anatolia, Mevlut Karataş has fantasized about what his life would become. Not getting as far in school as he'd hoped, at the age of twelve he comes to Istanbul--"the center of the world"--And is immediately enthralled by both the old city that is disappearing and the new one that is fast being built. He follows his father's trade, selling boza (a traditional mildly alcoholic Turkish drink) on the street, and hoping to become rich, like other villagers who have settled the desolate hills outside the booming metropolis. But luck never seems to be on Mevlut's side. As he watches his relations settle down and make their fortunes, he spends three years writing love letters to a girl he saw just once at a wedding, only to elope by mistake with her sister. And though he grows to cherish his wife and the family they have, he stumbles toward middle age in a series of jobs leading nowhere. His sense of missing something leads him sometimes to the politics of his friends and intermittently to the teachings of a charismatic religious guide. But every evening, without fail, Mevlut still wanders the streets of Istanbul, selling boza and wondering at the "strangeness" of his mind, the sensation that makes him feel different from everyone else, until fortune conspires once more to let him understand at last what it is he has always yearned for."--Jacket.
A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy—or hüzün—that all Istanbullus share. With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters—both Turkish and foreign—who would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce’s Dublin and Borges’ Buenos Aires, Pamuk’s Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.
BİLİNMEYEN BİR KADININ MEKTUBU Yazar R., kırk birinci yaş gününde imzasız bir mektup alır. Yaklaşık iki düzine görünen, yazı biçiminden acele kaleme alınmış olduğu anlaşılan mektup, bilinmeyen bir kadın tarafından gönderilmiştir. Merakı sabırsızlığa dönüşen yazar R., mektubu okumaya başlar. Stefan Zweig, bir kadının yaşadığı platonik aşkı derin bir psikolojik çözümlemeyle ele alıyor. Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu, “Böylesine bir aşk gerçek olabilir mi?” sorusunu akıllara getiriyor. “Sen beni asla tanımayan, bir çamurlu su birikintisinin yanından geçer gibi yanımdan geçip giden, bir taşa basarcasına üstüme basan, hep yoluna devam eden ve her zaman beni sonsuz bir bekleyiş içerisinde bırakan sen, kimsin ki benim için?”
"Razão e Sensibilidade" é um livro em que as irmãs Elinor e Marianne representam uma dualidade, de maneira alternada, ao longo da narrativa. As expectativas vividas pelas duas com a perda, o amor e a esperança, nos aponta para um excelente panorama da vida das mulheres de sua época. As irmãs vivem em uma sociedade rígida, e ambas tentam sobreviver a esse mundo cheio de regras e injustiças. Tanto a sensível e sensata Elinor como a romântica e impetuosa Marianne se veem fadadas a aceitar um destino infeliz por não possuírem fortuna nem influências, obrigadas a viver em um mundo dominado por dinheiro e interesse. As duas personagens passam por um processo intenso de aprendizagem, mesclando a razão com os sentimentos em busca por um final feliz.
Publicada en 1888 es la obra de piratas por excelencia que ha quedado como clásica. El escritor escocés Robert Louis Stevenson supo plasmar los escenarios exóticos, la dura vida de los bucaneros y las características de los principales personajes de esta obra.
Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to 1743 Scotland, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for a young soldier, James Fraser.
Nel paese di Nod, a est del giardino dell'Eden, dove la progenie di Caino andò a vivere secondo la leggenda biblica e che nel romanzo di John Steinbeck corrisponde simbolicamente alla valle percorsa dal fiume Salinas nella California settentrionale, si intrecciano le storie di due famiglie, gli Hamilton e i Trask. Protagonisti della saga, che va dalla Guerra civile alla Prima guerra mondiale, da una parte il vecchio Samuel Hamilton, immigrato dall'Irlanda; e, dall'altra, Cyrus Trask insieme ai figli Adam e Charles, e ai nipoti Aron e Caleb, gemelli nati dalla misteriosa Cathy Ames, reincarnazione di Eva e di Satana allo stesso tempo, emblema del male nel mondo, con il quale tutti nel corso della lunga vicenda devono misurarsi. Pubblicato negli Stati Uniti nel 1952 e ora riproposto nella nuova traduzione di Maria Baiocchi e Anna Tagliavini, «La valle dell'Eden» è il romanzo in cui Steinbeck ha creato i suoi personaggi più affascinanti e ha esplorato più a fondo i suoi temi ricorrenti: il mistero dell'identità, l'ineffabilità dell'amore e le conseguenze tragiche della mancanza d'affetto. Al tempo stesso saga famigliare e moderna trasposizione del mito, «La valle dell'Eden» è il capolavoro della maturità di Steinbeck, da cui nel 1955 Elia Kazan ha tratto l'omonimo film con James Dean. Introduzione di Luigi Sampietro.
Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him.
Dal 1876 Tom Sawyer e i suoi compagni di avventure Huck Finn, Joe Harper e Becky Thatcher hanno conquistato intere generazioni che hanno letto e fatto leggere le mirabolanti storie di cui sono protagonisti i ragazzi (e un po' gli adulti) di St Petersburg sul Mississippi, un vero centro del mondo proprio perché isolato dal resto della terra. Qui, ai confini della società civile, prima che scomparissero le frontiere e in una natura incontaminata, Mark Twain ambienta il suo romanzo piú amato insieme con Huckleberry Finn, che ne è il seguito: le vicende dei giovani protagonisti scuotono il villaggio dal suo pacifico torpore e diventano, come ha scritto Cesare Pavese, «autentiche storie di un'anima - di un corpo, - memorie, per cui il reale non è un dato, ma una scoperta inesausta». Con un saggio di Vernon Louis Parrington. Traduzione di Enzo Giachino. Introduzione di Gianni Zanmarchi.
Western novel; Turkish novel; history and criticism; comparative study.
"Set in Cuba's Sierra Maestra in the 1950s, in the days leading up to the Revolution--Manchette's unfinished masterpiece with a fearless female protagonist. Four of the ten titles in Jean-Patrick Manchette's celebrated 1970s cycle of hard-boiled novels, which the author originally dubbed neo-polars, or "neo-crime novels," have now appeared in English translation. Manchette is beginning to have a significant following among English-language readers, as witness chatter in cyberspace, favorable reviews, increasing sales, and the fact that the latest entrant, The Mad and the Bad (New York Review Books), won the 2014 French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Donald Nicholson-Smith. Ivory Pearl, aka Princesse du sang, published posthumously -and unfinished- in 1996, is considered by many French critics to be Manchette's masterpiece. In the early 1980s Manchette abandoned his attempt to "press the roman noir into the service of the social revolution" and turned his pen to other things. By the end of that decade, however, he resolved to start anew, though now working on a broader, "geopolitical" canvas. Inspiration came now less from Hammett's Red Harvest than from John Le Carre and, especially, from the works of Ross Thomas that Manchette had been translating. Sadly, Manchette's early death from cancer in 1995 put an end to this grand project. What remains, however, is Ivory Pearl, set mainly in Cuba's Sierra Maestra in the 1950s. The book will not disappoint those who admire Manchette's mastery of suspense and penchant for dauntless feminine protagonists"--
