'A book that confronts the purity of fact, the tyranny of memory, and the totalitarianism of family like no other' Jhumpa Lahiri'Intense, sharply imagined and fascinating' Colm Toibin'On that day, ten years ago, I saw my parents for the last time.
Pilote de guerre (1942) est le temoignage d'un aviateur francais qui, au c ur de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, entreprend une perilleuse mission de reconnaissance au-dessus d'un pays ravage par l'invasion et le chaos.
Testigo de los muchos cambios socioeconómicos y políticos que continuaban erosionando los principios republicanos, y de los innumerables intentos por recomponer el imaginario colectivo democrático norteamericano a través de nuevas formas de intervención públicas, Whitman, fervoroso creyente en las posibilidades que encerraba la prensa como herramienta ideológica al servicio de la mejora social, elabora en estas narraciones una voz profundamente enraizada en las retóricas populares y sensacionalistas de preguerra, con el fin de restañar las heridas abiertas en la utópica comunidad republicana imaginada por los padres fundadores.
Un viaggio straordinario tra mondi immaginari che continua ad affascinare lettori di ogni eta con la sua avventura, la sua ironia e la sua profonda riflessione sulla natura umana.
The third and final volume of Jane Austen's juvenilia closes her teenage writing career on its sharpest note yet - including Catharine, or the Bower, her longest and most emotionally mature early work, alongside further burlesques and unfinished sketches that show a writer testing exactly how far she could push a joke before the whole novel collapsed into glorious nonsense.
Un abril encantado (1922) narra la historia de cuatro mujeres inglesas, muy distintas entre si, que deciden escapar de la monotonia de sus vidas alquilando un antiguo castillo en la costa italiana durante el mes de abril.
Jock of the Bushveld is the classic and much-loved story based on the true experiences of Sir Percy Fitzpatrick and his Staffordshire bull terrier, Jock.
Un potente ritratto dell'ambizione, del sacrificio e delle contraddizioni della societa che ha consacrato Giovanni Verga tra i grandi maestri della letteratura italiana.
90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksSaadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the partition of India and Pakistan like no other.
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit.
