The beloved Australian classic, published in a stunning Penguin Clothbound Classics edition for the first timeMiles Franklin s debut novel follows the vivacious and rebellious sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvyn closely modelled on Franklin herself as she fights to break free of restrictive bush life.
A cuarenta años de su publicación, El frasquito sigue siendo un libro único en la literatura argentina, sigue deslumbrando con su lengua y su mundo, y es un emblema de la escritura entendida como una ética, como un mandato que el estilo, si tal cosa existe, configura.
Rediscover the brilliance of Down Among the Women in the Mermaid Collection timeless classics by pioneering female authors, beautifully reissued to enchant today s readers.
Esta novela de Armando Melhado Orellana nos conduce por la vida de un protagonista marcado por multiples rostros: el de la inocencia, el de la amistad, el de la violencia impuesta y el del deseo de superacion.
Der Minister bekommt es mit seiner Mutter zu tun – eine Satire von Wolfgang SchorlauWolfgang Schorlau liefert die Komödie zur richtigen Zeit: über ein Politikmilieu, das im Angesicht der Klimakatastrophe nur nach Macht und dem kurzfristigen Vorteil giert – gleichermaßen schrecklich komisch und unheimlich nah an der Wirklichkeit.
Es handelt sich um eine Gedichtsammlung mit 97 Gedichten, ein zusammengefasstes Kunstwerk lyrischer Poesie die eine große Bandbreite verschiedener Emotionen und Gefühlslagen umfasst.
Step into the opulent world of Gilded Age New York, where love and duty collide in Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, The Age of Innocence.
Through a deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Lee Lawrence seamlessly combines historical fact with his dramatic first-hand experiences of racial injustice to present vivid stories - from the Somali sailor who was wrongly convicted of murder in Cardiff in 1952 to the assault on professional footballer Dalian Atkinson and from the hounding of Notting Hill's Mangrove Club to Black Lives Matter - that chronicle how Britain's Black community has been mistreated.
'A gut punch of a novel' BOBBY PALMER'Thrillingly alive' ANDREW McMILLAN'A storm of a novel' LUCY ROSE'Truly propulsive writing'IRISH TIMES'One of the most gripping novels I've read in a long time' SAMIRA AHMED, Front Row, BBC Radio 4A powerful new novel following a young man as he weighs up the life of safety that his parents want for him and another path on the streets outside his door, from the acclaimed author of Good Intentions.
