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Abstract/Sommario: In 1908 the young Katherine Mansfield left her native New Zealand and went to London, intent on a literary career. She died fifteen years later, leaving behind an extraordinary collection of stories. Katherine Mansfield: Seven Short Stories brings together some of her best fiction, such as "Bliss", "At the Bay", and "The Garden-Party". It also gives the reader a sense of Mansfield's artistic development: the young, brash, exciting voice of "The Swing of the Pendulum"; the mature and in ...; [Leggi tutto...] In 1908 the young Katherine Mansfield left her native New Zealand and went to London, intent on a literary career. She died fifteen years later, leaving behind an extraordinary collection of stories. Katherine Mansfield: Seven Short Stories brings together some of her best fiction, such as "Bliss", "At the Bay", and "The Garden-Party". It also gives the reader a sense of Mansfield's artistic development: the young, brash, exciting voice of "The Swing of the Pendulum"; the mature and innovative style of "Prelude", the structural perfection of "The Doll's House"; and the measured black humour of one of her last stories, "The Fly". Between them, these stories exemplify Mansfield's major thematic concerns (childhood, parenthood, the relation between the sexes), her settings (Germany, New Zeland, England), and the characteristics that made her reputation as a leading modernist and short story writer.

Abstract/Sommario: In Lansquenet, a quiet village in the center of France, life flows peacefully. A little too placid: it is a closed community, where mainly elderly farmers and artisans remain, dominated with rude benevolence by the young curate Francis Reynaud. It's Shrove Tuesday - a pagan tradition opposed by the church - when Vianne Rocher and her young daughter Anouk arrive in the village. The woman is very nice and original, sexy and mysterious, perhaps she is the remissary of superior (or perhaps ...; [Leggi tutto...] In Lansquenet, a quiet village in the center of France, life flows peacefully. A little too placid: it is a closed community, where mainly elderly farmers and artisans remain, dominated with rude benevolence by the young curate Francis Reynaud. It's Shrove Tuesday - a pagan tradition opposed by the church - when Vianne Rocher and her young daughter Anouk arrive in the village. The woman is very nice and original, sexy and mysterious, perhaps she is the remissary of superior (or perhaps inferior) powers. Vianne takes over an old pastry shop, renamed La Celeste Praline, which soon becomes - in the eyes of the curate - an element of disorder. Also because Vianne does not attend church but begins to help those in difficulty in her own way: the solitary retired teacher Guillaume, the rebellious teenager Jeannot, the kleptomaniac Josephine, the eccentric Armande. Soon the quiet village becomes more disorderly, rebellious and above all happy. And the clash between Benthinkers and Gourmands, between the earthly delights offered by Vianne and the heavenly ones promised by Father Reynaud, between Carnival and Lent, becomes inevitable.

Abstract/Sommario: What do you do when the man in your life lets you down? Show him the door? Chuck his clothes out of the window? Cut the crotch from his trousers? If only it was that easy - especially when you've got an eight-year-old daughter to think about and a part-time job that barely pays the milk bill. Nessa Riley, who believes that with her husband, her little girl, and the home she loves, she has it all, is suddenly faced with the hardest decision of her life. Can she ignore what Adam seems to ...; [Leggi tutto...] What do you do when the man in your life lets you down? Show him the door? Chuck his clothes out of the window? Cut the crotch from his trousers? If only it was that easy - especially when you've got an eight-year-old daughter to think about and a part-time job that barely pays the milk bill. Nessa Riley, who believes that with her husband, her little girl, and the home she loves, she has it all, is suddenly faced with the hardest decision of her life. Can she ignore what Adam seems to be up to and hang on to the happiness they've enjoyed for the past ten years? Can they wipe the slate clean and start again? Or, as her sisters appear to think, has he really got to go?

Abstract/Sommario: After backpacking her way around India, 21-year-old Sarah Macdonald decided that she hated this land of chaos and contradiction with a passion, and when an airport beggar read her palm and insisted she would come back one day - and for love - she vowed never to return.

But twelve years later the prophecy comes true when her partner, ABC's South Asia correspondent, is posted to New Delhi, the most polluted city on earth. Having given up a blossoming radio career in Sydney to follow her ...; [Leggi tutto...] After backpacking her way around India, 21-year-old Sarah Macdonald decided that she hated this land of chaos and contradiction with a passion, and when an airport beggar read her palm and insisted she would come back one day - and for love - she vowed never to return.

But twelve years later the prophecy comes true when her partner, ABC's South Asia correspondent, is posted to New Delhi, the most polluted city on earth. Having given up a blossoming radio career in Sydney to follow her new boyfriend to India, it seems like the ultimate sacrifice and it almost kills Sarah - literally. After being cursed by a sadhu smeared in human ashes, she nearly dies from double pneumonia. It's enough to send a rapidly balding atheist on a wild rollercoaster ride through India's many religions in search of the meaning of life and death.

Abstract/Sommario: When peace is torn apart by bloody Danish steel, Uhtred must fight to save a king who distrusts him. Skeptical of a treaty between the Vikings and Wessex, Uhtred takes his talent for mayhem to Cornwall, gaining treasure and a mysterious woman on the way. But when he is accused of massacring Christians, he finds lies can be as deadly as steel. Still, when pious King Alfred flees to a watery refuge, it is the pagan warrior he relies on. Now Uhtred must fight a battle which will shape his ...; [Leggi tutto...] When peace is torn apart by bloody Danish steel, Uhtred must fight to save a king who distrusts him. Skeptical of a treaty between the Vikings and Wessex, Uhtred takes his talent for mayhem to Cornwall, gaining treasure and a mysterious woman on the way. But when he is accused of massacring Christians, he finds lies can be as deadly as steel. Still, when pious King Alfred flees to a watery refuge, it is the pagan warrior he relies on. Now Uhtred must fight a battle which will shape history – and confront the Viking with the banner of the white horse … Uhtred of Bebbanburg’s mind is as sharp as his sword. A thorn in the side of the priests and nobles who shape his fate, this Saxon raised by Vikings is torn between the life he loves and those he has sworn to serve.

Abstract/Sommario: Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.

Abstract/Sommario: He protagonist is Dorian Gray, a young man whose beauty fascinates a painter Basil Hallward, who decides to portray him. Once the picture is finished, Dorian, expresses a wish of eternal youth: the portrait would absorb all the sign of age while he remain forever in his youthful perfection. The wish comes true (il desiderio viene esaudito), over the years while the portrait grows old and ugly while Dorian’s appearance remains unchanged. Dorian lives only for pleasure, making use of eve ...; [Leggi tutto...] He protagonist is Dorian Gray, a young man whose beauty fascinates a painter Basil Hallward, who decides to portray him. Once the picture is finished, Dorian, expresses a wish of eternal youth: the portrait would absorb all the sign of age while he remain forever in his youthful perfection. The wish comes true (il desiderio viene esaudito), over the years while the portrait grows old and ugly while Dorian’s appearance remains unchanged. Dorian lives only for pleasure, making use of everybody and letting people die because of his insensitivity. When Dorian, totally corrupt and evil, sees the corrupted images of the portrait decides to destroy the portrait and begin a new life. But in doing so he kills himself. The portrait is magically restored to its original image of Dorian’s youthful perfection while the real Dorian’s features in death become those of a hideous, disgusting old man.

Abstract/Sommario: Gli elefanti, si sa, sono grandi, grossi e davvero pesantissimi. Sono fatti così. Anche Paolone era così. Non era cattivo, ma non era piacevole, per chi era piccolo, basso e leggero, incontrarlo. Ma un giorno Paolone si ritrova ad essere il più piccolo e allora tutto cambia… In occasione dei 20 anni dalla prima pubblicazione della collana Bollicine arrivano le Bubbles, per avvicinare i più piccoli all'apprendimento della lingua inglese. Testi semplici con audiolibro per affinare la pro ...; [Leggi tutto...] Gli elefanti, si sa, sono grandi, grossi e davvero pesantissimi. Sono fatti così. Anche Paolone era così. Non era cattivo, ma non era piacevole, per chi era piccolo, basso e leggero, incontrarlo. Ma un giorno Paolone si ritrova ad essere il più piccolo e allora tutto cambia… In occasione dei 20 anni dalla prima pubblicazione della collana Bollicine arrivano le Bubbles, per avvicinare i più piccoli all'apprendimento della lingua inglese. Testi semplici con audiolibro per affinare la pronuncia e un apparato finale utile all'apprendimento e alla memorizzazione dei vocaboli.

Abstract/Sommario: C'era una volta un bel lago, c'era una volta una natura gioiosa e incontaminata... ma un bel giorno le acque del lago si increspano e appare una grande sorpresa! In occasione dei 20 anni dalla prima pubblicazione della collana Bollicine arrivano le Bubbles, per avvicinare i più piccoli all'apprendimento della lingua inglese. Testi semplici con audiolibro per affinare la pronuncia e un apparato finale utile all'apprendimento e alla memorizzazione dei vocaboli.

Abstract/Sommario: The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville brings Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to Dartmoor in the most famous of all of Arthur Conan Doyle's books. Is Sir Charles the latest victim of the ancestral Curse of the Baskervilles, which summons a demonic hound to stalk the moor and exact vengeance for a past misdeed, or is there a more modern, more prosaic explanation for the sudden death? In The Hound of the Baskervilles, the modern, rational world, and the ancient, supernatural world ...; [Leggi tutto...] The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville brings Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to Dartmoor in the most famous of all of Arthur Conan Doyle's books. Is Sir Charles the latest victim of the ancestral Curse of the Baskervilles, which summons a demonic hound to stalk the moor and exact vengeance for a past misdeed, or is there a more modern, more prosaic explanation for the sudden death? In The Hound of the Baskervilles, the modern, rational world, and the ancient, supernatural world collide in the novel which brought Sherlock Holmes back from the dead.