What do you do when you see a white rabbit in a vest darting across the lawn consulting a pocket watch? You follow him, of course. So begins Alice's adventure into a world populated by talking animals and wrathful queens, littered with pastries that make people shrink...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-12-19

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One of English literature's classic masterpieces—a gripping novel of love, propriety, and tragedy. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence....

Editeur : Pomodoro Classics
Parution : 2024-12-14

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First published in 1908, E. M. Forster’s “A Room with a View” is the story of a young English middle-class girl named Lucy Honeychurch. As the novel opens we find Lucy touring Italy with her overbearing older cousin and chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett. The two are upset...

Editeur : Pomodoro Classics
Parution : 2024-12-14

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"The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux is a timeless and captivating tale of love, obsession, and tragedy. The story revolves around the enigmatic and mysterious Phantom, a musical genius who haunts the Paris Opera House. Behind a mask of horror, the Phantom hides...

Editeur : CLXII
Parution : 2024-12-11

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Sir Thomas Bertram is the owner of the luxurious Mansfield Park estate, where he lives with his wife Maria and four children. Lady Bertram's sister Frances, on the other hand, is in more dire straits, so much so that she is forced to ask for help from the Bertrams...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-12-01

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Catherine Morland, the novel's protagonist, is invited to spend a few days at the former Northanger Abbey, the home of the family of the young Anglican pastor to whom she is engaged and who believes her to be a wealthy heiress. Impressed by the place and even more so by...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-12-01

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Jane Austen is one of the few truly great writers who have managed to break into the hearts and minds of all readers, without exception. Among her many masterpieces, “Pride and Prejudice” is surely the most popular and beloved: the five daughters of the unforgettable...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-12-01

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Anne Elliot, the novel's protagonist, made a mistake: as a very young girl, barely nineteen, she allowed herself to be persuaded by the opposition of her father, Sir Walter, and the “persuasion” of Lady Russell to break off her engagement to the very young but poor...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-12-01

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The setting is the lush English countryside. We are at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Three sisters lose their father, coming into financial straits because of their sister-in-law's greed.The chain reactions generated by the sudden poverty will profoundly...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-12-01

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Jane Austen tells the story of Emma Woodhouse, a beautiful, wealthy and intelligent woman who is vain and self-centered; she is not interested in romantic love and therefore believes that she should not marry, although the customs of the society of the time see marriage...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-12-01

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Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and charming recent widow, visits her brother and sister-in-law, Charles and Catherine, with little advance notice at Churchill, their country residence. Catherine is far from pleased, asLady Susan had tried to prevent her marriage to...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-12-01

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It is 1995, and intelligence operative Lora Chandler, a.k.a. Agent Vogel,is tasked withinvestigating the claim that Professor Simon Blackmarr has cracked the invisibilityproblem. A mission that leads her back to the half-forgotten beach town of Lancaster,Florida. Home...

Editeur : Books We Love Ltd.
Parution : 2024-11-16

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When Joyce is born in the East India Company’s Madras Presidency, her bad mother rejects her but her father, an earl’s youngest son, adores her. As a child Joyce is afraid of her mother. Only time will tell if her stepbrother, Sylvester and his friend, Vivian de Lancy...

Editeur : Books We Love Ltd.
Parution : 2024-10-12

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Claudio Cantelmo, uno degli ultimi esponenti del casato abruzzese della Majella, vorrebbe avere un erede. Desidera generare un successore che, superuomo come lui, possa dominare sia al livello politico che intellettuale su Roma. Il tentativo naufraga quandoClaudio tenta...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-10-08

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Romanzo anomalo nell'opera di D'Annunzio, L'innocente abbandona la prosa decadentista del Piacere per narrare la storia del principe Tullio Hermil, la cui vita familiare scorre serenamente, sino a quando Giuliana, la moglie, lo tradisce con lo scrittore Filippo Arborio....

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-10-08

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Primo romanzo di una mai realizzata trilogia del Melagrano, "Il fuoco" fu pubblicato con grande successo nel 1900. Il mito del Superuomo trova qui la sua più compiuta espressione: Stelio Effrena, il Superuomo-artista, cosciente dei suoi diritti di individuo eccezionale,...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-10-07

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Romanzo breve che ha tutto il sapore dei grandi romanzi russi, Giovanni Episcopo demolisce le ultime influenze del naturalismo, in favore di una introspezione psicologica che intende indagare la personalità e le più minute reazioni dei personaggi. L’opera è un unicum...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-10-07

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"BRINNARIA!", sagte er streng, "du wirst jeden Mann heiraten, den ich bestimme." "Ich werde nie einen Mann heiraten", erwiderte sie positiv, "außer den Mann, den ich heiraten will." Sie blickte unerschrocken in die herrischen Augen ihres Vaters, die weit auf beiden...

Editeur : Bathranor Books
Parution : 2024-10-02

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Forse che sì forse che no, ultima prova narrativa in senso stretto di D'Annunzio, è il romanzo della modernità: come un novello Icaro, Paolo Tarsis, il protagonista, sogna di oltrepassare i limiti umani confidando nel futuro della tecnologia. Amori, ardimento e follia...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-09-29

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Al centro de Il piacere domina la figura di Andrea Sperelli: conte, elegantissimo, amante del lusso, alto, poeta e acquafortista di soave sensibilità. Abbandonato nel colmo della passione dall'amante, Elena Muti, Andrea cerca di dimenticarla in un turbine di esperienze...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-09-29

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