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Nikolaj Gogol è universalmente noto per la sua abilità nel ritrarre la società e l'uomo con un tocco di ironia e surreale visione del mondo che sfociano spesso nell'aperta genialità. La sua scrittura offre profonda introspezione psicologica dei personaggi, intessendo un...
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Cactus
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2024-09-14
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Fantasies are places we briefly visit; we can’t live there. The stories in WidowFantasies deftly explore the subjugation of women through the often subversive act of fantasizing. From a variety of perspectives, through a symphony of voices, WidowFantasies immerses the...
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Gordon Hill Press
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2024-09-01
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A risk-taking, labyrinthine, and absolutely original collection of short stories.Every Night I Dream I'm a Monk, Every Night I Dream I’m a Monster offers an unfolding puzzle of the human psyche that is at once explosive, funny, dark, sweet, pained, and utterly strange....
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Freehand Books
Parution :
2024-09-01
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Fra gli scritti meno conosciuti di Tolstoj si nascondono dei veri gioielli. È il caso dei racconti "I due pellegrini" e "Il primo distillatore", racconti morali e solidi nei quali Tolstoj dà sfoggio della sua maestria nella narrazione di vicende apparentemente minute,...
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Cactus
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2024-08-09
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Tolstoy composes the theme of love and marriage, which then also troubled him in his private life, with a narrative in which the protagonist's bitter voice becomes sharp dramatic representation. Far from being a tragedy of jealousy, The Kreutzer Sonata is the drama of...
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Cactus
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2024-07-31
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Questo libro contiene storie delicate e avventurose insieme che parlano di briganti e di animali, di ricci, di volpi, di cavalli, di passeri, di struzzi e di pappagalli. L'autore, Antonio Gramsci, le scrisse per i propri figli mentre si trovava in carcere dove era stato...
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Cactus
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2024-07-22
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"The Overcoat" which is generally acknowledged as the finest of Gogol's memorable Saint Petersburg stories, is a tale of the absurd and misplaced obsessions. From the Father of the Golden Age of Russian Literature, Nicolai Gogol’s The Overcoat is one of the greatest...
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Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2024-03-30
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In this poignant and meditative collection of short stories, Zubair Ahmad captures the lives and experiences of the people of the Punjab, a region divided between India and Pakistan.In an intimate narrative style, Ahmad writes a world that hovers between memory and...
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AU Press
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2024-02-22
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The eleven interconnected stories inThe World Is But a Broken Heart follow the Fitzpatricks, a blue-collar family constantly followed by bad luck. Dale, Kenny, and Patrick are tied to each other as only brothers can be. They antagonize each other, fight and argue. More...
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Signature Editions
Parution :
2023-11-09
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Intergenerational conflicts unfold in a context of environmental change and degradation in this eerily original debut short fiction collection.
Emily Paskevics takes her characters--mothers, daughters, fathers, sisters--into the wilderness to lose themselves in their...
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Thistledown Press
Parution :
2023-09-05
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Curious, uncanny tales blending Indigenous oral storytelling and meticulous style, from an electric voice in Canadian fictionThese are stories that are a little bit larger than life, or maybe they really happened. Tales that could be told 'round the campfire, each...
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Freehand Books
Parution :
2023-09-01
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With its twenty short stories, A Fall Afternoon in the Park invites the reader deep into the interior worlds of Iranian women living in both Iran and Canada. In "Rainy Day," a little girl longs for a doll with golden hair; in "Adopted Child," a successful business...
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Inanna Publications
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2023-06-27
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In “The Net,” a girl and her mother arrive at their secluded cabin on a frozen lake to find their fishing net has been attacked, a massive hole ripped through the middle. After the net has been mended and the night’s catch eaten, the daughter sits awake playing with a...
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Inhabit Media
Parution :
2023-05-16
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End Times is an astounding debut collection of stories about evangelical culture, ideological polarization, and the messiness and mysteries of humanity.A Vancouver mother convinces her opioid-addicted son to attend church, and sparks her own personal emergency. A...
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Freehand Books
Parution :
2023-05-01
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A compelling and inventive collection about the ways we leave and the reasons we choose what to leave behind.Framed within a tale about a journalist investigating choices of life and death, the eighteen stories in this collection explore restlessness, belonging,...
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Freehand Books
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2023-05-01
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A Danuta Gleed finalist and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize, this collection of short stories breaks through the surface of authoritarian religion and families, and into the lives of the women and children often trapped within its constraints.Set on the Canadian...
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Tidewater Press
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2023-04-25
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Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John...
Editeur :
Andrii Ponomarenko
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2023-04-03
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John Meade Falkner was an English novelist and poet, best known for his 1898 novel Moonfleet. An extremely successful businessman, he became chairman of the arms manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth during World War I.
The Lost Stradivarius is a short novel of ghosts and...
Editeur :
Andrii Ponomarenko
Parution :
2023-03-15
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Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 — January 10, 1951) was an American writer and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded “for his vigorous...
Editeur :
Andrii Ponomarenko
Parution :
2023-03-15
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Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.
Cather admired Henry...
Editeur :
Andrii Ponomarenko
Parution :
2023-03-08
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