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Un’opera unica e spiazzante, La desinenza in A si erge come un caso letterario a sé stante, un ibrido geniale tra il saggio polemico e la prosa d’arte. Carlo Dossi, con la sua scrittura icastica e anticonformista, non ci consegna un romanzo tradizionale, ma un vorticoso...
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Cactus
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2025-09-27
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Dead Souls tells of the adventures of a small landowner who wanders the Russian province in search of serfs. In order to get rich from land in the governorate, he in fact needs to have a certain number of peasants, which is why he devises the dead souls trick. Leaving...
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Cactus
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2024-10-20
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Un uomo, durante un viaggio in treno, confessa a uno sconosciuto di aver presentato alla moglie un avventuriero, gran seduttore e abile musicista, dando così inizio a un gioco che si sarebbe rivelato tragicamente beffardo. Tolstoj compone il tema dell'amore e del...
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Cactus
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2024-08-05
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Ivan Il'ic è un borghese di buona famiglia, di discreta intelligenza, costantemente preoccupato del parere dei superiori. Anche il suo matrimonio è piatto: ha sposato la moglie più per convenienza sociale che per amore. Tutto procede al meglio, fin quando il...
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Cactus
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2024-08-05
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Facendo parte della giuria in un processo per omicidio, un principe riconosce in una prostituta accusata di omicidio una contadina che aveva sedotto dieci anni prima, causandone la rovina. Mentre il principe affronta le conseguenze delle sue azioni, decide di...
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Cactus
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2024-08-05
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Prince Muishkin, the last heir of a noble fallen family, is a man who searches in the depths of his conscience for the essential motives of his way of being, moved by candid faith in human brotherhood and the purpose of doing his duty with honesty and sincerity....
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Cactus
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2024-07-30
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In the form of a monologue-confession, Notes from Underground” is the story of a prostitute's failed redemption and, at the same time, a tormented investigation into the unconscious - the “underground” - and the impossibility of fully understanding one's own essence and...
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Cactus
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2024-07-30
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Between 1850 and 1854 Dostoevsky, imprisoned in the fortress of Omsk, Siberia, served a sentence for political reasons. The four years he spent there, re-created in The House of the Dead, were the most agonizing of his life. The narrating character is a former uxoricide...
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Cactus
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2024-07-30
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A young dreamer, in the vaguely restless magic of Nordic white nights, meets a mysterious maiden and experiences his "sentimental education," marked by a rude awakening resulting in a return to reality.A lyrical, inspired Dostoevsky begins to reflect on the disillusions...
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Cactus
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2024-07-18
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A delightfully cunning, sharply insightful novel about ambition and subterfuge from the author of the Giller-longlisted novelA Beauty.
This novel's unnamed narrator is so obsessed with the desire to write the biography of her literary hero, the late poet Marianne...
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Thistledown Press
Parution :
2024-05-14
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Luka Dekker and her sister Connie are the inheritors of a secretive and disturbing family history going back three generations to the disappearance of their great-grandfather. Their troubled mother, Lark, also mysteriously disappeared; and their beloved grandmother, who...
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Radiant Press
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2022-10-15
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Tess has just moved to Montreal from Nova Scotia, and seeks to lose herself by getting involved in the lives of others. She befriends an older man while delivering meals to the elderly. Her interest in his past veers into obsession after she furtively goes through his...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2022-08-29
Collection :
Baraka Fiction
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Thelma's marriage is unravelling as her oblivious husband Wally rediscovers his youthful obsession with Che Guevara. When Rosa, a young Cuban poet, joins his writing group, he unexpectedly books a trip to Cuba. Thelma decides to join him and discovers that he has...
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Radiant Press
Parution :
2021-10-15
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Isolated from society in a tenement basement in St. Petersburg, a malicious former civil servant vents his resentments. In the rambling notes that follow, we are exposed to the inner turmoil of the Underground Man, who represents the voice of his generation. An...
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ClassicBooks
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2020-11-19
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The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly...
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ClassicBooks by KTHTK
Parution :
2020-11-19
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Through the story of the brilliant but conflicted young Raskolnikov and the murder he commits, Fyodor Dostoyevsky explores the theme of redemption through suffering. “Crime and Punishment” put Dostoyevsky at the forefront of Russian writers when it appeared in 1866 and...
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ClassicBooks by KTHTK
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2020-11-17
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Symphony No. 3 follows the life of renowned French composer Camille Saint-Saëns as he ascends from child prodigy to worldwide fame. As his acclaim grows in Paris, the musical world around him clamours with competitors, dilettantes, turncoats and revenge seekers. At...
Editeur :
Book*hug Press
Parution :
2019-10-08
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Through the story of the brilliant but conflicted young Raskolnikov and the murder he commits, Fyodor Dostoyevsky explores the theme of redemption through suffering. “Crime and Punishment” put Dostoyevsky at the forefront of Russian writers when it appeared in 1866 and...
Editeur :
The Classics
Parution :
2019-01-14
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The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly...
Editeur :
The Classics
Parution :
2019-01-14
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This book contains the complete novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the chronological order of their original publication.
- Poor Folk
- The Double
- Netochka Nezvanova
- The Village of Stepanchikovo
- Uncle's Dream
- The Insulted and the Injured
- The House of the Dead
-...
Editeur :
The Classics
Parution :
2019-01-08
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