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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling · 2015
<p><i>Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'.</i><br><br>Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!<br><br><br><i>Having become classics of our time, the Harry Potter eBooks never fail to bring comfort and escapism. With their message of hope, belonging and the enduring power of truth and love, the story of the Boy Who Lived continues to delight generations of new readers.</i></p>
Follia
Patrick McGrath · 1998
Traduzione di Matteo Codignola . 8vo pp. 294 Brossura (wrappers) Molto buono (Very Good)
Breve storia del mondo
Gombrich Ernst H. · 1997
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude · 2020
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s.
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Il conte di Montecristo
Alexandre Dumas · 2019
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J.K. Rowling · 2015
'there Is A Plot, Harry Potter. A Plot To Make Most Terrible Things Happen At Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft And Wizardry This Year.' Harry Potter's Summer Has Included The Worst Birthday Ever, Doomy Warnings From A House-elf Called Dobby, And Rescue From The Dursleys By His Friend Ron Weasley In A Magical Flying Car! Back At Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft And Wizardry For His Second Year, Harry Hears Strange Whispers Echo Through Empty Corridors - And Then The Attacks Start. Students Are Found As Though Turned To Stone... Dobby's Sinister Predictions Seem To Be Coming True.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Moshfegh Ottessa · 2019
A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young woman’s experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature. Our narrator has many of the advantages of life, on the surface. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?<br/><br/>This story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs, designed to heal us from our alienation from this world, shows us how reasonable, even necessary, that alienation sometimes is. Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate – dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 – this novel is a showcase for the gifts of one of America’s major young writers working at the height of her powers.
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami · 2003
Alternate cover edition here.<br/><br/>When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.
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Septology
Jon Fosse · 2022
The celebrated Norwegian novelist’s magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, published in one volume for the first time.What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbour, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgängers – two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with existential questions about death, love, light and shadow, faith and hopelessness. Jon Fosse’s Septology is a transcendent exploration of the human condition, and a radically other reading experience – incantatory, hypnotic and utterly unique.‘Jon Fosse is a major European writer.’ – Karl Ove Knausgaard‘The Beckett of the twenty-first century.’ – Le Monde‘An extraordinary seven-novel sequence about an old man’s recursive reckoning with the braided realities of God, art, identity, family life and human life itself…the culminating project of an already major career.’ – Randy Boyagoda, New York Times‘A major work of Scandinavian fiction…Fosse has written a strange mystical moebius strip of a novel, in which an artist struggles with faith and loneliness, and watches himself, or versions of himself, fall away into the lower depths.’ – Hari Kunzru‘I hesitate to compare the experience of reading these works to the act of meditation. But that is the closest I can come to describing how something in the critical self is shed in the process of reading Fosse, only to be replaced by something more primal. A mood. An atmosphere. The sound of words moving on a page.’ – Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books
L'interprete dei malanni
Jhumpa Lahiri · 2000
Aphorisms
Oscar Wilde · 2016
La solitudine dei numeri primi
Paolo Giordano · 2010
<p>Alice ha sette anni e odia la scuola di sci, ma suo padre la obbliga ad andarci. È una mattina di nebbia fitta, lei ha freddo e il latte della colazione le pesa sullo stomaco. In cima alla seggiovia si separa dai compagni e, nascosta nella nebbia, se la fa addosso. Per la vergogna decide di scendere a valle da sola, ma finisce fuori pista, spezzandosi una gamba. Resta sola, incapace di muoversi, al fondo di un canalone innevato, a domandarsi se i lupi ci sono anche in inverno.<br> Mattia è un ragazzino intelligente con una gemella ritardata, Michela. La presenza costante della sorella umilia Mattia di fronte ai suoi coetanei. Per questo, la prima volta che un compagno di classe li invita entrambi alla sua festa, Mattia decide di lasciare Michela nel parco, con la promessa che tornerà presto da lei.<br> Questi due episodi iniziali, con le loro conseguenze irreversibili, saranno il marchio impresso a fuoco nelle vite di Alice e di Mattia, adolescenti, giovani e infine adulti. Le loro esistenze, così profondamente segnate, si incroceranno e i due protagonisti si scopriranno strettamente uniti eppure invincibilmente divisi. Come quei numeri speciali, che i matematici chiamano primi gemelli: due numeri primi separati da un solo numero pari, vicini ma mai abbastanza per toccarsi davvero.<br> Questo romanzo è la storia dolorosa e commovente di Alice e di Mattia, e dei personaggi che li affiancano nel loro percorso. Paolo Giordano tocca con sguardo lucido e profondo, con una scrittura di sorprendente fermezza e maturità, una materia che brucia per le sue implicazioni emotive. E regala ai lettori un romanzo capace di scuotere per come alterna momenti di durezza e di spietata tensione a scene più rarefatte e di trattenuta emozione, piene di sconsolata tenerezza e di tenace speranza.<br></p>
Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno
Italo Calvino
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka · 2009
"The Metamorphosis" (original German title: "Die Verwandlung") is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into an insect.
La brevità della vita (Italian Edition)
Seneca · 2022
A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf
Agostino
Alberto Moravia · 1997
Chess Story
Stefan Zweig · 2005
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological.<br/><br/>Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. How he came to possess his extraordinary grasp of the game of chess and at what cost lie at the heart of Zweig's story.<br/><br/>This new translation of Chess Story brings out the work's unusual mixture of high suspense and poignant reflection.
The Stranger Albert Camus
Albert Camus · 2021
Il sogno di un uomo ridicolo
Fëdor Dostoevskij · 2020
Catch-22
Joseph Heller and Christopher Buckley · 2011
BRAND NEW, Exactly same ISBN as listed, Please double check ISBN carefully before ordering.
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke · 2020
New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction World Fantasy Awards Finalist From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house-a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known. For readers of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane and fans of Madeline Miller's Circe, Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds.
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace · 2006
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1995
This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. But the first edition contained a number of errors resulting from Fitzgerald's extensive revisions and a rushed production schedule. Subsequent printings introduced further departures from the author's words. This edition, based on the Cambridge critical text, restores all the language of Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Drawing on the manuscript and surviving proofs of the novel, along with Fitzgerald's later revisions and corrections, this is the authorized text -- The Great Gatsby as Fitzgerald intended it.
