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Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll
Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll
Percy Jackson Collection
Percy Jackson Collection
Girl in Pieces
Girl in Pieces
My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly “Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —Vogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
If Cats Disappeared From The World
If Cats Disappeared From The World
The Sun Is Also a Star
The Sun Is Also a Star
Heartstopper, Volume 1
Heartstopper, Volume 1
Ace of Spades
Ace of Spades
Bunny
Bunny
The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, 3)
The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, 3)
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, 2)
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, 2)
Flights
Flights
Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Little Women: The Original 1868 Edition with 200 Illustrations (A Classic Novel Of Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women: The Original 1868 Edition with 200 Illustrations (A Classic Novel Of Louisa May Alcott)
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men
Przedwiosnie
Przedwiosnie
Zdazyc przed Panem Bogiem
Zdazyc przed Panem Bogiem
Dead Poets Society
Dead Poets Society
Lolita
Lolita
1984
1984
Edizione originale in lingua inglese, con nota introduttiva in italiano<br/><br/>”Il potere non è un mezzo, è un fine. Non si stabilisce una dittatura nell’intento di salvaguardare una rivoluzione; ma si fa una rivoluzione nell’intento di stabilire una dittatura. Il fine della persecuzione è la persecuzione. Il fine della tortura è la tortura. Il fine del potere è il potere.”<br/><br/>Il romanzo, pubblicato pochi anni dopo la conclusione del secondo conflitto mondiale, è una spietata e profetica riflessione sul potere. È considerato una delle più lucide rappresentazioni del totalitarismo e anche uno dei primi e più importanti esempi di romanzo distopico. L’azione si svolge infatti in un futuro prossimo del mondo (l’anno 1984) in cui il potere si concentra in tre immensi superstati: Oceania (con capitale Londra), Eurasia ed Estasia. Al vertice del potere politico in Oceania c’è il Grande Fratello (“Big Brother”), onnisciente e infallibile, che nessuno ha visto di persona ma di cui ovunque sono visibili grandi manifesti. Il Ministero della Verità, nel quale lavora il protagonista Smith, ha il compito di censurare libri e giornali non in linea con la politica ufficiale, di alterare la storia e di ridurre le possibilità espressive della lingua. Per quanto sia tenuto sotto controllo da telecamere, Smith comincia però a condurre un'esistenza “sovversiva”.<br/><br/>“Big Brother is watching you”: con questo slogan l’autore britannico ha mostrato la propria lungimiranza, ponendo l’accento su uno dei temi più caldi al giorno d’oggi: il controllo del potere sull’opinione pubblica perpetrato mediante i mezzi di comunicazione. Pietra miliare della letteratura inglese, 1984 è uno dei romanzi più conosciuti e forse più controversi del secolo scorso. Un romanzo in grado di smuovere le coscienze e di portare il lettore a riflettere sul passato, sul presente e soprattutto sul futuro.<br/><br/>George Orwell è lo pseudonimo di Eric Arthur Blair, nato in India da una famiglia scozzese nel 1903 e morto a Londra nel 1950. Giornalista culturale, saggista, critico letterario, Orwell è oggi considerato uno dei maggiori autori di lingua inglese del Novecento.<br/><br/>Con nota introduttiva.<br/>Collana Il Disoriente - Luoghi della lettura
The Cruel Prince
The Cruel Prince
To Read
Daisy Jones and The Six
Daisy Jones and The Six
A Little Life
A Little Life
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
Gulliver's Travels (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)
Gulliver's Travels (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)
Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel
Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
A Certain Hunger
A Certain Hunger
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Caraval
Caraval
The Atlas Six
The Atlas Six
The Stolen Heir
The Stolen Heir
Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orisha Book 2)
Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orisha Book 2)
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha Book 1)
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha Book 1)
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
The Body in the Library
The Body in the Library
The ABC Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot series Book 13)
The ABC Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot series Book 13)
Sense and Sensibility (UBSPD's World Classics)
Sense and Sensibility (UBSPD's World Classics)
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov
White Nights
White Nights
The Scarlet Letter (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)
The Scarlet Letter (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)
Moby Dick: Herman Melville's Original Adventure Classic
Moby Dick: Herman Melville's Original Adventure Classic
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper
War and Peace (Vintage Classics)
War and Peace (Vintage Classics)
To the lighthouse : Virginia Woolf
To the lighthouse : Virginia Woolf
American Psycho: Bret Easton Ellis (Picador Collection, 1)
American Psycho: Bret Easton Ellis (Picador Collection, 1)
The Virgin Suicides
The Virgin Suicides
The Last Wish Introducing the Witcher
The Last Wish Introducing the Witcher
