Fata Morgana
ISBN: 9781517180690 / Włoski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La notte dell'ultimo giorno dell'anno, il protagonista di questo racconto lungo decide di attraversare lo Stretto, su una semplice barca a remi, con l'intento di dimenticare una donna e riscoprire se stesso. Da questa idea, ripresa da un progetto poi non realizzato di uno spettacolo teatrale dello stesso autore, Piero Olmeda riprende alcuni dei temi che hanno fatto del romanzo breve "La Bellezza e la Bestia" un'opera dal fortissimo impatto emotivo. Non c'e limite, in queste pagine che a tratti sconfinano nella poesia, alla volonta di scendere nei pozzi piu oscuri dell'animo umano, cosi come...
La notte dell'ultimo giorno dell'anno, il protagonista di questo racconto lungo decide di attraversare lo Stretto, su una semplice barca a remi, con l...
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ZXEUTERO and ZXUTERA: A Relationship of the Future
ISBN: 9781514733349 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A poetic novel that explores the uncertainties of love between two time-traveling pod people. In their travels throughout the galaxy to document societies and civilizations, they dwell on earth for an extended study, This account captures their unique perspectives on life, and struggles with one another.
A poetic novel that explores the uncertainties of love between two time-traveling pod people. In their travels throughout the galaxy to document socie...
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Teddy Matters: Lost & Found
ISBN: 9781530890491 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Mystical Journey of Parsa: A Persian Allegorical Novelette
ISBN: 9781534935716 / Perski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Blazing Flames
ISBN: 9781534833548 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A dude stumbled on love at a time he was desperately in need of financial solution. The nascent love offered the solution and disappeared; only to reappear when the dude was on a meteoric rise to prominence on the wings of politics. But, alas She was opposed to a life in politics as her parents' political lives fetched her trauma and fenced her off freedom. In her craving for a quieter life outside politics, she turned her back on him she loved most and who loved her above all. Venturing into politics, the poor dude discovered his alarming parental origin. Somebody must right the wrongs ...
A dude stumbled on love at a time he was desperately in need of financial solution. The nascent love offered the solution and disappeared; only to rea...
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The Scarlet Plague
ISBN: 9781535365529 / Angielski / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith is one of the few survivors of the pre-plague era left alive in the San Francisco area, and as he realizes his time grows short, he tries to impart the value of knowledge and wisdom to his grandsons. But his efforts are in vain, for they live the primeval life of hunter-gatherers and ridicule his recollections of the past,...
The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. The story takes pla...
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The Abysmal Brute
ISBN: 9781535365154 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Abysmal Brute is a novel by American writer Jack London, first published in book form in 1913. It is a short novel, and could be regarded as a novelette. It first appeared in September 1911 in Popular Magazine. In the story, a successful boxer, who was brought up in a log cabin and knows little of the real world, begins to realize the corrupt practices in the game of boxing.
The Abysmal Brute is a novel by American writer Jack London, first published in book form in 1913. It is a short novel, and could be regarded as a nov...
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Dutch Courage and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781535361682 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jack London was quoted as saying, "I've never written a line that I'd be ashamed for my young daughters to read, and I never shall write such a line " After his death in 1916, his wife Charmian assembled a collection of stories, most of which he had written for young readers, but at least one of which was for more mature readers, "Whose Business is to Live." Like most of London's work, his short stories could be read by young readers and then again when they were older with mature minds. These stories draw from London's own extensive experience in the world and demonstrate the dictum that...
Jack London was quoted as saying, "I've never written a line that I'd be ashamed for my young daughters to read, and I never shall write such a line "...
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A Son of the Sun
ISBN: 9781535361002 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Son of the Sun is a 1912 novel by Jack London. It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight separate stories. David Grief is a forty-year-old English adventurer who came to the South seas years ago and became rich. As a businessman he owns offices in Sydney, but he is rarely there. Since his wealth spreads over a lot of islands, Grief has some adventures while going among these islands. London depicts the striking panorama of the South seas with adventurers, scoundrels, swindlers, pirates, and cannibals.
A Son of the Sun is a 1912 novel by Jack London. It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight separate st...
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The Inspector General
ISBN: 9781535330145 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Government Inspector, also known as The Inspector General, is a satirical play by the Russian and Ukrainian dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol. Originally published in 1836, the play was revised for an 1842 edition. Based upon an anecdote allegedly recounted to Gogol by Pushkin, the play is a comedy of errors, satirizing human greed, stupidity, and the extensive political corruption of Imperial Russia. According to D. S. Mirsky, the play "is not only supreme in character and dialogue - it is one of the few Russian plays constructed with unerring art from beginning to end. The great...
The Government Inspector, also known as The Inspector General, is a satirical play by the Russian and Ukrainian dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol. ...
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The Nose
ISBN: 9781535329866 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Nose" is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol written during his time living in St. Petersburg. During this time, Gogol's works were primarily focused on surrealism and the grotesque, with a romantic twist. Written between 1835 and 1836, "The Nose" tells the story of a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own. "The Nose" was originally published in The Contemporary, a literary journal owned by Alexander Pushkin. The use of a nose as the main source of conflict in the story could have been due to Gogol's own experience with an oddly shaped...
"The Nose" is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol written during his time living in St. Petersburg. During this time, Gogol's works were primaril...
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The Mysterious Portrait
ISBN: 9781535329811 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Portrait" is the story of a young and penniless artist, Andrey Petrovich Chartkov, who stumbles upon a terrifyingly lifelike portrait in an art shop and is compelled to buy it. The painting is magical and offers him a dilemma to struggle to make his own way in the world on the basis of his own talents or to accept the assistance of the magic painting to guaranteed riches and fame. He chooses to become rich and famous, but when he comes upon a portrait from another artist which is "pure, faultless, beautiful as a bride" he comes to realize that he has made the wrong choice. Eventually, he...
"The Portrait" is the story of a young and penniless artist, Andrey Petrovich Chartkov, who stumbles upon a terrifyingly lifelike portrait in an art s...
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Taras Bulba
ISBN: 9781535328357 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taras Bulba is a romanticized historical novella by Nikolai Gogol. It describes the life of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. The sons study at the Kiev Academy and then return home, whereupon the three men set out on a journey to the Zaporizhian Sich (located in what is now southern Ukraine), where they join other Cossacks and go to war against Poland.
Taras Bulba is a romanticized historical novella by Nikolai Gogol. It describes the life of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons,...
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How The Two Ivans Quarrelled
ISBN: 9781535328203 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An 1841 painting of Russian author Nikolai Gogol. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis Sophia Martelli Sunday 23 October 2011 00.05 BST Share on LinkedIn Share on Google+ Shares 5 Comments 0 Save for later Pre-revolutionary Russian literature might not resound with comedy (War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, Eugene Onegin, anyone?) but this collection of "Russian comic stories" is not an oxymoron. Any story that starts: "Once upon a time there were two generals. They were both nitwits, and so, in no time at all, by a wave of some magic wand, they found themselves on a desert island," as Mikhail...
An 1841 painting of Russian author Nikolai Gogol. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis Sophia Martelli Sunday 23 October 2011 00.05 BST Share on LinkedIn Share...
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Diary Of A Madman
ISBN: 9781535327787 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Diary of a Madman" (1835, Zapiski sumasshedshevo) is a farcical short story by Nikolai Gogol. Along with "The Overcoat" and "The Nose," "Diary of a Madman" is considered to be one of Gogol's greatest short stories. The tale centers on the life of a minor civil servant during the repressive era of Nicholas I. Following the format of a diary, the story shows the descent of the protagonist, Poprishchin, into insanity. "Diary of a Madman," the only one of Gogol's works written in first person, follows diary-entry format.
"Diary of a Madman" (1835, Zapiski sumasshedshevo) is a farcical short story by Nikolai Gogol. Along with "The Overcoat" and "The Nose," "Diary of a M...
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Youth
ISBN: 9781535299589 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Youth; 1857 is the third novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and Boyhood. It was first published in the popular Russian literary magazine Sovremennik.
Youth; 1857 is the third novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and Boyhood. It was first published in the popular Russi...
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Father Sergius
ISBN: 9781535299329 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story begins with the childhood and exceptional and accomplished youth of Prince Stepan Kasatsky. The young man is destined for great things. He discovers on the eve of his wedding that his fiancee Countess Mary Korotkova has had an affair with his beloved Tsar Nicholas I. The blow to his pride is massive, and he retreats to the arms of Russian Orthodoxy and becomes a monk. Many years of humility and doubt follow. He is ordered to become a hermit. Despite his being removed from the world, he is still remembered for having so remarkably transformed his life. One winter night, a group of...
The story begins with the childhood and exceptional and accomplished youth of Prince Stepan Kasatsky. The young man is destined for great things. He d...
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Childhood
ISBN: 9781535299244 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature. Childhood is an exploration of the inner life of a young boy, Nikolenka, and one of the books in...
Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary jo...
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Boyhood
ISBN: 9781535299183 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Boyhood is the second novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and followed by Youth. The novel was first published in the Russian literary journal Sovremennik in 1854.
Boyhood is the second novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and followed by Youth. The novel was first published in the...
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Bully: : Garbage In, Garbage Out
ISBN: 9781533626981 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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