Casa editrice: The Permanent Press
A rowdy book; Tom Jones with a lacing of Karl Marx, as its hero plunges through the 20th century—the Depression, the Spanish Civil War, World War II—at a gallop.
The Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It Love’s Labour ’s Lost Measure for Measure Much Ado About Nothing The Comedy of Errors The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor The Taming of the Shrew The Two Gentlemen of Verona Twelfth Night; or, What you will The Romances: Cymbeline Pericles, Prince of Tyre The Tempest The Winter's Tale The Tragedies: King Lear Romeo and Juliet The History of Troilus and Cressida The Life and Death of Julius Caesar The Life of Timon of Athens The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra The Tragedy of Coriolanus The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark The Tragedy of Macbeth The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice Titus Andronicus The Histories: The Life and Death of King John The Life and Death of King Richard the Second The Tragedy of King Richard the Third The first part of King Henry the Fourth The second part of King Henry the Fourth The Life of King Henry V The first part of King Henry the Sixth The second part of King Henry the Sixth The third part of King Henry the Sixth The Life of King Henry the Eighth The Poetical Works: The Sonnets Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music A Lover's Complaint The Rape of Lucrece Venus and Adonis The Phoenix and the Turtle The Passionate PilgrimMostra libro
A chance discovery inside a vintage typewriter case reveals the gripping story of two sisters on opposite sides of World War II in this captivating novel for readers of Lilac Girls and The Women in the Castle.New York, present day: On a whim, Juno Lambert buys a 1931 Underwood typewriter that once belonged to celebrated journalist Cordelia Capel. Within its case she discovers an unfinished novel, igniting a transatlantic journey to fill the gaps in the story of Cordelia and her sister and the secret that lies between them.Europe, 1936: Cordelia's socialite sister Irene marries a German industrialist who whisks her away to Berlin. Cordelia, feistier and more intellectual than Irene, gets a job at a newspaper in Paris, pursuing the journalism career she cherishes. As politics begin to boil in Europe, the sisters exchange letters and Cordelia discovers that Irene's husband is a Nazi sympathizer. With increasing desperation, Cordelia writes to her beloved sister, but as life in Nazi Germany darkens, Irene no longer dares admit what her existence is truly like. Knowing that their letters cannot tell the whole story, Cordelia decides to fill in the blanks by sitting down with her Underwood and writing the truth. When Juno reads the unfinished novel, she resolves to uncover the secret that continued to divide the sisters amid the turmoil of love, espionage, and war. In this vivid portrait of Nazi Berlin, from its high society to its devastating fall, Jane Thynne examines the truths we sometimes dare not tell ourselves.Mostra libro
Kipling - Grand Collection:
Novels:
The Light That Failed
Captain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks
Kim
The Naulahka: A Story of West and East
Stalky and Co.
Short Story Collections:
The City of Dreadful Night
Plain Tales from the Hills
Soldier's Three (The Story of the Gadsbys)
Soldier's Three - Part II
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories
Under the Deodars
Wee Willie Winkie
Life's Handicap
Many Inventions
The Jungle Book
The Second Jungle Book
The Day's Work
Just So Stories
Traffics and Discoveries
Puck of Pook s Hill
Actions and Reactions
Abaft the Funnel
Rewards and Fairies
The Eyes of Asia
A Diversity of Creatures
Poetry Collections:
Departmental Ditties
Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads
The Seven Seas
An Almanac of Twelve Sports
The Five Nations
Songs from Books
The Years Between
How Shakespeare Came to Write the Tempest
Military Collections:
A Fleet in Being
France at War
The New Army in Training
Sea Warfare
The War in the Mountains
The Graves of the Fallen
Travel Collections
American Notes
From Sea to Sea
Letters of Travel: 1892-1913
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A “sweeping, cinematic story of rebellion, loyalty, revenge, and reawakened romance” set in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War (The New York Times Book Review). A New York Times Notable Book The last time Gawain Harper saw Cumberland, Mississippi, he was heading off to fight for the newly formed Confederate States of America—driven not by the cause that motivated so many others, but by love. The father of his beloved, Morgan Rhea, refused to allow her to be courted by a man who would not take up arms to defend the South. So Gawain joined the Mississippi Infantry—and now, three nightmarish years later, he is coming home. But postwar Cumberland is not the place Gawain so fondly remembered. An occupying force of Union soldiers keeps uneasy watch over the townspeople, including an erstwhile slave hunter and an albino gravedigger known as Old Hundred-and-Eleven. Meanwhile, a bloodthirsty former Confederate officer named King Solomon Gault is organizing a secret militia to drive the occupiers out and bring the entire region under his ruthless control. Before Gawain can marry Morgan and build their new life together, he must return to the world of violence and turmoil he has been so desperate to escape. With “complex, well-crafted, often beautiful prose” (TheSeattle Times) and “a cast of characters worthy of a Larry McMurtry novel” (Newsday), The Year of Jubilo is a stunning achievement from the award-winning author of The Black Flower and The Judas Field.Mostra libro
Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. In this tumultuous century world wars will shatter all of Europe and Britain will finally be forcible divorced from Catholic Ireland. Revolution and economic disaster are followed by a society that appears more equal, growing in confidence and its authors use every morsel of debate to create excellent literary works. 1 - The Top 10 - The British & Irish Men - The 20th Century - An Introduction 2 - The Dead - Part 1 by James Joyce 3 - The Dead - Part 2 by James Joyce 4 - The Rocking Horse Winner by D H Lawrence 5 - The Interlopers by Saki the pseudonym for H H Munro 6 - The Informer by Joseph Conrad 7 - Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad by M R James 8 - The Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 1 by John Galsworthy 9 - The Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 2 by John Galsworthy 10 - August Heat by W F Harvey 11 - The Matador of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett 12 - The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood 13 - The Burial of the Rats by Bram StokerMostra libro
