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American short history masterpieces – CARVER, RAYMOND
American short history masterpieces – CARVER, RAYMOND
American short history masterpieces – CARVER, RAYMOND
American short history masterpieces – CARVER, RAYMONDWhether it’s the end of a marriage, as in Bobbie Ann Manson’s “Shiloh,” or the struggle with self-esteem and weight in Andre Dubus’s “The Fat Girl,” the 36 works included her probe issues that give us that “shock of recognition” that is the hallmark of great art—wonderful, absorbing fiction that will be read and reread for decades to come.
Angela´s Ashes – MCCOURT, FRANK
Angela´s Ashes – MCCOURT, FRANK
Angela´s Ashes – MCCOURT, FRANK
Angela´s Ashes – MCCOURT, FRANKAngela’s Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt’s astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.
«When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.»
Atop an Underwood – KEROUAC, JACK
Atop an Underwood – KEROUAC, JACK
Atop an Underwood – KEROUAC, JACK
Atop an Underwood – KEROUAC, JACKBefore Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his 1957 classic, On the Road, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write.
Balzac and the little chinese seamstress – SIJIE, DAI
Balzac and the little chinese seamstress – SIJIE, DAI
Balzac and the little chinese seamstress – SIJIE, DAI
Balzac and the little chinese seamstress – SIJIE, DAIBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is an enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening.
Belle du Seigneur – COHEN, ALBERT
Belle du Seigneur – COHEN, ALBERT
Belle du Seigneur – COHEN, ALBERT
Belle du Seigneur – COHEN, ALBERTSituada en Ginebra y en Francia en 1936, cuando el antisemitismo alcanzó su paroxismo en Alemania, Bella del Señor relata, con lirismo romántico e ironía feroz, la relación entre Solal, judío, alto funcionario de la Sociedad de las Naciones, y Ariane, la aristócrata aria casada con un subordinado de Solal, desde su encuentro hasta la agonía final, pasando por la conquista, la pasión y la implacable degradación de los sentimientos.
Blade runner – DICK, PHILIP K
Blade runner – DICK, PHILIP K
Blade runner – DICK, PHILIP K
Blade runner – DICK, PHILIP KBy 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can’t afford one, companies build incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They’ve even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can wreak, the government bans them from Earth.
Bound – GUNNING, SALLY
Bound – GUNNING, SALLY
Bound – GUNNING, SALLY
Bound – GUNNING, SALLYIndentured servant Alice Cole barely remembers when she was not «bound», first to the Morton family, then to their daughter Nabby–her companion since childhood–when she wed.
Carrie – KING, STEPHEN
Carrie – KING, STEPHEN
Carrie – KING, STEPHEN
Carrie – KING, STEPHENCarrie White may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. This is her power and her problem.
City of glass – AUSTER, PAUL
City of glass – AUSTER, PAUL
City of glass – AUSTER, PAUL
City of glass – AUSTER, PAULQuinn writes mysteries. The Washington Post has described him as a «post-existentialist private eye.» An unknown voice on the telephone is now begging for his help, drawing him into a world and a mystery far stranger than any he ever created in print.
Dangling man – BELLOW, SAUL
Dangling man – BELLOW, SAUL
Dangling man – BELLOW, SAUL
Dangling man – BELLOW, SAULA novel in which the victim of a series of mix-ups (which delays his entry into the army) finds himself facing a year with nothing to do, and so decides to keep a record of his time on the streets of Chicago. From the author of THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH and HERZOG.
Death be not proud – GUNTHER, JOHN
Death be not proud – GUNTHER, JOHN
Death be not proud – GUNTHER, JOHN
Death be not proud – GUNTHER, JOHNDeeply moving, this true story relates a father’s recollection of his son’s courageous and spirited battle against the brain tumor that would take his life at age 17.
Doctor Sleep – KING, STEPHEN
Doctor Sleep – KING, STEPHEN
Doctor Sleep – KING, STEPHEN
Doctor Sleep – KING, STEPHENYears ago, the haunting of the Overlook Hotel nearly broke young Dan Torrance’s sanity, as his paranormal gift known as “the shining” opened a door straight into hell. And even though Dan is all grown up, the ghosts of the Overlook—and his father’s legacy of alcoholism and violence—kept him drifting aimlessly for most of his life.
Don Quixote of the Mancha – DE CERVANTES, MIGUEL
Don Quixote of the Mancha – DE CERVANTES, MIGUEL
Don Quixote of the Mancha – DE CERVANTES, MIGUEL
Don Quixote of the Mancha – DE CERVANTES, MIGUELDublin people – BINCHY, MAEVE
Dublin people – BINCHY, MAEVE
Dublin people – BINCHY, MAEVE
Dublin people – BINCHY, MAEVEA young country girl comes to live and work in Dublin. Jo is determined to be modern and independent, and to have a wonderful time. But life in a big city is full of strange surprises for a shy country girl …Gerry Moore is a man with a problem – alcohol.
Fires – CARVER, RAYMOND
Fires – CARVER, RAYMOND
Fires – CARVER, RAYMOND
Fires – CARVER, RAYMONDMore than sixty stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two of the stories—later revised for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love—are particularly notable in that between the first and the final versions, we see clearly the astounding process of Carver’s literary development.
Franny and Zooey – SALINGER, J, D
Franny and Zooey – SALINGER, J, D
Franny and Zooey – SALINGER, J, D
Franny and Zooey – SALINGER, J, DThe book comprises a novella and a short story, both about members of Salinger’s famous Glass family, the central figures in most of his later fiction. In «Franny,» a bright college student (Franny Glass), like Holden Caulfield in THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, is unable to resolve the conflict between her deepest self and the superficiality of the world. In «Zooey,» after Franny’s nervous breakdown, her brother Zooey urges her to accept the world and seek to perfect herself.
Friedrich – WOLF, NORBERT
Friedrich – WOLF, NORBERT
Friedrich – WOLF, NORBERT
Friedrich – WOLF, NORBERTSublime stillness: Capturing nature’s moody splendor The solitude of man and the bleak beauty of nature are prominent themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the great romantic painter whose importance and influence have often been underestimated.
Hojas de hierba – WHITMAN, WALT
Hojas de hierba – WHITMAN, WALT
Hojas de hierba – WHITMAN, WALT
Hojas de hierba – WHITMAN, WALTHojas de hierba es la gran epopeya americana y una de las grandes epopeyas de la literatura universal: con una voz tan vigorosa como sutil, canta el nacimiento de los Estados Unidos y su desarrollo como nación.
It – KING, STEPHEN
It – KING, STEPHEN
It – KING, STEPHEN
It – KING, STEPHENWelcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real.
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made twenty-eight years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children.
Lolita – NABOKOV, VLADIMIR
Lolita – NABOKOV, VLADIMIR
Lolita – NABOKOV, VLADIMIR
Lolita – NABOKOV, VLADIMIRLolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love–love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
