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Una de les obres cabdals de l'autor. La bogeria és la descripció d'un cas de trastorn mental que l'autor va conèixer de prop. Un ric propietari de Vilaniu, Daniel Serrallonga, aferrissat partidari de

One of the best-loved comedies ever written, Twelfth Night is perhaps Shakespeare's most lyrical as well as most experimental play. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by M M Mahood with an introduction by Michael Dobson. 'If music be the food of love, play on...'. Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as a boy to serve the Duke of Illyria. Wooing a countess on his behalf, she is stunned to find herself the object of his beloved's affections. With the arrival of Viola's brother, and a trick played upon the countess' steward, confusion reigns in this romantic comedy of mistaken identity. This book contains a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to Twelfth Night, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary. William Shakespeare was born some time in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon and died in 1616. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. Stanley Wells is Emeritus Professor of the University of Birmingham and Honorary President of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Michael Dobson is Director of the Shakespeare Institute and Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham. "Unrequited love, melancholy, cruelty and joy held together in perfect balance." (Nicholas Hytner).

The first book in the explosive New York Times bestselling series.The Earth is dying. Darrow is a Red, a miner in the interior of Mars. His mission is to extract enough precious elements to one day tame the surface of the planet and allow humans to live on it. The Reds are humanity''s last hope.Or so it appears, until the day Darrow discovers it''s all al lie. That Mars has been habitable - and inhabited - for generations, by a class of people calling themselves the Golds. A class of people who look down on Darrow and his fellows as slave labour, to be exploited and worked to death without a second thought.Until the day that Darrow, with the help of a mysterious group of rebels, disguises himself as a Gold and infiltrates their command school, intent on taking down his oppressors from the inside. But the command school is a battlefield - and Darrow isn''t the only student with an agenda.Break the chains. Live for more.

Joanak koaderno bat zeukan hamasei urte zituenean, berak esaten duen moduan penazko masusten kolorekoa. Hantxe idazten zituen bere ametsak, mindurak, jomugak, pentsabideak edota bere bizimodu arruntean gailentzen ziren gertaerak... Halaxe jakingo dugu nor izan zuen lehen amodioa eta nola aurkitu zuen itsaslabarreko etxea, baita hango misterioa eta madarikazioa ere. Uda hartan, Joanak zoriona ezagutu zuen, heriotza zelatan zeukala jakin gabe. Laster, tragediaren pisuak zapalduko zuen betiko. Urteak geroago, itsaslabarrera itzuli da, oroitzapenetatik askatu nahian.Itzuli naiz herrira. Koadernoa ekarri dut, nire bizitzako aingeruen eta deabruen bizitokia izan den koaderno morea. Itzuli naiz itsaslabarrera. Ez nau ilunak menderatu. Hementxe nago. Koaderno honetan dago idatzita nire historia.

This book was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker prize. It was shortlisted for the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize. "A horrifyingly comic novel of ideas with its fingers jammed into the light-socket of the age." (Guardian). "A Kafka for the Google Age." (Daily Telegraph). Meet U. - a talented and uneasy figure currently pimping his skills to an elite consultancy in contemporary London. His employers advise everyone from big businesses to governments, and, to this end, expect their 'corporate anthropologist' to help decode and manipulate the world around them - all the more so now that a giant, epoch-defining project is in the offing. Instead, U. spends his days procrastinating, meandering through endless buffer-zones of information and becoming obsessed by the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis: oil spills, African traffic jams, roller-blade processions, zombie parades. Is there, U. wonders, a secret logic holding all these images together - a codex that, once cracked, will unlock the master-meaning of our age? Might it have something to do with South Pacific Cargo Cults, or the dead parachutists in the news? Perhaps; perhaps not. As U. oscillates between the visionary and the vague, brilliance and bullshit, Satin Island emerges, an impassioned and exquisite novel for our disjointed times.

Emakume bat, Estatu Batuetatik Euskal Herrira datorrena, 1980 hondarrean. 40 urte lehenago, emakume horrexen gurasoak ziren, gerratik ihesi, Frantzian barrena Amerikara zihoazenak. Bi istorio, Alsina izenak lotuak eta gure herriaren historiako une giltzarriekin korapilatuak.Bai hizkera bai kontaera malgutasun eta maisutasunez darabiltza idazleak, abil eta jostalari, irakurlea eleberrian sartu eta bere gogoeten partaide bihurtuz, kontakizunaren eraikuntzak dituen arazoez, batetik, eta euskal gizartea azken 30 urteetan baldintzatu duten gertakari nagusiez, bestetik.

Però Laia és, sovint, el pretext per furgar endins del record i oferir al lector un retaule sorprenentment viu d'un poble mariner en una època no gaire llunyana. I malgrat els anys transcorreguts des

Amb estudi introductori, propostes didactiques i comentaris de text a cura de Vicent Salvador.Diccionari per a ociosos, aplega, sota la forma de diccionari fictici, una serie d'assaigs molt diversos, que compren des d'aforismes fins a textos d'una extensio mitjana. La tematica del llibre es heterogenia: parla -d'una manera desimbolta i, sovint, provocativa- sobre l'amor, la bellesa, la bestieses, el nacionalisme, la novel·la o el sexe, amb un punt de vista radicalment subjectiu, propi del genere iniciat per Michel de Montaigne.

Familia baten historia harrigarria, maitasun- eta gorroto-istorio bat Eleberri honetan bi familiaren historia kontatzen da: bata judua da, bestea kristaua, elkarrekin lotua, iragan bera dutenak, XV. mendean zehar Gasteizen bizi eta elkarren adiskide eta etsai izanak. Dabid sendagilea eta haren semeak, Jonas ben Sahadia eta Pedro Santxez Bilbao, biak sendagileak, haien emazteak, seme-alabak, bilobak, adiskideak eta etsaiak, garai gogor batean bizitzen; azkenean sefardien komunitatea atzerrira joatera edo kristautzera bihurtzen duten arte. Gaztelako koroaren mendeko lurretan gertatu ziren gertaera larriok marka sakona utzi zuten garai hartako gizartearen erlijio- eta politika-bizitzan.

A publishing event ten years in the makinga searing, exquisite new novel by the best-selling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feministsthe story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires.Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until betrayed and brokenhearted she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamakas bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamakas housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve.In Dream Count, Adichie trains her fierce eye on these women in a sparkling, transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself. Is true happiness ever attainable or is it just a fleeting state? And how honest must we be with ourselves in order to love, and to be loved? A trenchant reflection on the choices we make and those made for us, on daughters and mothers, on our interconnected world, Dream Count pulses with emotional urgency and poignant, unflinching observations on the human heart, in language that soars with beauty and power. It confirms Adichies status as one of the most exciting and dynamic writers on the literary landscape.

From the bestselling author of The Housemaid comes an unputdownable tale of passion and dangerous obsession as the life of a New Yorker who has recently met her perfect match turns into a living nightmare.A new, twisting thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Coworker and The Housemaid!She's looking for the perfect man. He's looking for the perfect victim.Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She's seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. Until she meets Tom.Tom is utterly perfect. He's charming, handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital. Sydney is swept off her feet.Then the brutal murder of a young womanthe latest in a string of deaths across the coastconfounds police. The primary suspect? A mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them.Sydney should feel safe. After all, she has Tom, the man of her dreams. But she can't shake her own suspicions that the perfect man may not be as perfect as he seems. Because someone is watching her every move, and if she doesn't get to the truth, she'll be the killer's next victim...A dark story about obsession and the things we'll do for love, Sunday Times bestselling author Freida McFadden proves that crimes of passion are often the bloodiest

From wronged wives to nosy neighbours, from distant dads to new-found family, from secrets to lies, fresh starts to false endings - and everything in between...A collection of brilliant short stories from the best writers around.This collections contains original stories from Fanny Blake, Louise Candlish, Mike Gayle, Mari Hannah, Sophie Kinsella, Jojo Moyes, Adele Parks, Ian Rankin, Mahsuda Snaith and Keith Stuart.

Carlota Gurt, més Gurt que mai.«Carlota Gurt és literatura i coratge en expansió permanent». Anna Carreras, Ara «Biografia del foc, el nou recull de contes de Carlota Gurt, fa gala d?un talent consol

« Colette est remorte. Ce mot n’existe nulle part. Remourir, ça n’existe pas. »Colette était une femme sans histoire. C’est du moins ce que l’on croyait jusqu’au jour où sa nièce apprend son décès pa

Tres rapaces xogan preto dun bosque misterioso ata que unha sombra aparece e marca os seus destinos. Un deles desaparece causando rebumbio na vila de Cangas, que en pleno século XIX afronta a nova como pode. A escuridade abrese camiño, pero so os mais ousados se atreven a desafiala. E enton cando se inicia unha carreira contra o reloxo para atopar o culpable, pero todas as pistas parecen sinalar cara a unha direccion: meigas.

'It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life'Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.

'All children, except one, grow up.'It was Friday night. Mr and Mrs Darling were dining out. Nana had been tied up in the backyard. The poor dog was barking, for she could smell danger. And she was right - this was the night that Peter Pan would take the Darling children on the most breath-taking adventure of their lives, to a place called Neverland, a strange country where the lost boys live and never grow up, a land with mermaids, fairies and pirates - and of course the terrible, evil, Captain Hook. Peter Pan is undoubtedly one of the most famous and best-loved stories for children, an unforgettable, magical fantasy which has been enjoyed by generations.The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.

Sen dúbida, estamos diante da novela máis ambiciosa e lograda de María SolarDesta volta achégase a unha das aventuras máis importantes da historia da humanidade, protagonizada por uns nenos que non tiñan idea de facerse heroes. Ainda que o foron. Nos seus pequenos corpor, brazo a brazo, levaron a vacina da variola a America. Sacados dos hospicios da Coruña, Santiago e Madrid, cruzaran o Atlantico formando parte da Expedicion do doutor Balmis e na que unha muller fascinante, Isabel Zendal, xogara un apapel determinante. A historia comeza en 1803. Na miseria dos orfanatos. Nun barco que pode ser tamen unha tumba. Nun mar hostil e desapiadado. No medio dese universo cruel, a esperanza e un posible futuro. O heroismo anonimo de 22 nenos que, grazas a este libro, xa non o seran mais nunca.