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The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartrights eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his charming friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.

In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice.

Acostumats com estem a veure, d’un banquer, només el personatge en l’opacitat de la representació pública, aquesta obra ens acosta al terreny pantanós de la seva condició humana. Núria Cadenes ens no

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy BartonOlive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive Kitteridge as she grows older, navigating the second half of her life as she comes to terms with the changes - sometimes welcome, sometimes not - in her own existence and in those around her.Olive adjusts to her new life with her second husband, challenges her estranged son and his family to accept him, experiences loss and loneliness, witnesses the triumphs and heartbreaks of her friends and neighbours in the small coastal town of Crosby, Maine - and, finally, opens herself to new lessons about life.

An immersive thriller set against a tense historical backdrop ... the joy is in the history as much as the story ... Once again Harris has placed the reader at the heart of a great historic event, using a small story to tell a great one.' FINANCIAL TIMES

Vers l''an mille : la fille d''Erik le Rouge met cap au sud avec son mari, quelques hommes, du bétail et des chevaux. 1492 : Colomb ne découvre pas l''Amérique. 1531 : les Incas envahissent l''Europe. Ce qui a manque aux Incas pour resister aux conquistadors : le cheval, le fer, les anticorps. Dans Civilizations, les Vikings les leur ont apportes. Quelques siecles plus tard, Atahualpa debarque dans l''Europe de Charles Quint. Il trouve un continent dechire par les querelles religieuses et dynastiques. Mais surtout, des populations brimees, affamees, au bord du soulevement - des allies. Voici le recit d''une autre mondialisation, telle qu''au fond il s''en est fallu d''un rien pour qu''elle l''emporte et devienne realite.

Le narrateur, homme lettré, devient ouvrier intérimaire dans les usines de poissons et les abattoirs de Bretagne. Dans ce récit proche de l'épopée, il décrit le quotidien de la condition ouvrière, se

The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr Rieux, resist the terror.An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France''s suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.

The eagerly awaited sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling Words of Radiance, from epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson at the top of his game. In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance. Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified. Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar's blood-soaked past and stand together--and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past--even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization. Other Tor books by Brandon Sanderson The Cosmere

À la mort de leur père, énigmatique milliardaire qui les a adoptées aux quatre coins du monde lorsqu’elles étaient bébés, Maia d’Aplièse et ses sœurs se retrouvent dans la maison de leur enfance, Atl

In his eagerly awaited fourth novel, New York Times best-selling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line.

Maschere nude raccoglie il grande percorso teatrale di Pirandello: dall'esordio del 1910, con i due atti unici "La morsa" e "Lumie di Sicilia" fino al teatro "dei miti", attraverso quel momento culminante rappresentato, nel 1921, da "Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore", in cui il teatro borghese cede il posto a un dramma che si costruisce paradossalmente nella sua stessa impossibilita di costruzione. Il volume contiene: "Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore"; "Ciascuno a suo modo"; "Questa sera si recita a soggetto"; "Enrico IV"; "Diana e la Tuda"; "La vita che ti diedi"; "L'uomo dal fiore in bocca"; "II giuoco delle parti"; "II piacere dell'onesta"; "L'imbecille"; "L'uomo, la bestia e la virtu"; "Come prima, meglio di prima"; "Vestire gli ignudi"; "Come tu mi vuoi"; "Cosi e (se vi pare)"; "Tutto per bene"; "La ragione degli altri"; "L'innesto"; "Sogno (ma forse no)"; "L'amica delle mogli"; "La morsa"; "La signora Morli, una e due"; "Pensaci, Giacomino!"; "Lumie di Sicilia"; "ll berretto a sonagli"; "La giara"; "Cece"; "ll dovere del medico"; "Sagra del Signore della Nave"; "Ma non e una cosa seria"; "Bellavista"; "La patente"; "L'altro figlio"; "Liola"; "O di uno o di nessuno"; "Non si sa come"; "Trovarsi"; "Quando si e qualcuno"; "All'uscita"; "La nuova colonia"; "Lazzaro"; "La favola del figlio cambiato"; "I giganti della montagna".

Un premier roman devenu un classique. Une plongée captivante dans les milieux populaires et délaissés de province, o¹ régnent la misére et l'intolérance.

Set 300 years before the events in A Song of Ice and Fire, FIRE AND BLOOD is the definitive history of the Targaryens in Westeros as told by Archmaester Gyldayn, and chronicles the conquest that united the Seven Kingdoms under Targaryen rule through to the Dance of the Dragons: the Targaryen civil war that nearly ended their dynasty forever.The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work by the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the inspiration for HBO's Game of Thrones.With all the fire and fury fans have come to expect from internationally bestselling author George R.R. Martin, this is the first volume of the definitive two-part history of the Targaryens in Westeros.Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen - the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria - took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire and Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.What really happened during the Dance of the Dragons? Why was it so deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What were Maegor the Cruel's worst crimes? What was it like in Westeros when dragons ruled the skies? These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel, and featuring more than eighty all-new black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley.With all the scope and grandeur of Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Fire and Blood is the ultimate game of thrones, giving readers a whole new appreciation for the dynamic, often bloody, and always fascinating history of Westeros.

"En la poesia que el lector té entre les mans, poderosament intuïtiva, cada paraula pesa com mil paraules alhora, cada síl·laba batega oberta, sense límits, respira amb l?alenada sensual i pura de to

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLERA REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKThe spellbinding story of love, community and the power of reading from the bestselling author of Me Before You______THE GREATEST LOVE STORY IS THE ONE YOU LEAST EXPECT . . .Alice Wright doesnt love her new American husband.Nor her domineering father-in-law or the judgmental townsfolk of Baileyville, Kentucky.Stifled and misunderstood, she yearns for escape and finds it in defiant Margery OHare and the sisterhood bringing books to the isolated and vulnerable.But when her father-in-law and the town turn against them, Alice fears the freedom, friendship and the new love shes found will be lost . . .______A beguiling tale of unlikely love. The most appealing thing is Moyes wonderful way with romance. Delightful The TimesBeautiful, special . . . with characters so real they feel like dear friends. I loved it and didnt want it to end! Liane MoriartyInspiring and wildly romantic Daily Mail, Books of the YearHer best book yet. Its a romance - but about female friends, the outdoors and the magic of reading Grazia

This extraordinary novel is seen through the eyes of Johannes, an avid member of the Hitler Youth in the 1940s. After he is severely injured in a raid, he discovers his parents are hiding a Jewish girl called Elsa behind a false wall in their large house in Vienna.His initial horror turns to interest, then love and obsession. After the disappearance of his parents, Johannes finds he is the only one aware of Elsa's existence in the house, the only one responsible for her survival. Both manipulating and manipulated, Johannes dreads the end of the war: with it will come the prospect of losing Elsa and their relationship, which ranges through passion and obsession, dependence and indifference, love and hate.This gripping, masterful work examines truth and lies at both political and personal levels, laying bare the darkest corners of the human soul.

he fifth novel in the New York Times bestselling Witcher series that inspired the hit Netflix show finds Ciri trapped in a distant world and separated from Geralt and her destiny.After walking through a portal in the Tower of the Swallow, thus narrowly escaping death, the Witcher girl, Ciri, finds herself in a completely different world... a world of the Elves. She is trapped with no way out. Time does not seem to exist and there are no obvious borders or portals to cross back into her home world.But this is Ciri, the child of prophecy, and she will not be defeated. She knows she must escape to finally rejoin the Witcher, Geralt, and his companions - and also to try to conquer her worst nightmare. Leo Bonhart, the man who chased, wounded and tortured Ciri, is still on her trail.And the world is still at war.

Geralt the Witcher races to find his missing ward, Ciri, in this fourth novel in the bestselling Witcher series that inspired the Netflix show and video games.The world has fallen into war. Ciri, the child of prophecy, has vanished. Hunted by friends and foes alike, she has taken on the guise of a petty bandit and lives free for the first time in her life.But the net around her is closing. Geralt, the Witcher, has assembled a group of allies determined to rescue her. Both sides of the war have sent brutal mercenaries to hunt her down. Her crimes have made her famous.

Tres mons s’entrecreuen en la Mallorca de finals del segle XVII: el de la gent de bé, cortesans, comerciants, frares ambiciosos o erudits barroquitzants, servidors de la Inquisició... El de la gent d