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Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as Bloomsday . The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly. Ulysses has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable.In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book - although he found it not quite obscene enough to disallow its importation into the United States - and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce''s cloacal obsession . None of these descriptions, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in its own way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book.

Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?

A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss; a student arrives in new lodgings in a mystifying new land and, while he awaits the arrival of his arranged-marriage wife from Bengal, he finds his first bearings with the aid of the curious evening rituals that his centenarian landlady orchestrates; a schoolboy looks on while his childminder finds that the smallest dislocation can unbalance her new American life all too easily and send her spiralling into nostalgia for her homeland... Jhumpa Lahiris prose is beautifully measured, subtle and sober, and she is a writer who leaves a lot unsaid, but this work is rich in observational detail, evocative of the yearnings of the exile (mostly Indians in Boston here), and full of emotional pull and reverberation.

Senhor Jose is a minor official in a registry office, with a passion for reconstructing people's lives from the data in archive documents. One woman's file is particularly intriguing. She is dead, and he decides to trace her life backwards, from death to birth. But can he bring her back to life?

Georges Duroy, dit Bel-Ami, est un jeune homme au physique avantageux. Le hasard d'une rencontre le met sur la voie de l'ascension sociale. Malgré sa vulgarité et son ignorance, cet arriviste parvient au sommet par l'intermediaire de ses maitresses et du journalisme. Cinq heroines vont tour a tour l'initier aux mysteres du metier, aux secrets de la mondanite et lui assurer la reussite qu'il espere. Dans cette societe parisienne en pleine expansion capitaliste et coloniale, que Maupassant denonce avec force parce qu'il la connait bien, les femmes eduquent, conseillent, uvrent dans l'ombre. La presse, la politique, la finance s'entremelent. Mais derriere les combines politiques et financieres, l'erotisme interesse, la mort est la qui veille, et avec elle, l'angoisse que chacun porte au fond de lui-meme.

O Señor dos Aneis trata principalmente dos hobbits, e nas súas páxinas o lector descubrirá moito sobre o seu carácter e algo sobre a súa historia. Os hobbits constitúen un pobo discreto pero moi antigo, noutrora mais numeroso do que e hoxe en dia. Aman a paz e a tranquilidade, e o cultivo da boa terra; o seu habitat preferido constituiao unha rexion ben organizda e cultivada. Non comprenden nin gostan de maquinas mais complicadas ca un muiño de auga ou un tear de man, ainda que son habiles coas ferramentas. Xa nos tempos antigos desconfiaban polo xeral da "Xente Grande". Teñen o oido agudo e a vista penetrante, e anque tenden a ser gordos e non corren innecesariamente, son de movementos axiles e lixeiros.En A Irmandade do Anel, o primeiro volume desta triloxia, o Hobbit Frodo Bulseiro recibe un Anel maxico como herdanza do seu tio Bilbo. Para protexer este Anel e evitar que caia nas mans dos servidores do Señor Escuro crease A Irmandade do Anel, composta por representantes dos pobos dos elfos, os homes, os hobbits e os ananos, que acompañaran a Frodo durante unha longa viaxe por terras estrañas e perigosas.Publicada en 1955, O Señor dos Aneis, a mais complexa das obras de Tolkien, supuxo a definitiva renovacion do xenero fantastico. J.R.R. Tolkien, como filologo e estudioso dos mitos, elaborou complexas estructuras nas suas historias, cheas de detalles e estilisticamente afastadas das modas. A traves do universo fantastico descrito en O Señor dos Aneis, debedor da mitoloxia escandinava, Tolkien formula o tema da corrupcion do poder e a impersonalizacion do mundo industrializado. O seu profundo coñecemento dos ritos e o seu estilo marcadamente ingles fixeron desta triloxia epica, novelas que hoxe teñen unha extraordinaria vixencia e aceptacion entre os lectores mozos de todo o mundo.

Que peut-il arriver lorsque des sortilèges millénaires se conjuguent à une science moderne aussi performante que dépourvue d''éthique ? Au départ il y avait de mystérieuses fèves, réputées favoriser

An Inspector Calls, first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful revival. While holding its audience with the gripping tension of a detective thriller, it is also a philosophical play about social conscience and the crumbling of middle class values. Time and the Conways and I Have Been Here Before belong to Priestley's 'time'plays, in which he explores the idea of precognition and pits fate against free will. The Linden Tree also challenges preconceived ideas of history when Professor Linden comes into conflict with his family about how life should be lived after the war.

One of the most talked about fictional debuts of recent years, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book.

Benetako harribitxi bat da SPrako tranbia, lehen obra batean harrigarria den maisutasunaz idatzia. Harrigarria da gai nagusia ere, egilea gaztea izaki: agure baten eromen prozesua, izugarria izanda ere espanturik gabe kontatua; eta hunkigarria, dudarik gabe. Gaiaren gainetik, azpimarratzekoa da sentipenak transmititzeko egileak daukan modu berezia, sentimenduez aritzeko estilo fin eta dotore hori. Protagonisten artean solasaldi txinpartatsuak topatuko ditugu, pasadizo xelebreak, erromantizismo samurrez edo sentsualtasun lotsati batez beteriko pasarteak, edo lente distortsionatu batekin ikusiagatik guztiz erreala zaigun egunerokotasun bat. Ohartzekoa da, halaber, obraren umorea: Elorriagak ez du algara bilatzen, baina ironia mehe bat sumatzen da orriz orri, bai istorioari eta pertsonaiei dagokienez, baita hizkuntzari eta idazketari buruz ere, bere langintza ongi ezagutzen duen egilea denez jolasak, paradoxak eta bestelako keinuak tartekatzen baititu Elorriagak, idazle maiteentzako omenaldiekin batera.

Enric Valor, un dels escriptors actuals mes reconeguts del nostre país i Premi d Honor de les Lletres Catalanes, va nàixer a Castalla el 1911. Ha estat investit Doctor Honoris Causa per diverses univ

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Immerse yourself in Middle-earth with Tolkiens classic masterpiece, telling the complete story of Bilbo Baggins and the Hobbits epic encounters with Gandalf, Gollum, dragons and monsters, in the quest to destroy the One Ring.When they were first published, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings became instant classics. Treasured by readers young and old, these works of sweeping fantasy, steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness have sold more than 150 million copies around the world.This new boxed set, published to mark the 75th anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit, offers readers a new opportunity to discover Tolkiens remarkable world of Middle-earth and to follow the complete story of Bilbo Baggins and the Hobbits part in the epic quest for the Ring beginning with Bilbos fateful visit from Gandalf and culminating in the dramatic climax between Frodo and Gollum atop Mount Doom and Bilbos departure to the Grey Havens.

The sprawling tale of an immigrant family in early 20th-century Brooklyn, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is one of the great distinctively American novels. The Nolan family are first-generation immigrant

A novel set in Paris in the 1920s, in a world of Pernod, loose living, parties and expatriate Americans. A young couple are attracted to the excitement of the Spanish fiesta, with the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, where their affair becomes strained by new passions and new jealousies.

Este é un conxunto de relatos contados, como se o autor estivese sentado a carón do lume, por un dos mestres da narrativa galega contemporánea. É un libro de pantasmas, de celos, de premonicións, de crimes e de defuntos. Pero e tamen un libro que deixa no lector un vago sentimento apracible, levemente ironico.

La gent que viu al món ens dibuixa un retrat penetrant de la condició humana en el marc estret i ombrívol d'una societat, la nostra, després d'un conflicte bèl·lic: amors trencats, encontres i desenc

Isaac Asimov's ROBOT series - from the iconic collection I, ROBOT to four classic novels - contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS, they continue to shape the understanding and design of artificial intelligence to this day. Could a robot ever show true creativity? Is it wise to trust self-driving cars? Will robotic body parts transform human beings into machines? Will organic technology allow robots to become human? The Complete Robot combines the stories in I, Robot and The Rest of the Robots with many more found only in this collection - including one of Asimov's masterpieces, the Hugo and Nebula award-winning novella 'The Bicentennial Man'.

«Les Lettres a un jeune poète sont tout autant des lettres écrites par un jeune poète - Rilke a vingt-sept ans lorsqu'il répond pour la première fois, trente-deux ans lorsqu'il écrit la dernière lettre publiée - a un jeune homme dont la figure précise reste dans l'ombre de sorte qu'il devient, pour ainsi dire, l'éponyme, moins d'un âge, que d'une période de la vie, définie par un type de dilemmes. La force de ces lettres et leur très vaste lectorat tient d'abord a ceci que ce qu'on lit dans les réponses de Rilke prend un tour quasi universel en même temps qu'il y a suffisamment d'indications particulières pour ancrer la personne de Franz Kappus dans une réalité individuelle. C'est que ce dernier traverse ce moment inévitable, mais irréductiblement singulier dans l'expérience, au cours duquel chacun s'efforce de "passer" vers le monde adulte et de parvenir a être enfin vraiment soi-même : "Ne vous laissez pas troubler dans votre solitude par le fait que quelque chose en vous cherche a s'en évader. C'est précisément ce désir qui, pourvu que vous en tiriez parti calmement, a la façon d'un outil, et sans vous laisser dominer par lui, peut vous aider a étendre votre solitude a de vastes domaines [...]. Mais l'apprentissage est toujours une période longue et close..." Par la suite, Kappus a voulu, avec beaucoup de justesse et d'exactitude dans la reconnaissance, rendre hommage a celui qui, a ce moment-la, lui a permis d'accomplir ce passage.» Marc B. de Launay.