Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl
9 best books like Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl (Marguerite Sechehaye): The Moon and the Bonfire, Ocean Sea, Rashomon and Other Stories, A Letter Concerning Toleration, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Tales of Old Japan: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Ghost Stories and Legends of the Samurai, Love, Guilt and Reparation: And Other Works 1921-1945, Bianca come il latte, rossa come il sangue, I Promessi Sposi (1827)
| Author | Cesare Pavese |
| ISBN | 0720611199 |
Anguila, the narrator, is a successful businessman lured home from California to the Piedmontese village where he was fostered by peasants. After 20 years, so much has changed. Slowly, with the power of memory, he is able to piece together the past, and relate it to what he finds left in the present. He...
| Author | Alessandro Baricco |
| ISBN | 0375703950 |
This haunting, suspenseful tale of love and vengeance by the author of the international bestseller Silk surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea.
In Ocean Sea, Alessandro Baricco presents a hypnotizing postmodern fable of human malady--psychological, existential, erotic--and...
Rashomon and Other Stories
| Author | Ryūnosuke Akutagawa |
| ISBN | 0871401738 |
Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories out of Japan's cultural upheaval. Whether his fictions are set centuries past or close to the present, Akutagawa was a modernist, writing in polished, superbly nuanced prose subtly exposing human...
Having read the text of the New Testament a fair number of times, I can see nothing that yields the conclusion that the purpose of Christianity is building theocratic nation states. A straightforward reading indicates Christianity occupies a subservient position to civil government while allowing...
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
| Author | Alice Miller |
| ISBN | 0465016901 |
The bestselling book on childhood trauma and the enduring effects of repressed anger and pain
Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided millions of readers with an answer--and has helped them to apply...
| Author | Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford |
| ISBN | 0486440621 |
The member of a distinguished British literary family, A. B. Mitford traveled widely with his parents as a youth and lived in various European countries. From 1866-70, he served as an attaché with the British legation at Edo (Tokyo) — one of the first foreign diplomats to do so. During his brief stay...
This book shows the growth of Melanie Klein's work and ideas between 1921 and 1945, and traces her theories on childhood development, criminality and childhood psychosis, symbol formation, and the early development of conscience.
Melanie Reizes Klein (30 March 1882 – 22 September 1960)...
Bianca come il latte, rossa come il sangue
| Author | Alessandro D'Avenia |
| ISBN | 8804595183 |
Leo ha sedici anni: ama le chiacchiere con gli amici, il calcetto, le scorribande in motorino e vive in perfetta simbiosi con il suo iPod. Le ore di scuola sono uno strazio, i professori “una specie protetta che speri si estingua definitivamente”.
Così, quando arriva un nuovo supplente di...
| Author | Alessandro Manzoni |
| ISBN | 8804562609 |
I promessi sposi è un romanzo storico di Alessandro Manzoni. Assieme alle Confessioni di un italiano di Ippolito Nievo è considerato il più importante della letteratura italiana prima dell'unità nazionale. Fu pubblicato in una prima versione nel 1827; rivisto in seguito dallo stesso autore,...
