Jenny

Author	Selma Lagerlöf
ISBN	1426489226

Un mondo altrove
"Finché il tuo cuore sarà legato alle cose terrene, rimarrà legato al dolore" .

La grande scrittrice svedese Selma Lagerlof (Premio Nobel 1909) scrisse questo libro dopo un viaggio in Palestina, compiuto nel 1899 per visitare una comunità religiosa d'impronta...

Author	Per Petterson
ISBN	1555974708

We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and one of the first days of July.

Trond’s friend Jon often appeared at his doorstep with an adventure in mind for the two of them....

Author	Jamaica Kincaid
ISBN	0374527075

Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Place magnifies our vision of one small place with Swiftian wit and precision. Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay candidly appraises the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up, and makes palpable the impact of European colonization...

Author	Henrik Ibsen
ISBN	1420927957

Ghosts is the story of Helen Alving, a widow who is haunted by the many mistresses of her deceased husband and by her son who has inherited syphilis from his philandering father. Ghosts is a scathing indictment of Victorian society in which Ibsen refutes the notion that if one simply fulfills one's duty...

Author	Henrik Ibsen
ISBN	1595406441

In An Enemy of the People, Ibsen places his main characters, Dr. Thomas Stockman, in the role of an enlightened and persecuted minority of one confronting an ignorant, powerful majority. When the physician learns that the famous and financially successful baths in his hometown are contaminated,...

Author	Henrik Ibsen
ISBN	0413775755

Vildanden = The Wild Duck, Henrik Ibsen
The Wild Duck an 1884 play, by the Norwegian playwright: Henrik Ibsen. Characters: Håkon Werle, a wholesale merchant; Gregers Werle, his son; Old Ekdal, the former business partner of Håkon Werle; Hjalmar Ekdal, Old Ekdal's son, a photographer; Gina...

Author	Knut Hamsun
ISBN	0285647598

you would think i would have sopped this thing up with a hunk of bread: doomed lovers, the impossibility of communication, the way we hurt the ones we love? that should have karen's stamp of approval all over it.

but it's like hamsun took a great idea for literary exploration and then constructed...

Author	Amalie Skram
ISBN	0810119676

Initially rejected by the author's scandalized publisher, Constance Ring is now considered a classic of Scandinavian-and world-literature, a passionate condemnation of marriage and moral hypocrisy that has drawn comparisons to Madame Bovary and The Awakening. The story of a naive young woman...