Tutte le novelle
10 best books like Tutte le novelle (Giovanni Verga): Doctor Zhivago, The Late Mattia Pascal, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, The Time of Indifference, Survival in Auschwitz, Peyton Place, Return to Peyton Place, The Fountain Overflows, Daisy's Vintage Cornish Camper Van, Les Fiancés de l'Hiver
| Author | Boris Pasternak |
| ISBN | 0679774386 |
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature...
| Author | Luigi Pirandello |
| ISBN | 1590171152 |
Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life—only to find that this new existence is as...
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
| Author | Giorgio Bassani |
| ISBN | 1400044227 |
Giorgio Bassani's acclaimed novel of unrequited love and the plight of the Italian Jews on the brink of World War II has become a classic of modern Italian literature.
Made into an Academy Award winning film in 1970, "The Garden of the Finzi Continis "is a richly evocative and nostalgic depiction...
| Author | Alberto Moravia |
| ISBN | 1586420054 |
In 1929, the fifth year of the Fascist era and the twenty-first year of Alberto Moravia's life, the Italian literary world was stunned by the appearance of his first novel, The Time of Indifference. It is a deceptively simple story – five characters, the events of a few days, the intrigues of families...
| Author | Primo Levi |
| ISBN | 0684826801 |
The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Auschwitz and his miraculous survival; hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a “true work of art, this edition includes an exclusive conversation between the author and Philip Roth.
In...
| Author | Grace Metalious |
| ISBN | 1555534007 |
First published in 1956, Peyton Place uncovers the passions, lies and cruelties that simmer beneath the surface of a postcard-perfect town. At the centre of the novel are three women, each with a secret to hide: Constance MacKenzie, the original desperate housewife; her daughter Allison, whose dreams...
| Author | Grace Metalious |
| ISBN | 1555536697 |
In 1956 Grace Metalious published Peyton Place, the novel that unbuttoned the straitlaced New England of the popular imagination, transformed the publishing industry, topped the bestseller lists for more than a year, and made its young author one of the most talked-about people in America. In 1959...
| Author | Rebecca West |
| ISBN | 1590170342 |
The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father's genius for instability, but his new job in the London suburbs promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal and the threat of ruin.
Mrs. Aubrey, a former concert pianist, struggles to keep the family afloat,...
Daisy's Vintage Cornish Camper Van
'If you like your stories with an added pinch of magic, you'll love this... wonderfully enjoyable' - Heat
Welcome to the gorgeous Cornish town of St Felix, where there's magic in the air...
When Ana inherits a broken-down camper van from her best friend, she takes the chance for a quick...
| Author | Christelle Dabos |
| ISBN | 2070653765 |
Sous son écharpe élimée et ses lunettes de myope, Ophélie cache des dons singuliers : elle peut lire le passé des objets et traverser les miroirs. Elle vit paisiblement sur l'Arche d'Anima quand on la fiance à Thorn, du puissant clan des Dragons. La jeune fille doit quitter sa famille et le suivre...
Confessa Raskòl'nikov! Il giudice istruttore Porfirij Petrovic ha capito tutto e sta giocando con te come il gatto con il topo. Non puoi più scappare né da lui né da te stesso. Fallo per tua madre, per tua sorella, per il tuo amico Razumichin e, soprattutto, per Sonja. Confessa Raskòl'nikov! Solo...
Roberto Gervaso racconta una tra le più intriganti e inquietanti love story di tutti i tempi, quella tra la bellissima e aristocratica Virginia de Leyva (la Gertrude manzoniana), nobildonna di famiglia spagnola monacata a forza appena adolescente, e Gian Paolo Osio, giovane e spregiudicato play-boy...
Ultime Lettere Di Jacopo Ortis
Excerpt from Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis
IL sacrificio della nostra patria è consumato tutto e perduta e la vita, seppure ne verr� concessa, non ci rester� che per piangere le nostre sciagure, e la nostra infamia. Il mio nome � nella lista di pro scrizione, lo so ma vuoi tu ch' io per...
Our Ancestors: The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-Existent Knight
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 0330261568 |
My favourite story in this collection is The Baron in the Trees which is a wonderful fairy tale about a kid who wouldn't finish his dinner, decides to live in a tree, and crosses Europe from Italy to southern Spain without once touching the ground. It is a beautiful, masterful tale that reminds us how man...
| Author | Carlo Cassola |
| ISBN | 0850485118 |
(Roma, 1917 - Montecarlo di Lucca, 1987 )
Frequenta il Ginnasio-Liceo "Tasso" e in seguito l'"Umberto I", per poi iscriversi, nel 1935, alla Facoltà di Giurisprudenza dell’ Università di Roma. L’attività letteraria era già cominciata negli anni ’30: tra il ’37 e il ’40, egli aveva...
Quando Taylor Andrews, sei giorni prima di Natale, si era detta pronta a partire per il New England per valutare lo stato di un terreno per conto della società per cui lavora, le sue intenzioni erano due: mettersi in mostra con il capo e sfuggire all’atmosfera gioiosa. Ma non appena arriva a Snowy Pine,...
Il 28 agosto 1996, giorno in cui il divorzio reale venne ufficializzato, aveva segnato per Diana l'inizio di una nuova vita. La «principessa triste», schiacciata dal peso della monarchia, che meno di un anno prima aveva confessato pubblicamente la sua fragilità e rivelato i tradimenti del marito,...
| Author | Claire Douglas |
| ISBN | 1405926392 |
The old Victorian pier was once a thing of beauty. It's also where twenty-one-year-old Sophie Collier vanished eighteen years ago.
Francesca has spent the last twenty years haunted by the disappearance of her best friend. But when she receives a phone call from Sophie's brother saying that...
