The Guermantes Way opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons.
The Prisoner and Fugitive fulfill Swann's much earlier warning to Marcel - 'Though the subjenction of the woman may briefly allay the jealously of the man, it eventually makes it even more demanding' - as Marcel and Albertine are locked...
The Way by Swann's is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the impressions of a sensitive boy of his family and neighbours, brought dazzlingly back to life by the famous taste of a madeleine.
Rennie Wilford, a young jounalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem.
„Und so steige ich hinauf, in die Dunkelheit dort drinnen oder ins Licht.“ - Als am Ende vom „Report der Magd“ die Tür des Lieferwagens und damit auch die Tür von Desfreds „Report“ zuschlug, blieb ihr Schicksal für uns Leser ungewiss.
Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he’s staging a Tempest like no other. It will boost his reputation. It will heal emotional wounds.
Devant la chute drastique de la fécondité, la république de Gilead, récemment fondée par des fanatiques religieux, a réduit au rang d'esclaves sexuelles les quelques femmes encore fertiles.
A man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the green-eyed Crakers - a gentle species bio-engineered to replace humans.
Margaret Atwood’s latest brilliant collection of short stories follows the life of a single character, seen as a girl growing up the 1930s, a young woman in the 50s and 60s, and, in the present day, half of a couple, no longer young....