Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries.
Viktor ist ein Mann mit durchschnittlichen Problemen: Er wird demnächst fünfzig, er hat hohen Blutdruck, fünf Kinder, zwei Exfrauen und eine Lebensgefährtin, die nicht immer so glücklich wie er selbst damit ist, dass er gerade Festival-Intendant wurde.
The landmark novel of the Sixties – a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal.
Set in Rhodesia, ‘The Grass is Singing’ tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and viciously abuses the black South Africans who work on their farm.
Dorothy Parker was the most talked-about woman of the decadent 1920s, notorious as a hard-drinking bad girl with a talent for endlessly quotable one-liners.
A collection of powerful stories by one of the masters of Russian literature, illustrating Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s thoughts on political philosophy, religion and above all, humanity.
Una novela emblemática, basada en testimonios reales, sobre el valor y la dignidad de las mujeres en los tiempos más difíciles de nuestra historia reciente.
Vse, chto ja napisal ranee, v izvestnom smysle bylo lish podgotovkoj k sozdaniju etogo romana, – govoril sam Dzhon Stejnbek o knige "K vostoku ot Edema", prichem s polnym na to osnovaniem:
«Dnevnik Domovogo» bukvalno vzorval Set. Ezhednevnye prikljuchenija grubovatogo, no ocharovatelnogo strashilki v kompanii s kotom i schenkom zatronuli serdtsa bolee 2 000 000 chitatelej Runeta.
To open this book is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an urban Tom Sawyer, Billy takes us along on his fateful adventures...