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"Wo kommen die Löcher im Käse her -?" fragt der kleine Tobby beim Abendbrot. Man versucht es ihm zu erklären... aber woher kommen die Löcher denn eigentlich? Als dann noch der Onkel und die Tante dazu kommen, ist das Chaos perfekt.

À dire vrai il n'est pas question de Pékin dans ce roman, et d'automne guère plus - mais seulement d'un homme qui, ayant raté son autobus, se retrouve à construire des voies de chemin de fer en plein désert. Ils seront d'ailleurs plusieurs, bientôt, à s'en mêler : archéologue, médecin, abbé... chacun venu là pour des raisons qui restent à élucider mais avec une vision des choses bien précise, des rêves et des désirs bien singuliers. Flirtant avec l'absurde de façon aussi drôle que poignante, ce roman est enchanté par la lecture magistrale de Denis Lavant.

More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the center of political life - yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker.

Hugh John Lofting was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, on January 14th, 1886 to English and Irish parents. Lofting was initially educated at Mount St Mary’s College in Spinkhill, Derbyshire, a Jesuit boarding school, from the age of eight. By 1905, at age 18, he was to study abroad, taking classes in civil engineering at the esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA. Thereafter he embarked on a quest to travel widely before settling down to write of his adventures.

Charming, vibrant, witty and edifying, The Life of Samuel Johnson is a work of great obsession and boundless reverence. The literary critic Samuel Johnson was 54 when he first encountered Boswell; the friendship that developed spawned one of the greatest biographies in the history of world literature. The book is full of humorous anecdote and rich characterization, and paints a vivid picture of 18th-century London, peopled by prominent personalities of the time.

Written by Daniel Nettle - author of the popular book Happiness - this brief volume takes the listener on an exhilarating tour of what modern science can tell us about human personality. Revealing that our personalities stem from our biological makeup, Nettle looks at the latest findings from genetics and brain science, and considers the evolutionary origins and consequences of different personalities. The heart of the book sheds light on the "big five": Extraversion, Neuroticism, Conscientious, Agreeableness, and Openness.

James Boswell forever changed the genre of biography when he painstakingly transformed a scholarly profusion of detail into a perceptive, lifelike portrait of Dr. Samuel Johnson. James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson reveals a man of outsized appetites and private vulnerabilities and is the source of much of what we know about one of the towering figures of English literature.

Frank Harris, a journalist and editor, delighted in Oscar Wilde's genial wit and self-assurance. Wilde's verbal charms evoked Harris' financial and emotional support when Victorian England disdained the playwright for his paganism and imprisoned him for "homosexual offenses". Harris relates the proceedings of Wilde's trial and the malice that sent him to France after release from prison.

A fascinating new volume of messages about motherhood, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections. In Letters of Note: Mothers, Shaun Usher gathers together exceptional missives by and about mothers, celebrating the joy and grief, humour and frustration, wisdom and sacrifice...

Nine essential works by C. S. Lewis in one deluxe audio edition: Mere Christianity The Screwtape Letters The Great Divorce Miracles The Problem of Pain A Grief Observed The Abolition of Man The Weight of Glory George MacDonald...

Octave Mouret, précurseur inspiré, bouleverse sa corporation comme Haussmann bouleverse la ville. Il parie tout sur les femmes, sur leurs envies et sur leur incapacité à surmonter les tentations.
Une lui résiste : Denise, incarnation de la vertu et de la générosité. Elle devient une obsession pour cet ogre.

Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter ’A’ stands for ’Adultery’. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of sin. Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her life. How can she ever escape from this public shame? What will happen to her child, growing up in the shadow of the scarlet letter? The future holds no joy for Hester Prynne.

Giulia Corsani è la più bella della famiglia dei Morini, bionda, alta e sottile, dallo spirito ribelle e ambizioso. A Giulia non piace il lavoro, le piacciono i denari, la vita comoda; per questo motivo sposa Otello Manzi, che ha più del doppio dei suoi anni, ma che la condurrà a vivere a Bologna. E proprio Bologna sarà per la Morina il paese dei balocchi, dove riuscirà a fare la bella vita tra nobili decaduti e borghesi arricchiti, inimicandosi madri, mogli e fidanzate.

Parue en 1880, Boule de Suif a été depuis adaptée de nombreuses fois au théâtre, au cinéma, à la télévision. La mise en scène sonore de l’œuvre met en lumière toute l’ambiance si particulière du contexte historique de la guerre de 1870, et l’interprétation du narrateur et des dialogues amplifie la compréhension de l’extraordinaire analyse de l’auteur face à une société étriquée, dont l’hypocrisie est mise au grand jour. Le personnage principal, Boule de Suif, prostituée au grand cœur, n’en est que plus bouleversant.

In nur einer Nacht geschrieben, entfaltet die Novelle eine beklemmende Dynamik zwischen einem jungen Mann und seinem übermächtigen Vater. Kafka verbindet familiäre Konflikte mit tiefer psychologischer Symbolik und schafft ein düsteres Bild von Schuld, Ohnmacht und dem unergründlichen Zugriff einer Autorität, die sich jeder Logik entzieht. Das Urteil ist eine der bedeutendsten Erzählungen von Franz Kafka und gilt als Schlüsseltext seines Schaffens.

Als Elsa im Sommer 1949 in Island ankommt, ist sie eine von vielen. Dennoch entsteht zwischen Grassodenhaus, leuchtenden Wiesen und endlosem Meer ein Zusammenleben, das sich Elsa irgendwann nicht mehr vom Leibe halten kann. Allein ihre Anwesenheit verändert die Dynamik auf dem Hof – besonders die der Bauernsöhne. Es gibt Erwartungen, ausgesprochene und unausgesprochene.

Personaggi qualunque compongono il libro tracciando, con la loro vita ordinaria, la trama. È un viaggio dentro l'intimità delle case, nella quotidianità che svela in ogni gesto le fragilità dell'essere umano. Siamo dentro un quartiere popolare, circondato dalla sciara, dove non può mancare un bar, una chiesa e il suo parroco, casalinghe, anziani e prostitute.

Iacopo è un tredicenne ingenuo e un po' impacciato della provincia milanese che viene spedito dalla zia per le vacanze a Santa Maria, un paesino della Sicilia. Qui incontra Valeria, una ragazza travolgente e piena di allegria. Tutto cambia con l'improvvisa morte di Valeria, di cui è accusato il suo amico Pietro. Ben presto Iacopo scopre che la verità non è quella che tutti raccontano e si trova ad affrontare le minacce dell'uomo più in vista del paese.

Un affresco collettivo che si muove tra passato e presente, mare e montagna, paesi e città, castelli e prigioni, santuari e bordelli, riti religiosi e feste pagane, diavoli e acque sante. Un viaggio sull'isola tra luci e ombre, geografiche ed emotive.

Da Raul Montanari a Paolo Roversi, una schiera di scrittori racconta le parti meno conosciute della propria città.