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Un'istantanea in bianco e nero coglie una donna dalla bellezza struggente immersa in una vasca da bagno del tutto ordinaria. Guardando bene, però, in basso ci sono degli anfibi sporchi di fango, e in un angolo, sulla sinistra, un piccolo quadro. Il viso nella cornice è quello di Adolf Hitler, il fango è quello di Dachau; lei, la donna, è Lee Miller: ha da poco scattato le prime immagini del campo di concentramento liberato, e ora si sta lavando nella vasca del Führer.

Three extraordinary people begin their life together. Henry Irving, the Chief, is the volcanic leading man and impresario; Ellen Terry is the most lauded and desired actress of her generation; and ever following along behind them in the shadows is the unremarkable theatre manager, Bram Stoker. Bram is wrestling with dark demons in a new city, in a new marriage, and with his own literary aspirations. As he walks the London streets at night, streets haunted by the Ripper and the gossip which swirls around his friend Oscar Wilde, he finds new inspiration.

Also known as Demons, The Possessed is a powerful socio-political novel about revolutionary ideas and the radicals behind them. It follows the career of Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky, a political terrorist who leads a group of nihilists on a demonic quest for societal breakdown. They are consumed by their desires and ideals, and have surrendered themselves fully to the darkness of their "demons". This possession leads them to engulf a quiet provincial town and subject it to a storm of violence.

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the first novel Nabokov wrote in English, is a tantalizing literary mystery in which a writer’s half brother searches to unravel the enigma of the life of the famous author of Albinos in Black, The Back of the Moon, and Doubtful Asphodel. A characteristically cunning play on identity and deception, the novel concludes “ I am Sebastian, or Sebastian is I, or perhaps we both are someone whom neither of us knows.”

Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls - but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior. In an attempt to protect him, Pino's parents force him to enlist as a German soldier - a move they think will keep him out of combat.

I funerali di Berlinguer e la scoperta del piacere di perdere, il rapimento Moro e il tradimento del padre, il coraggio intellettuale di Parise e il primo amore che muore il giorno di San Valentino, il discorso con cui Bertinotti cancellò il governo Prodi e la resa definitiva al gene della superficialità, la vita quotidiana durante i vent'anni di Berlusconi al potere, una frase di Craxi e un racconto di Carver.

From rowdy Barcelona barrooms to the incandescent streets of turn-of-the-century Paris, Pablo Picasso experiences the sumptuous highs and seedy lows of bohemian life alongside his rebellious poet friend with a shadowy past, Carles Casagemas. Fleeing family misfortune and their parents’ expectations, the two young artists seek their creative outlet while chasing inspiration in drugs, decadence, and the liberated women of Montmartre - creatures far different from the veiled ones back home.

Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked by a wife of her husband while both are painting in their studio, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. Uniting fact and fiction into an original romantic vision, The Danish Girl eloquently portrays the unique intimacy that defines every marriage and the remarkable story of Lili Elbe, a pioneer in transgender history.

In this revealing sequel to his bestselling autobiography Son of Singapore, Tan Kok Seng finds himself in Malaysia as a British diplomat's chauffeur. While driving luminaries like author Han Suyin around, Tan falls in love with Heung, a servant girl with dark brown eyes. Despite parental objections, they marry and have a child in secret.

"Ich schreibe am eigenen Leben entlang, ein anderes Schreiben kenne ich nicht." Eine Kindheit in unkonventionellen Verhältnissen, das geteilte Berlin, Familienbande und Wahlverwandtschaften, lange, glückliche Sommer am Meer. Judith Hermann spricht über ihr Schreiben und ihr Leben, über das, was Schreiben und Leben zusammenhält und miteinander verbindet. Wahrheit, Erfindung und Geheimnis – wo beginnt eine Geschichte und wo hört sie auf? Wie verlässlich ist unsere Erinnerung, wie nah sind unsere Träume an der Wirklichkeit.

H. E. Bates is probably best known for his comic novel The Darling Buds of May, which introduced the lovable Larkins to the world and sparked three hugely popular TV adaptations. In his 68 years, Bates wrote over 20 further novels, more than 300 short stories, children’s books, poems, plays and non-fiction. This collection brings together three full-cast BBC Radio dramatisations and fourteen excellent readings, rounding off with extracts from H. E. Bates autobiographies.

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Die "Lebensbilanz" der Literatur-Nobelpreisträgerin - und eine große Geschichte über Schuld und Schulden. Ein steuerliches Ermittlungsverfahren, das zwar inzwischen längst eingestellt wurde, das aber selbst intimste E-Mails auswertete, wird für Elfriede Jelinek zum Anlass, auf ihre "Lebenslaufbahn" zurückzublicken. Erstmals erzählt sie literarisch die Geschichte des jüdischen Teils ihrer Familie. In die persönlichen amtlichen Angaben schieben sich Berichte über das Schicksal von Verwandten, die während der Nazizeit aus Österreich fliehen mussten, die deportiert und ermordet wurden.

A seven-volume collection containing some of the most fascinating journals and letters to have been written in the last two hundred and fifty years, all performed in a dramatised setting.

Ottobre 1963: una studentessa ventitreenne è costretta a ricorrere alle vie clandestine per poter interrompere una gravidanza. L'evento restituisce i giorni e le tappe di questa ricerca disperata: l'apatia, le ambiguità dei medici, la vicinanza di qualche compagna di corso e l'incontro con la mammana, sino al senso di fierezza per aver, in un modo o nell'atro, resistito.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Vivekanand and experience a cultural novel based on the life of Swami Vivekananda.

It is in this environment that The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is written. In this novel, the narrator describes his life as a Black child and young adult, working his way through the various social classes. He becomes a musician and travels the world as a free Black man for much of his life, but eventually makes the decision to live as a White man after witnessing a horrific lynching. The rest of his life is spent keeping a piece of himself hidden from everyone in an attempt at safety.

Italy is exhausted. Tired of the political class. Tired of the inept moderates and the agonising machinations of a democracy that no longer seems to be working. While the leaders of the country have sat idly in the safety of parliament, achieving nothing, one man on the outside has risen to the top. Like an animal, he can smell that change is coming. He is Benito Mussolini.

Questo libro è una raccolta di ricordi e piccoli momenti di felicità quotidiana. Racconta con leggerezza e ironia il piacere liberatorio che solo alcuni attimi di innocente perfidia sanno regalare. Sorprende con dichiarazioni di debolezze, segreti inconfessabili, intelligenze per le piccole cose, bugie impudenti: quelle gioie improvvise e passeggere che illuminano le nostre giornate. Momenti in cui non possiamo far altro che riconoscerci, in un vortice di allegria e stupore.

It's the last day of 1984, and 85-year-old Lillian Boxfish is about to take a walk. As she traverses a grittier Manhattan, a city anxious after an attack by a still-at-large subway vigilante, she encounters bartenders, bodega clerks, chauffeurs, security guards, bohemians, criminals, children, parents, and parents to be in surprising moments of generosity and grace. While she strolls Lillian recalls a long and eventful life that included a brief reign as the highest paid advertising woman in America - a career cut short by marriage, motherhood, divorce, and a breakdown.