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Violet's heart flutters from the scarlet fever she survived as a child, and it beats faster at the sight of John Smith, the man she plans to marry. America is entrenched in WWII, and when John enlists, Violet is certain she won't ever forgive him for dashing their dreams. As the realities of war slowly overtake her life, Violet's days are filled with uncertainty and grief. She struggles to maintain her faith in John as the world as she knows it crumbles around her.

Dicen que el amor imposible de Werther, que narra la obra, creo una impresionante ola de suicidios entre jovenes impresionables de la epoca. La verdad es que esta conmovedora obra, desde su publicacion se coloco en un pedestal del que no ha descendido.

Las desventuras del joven Werther (1774) es uno de los libros más populares y conocidos dentro de la amplia y extensa obra de Johann Wolfgang Goethe, uno de los grandes autores del romanticismo europeo. Partiendo de una experiencia amorosa personal, Goethe traspone la historia de un amor imposible -el sentimiento de Werther hacia Carlota- que acaba en un final trágico.

Las desventuras del joven Werther (1774) es uno de los libros más populares y conocidos dentro de la amplia y extensa obra de Johann Wolfgang Goethe, uno de los grandes autores del romanticismo europeo. Partiendo de una experiencia amorosa personal, Goethe traspone la historia de un amor imposible -el sentimiento de Werther hacia Carlota- que acaba en un final trágico.

"C'est en explorant les petits villages de Gironde que j'ai rencontré celle que j'allais nommer Marie Salat. En fouillant dans les cartons d'un libraire brocanteur d'un hameau perdu, je suis tombée sur des cartes postales qui lui étaient adressées. À mesure de ma lecture, une émotion et une gêne profonde m'envahissaient : je surprenais des lettres d'amour d'une femme à une autre femme, et quel amour ! Le lendemain, je me suis précipitée chez le brocanteur."

1776 - Un jeune homme épris de théâtre et rêvant de devenir comédien se lie d'amitié avec Jean-Jacques Rousseau durant deux années.

This comic novel, told in epistolary fashion as a sequence of exchanged letters, presents pornographer "Guy LaDouche" retreating to the wilderness with the hope of solitude and concentration to write his next book under a looming deadline. Instead of peace, he finds harassment and distraction from his publisher, his old girlfriend, and an angry father convinced that LaDouche's last novel, featuring a genuine nymphomaniac, was based on the man's daughter.

Esta novela constituye un momento afortunado del Siglo de Oro de la literatura espanola. No solo fue uno de los mas apreciados logros en la literatura picaresca, sino tambien una de las obras fundadoras del genero novelistico. Por medio de la narracion de simples travesuras, el autor dio a su personaje Lazaro, la voz adecuada para retratar los defectos y las miserias de los grupos y clases sociales espanolas de la epoca.

A literary tour de force of power, guilt and obsession - two people stalk each other through the shadowy, tangled web of the past - man and woman caught in a dangerous game of confession, each partly predator and partly prey.... Nearly 20 years after Vita broke off contact with Royce, he writes to her, determined to excavate the past. He is older than her, a ghost from her university days, a former benefactor she has tried hard to forget.

Set in New York in the '80s and '90s, Upstate tells the story of two young lovers, Antonio and Natasha, torn apart by tragedy and struggling to survive against all odds. When a horrific tragedy sends Antonio to jail, their worlds turn upside down.

Adrian Mole has entered early middle age and is now 'the same age as Jesus was when he died' (33). Father to the grammatically challenged Glenn, and William, who takes a 'Big Boy Arouser' condom to nursery school as his innocent contribution to a hot air balloon project.

Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, Adrian Mole finds himself in the situation of living with the love of his life as she goes about shacking up with other men. Worse, as he slides down the employment ladder, from deskbound civil servant in Oxford to part-time washer-upper in Soho, he finds that critical reception for his epic novel, Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland, is not quite as he might have hoped.

Cathy Min Jung et David Macaluso s'accordent à merveille pour nouer les fils d'un échange improbable où chacun va peu à peu risquer ses plus profondes vérités.

Tout commence par les lettres que s'envoient deux femmes très différentes : Sara Lindqvist, jeune libraire suédoise introvertie que ne vit que pour les livres, et Amy Harris, soixante-cinq ans, vieille dame cultivée et solitaire, de Broken Wheel, dans l'Iowa. Après deux ans d'échanges et de conseils à la fois sur la littérature et sur la vie, Sara décide de rendre visite à Amy. Mais, quand elle arrive là-bas, elle apprend avec stupeur qu'Amy est morte. Elle se retrouve seule et perdue dans cette étrange petite ville.

Octave Mirbeau n'est pas seulement un grand écrivain estampillé. C'est aussi un inquiéteur, un empêcheur de penser en rond, un infréquentable, un inclassable et un libertaire politiquement et littérairement incorrect. Dans le "Journal d'une femme de chambre", il donne la parole à une chambrière, ce qui est déjà subversif en soi, car un domestique, et plus encore une domestique femme, n'est pas supposé penser par lui-même, ni, a fortiori, tenir un journal et écrire comme Mirbeau.

Adrian Mole is 39 and a quarter. Due to his financial situation he has been forced to move next door to his parents. And his numerous nightly visits to the lavatory lead him to suspect prostate trouble. As his worries multiply, a phone call to his old flame ignites powerful memories and makes him wonder - is she the only one who can save him now?

Adrian Mole is 34 and three quarters, almost officially middle-aged, when Mr. Blair tells Parliament that Weapons of Mass Destruction can be deployed in 45 minutes and can reach Cyprus. Adrian is worried that he might not get a refund on his holiday. But that's not all that is bothering him. There's his odd girlfriend Marigold who has become distressingly New Age. And his son Glenn who is in Deepcut Barracks. Would Mr. Blair have been quite so keen if it had been his son manning a roadblock?

Expecting to be inducted into the army during World War II, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups delays his induction, he finds himself facing a year of idleness. Written in diary format, Bellow’s first novel documents Joseph’s psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice.

Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946) hat die Erzählung "Siri" in den Jahren 1938/1939 geschrieben. Hierbei handelt es sich um Tagebucheintragungen eines Humanisten, der an der Universität arbeitet. Immer wieder berichtet er über die schöne Schauspielerin "Siri", in die er sich verliebt hat. Da er aber gebunden ist und Kinder hat, darf er diese Liebe nicht leben. Regie: Karlheinz Schilling.

Winner of the National Book Award when it was first published in 1964, Herzog traces five days in the life of a failed academic whose wife has recently left him for his best friend. Through the device of letter writing, Herzog movingly portrays both the internal life of its eponymous hero and the complexity of modern consciousness.