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Anaëlle, une jeune femme dont la vie a été bouleversée par un accident, se reconstruit doucement, entre son travail et sa passion pour l'écriture. Thomas raconte des histoires merveilleuses d'arbres et de forêt pour mettre un peu de couleur dans la chambre d'hôpital de Simon, un garçon lumineux et tendre. Chacun se bat à sa manière contre la fatalité. Mais est-ce vraiment le hasard qui va sceller leur destin ?

Lady Susan has just arrived uninvited at the country home of her brother-in-law, Charles, and his unwelcoming wife, Catherine. Susan’s reputation as an accomplished coquette precedes her, and Catherine will not allow her own brother, Reginald, to fall prey to Susan’s amorous games. Despite warnings, the besotted young man finds himself falling - all to the conniving lady’s delight. And in Austen’s unfinished work, The Watsons, a family reunion sparks the passionate pursuits of four sisters.

È la storia di Maria, giovane siciliana, orfana di madre che, suo malgrado, viene costretta a ritirarsi a vita monastica in un convento di clausura catanese. La monacazione forzata era, all'epoca del Verga, assai diffusa. Verga concentra il suo interesse sulla figura femminile della protagonista, indagando e dando largo spazio alle sue fragilità ed ai suoi sentimenti più intimi e alla ineluttabilità del suo destino.

Last Days of Summer is the story of Joey Margolis, neighborhood punching bag, growing up goofy and mostly fatherless in Brooklyn in the early 1940s. A boy looking for a hero, Joey decides to latch on to Charlie Banks, the all-star third basemen for the New York Giants. But Joey's chosen champion doesn't exactly welcome the extreme attention of a persistent young fan with an overactive imagination. Then again, this strange, needy kid might be exactly what Banks needs.

As comic as it is deeply moving, Holy Lands chronicles several months in the lives of an estranged family of colourful eccentrics. Harry Rosenmerck is an ageing Jewish cardiologist who has left his thriving medical practice in New York - to raise pigs in Israel. His ex-wife, Monique, ruminates about their once happy marriage even as she quietly battles an aggressive illness. Their son, David, an earnest and successful playwright, has vowed to reconnect with his father since coming out. Annabelle, their daughter, finds herself unmoored in Paris in the aftermath of a breakup.

Considerato il più grande romanzo epistolare della letteratura francese, "Le relazioni pericolose" (1782) è ambientato nella Parigi del Settecento, dove la Marchesa de Merteuil, falsa e devota, abbandonata dall'amante, Gercourt, decide di vendicarsi disonorandolo. A questo scopo conquista la complicità del Visconte di Valmont, suo ex amante e noto seduttore senza scrupoli. Valmont accetta la sfida e decide di sedurre la giovane Cécile, promessa sposa di Gercourt.

A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustin Fernandez Mallo’s Nocilla Trilogy - Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Lab, and Nocilla Experience - presents multiple narratives of people and places that reflect America and the world in the digital age of the 21st century.

"Quella mattina ricevetti una lettera diversa dal solito". Inizia così l'ultimo audiolibro di Amélie Nothomb, in cui la scrittrice si confronta con un genere che conosce bene, quello epistolare. Amélie infatti passa parte del suo tempo a rispondere alle lettere dei suoi numerosissimi fan. La lettera arriva da un soldato americano di stanza a Bagdad, Melvin Mapple. Siamo agli inizi della presidenza Obama. L'uomo spera di tornare a casa.

La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes es una obra clásica en la historia literaria de España. Viene de la edad dorado en España. Fue publicado anónimo por su contenido herético. La historia enfoca en un chico que se llama Lázaro que vive en Salamanca. En esta versión del audio, hay audio claro para disfrutar la historia en detalle. El audio está bien grabado y editado por mano para asegurar que cada segundo sea un placer.

The correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer reveals, piece by piece, the painful details of a devastating affair between their spouses. With each commiserating scratch of the pen, they confess their fears and bare their souls. They share the bewilderment over how things went so wrong and come to wonder where to go from here. Told entirely through the letters of two comforting strangers and those of two illicit lovers, Evidence of the Affair explores the complex nature of the heart. And ultimately, for one woman, how liberating it can be when it’s broken.

Un mail comme une bouteille à la mer. D'ordinaire, l'écrivain Pierre-Marie Sotto ne répond jamais aux courriers d'admirateurs. Mais cette Adeline Parmelan n'est pas une "lectrice comme les autres". Quelque chose dans ses phrases, peut-être, et puis il y a cette épaisse et mystérieuse enveloppe qu'elle lui a fait parvenir - et qu'il n'ose pas ouvrir. Entre le prix Goncourt et la jeune inconnue, une correspondance s'établit qui en dévoile autant qu'elle maquille, de leurs deux solitudes, de leur secret commun.

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.

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.

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.

Le 19 mars 1944, Albert Camus et Maria Casarès se croisent chez Michel Leiris. L'ancienne élève du Conservatoire, originaire de La Corogne et fille d'un républicain espagnol en exil, n'a que vingt et un ans. L'écrivain vit alors seul à Paris, la guerre l'ayant tenu éloigné de son épouse Francine, enseignante à Oran. Sensible au talent de l'actrice, Albert Camus lui confie le rôle de Martha pour la création du Malentendu en juin 1944. Et durant la nuit du Débarquement, Albert Camus et Maria Casarès deviennent amants.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson, read by Helen Lloyd and Lars Knudsen. When Tina Hopgood writes a letter of regret to a man she has never met, she doesn’t expect a reply. When Anders Larsen, a lonely museum curator, answers it, nor does he. They’re both searching for something, they just don’t know it yet. Anders has lost his wife, along with his hopes and dreams for the future. Tina is trapped in a marriage she doesn’t remember choosing.

Professional money manager Jim Peters believes his family's well-being and his dreams are in jeopardy, as he is being pushed out of his job by unscrupulous competition and younger tech-savvy workers. On the brink of making costly decisions, Jim is sensing that he's losing his grip on everything that is important to him, including his legacy. Jim, however, is about to discover an old way of living that will create a new way of thinking, and it will come from a most unusual place.

Composed almost entirely of letters written by Werther to his friend Wilhelm, The Sorrows of Young Werther is a heartbreaking narrative about a doomed love. Werther, a young artist driven more by the heart than by reason, is already enraptured with the elusive Charlotte when she marries another man better suited to her class. To keep Charlotte near, Werther befriends her husband - a bid that becomes a torturous reminder of all he's lost.

Octave Mirbeau donne la parole à Célestine, une chambrière, qui perçoit le monde par le trou de la serrure et ne laisse rien échapper des "bosses morales" de ses maîtres. Le lecteur pénètre au cœur de la réalité cachée de la société, dans les arrière-boutiques des nantis, dans les coulisses du théâtre du "beau" monde. Octave Mirbeau arrache le masque de respectabilité des puissants, fouille dans leur linge sale, débusque les crapuleries camouflées derrière les manières et les grimaces avantageuses.

Scritto nel 1891 dal premio Nobel Henryk Sienkiewicz, solo cinque anni prima del suo capolavoro, "Quo vadis?", questo romanzo si snoda fra Roma e Varsavia, insieme alla vita del protagonista, aristocratico polacco, che trasmette al suo diario i conflitti e dolori di una vita sentita prima come inutile, vuota, e in seguito persa in una passione impossibile.

Cornice musicale: Brahms, "Quintetto per clarinetto", op. 115. Allegro.