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Altrove, prima di essere un luogo dove vorremmo andare, è uno spazio o un desiderio che esiste anzitutto all’interno di noi stessi. Altrove è uscire dalle convenzioni, dai percorsi prestabiliti, dalla routine e partire per salvarsi, per ritrovarsi e magari scoprire le proprie radici più profonde....

Un risveglio in una torrida mattinata, un risveglio che porterà con sé strascichi inaspettati, metafora di un risveglio lungamente posticipato, un risveglio da una vita di routine e immobilità, di stasi e indifferenza. Una convulsa e straniante serie di eventi che spazzeranno via tutte le certezze...

Ce livre contient les ouvrages suivants classés par ordre alphabétique (noms de famille auteurs ) Le Grand Meaulnes [Alain-Fournier] Alcools [Guillaume Apollinaire] Les Diaboliques [Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly] Les Fleurs du mal [Charles Baudelaire] Un crime d'amour [Paul Bourget] Jane Eyre...

In his debut collection, chosen by Mary Karr as a winner of the 2005 National Poetry Series, Tryfon Tolides weaves together poems that speak of desire, loss, and small joys. Tolides was born in a tiny village in Greece and his work is rooted in the mountains and wind and the deep interior of that...

You’ve just made the first step to finding the perfect read for your weekend, vacation or coffee breaks. “Tess of the D'Ubervilles” in 1,000 words is exactly what it suggests – a 1,000-word summary of “Tess of the D'Ubervilles”. This download will give you a first-person view...

Extrait : "Ni ce moine rêveur, ni ce vieux charlatan, N'ont deviné pourquoi Mariette est mourante. Elle est frappée au cœur, la belle indifférente ; Voilà son mal, — elle aime. — Il est cruel pourtant De voir entre les mains d'un cafard et d'un âne, Mourir cette superbe et jeune courtisane."

A French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the 19th century. Contents Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry Charles Baudelaire, His Life by Théophile Gautier

Allison McVety’s first collection, The Night Trotsky Came to Stay (Smith/Doorstop, 2007), was the overall winner of the 2006 Book & Pamphlet Competition, and was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize 2008. Her poems have appeared in The Times, The Guardian, Poetry Review and...

Extrait : "'CHŒUR PROCESSIONNEL. O Jupiter, si tu te plais aux jeux, / Aux jeux sacrés que célèbre Olympie, / Ne permets pas le triomphe à l'impie, / Ne permets pas la honte aux courageux !' Entre le cortège d'un Athlète vainqueur. LE CORTÈGE. Pétrissons le miel avec l'orge ! / Gloire au vainqueur...

Extrait : "EMILIE : Au milieu toutefois d'une fureur si juste, J'aime encor plus Cinna que je ne hais Auguste, Et je sens refroidir ce bouillant mouvement Quand il faut, pour le suivre, exposer mon amant. Oui, Cinna, contre moi, moi-même je m'irrite Quand je songe aux dangers où je te précipite."

Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last for ever. But...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Written between the inception of Middlemarch and the completion, seven years later, of Daniel Deronda this book is a charming treatment of a subject taken from Boccaccio; a poem interesting by virtue of...

This volume of specially commissioned essays explores the world of Anton Chekhov - one of the most important dramatists in the repertoire - and the creation, performance and interpretation of his works. The Companion, first published in 2000, begins with an examination of Chekhov's life, his Russia,...

In Rhinoceros, as in his earlier plays, Ionesco startles audiences with a world that invariably erupts in explosive laughter and nightmare anxiety. A rhinoceros suddenly appears in a small town, tramping through its peaceful streets. Soon there are two, then three, until the “movement” is universal:...