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Thomas Pynchon’s fiction has been considered masculinist, misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem. To the present day, deep critical divisions persist as to whether...

The charming real-life fairy tale of an American secretary who discovers she has been chosen king of an impoverished fishing village on the west coast of Africa. King Peggy has the sweetness and quirkiness of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and the hopeful sense of possibility of Half the...

Before 22 is a collection of short stories and poetry that bring together sentiments of youth and hope and innocence, reminding us of a time within all of us when the world was new and bursting with possibility. In An American Tradition, the struggles of an immigrant family at the turn of the last...

pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. The city is always gray. Even in March, the greenest month of all, when the Presidio, and the Mission Hills, and the islands in the bay are beautiful with spring, there's only such a little bit of green gets into the city! It lies in the lap...

A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fantastical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced far more than the narrative of a hair-raising journey;...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Melville's verse printed for the most part privately in small editions from middle life onward after his great prose work had been written, taken as a whole, is of an amateurish and uneven quality. In it,...

Moby Dick non è soltanto il mirabile romanzo che tutti sanno: è un libro totale, dove la Balena («the Whale») sta appunto per il tutto («the Whole»). Così è una cronaca di avventure marine e un trattato esoterico, un epos dell’orrore e della meraviglia, un libro arioso e un’enciclopedia....

Cè una cosa più triste di arrivare a cinquantanni e accorgersi di non aver realizzato i propri sogni: lamentarsene. E lamentarsi è proprio quello che Fred Moorman fa in continuazione, travolto dalla più classica delle crisi di mezza età. Della signora De Bilde che non raccoglie gli escrementi...

"Yaşı ilerlemiş bir adam sayılırım. Son otuz yıldır uğraştığım işlerin doğası gereği, ilginç ve her nasılsa kendine has görünen, bildiğim kadarıyla lafı pek edilmemiş bir insan grubunu yakından tanıma imkânım oldu. Hukuk yazıcıları ya da kâtiplerden söz ediyorum....

"Yaşı ilerlemiş bir adam sayılırım. Son otuz yıldır uğraştığım işlerin doğası gereği, ilginç ve her nasılsa kendine has görünen, bildiğim kadarıyla lafı pek edilmemiş bir insan grubunu yakından tanıma imkânım oldu. Hukuk yazıcıları ya da kâtiplerden söz ediyorum. Hem...

"Pequod" adlı bir balina gemisinin son yolculuğunu, balinaların nasıl avlandıklarını, geminin sonunda nasıl battığını anlatan Moby Dick, ilk bakışta denizlerde geçen bir serüven romanı sanılabilir. Ne var ki insan Moby Dick'i okudukça, okuduklarını düşündükçe, kitabın derinliğini, gerçek anlamını sezmeye başlar.

Karl wordt tot over zijn oren verliefd op Katrien, de mooiste vrouw die hij tot dusverre heeft gekend en bemind. Het is de vrouw van zijn dromen en met haar neemt zijn leven een nieuwe vlucht, waar hij niet op voorbereid is. Maar door de ijle hoogten die hij aldus bereikt, is hij veroordeeld tot een...

The biggest and best! This French phrasebook contains more than TWICE AS MANY phrases and terms as any other French e-phrasebook: 9,076 phrases 14,552 terms 10,724 individual words It gives you a treasure chest of vocabulary and conversation for: • enjoying tourism. • coping with all kinds of everyday...

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...