Astoria imprint: 85 books

by Barbara Pym
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 11, 2011

Oxford, anni trenta. La signorina Doggett, un'insopportabile vecchia signora, riempie la propria esistenza organizzando tè e criticando la moralità altrui. La sua dama di compagnia, Jessie Morrow, una trentenne gentile, intelligente e spiritosa che sa di essere considerata socialmente "priva...
by Barbara Pym
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 26, 2017

Tom è un giovane attraente, alto, esile, che proviene da una famiglia agiata, abbandonata per seguire la sua incontenibile passione per l’antropologia. Ha una fidanzata più grande di lui, Catherine: giornalista per una rivista femminile, è una donna indipendente, ironica e brillante, con abbastanza...
by Barbara Pym
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 9, 2019

Scritto tra il 1970 e il 1972 e pubblicato postumo nel 1986, quest’ultimo romanzo di Barbara Pym è al tempo stesso ironico e cupo. Ironico perché dipinge con l’usuale maestria un ambiente ristretto, quello accademico, fatto di grette rivalità e gremito di uomini egocentrici e superficiali....
by Shulamit Lapid
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 9, 2014

Cinico, divertente, pieno di suspense, il romanzo è ambientato nel 1991 al culmine della Guerra del Golfo. Cinica, divertente, piena di suspense, la seconda avventura di Lisi Badichi, ambientata in Israele nel 1991 al culmine della Guerra del Golfo. Siamo nel pieno del conflitto iracheno,...
by M.C. Beaton
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 29, 2019

Piddlebury è un sonnolento villaggio dei Cotswolds scampato ai flussi di turisti della domenica. Una comunità piccola e chiusa, che però sa accogliere Gloria French, nuova compaesana che molto si spende nelle attività di beneficenza e nell’assistenza agli anziani. Ma Gloria ha un difetto: chiede...

This Accident of Being Lost

Songs and Stories

by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2017

2017 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Finalist This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as...

Hellgoing

Stories

by Lynn Coady
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013

Winner of the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book and for The Globe's Top 10 Books of 2013. With astonishing range and depth, Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Lynn Coady gives us nine unforgettable...
by Sheila Heti
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001

Balancing wisdom and innocence, joy and foreboding, Sheila Heti’s completely original stories lead you to surprising places. This edition featuring nine new stories. A frog doles out sage advice to a plumber infatuated with a princess, a boy falls hopelessly in love with a monkey, and a man...
by Laura Trunkey
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2016

Danuta Gleed Literary Award finalist City of Victoria Butler Book Prize finalist Intensely imaginative and darkly emotional, the weird and wonderful stories in Double Dutch deftly alternate between fantasy and reality, transporting readers into strange worlds that are at once both familiar...
by Bill Gaston
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006

Here is the best of Bill Gaston's stories since the publication of his Giller Prize nominated collection, Mount Appetite (2002). In this extraordinary work, Gaston crafts his fiction around the idea of the gargoyle -- the concrete representation of extremes of human emotions. In Gaston's marvellous,...
by Russell Wangersky
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016

As entertaining as they are insightful, the stories in The Path of Most Resistance are anchored by the concept of passive aggression in our everyday lives: ordinary people who are quietly, desperately, and indirectly trying to impose their will on the uncaring world around them. From a woman...
by Nikolaj Gogol
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 30, 2013

De novelle `Dagboek van een gek' uit 1835 is het relaas van een kleine ambtenaar die tot hoogmoedswaanzin vervalt. Het is een satire op de wijdverbreide ambtelijke bekrompenheid van de bureaucratie in de jaren dertig van de negentiende eeuw in Sint Petersburg, het is ook een weergave van de zoektocht...

Nantas

novelle

by Emile Zola
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 4, 2014

Nantas, een sterke, wilskrachtige en tomeloos ambitieuze jongeman van eenvoudige komaf, verlaat Marseille en gaat naar Parijs met de droom om een rijk en machtig man te worden. Wanneer dat na veel tegenslag eindelijk gelukt is beseft hij echter dat al de rijkdom en macht die hij vergaard heeft niets...
by Victor Hugo
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 25, 2014

`Claude Gueux is een kort verhaal, geschreven in 1834. Het aangrijpende verhaal bevat Hugos vroegste gedachten over maatschappelijke-onrechtvaardigheid, gedachten die zich gedurende enkele decennia zouden ontwikkelen, om uiteindelijk te resulteren in de publicatie van `Les Misérables in 1862. Victor...
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