Raymond Williams
Culture and Society – 1780-1950
En Anglais – Acknowledged as perhaps the masterpiece of materialist criticism in the English language, this omnibus ranges over British literary history from George Eliot to George Orwell to inquire about the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination.
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Il poeta
En italien – Jack McEvoy fa il reporter di nera. La morte è il suo mestiere. Ma questa volta la morte gli porta una storia che non avrebbe mai voluto scrivere e un mistero che vuole risolvere a tutti i costi. Là fuori, in agguato, c'è un serial killer astuto e feroce, un perverso assassino, un meticoloso discepolo del male. Le sue vittime sono tutte poliziotti, agenti della omicidi. E il suo biglietto da visita è un verso di Edgar Allan Poe. La sua vittima è stata il fratello di McEvoy e la sua prossima… potrebbe essere lui stesso.
Sister Carrie
En anglais – When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. The tale of Carrie Meeber’s rise to stardom in the theatre and George Hurstwood’s slow decline captures the twin poles of exuberance and exhaustion in modern city life as never before. The premier example of American naturalism, Dreiser’s remarkable first novel has deeply influenced such key writers as William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow, and Joyce Carol Oates. This edition uses the 1900 text, which is regarded as the author’s final version.
Les années d’illusion
S’il obtient ce poste de secrétaire de mairie que sa mère ambitionne pour lui, Duncan Stirling sait qu’il restera à jamais enterré à Levenford alors qu’il rêve d’être médecin. Le poste lui échappe, car sa rude fierté écossaise l’empêche de courber l’échine devant le Conseil municipal, et sa mère le chasse, mais il est libre enfin d’aller tenter sa chance à St Andrews pour une bourse d’étude et, en chemin, au village de Linton, il se lie avec le docteur Murdoch et sa fille Jeanne dont l’amitié lui sera précieuse. Il faut cinq ans pour conquérir le titre de médecin. Cinq ans de luttes et de pauvreté qui déboucheront sur quel avenir puisqu’il a un bras atrophié par la poliomyélite ? Son camarade d’enfance et rival Overton le lui rappelle sans ménagement. Cet- obstacle-là n’existe bientôt plus. La chirurgienne célèbre Anna Geisler l’opère, le guérit, le prend comme assistant. La voie est tracée vers la revanche que Duncan compte depuis toujours prendre sur Overton, sur l’existence même, une voie austère jalonnée de hautes responsabilités et d’honneurs. Mais est-ce un but qui en vaut vraiment la peine ? Toutes ces années de travail acharné n’ont-elles pas été des années d’illusion ? Un jour, la question se pose et Duncan devra trouver la réponse.
The Golden Egg
En Anglais – In The Golden Egg, as the first leaves of autumn begin to fall, Vice Questore Patta asks Brunetti to look into a minor shop-keeping violation committed by the mayor's future daughter-in-law. Brunetti has no interest in helping his boss amass political favors, but he has little choice but to comply. Then Brunetti's wife, Paola, comes to him with a request of her own. The mentally handicapped man who worked at their dry cleaner has just died of a sleeping pill overdose, and Paola loathes the idea that he lived and died without anyone noticing him, or helping him.Brunetti begins to investigate the death and is surprised when he finds nothing on the man: no birth certificate, no passport, no driver's license, no credit cards. As far as the Italian government is concerned, he never existed. Stranger still, the dead man's mother refuses to speak to the police, and assures Brunetti that her son's identification papers were stolen in a burglary.