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Walt Whitman
Leaves of grass and selected prose
En anglais – … » I’ve been reading bits and pieces of this mammoth collection for decades. Though I haven’t finished every last page, I’ve completed the lion’s share of the famous sections and will keep whittling away on the rest. » …
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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.
Marker, segnali d’allarme
En italien – New York, Manhattan General Hospital: persone sane e giovani, sottoposte a interventi di routine, muoiono ventiquattr’ore dopo l’operazione. La cosa insospettisce Laurie Montgomery, medico legale dell’ospedale. La dottoressa si getta a capofitto nell’indagine, anche se ostacolata da superiori e colleghi che pensano si tratti di pure coincidenze. Le morti però aumentano e Laurie è sempre più convinta che sia opera di un serial killer: tutte le vittime hanno infatti mappe genetiche simili. Che qualcuno abbia bisogno di materia su sui fare esperimenti? Il tempo scorre rapido ed è necessario trovare una soluzione all’enigma anche per salvare la vita alla stessa Laurie, che, positiva a un marker tumorale, scoprirà di avere un legame particolare con la vicenda…
Le Dauphin perdu
Louis XVII, roi de France et de Navarre : telle est l’inscription que porte, dans la ville hollandaise de Delft, la tombe d’un horloger prussien, Karl Naundorff. Naundorff était-il Louis XVII ? L’énigme de « l’enfant du Temple », le mystère des prétendants au trône de France après la Restauration, l’étrange destinée de Naundorff le principal d’entre eux, voilà autant de problème qui ont toujours fasciné les historiens et le grand public et quxquels la récente exhumation des restes de Naundorff et le livre si discuté de Me Maurice Garçon viennent de donner un regain d’actualité. C’est dire le plaisir que chacun prendra à lire ce roman qui, basé sur les données historiques les plus authentiques, nous fait revivre avec émotion, dans les décors, les plus variés de l’Europe du siècle dernier, la vie vie étonnante et les amours de celui qui fut, nous démontre l’auteur, le vrai Louis XVII.
Man and Superman, Arms and the Man, …..
En Anglais – 1898. Most of Shaw’s early plays were either banned by the censor or refused production. With Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant he sought a reading audience. He also began the practice of writing the challenging, mocking, eloquent prefaces to his plays, which were sometimes longer than the play itself. This volume contains the Unpleasant: Widowers’ Houses; The Philanderer; and Mrs. Warren’s Profession.