"Wenn eine Ehe zum Schicksal wird.
Christopher Burton erhält an der Rezeption seines Hotels einen Anruf, der ihn über den Selbstmord seines Sohnes informiert. Aber warum ist Burtons erster Gedanke bei dieser schrecklichen Nachricht, jetzt, nach fast dreißig Jahren Ehe, seine Frau zu verlassen? Schicksal - ein fesselnder Roman über Ehe und Identität, über die spezielle Dynamik, wie einer sich auf Kosten des anderen entwickelt und ein Dritter auf der Strecke bleibt."
"A masterpiece by Edith Wharton, author of The Age of Innocence.Winter in a Massachusetts village serves as a backdrop to Edith Wharton' s masterpiece about a man with little hope of escaping his bleak future. Married to an older woman named Zeena, Ethan Frome finds himself drawn to his wife' s cousin, Mattie. Although he dreams of fleeing his loveless marriage and stealing away with Mattie, Ethan has neither the means nor the will. Mattie offers another solution, a desperate act borne out of despair that may result in even greater tragedy."
"In this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. Chaon mines the psychological landscape of his characters to dazzling effect. Each story radiates with sharp humor, mystery, wonder, and startling compassion. Among the Missing lingers in the mind through its subtle grace and power of language."
"El mundo desesperado de un criminal. Invariablemente en cualquier encuesta que se haga sobre las obras maestras de la novela, figuran por los menos una del insigne escritor ruso Fedor Dostoyevsky, en especial Crimen y Castigo, que figura en esta edicion y Los Hermanos Karamazov. En la novela que se presenta, se ve la mente de Raskolnikov, un brillante creyente en las ideas de que los hombres superiores tienen por ese hecho, permiso para transgredir las leyes y dentro de esa teoria comete un crimen. Su odisea y su redencion a traves del amor de la prostituta Sonia y los intentos del inspector de policia de hacer confesar y arrepentirse al asesino, son la trama basica de esta novela que, como pocas, penetra en el interior del alma humana. La lectura de Fabio Camero resalta los instantes dramaticos que ella tiene."
"Una novela historica de la revolucion. Carlos Dickens, el gran escritor ingles incursiono muy poco en la novela historica, que tan de boga estuvo a mediados del siglo XIX. De hecho, dentro de su inmensa produccion, tanto en numero como en calidad, solo hay dos novelas historicas de las cuales La historia de dos ciudades es una. Las dos ciudades del nombre son Londres y el Paris de la epoca de la revolucion francesa y los detalles estan cuidadosamente delineados para contar una historia melodramatica y conmovedora. Por estas razones, esta novela ha figurado siempre entre las favoritas de Carlos Dickens, a pesar de apartarse de su linea narrativa habitual. La obra fue publicada originalmente por capitulos en una revista inglesa y el interes que causo fue tal, que la gente esperaba por horas la aparicion de la publicacion para seguir la historia en forma fiel."
"Algunos lo interpretan como el contraste entre dos epocas, otros dicen que se refiere a la suerte de la ruleta o al contraste entre la vida militar y la religiosa. Lo cierto es que su protagonista lucha contra una sociedad que no lo comprende y que acaba destruyendolo."
"Un grupo de nobles italianos tienen que refugiarse la peste negra en una casa para pasar el rato, se cuentan el uno al otro historias. La serie de cien cuentos que se narran son divertidos por que se mofan de todas las que se supone sean buenas costumbres."
"Una novela sobre hipocresia social e injusticia. El incredible parecido entre el heredero de la corona inglesa y un mendigo, permite que por un azar del destino, al encontrarse los ninos de dos mundos tan opuestos, el principe pueda cumplir con su deseo de ver como vive y sufre la otra mitad, mientras que el mendigo se ve inesperadamente envuelto en las intrigas palaciegas. Esta es la base del apasionante relato de Mark Twain, llevado en varias oportunidades al cine y que es una novela que en el fondo es un ataque a la hipocresia social y la injusticia, llena de episodios de aventuras que se suceden el uno al otro, todo con la maestria del autor, quien quiso mostrar que era capaz de escribir sobre temas diferentes de los del pueblo americano y logro asi un increible relato, que tiene suspenso, ternura y un acertado retrato de una epoca tempestuosa dentro del imperio britanico."
""Bah Humbug!" That's how Ebeneezer Scrooge feels about Christmas--until the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future decide to show the crotchety old miser the error of his ways. Together they travel through time, revisiting all the people who have played an important role in Scrooge's life. And as their journey concludes, Scrooge is reminded of what it means to have love in his heart, and what the true spirit of Christmas is all about. A timeless story the whole family will enjoy!"
"Deftly written and emotionally powerful, Drowning Ruth is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart, of the dangers of keeping secrets and the explosive repercussions when they are exposed. A mesmerizing and achingly beautiful debut.
Winter, 1919. Amanda Starkey spends her days nursing soldiers wounded in the Great War. Finding herself suddenly overwhelmed, she flees Milwaukee and retreats to her family's farm on Nagawaukee Lake, seeking comfort with her younger sister, Mathilda, and three-year-old niece, Ruth. But very soon, Amanda comes to see that her old home is no refuge--she has carried her troubles with her. On one terrible night almost a year later, Amanda loses nearly everything that is dearest to her when her sister mysteriously disappears and is later found drowned beneath the ice that covers the lake. When Mathilda's husband comes home from the war, wounded and troubled himself, he finds that Amanda has taken charge of Ruth and the farm, assuming her responsibility with a frightening intensity. Wry and guarded, Amanda tells the story of her family in careful doses, as anxious to hide from herself as from us the secrets of her own past and of that night.
Ruth, haunted by her own memory of that fateful night, grows up under the watchful eye of her prickly and possessive aunt and gradually becomes aware of the odd events of her childhood. As she tells her own story with increasing clarity, she reveals the mounting toll that her aunt's secrets exact from her family and everyone around her, until the heartrending truth is uncovered.
Guiding us through the lives of the Starkey women, Christina Schwarz's first novel shows her compassion and a unique understanding of the American landscape and the people who live on it."
"It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny--the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents... Eve--the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny--they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace curtains...except their own.
It widened at Dublin, at the university where Benny and Eve met beautiful Nan Mahlon and Jack Foley, a doctor's handsome son. But heartbreak and betrayal would bring the worlds of Knockglen and Dublin into explosive collision. Long-hidden lies would emerge to test the meaning of love and the strength of ties held within the fragile gold bands of a... Circle Of Friends."
"One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author.
"A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet . . . laid out for us with an originality and a clarity that few would deny."-The New York Times Book Review
Teacher Seeks Pupil.
Must have an earnest desire to save the world.
Apply in person.
It was just a three-line ad in the personals section, but it launched the adventure of a lifetime.
So begins an utterly unique and captivating novel. It is the story of a man who embarks on a highly provocative intellectual adventure with a gorilla-a journey of the mind and spirit that changes forever the way he sees the world and humankind's place in it.
In Ishmael, which received the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship for the best work of fiction offering positive solutions to global problems, Daniel Quinn parses humanity's origins and its relationship with nature, in search of an answer to this challenging question: How can we save the world from ourselves?
Explore Daniel Quinn's spiritual Ishmael trilogy:
ISHMAEL • MY ISHMAEL • THE STORY OF B
Praise for Ishmael
"As suspenseful, inventive, and socially urgent as any fiction or nonfiction you are likely to read this or any other year."-The Austin Chronicle
"Before we're halfway through this slim book . . . we're in [Daniel Quinn's] grip, we want Ishmael to teach us how to save the planet from ourselves. We want to change our lives."-The Washington Post
"Arthur Koestler, in an essay in which he wondered whether mankind would go the way of the dinosaur, formulated what he called the Dinosaur's Prayer: 'Lord, a little more time!' Ishmael does its bit to answer that prayer and may just possibly have bought us all a little more time."-Los Angeles Times"
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