the two destinies a novel

The Two Destinies A Novel

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wilkie Collins, PUBLISHER: Kessinger Publishing LLC, NA

Vola via con me

Chicco Sfondrini, Luca Zanforlin Novel by the two writers of the Italian television program "Amici di Maria De Filippi".

Vola via con me

Chicco Sfondrini, Luca Zanforlin Novel by the two writers of the Italian television program "Amici di Maria De Filippi". (cod. I_)

Silver Sparrow

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jones, Tayari, PUBLISHER: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, With the opening line of "Silver Sparrow," "My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist," author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle.Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families--the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. It is a relationship destined to explode. This is the third stunning novel from an author deemed "one of the most important writers of her generation" (the "Atlanta Journal Constitution"). Acquista Ora

The Professor's House

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cather, Willa / Link, Frederick M. / Woodress, James, PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press, The scholarly edition of "The Professor's House" incorporates into its textual analysis findings from a recently discovered and significantly reworked draft of the novel. Willa Cather's perennial claims that there were no extant drafts make this discovery especially important to Cather scholars. Written in , when she was fifty-two years old, "The Professor's House" was Cather's seventh novel. Cather explained that in this novel she had attempted two structural experiments. The first experiment she took from the practice of early French and Spanish novelists of inserting a "nouvelle into the roman," hence the first-person "Tom Outland's Story" wedged between the other two parts of the novel. Second, she compared the novel's structure to a sonata form in music, with the center section in significant contrast to the surrounding sections Behind the understated prose relating the story of Professor Godfrey St. Peter, who, despite his success, experiences at midcareer a profound disappointment with life, is the fierce account of how he decides to continue living despite those disappointments. Tom Outland's thrilling tale of a long-lost civilization is both an ironic contrast to the professor's staid outer life and a mirror of the imaginative interior life he experiences in his attic study.

Lion's Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Barnes, Steven, PUBLISHER: Warner Books, Steven Barnes' alternate history establishes a universe in which Africa arose as the superior military and economic power and used white slave labor from Europe to colonize the Americas. The novel takes place in A.D., and involves two main families: one of Islamic African aristocrats, the other of Druidic Irish slaves. Beautifully written with historical flavor, "Lion's Blood" is a combination of Gone With the Wind and Roots. Two young men, one of each racial line, must learn to deal with their world and with each other.

Such Is My Beloved

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Callaghan / Callaghan, Morley, PUBLISHER: New Canadian Library, One of the great novels of the s, "Such Is My Beloved" recounts the tragic story of two down-and-out prostitutes and the young priest who aspires to redeem their lives. The novel is at once a compassionate portrait of innocence and idealism, and an emphatic condemnation of a society where the lines between good and evil are essentially blurred. "Such Is My Beloved" is widely considered to be Morley Callaghan's finest novel.

Back from the Deep: The Strange Story of the Sister Subs

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: LaVO, Carl, PUBLISHER: US Naval Institute Press, This epic World War II saga follows the intertwined destinies of the sister subs Squalus and Sculpin.

Northern Lights

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Roberts, Nora, PUBLISHER: Piatkus Books, The colorful, compelling novel about two lonely souls who find love-and redemption-in Lunacy, Alaska.

Jacob's Room (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Virginia Woolf, PUBLISHER: Barnes & Noble, "Jacob's Room" is the third novel by Virginia Woolf, first published in . It centres, in a very ambivalent way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders. Set in pre-war England, the novel begins in Jacob's childhood and follows him through college at Cambridge, and then into adulthood. The story is told mainly through the perspectives of the women in Jacob's life, including the repressed upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the uninhibited young art student Florinda. His time in London forms a large part of the story. Towards the end of the novel he travels to Italy, then Greece... "Jacob's Room" is a departure from Woolf's earlier two novels, "The Voyage Out" () and "Night and Day" (), which are more conventional in form. It is seen as an important modernist text.

A Tale of Two Cities

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dickens, Charles / Dickens, Charles, PUBLISHER: Dover Publications, Against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Dickens unfolds a masterpiece of drama, adventure, and courage featuring Charles Darnay, a man falsely accused of treason. He bears an uncanny resemblance to the dissolute, yet noble Sydney Carton. Brilliantly plotted, the novel culminates in a daring prison escape in the shadow of the guillotine.

Hotel World

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Smith, Ali, PUBLISHER: Penguin Books, Limited (UK), Five women: four are alive, three are foreigners, two are sisters, one is dead ?they have all been in this hotel. Their hopes and disappointments roam freely through the hallways, sheltered by its walls as each crosses the path of the other without ever giving a thought to the sheer coincidence of their encounters. Hotel World invites us to join them for a night in their existence. In this novel, opposite worlds collide, resulting in the affirmation of love. Smith is also known for The Accidental named Novel of the Year by Britain's prestigious Whitbread Book Awards.

Somersault

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Oe, Kenzaburo / Gabriel, Philip, PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, (In his first new novel since he won the Novel Prize, Oe makes an immense departure from the autobiographical fiction he is most known for, in a magnificent story of the charisma of leaders and the danger of zealotry. A decade before the story opens, two men referred to as the Patron and Guide of manking were leaders of an influential religious movement. When a radical faction of their teaching and abandoned their followers. After ten years of silence, two men referred to as the Patron and Guide of mankind begin contacting their old followers and reaching out to the public. As Patron and a core of the faithful attempt to incorporate followers from the movement's past into a new vision for its future, conflicting agendas threaten the church's unity--or something far more dangerous. Ambitious and beautifully told, Somesault illuminates the spiritual searching of modern man that makes religious cults so compelling.)

Piccoli sogni

Katie Fforde A novel on a trio of women working for London's Quality Cleaners, an establishment supplying maids with high-class accents to the well-to-do. The three are a novelist, an artist and the owner of a houseboat. The novel follows them as they was (cod. I_)

SHREK 2 The Movie Novel

Vendo libro di lettura in lingua inglese SHREK 2 The Movie Novel, adattamento di Jesse Leon McCann, casa editrice Dream Works. Il testo è nuovo; eventuale spedizione a richiesta.

eBook New Novel Passage to Infinity

eBook New Novel Passage to Infinity Can an immortal character die? No, he can�t! This is the reason of this book about the character known all over the world, the Detective Monsieur Hercule P. http://passaggioperlinfinito.jimdo.com/passage-to-infinity/

SHREK 2 The Movie Novel

Vendo libro di lettura in lingua inglese SHREK 2 The Movie Novel. Adattamento di Jesse Leon McCann, casa editrice Dream Works. Il libro è nuovo, eventuale spedizione a richiesta

Two Bad Ants

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Van Allsburg, Chris, PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), The three-time Caldecott medalist tells the tale of two ants who decide to leave the safety of the others to venture into a danger-laden kitchen.

The Europeans

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: James, Henry, PUBLISHER: Aziloth Books, Although Henry James was himself none too fond of 'The Europeans', the novel has nevertheless proved to be a firm favourite with readers ever since its publication in . The juxtaposition of two cultures with their differing values and expectations was fertile ground for James' comic genius, and he uses the varied interplay of characters to poke fun at the social mores of the day while at the same time attempting a more serious critique of New England society.

New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sundquist, Eric J. / Elliott, Emory, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Increased interest in the role of women and minorities in establishing the canon of American literature has led to renewed interest in Uncle Tom's Cabin. The essays in this volume set out to provide contemporary readers with a critical and historical interpretation of the novel that reflects the best of recent scholarship. In his introduction Eric J. Sundquist attempts to show that Uncle Tom's Cabin boldly takes issue with both proslavery arguments and prevailing prejudices among abolitionists, employing the forms of popular melodrama and heated rhetoric to carry its complex argument. The individual essays examine the influence of Stowe's novel on the characterization of women in the American novel and on later women writers, the role of women in the antislavery movement, the literary exchanges between Stowe and her contemporaries; Uncle Tom's Cabin and the tradition of the Gothic novel, and the characterizations of blacks in this novel and in later works.

Unbodied Hope: Narcissism and the Modern Novel

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Thornton, Lawrence, PUBLISHER: Associated University Presses, This book explores two froms of narcissism -- Apollonian and Dionysian -- in an attempt to illuminate the theology of the self and attendant questions of identity which have concerned a wide range of novelists. Works by Flaubert, Chopin, Conrad, Ford, Fitzgerald, Durrell, Gide, Mann, and Hawkes are examined.

This Human Season

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dean, Louise, PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster, November , the height of Northern Ireland' s Troubles. Kathleen Moran' s son Sean has just been transferred to the hypersecure H-block in Belfast' s notorious Maze prison, where he soon emerges as a young but important force in the extreme protest that political prisoners are staging there. John Dunn is also newly arrived at the prison, having taken on the job of guard-- a brutal but effective way to support a house and a girlfriend. In the weeks leading up to Christmas, no one' s dreams go untroubled. As rumors of a hunger strike begin to circulate, Louise Dean' s pitch-perfect novel places two parents, two sons, and two enemies on a collision course that ends in a surprising and deeply resonant climax.

Plainsong

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Haruf, Kent, PUBLISHER: Large Print Distribution, In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother leaves. A teenage girl is pregnant and alone, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two elderly brothers work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together -- their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity, and humor intact and resonant. Utterly true to the rhythms and patterns of life, Plainsong is a novel to care about, believe in, and learn from.

The Dovekeepers

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hoffman, Alice, PUBLISHER: Scribner Book Company, "The Dovekeepers" is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel: "striking....Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose" ("Entertainment Weekly").Nearly years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Based on this tragic and iconic event, Hoffman's novel is a spellbinding tale of four extraordinarily bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path. The lives of these four complex and fiercely independent women intersect in the desperate days of the siege. All are dovekeepers, and all are also keeping secrets--about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love. "The Dovekeepers "is Alice Hoffman's masterpiece. Acquista Ora

The Beatles - Past masters.volume two

The Beatles - Past masters.volume two. 15 canzoni: day tripper, we can work it out, paperback writer, rain, lady madonna, the inner light...

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