So begins The Invention of Solitude, Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. The first section, "Portrait of an Invisible Man," reveals Auster's memories and fe...9999903257769Paul Auster
Avon
jueves, 9 de enero de 2025
Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, incurable romantic, is studying Jane Austen and George Eliot - authors of the great marriage plots. A madeleine contemplates the age-old mo...9999903257561Jeffrey Eugenides,
Fourth Estate (12 April 2012)
jueves, 9 de enero de 2025
Paul Auster's three stories explore the nature of identity. He uses the detective, spy and friendship genres as vehicles to delve into the relationships between different groups of...9999903257516Auster, Paul
Faber & Faber
jueves, 9 de enero de 2025
The Penguin English Library edition of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen to...9999903257479Gaskell, Elizabeth
Penguin Books Ltd
jueves, 9 de enero de 2025
It was tempting to think, at times like this, that some bizarre hysteria had gripped the British people. Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factori...9999903257417Jonathan Coe
Penguin
jueves, 9 de enero de 2025
Yi Kwang-su (1892-1950) was one of the pioneers of modern Korean literature. When the serialization of Mujông (The Heartless) began in 1917, it was an immediate sensation, and it o...9999903257394Ann Sung-hi Lee
Editors Varis
jueves, 9 de enero de 2025
"Altun offers us three delights for the price of one: a brilliantly edgy, witty thriller that rivals Highsmith; a metaphysical puzzle that Borges would be proud to call his own; an...9999903257387Altun, Selçuk
Telegram
jueves, 9 de enero de 2025
A NovelFROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE ??[Han Kang ??s] intense poetic prose . . . confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life. ? ??...9781101906743Han Kang
Anchor Books
jueves, 9 de enero de 2025
Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator of More Die ofHeartbreak, has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to benear his beloved uncle, the world-renow...9999903257240Saul Bellow
Penguin Books Ltd
jueves, 9 de enero de 2025
La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion, and possessio...9999903257080Zola, Emile
Penguin Classics
jueves, 9 de enero de 2025
A Chronicle of the Nineteenth CenturyThe son of a carpenter, Julian Sorel is inspired by the writings of Napoleon to conquer the heights of society. His initial plan to work his way up through the church is, however, ...9999903257042Stendhal; translated and ...
Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1953.
jueves, 9 de enero de 2025
"Nicholas Nickleby is the son of a poor country gentleman, and has to make his own way in the world. He first goes as usher to Mr. Squeers, schoolmaster at Dotheboys Hall, in Yorks...9999903257004Charles Dickens
Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1978.
jueves, 9 de enero de 2025
In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Cald...9999903257127John Updike
Penguin Books Ltd
jueves, 9 de enero de 2025
Part Two of Poor RelationsIn the sitting-room La Cibot explained her position with regard to the pair of nutcrackers at very considerable length. She repeated the history of her loan with added embellishmen...9999903257097Honoré de Balzac
Penguin Books Ltd
jueves, 9 de enero de 2025
With a new introduction by Thomas Mallon "Dubin's Lives" (1979) is a compassionate and wry commedia, a book praised by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in "The New York Times" as Malamud'...9999903256977Bernard Malamud
Editors Varis
jueves, 9 de enero de 2025
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