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Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, "Ada or Ardor" is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country esta...
The word agape comes from the Greek and refers to a love that is spiritual in nature. The unnamed narrator of William Gaddis's last, powerfully memorable novel lies dying ...
Ghada Abdel Aal est née en 1978 à El-Mahalla El-Kubra (Égypte) où elle travaille comme pharmacienne.
En 2006, elle crée un blog sur lequel elle dénonce la pression subi...
Faut-il avoir peur de la Corée du Nord ? Les dirigeants nord-coréens sont-ils fous ? Comment la Corée du Nord est-elle devenue la première dynastie communiste du monde ? C...
Passé les réactions vives qu’a suscitées chez les Africains le discours de Nicolas Sarkozy prononcé à Dakar le 26 juillet 2007, ses déclarations sur l’immobilisme du conti...
«Понаехавшая» — история жизни маленького человека в большом городе. История смешная, немного горькая, но, безусловно, добрая. У каждого понаехавшего своя Москва. У героини...
Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of t...
The uplifting story of three sisters who, like so many migrant workers in today's China, leave their peasant community to seek their fortune in the big city.
The Li siste...
In 1960s Nigeria, Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, goes to work for Odenigbo, a radical university professor. Soon they are joined by Olanna, a young woman who has abandon...
Efuru, beautiful and respected, is loved and deserted by two ordinary undistinguished husbands.
Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur and murderer. Balram, the White Tiger, was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the s...
When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about their family—stories that went back to her grandparents, and their grandpa...
Jude Fawley, the stonemason excluded not by his wits but by poverty from the world of Christminster privilege, finds fulfilment in his relationship with Sue Bridehead. Bot...
Middlemarch is a monumental novel, and as much a delight to read today as it has ever been. George Eliot's immortal creations, the saintly and beautiful Dorothea Brooke, t...
From a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest, to a young woman's dilemma over whether to elope to Argentina with her lover, to the dance party at which a man d...
Includes the unabridged text of Joyce's classic novel plus a complete study guide that helps readers gain a thorough understanding of the work's content and context. The c...
For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and 1921, "Ulysses" has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter cont...
Young Ishmael sets out on the whaling ship "Pequod" hoping to free himself from his earthly anger and sorrow. But the mad Captain Ahab, who hunts for the whale that tore o...
An omnibus edition of the five novels published by Durrell in a kaleidoscopic sequence between 1974 and 1985. The books are set mainly in Avignon and the ancient kingdom o...