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A bestseller when it was first published in 1928, Edith Whartons "The Children" is a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers and stepsisters grown weary of being shuttled from parent to parent "like bundles," are eager for their parents latest reconciliation to last. A chance meeting between the children and the solitary forty-six-year-old Martin Boyne leads to a series of unforgettable encounters. Among the colourful cast of characters are the Wheater adults, who play out their own comedy of marital errors; the flamboyant Marchioness of Wrench; and the vivacious fifteen-year-old Judith Wheater, who captures Martins heart. With deft humour and touching drama, Wharton portrays a world of intrigues and infidelities, skewering the manners and mores of Americans abroad.

Cedric is a respected monk at the Ridderzaal monastery. But before he became a man of the cloth, he traveled the land, fighting trolls alongside dwarves and giants, living among the fearsome Krigares, and studying with elves, wizards and Shenn Frith shamans.This novelette provides a back story for one of your favorite characters from The Crafter Chronicles. It is a great standalone read as an introduction to the world of Matthew B. Berg, or as a companion piece to his trilogy begun with The Crafters Son. (And there are no spoilers in here if you havent yet begun the series!)Framed around Cedric taking a nostalgic journey through his personal journals, this story is roughly 10,000 words. (About 1/8th the length of the first book.) And, unlike the slower unfolding of The Crafters Son, this book gets right to the action!

Parades End is a series of four novels depicting the meeting, courtship, and ultimate fulfilment of two modern heroes, Christopher Tietjens and Valentine Wannop, despite social condemnation, personal travails, and World War I.First published in 1926, "No More Parades" is the second book of Parades End. The subject of the novel is the world as it culminated in the war; the story centres on Christopher Tietjens, an officer and gentleman, the last English Tory, and follows him from the secure, orderly world of Edwardian England into the chaotic madness of the First World War. Against the backdrop of a world at war, Ford recounts the complex sexual warfare between Tietjens and his faithless wife Sylvia."No More Parades" and the whole Parades End tetralogy are an unforgettable exploration of the tensions of a society confronting catastrophe, sexuality, power, madness, and violence, this narrative examines time and a critical moment in history.

In 1962, more than fifty years after Mark Twains death, his daughter finally allowed the publication of the essays and satirical short stories that were deemed too irreligious and controversial to see the light of day when he wrote them. The pieces were gathered by Twains literary executor Bernard DeVoto in a collection titled "Letters from the Earth", and they feature sharp takes on the inconsistencies and illogic of Christianity and biting criticisms of American life."Letters from the Earth" is a collection of essays that were written during a difficult time in Twains life; he was deep in debt and had lost his wife and one of his daughters. The book consists of a series of short stories, many of which deal with God and Christianity. Twain penned a series of letters from the point-of-view of a dejected angel on Earth. This title story consists of letters written by the archangel Satan to archangels, Gabriel and Michael, about his observations on the curious proceedings of earthly life and the nature of mans religions. By analysing the idea of heaven and God that is widely accepted by those who believe in both, Twain is able to take the silliness that is present and study it with the common sense that is absent. Not so much an attack as much as a cold dissection. Other short stories in the book include a bedtime story about a family of cats Twain wrote for his daughters, and an essay explaining why an anaconda is morally superior to Man. Twains writings in "Letters from the Earth" find him at perhaps his most quizzical and questioning state ever.

Parades End is a series of four novels depicting the meeting, courtship, and ultimate fulfilment of two modern heroes, Christopher Tietjens and Valentine Wannop, despite social condemnation, personal travails, and World War I.First published in 1924, the first novel of the sequence is the masterpiece "Some Do Not . . .".Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant, unconventional mathematician, is married to the dazzling yet unfaithful Sylvia, when, during a turbulent weekend, he meets a young Suffragette by the name of Valentine Wannop. Christopher and Valentine are on the verge of becoming lovers until he must return to his World War I regiment. Ultimately, Christopher, shell-shocked and suffering from amnesia, is sent back to London. "Some Do Not . . ." and the whole Parades End tetralogy are an unforgettable exploration of the tensions of a society confronting catastrophe, sexuality, power, madness, and violence, this narrative examines time and a critical moment in history.

Una trasferta nel ponente ligure, dettata dalla necessita del cardinale Rafael di portare conforto a un suo amico monsignore, condurra Aitana in una piccola comunita di suore alle prese con un possibile caso di violenza su una ragazzina.La suora toledana si impegnera a por fine a quella storia e non lo fara con preghiere o ragionamenti, ma impiegando strumenti molto piu efficaci e convincenti.Questo racconto anticipa larrivo nelle librerie del romanzo Il segreto del confessionale

Published in 1867, "The Man With The Broken Ear" was written by French novelist, publicist, and journalist, Edmond About.In 1859 Renault comes back home after spending 3 years in the mines in Russia. He brings back a mummy of Colonel Fougas from 1813. The mummy will be resurrected and the colonel is 24 years old when he wakes up. He does not understand France anymore...

First published in 1926, "A Man Could Stand Up" is part three of Parades End Ford Madox Fords tetrology set in the World War I era (1914 to 1918) in England and in the trenches in France. Parades End is one of the outstanding works about World War I and British society before, during, and after that cataclysm.In "A Man Could Stand Up" the hero, Christopher Tietjens, and suffragette campaigner Valentine Wannop are united on Armistice Day.Ford Madox Ford (1873 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. He is now remembered best for his publications "The Good Soldier", the Parades End tetralogy and The Fifth Queen trilogy.

Written in 1913 by major American writer Edith Wharton, "The Custom of the Country" follows a young womans ruthless ambition to excel within a judgemental Manhattan society. It is Whartons ninth novel and with its subject matter revolving around divorce, reflects Whartons own life around this time, when the author divorced and moved to France permanently.Its themes include the peril of materialism, selfishness and narcissism, and the cruelty brought on by ruthless ambition. Often told from the vantage point of the protagonist, the novel never strays from third-person perspective.Undine Spragg, the heroine, is an ambitious young woman from the American midwest. Raised in the fictional town of Apex, shes the product of a family who has risen to a certain social status through sketchy financial dealings.Undine strives to rise in New York City society through a succession of marriages and divorces that ultimately lead to her undoing.

David Herbert Lawrences "The Plumed Serpent" is the story of an Aztec pagan revolution that spreads through Mexico during the time of the Mexican Revolution (the 1910s). Published in 1926, it also has themes of anti-capitalism, anti-Americanism, romanticism, nationalism, and primal and traditional roles for men and women.The protagonist is 40-year-old Kate Leslie, the widow of an Irish revolutionary. Shes not particularly close to her grown children from her first husband, and seeking solitude and change in the midst of her grief she settles temporarily in Mexico.Soon she meets Don Ramon Carrasco, an intellectual whos attempting to rid the country of Christianity and capitalism and replace them with the cult of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl (the plumed serpent) and Mexican nationalism. Hes assisted in his vision by Don Cipriano Viedma, a general in the Mexican army. Ramon provides the leadership, poetry, and propaganda that helps the movement take off, and Cipriano lends a military counterpoint...

Quindicesima Edizione del Premio Letterario "Giacomo Zanella" (Bella La Vita)

In 1666, the same year that Newton graduated Cambridge, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, wrote "A Description of A New World, Called the Blazing-World", better known as "The Blazing World". An early work of science fiction, this short novel touches on alchemy, the occult, religion and philosophy, moving between topics and accuracy, in the light of modern understanding at a dizzying pace. Like her contemporary Newtons writings, which ranged from physics to alchemy, Cavendishs work showed the transition in thought from ancient philosophy to modern ideas that was the hallmark of the scientific revolution.In "The Blazing World", a woman from our world is kidnapped by a suitor on a boat, his plan goes awry, the boats crew dies, and the woman is transported to another world as she rounds the Earths pole. The world she is transported to is the eponymous and fantastical Blazing World. There she becomes empress of the Blazing World through marriage. The core plot unfolds in a space scarcely larger than its summary. The empress and Cavendish herself later interact, mediated by spirits. The women become fast friends, platonic lovers, and travel to each others worlds."The Blazing World" is a feminist work. It was written by a female author in the 17th century under her own name, to an audience of women, about women characters discussing topics of natural philosophy in a fantastical setting. The work is subversive, exploring Platonic love in scenes which feature without judgement homosexuality, androgyny and polyamory.(Source: medium.com)

First published in 1922, "The Secret Adversary" is Agatha Christies second detective fiction novel.Hiring themselves out as young adventurers willing to do anything is a smart move for Tommy and Tuppence. All Tuppence has to do is take an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris and pose as someone named Jane Finn. But with the job comes a threat to her life, and the disappearance of her mysterious employer. Now Tuppences newest job is playing detectivebecause if theres a Jane Finn that really exists, shes got a secret thats putting both their lives in danger.

Written in 1916 during The First World War, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" was British author Agatha Christies debut mystery novel. The novel was released in the United States in 1920, then in the United Kingdom in 1921. Set at Styles Court outside of Essex, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" introduces Christies heroic Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot, Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp, and Lieutenant Hastings (later, Captain). When Detective Poirot is summoned to Styles Court to investigate the mysterious death of its rich elderly owner, Emily Inglethorp, he interrogates several suspects before eventually solving the crime. In 1990, the classic mystery was adapted as an episode of the television series Poirot, directed by Ross Devenish and starring David Suchet as Poirot.

Rudyard Kipling wrote some 250 short stories. He published them in all sorts of contemporary newspapers and journals throughout his long career, and it was his practice to bring them together into collections published every few years. These collections form milestones through his oeuvre.It was also his habit to prefix or follow each story with a short poem commenting directly or obliquely on the narratives they decorate a habit he picked up, apparently, from a favourite author, Ralph Waldo Emerson and took to new heights of complex interaction and subtle commentary.This essential 1904 collection takes its name from "The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation" by Richard Hakluyt, a compendium of exciting Elizabethan sailing expeditions. "Traffics and Discoveries" includes the following amazing short stories:- The Captive- The Bonds of Discipline- A Sahibs War- "Their Lawful Occasions" (as Part I and Part II)- The Comprehension of Private Copper- Steam Tactics- "Wireless"- The Army of a Dream (as Part I and Part II)- "They"- Mrs. Bathurst- Below the Mill Dam

Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers of his era, and his novel "Kim", first published in 1901, has become one of his most well-known non-juvenile works.The novel takes place at a time contemporary to the books publication; its setting is India under the British Empire. Hence, "Kim" is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and adventure, a world in which there is no question of the division between white and non-white.Two men - a boy who grows into early manhood and an old ascetic priest, the lama - are at the centre of the novel. A quest faces them both. Born in India, Kim is nevertheless white, a sahib. While he wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama. His aim, as he moves chameleon-like through the two cultures, is to reconcile these opposing strands, while the lama searches for redemption from the Wheel of Life.A celebration of their friendship in a beautiful but often hostile environment, Kim captures the opulence of Indias exotic landscape, overlaid by the uneasy presence of the British Raj.

First published in 1888, "Plain Tales from the Hills" was Kiplings first volume of prose fiction. Most of the stories it includes had already appeared in the Civil and Military Gazette and they were written before Kipling reached the age of 22, showing already a remarkably precocious literary talent. This vignettes of life in British India a hundred years ago give vivid insight into Anglo-India at work and play, into a barrack-room life, and into the character of Indians themselves.

First published in 1888, "Soldiers Three" is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. The three soldiers of the title are Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris, who had also appeared previously in the collection "Plain Tales from the Hills".Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his childrens books. He is regarded as an innovator in the art of the short story; his childrens books, such as "The Jungle Book", are enduring classics.

Lingenua e una storia nata dimpulso.Parla di una donna che, forse, non sapeva vedere cio che le accadeva, troppo presa a vivere cio che era necessario vivere.Una donna non piu giovane, colta allimprovviso da un ricordo del passato remoto, cui non aveva forse prestato la giusta attenzione al momento.Oggi, pero, che il puzzle puo essere ricomposto, spostandone i pezzi, in vari modi, si rende conto come non valga neanche la pena di formare una delle possibili immagini, in quanto non avrebbe piu nessun valore inserirlo nella vita del momento.

"The Red Badge of Courage" is Stephen Cranes second book and masterpiece, notable for its realism and the fact that Crane had never personally experienced battle. The manuscript was first serialised in December 1894 by The Philadelphia Press and quickly won Crane international acclaim before he died in June 1900 at the age of 28."The Red Badge of Courage" follows a young soldier, Henry Fleming, during a battle in the Civil War. Henry has joined the Union army because of his romantic ideas of military life, but soon finds himself in the middle of a battle against a regiment of Confederate soldiers. Terrified, Henry deserts his comrades. Upon returning to his regiment, he struggles with his shame as he tries to redeem himself and prove his courage.