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"Phineas Finn", in full "Phineas Finn: The Irish Member" is a novel by Anthony Trollope first published serially from October 1867 to May 1869.The second of Trollopes "Palliser" novels introduces its title character, Phineas Finn, a talented but naive doctors son from Ireland with Parliamentary aspirations. He must make numerous practical and ethical choices regarding his career, his political beliefs, and his romantic life, in hopes of emerging with his character, reputation, and prospects intact.Novels in the Palliser series:1- Can You Forgive Her? (1864)2- Phineas Finn (1869)3- The Eustace Diamonds (1873)4- Phineas Redux (1874)5- The Prime Minister (1876)6- The Dukes Children (1879)The series overlaps with Trollopes Chronicles of Barsetshire, also a series of six novels, which deal with life in the fictional county where the Palliser family is politically important.

"The Moorland Cottage" by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is a short novella that was first published around 1850 after her first novel "Mary Barton" but before one of her more famous novels "Cranford". This feminist masterpiece is said to be the precursor and the template for George Elliots "The Mill on the Floss".The story centres on Maggie Browne, her brother Edward, and their mother who live at the novellas title Moorland Cottage. Mr. Browne died when the children were very young and Mrs. Browne has spent most of the rest of her time neglecting Maggie and catering to her Edward, allowing him all of lifes pleasures and ambitions. Maggie obediently stands by and watches her mother spoil Edward and never complains when she is ordered around or criticised for every little thing she does wrong. Maggies fortune changes when a friend of her fathers Mr. Buxton visits the family and invites them to come and spend the day at his home. Maggie becomes a favourite to his sick wife and only son Frank and spends a day a week in their company. Mrs. Buxton teaches Maggie a lot of self-sacrificing, and as Maggie grows she becomes a beautiful, pious young woman and she must learn to find her voice if she is to overcome some of the obstacles that come into her way.

The Mill on the Floss is a novel that was written by George Eliot (the pen name of author Mary Ann Evans) and published in 1860. The novel was originally published in three parts. It was very successful and was adapted into a film as early as 1937. It was Eliots second novel and one of her most successful of all time.The novel tells the story of the Tulliver family and their wild, unruly daughter Maggie who live at Dorlcote Mill on the Floss river. Maggie considers her older brother, Tom her best friend and the two get along well. However, Toms school mate Philip meets Maggie one day and begins to fall in love with her. The Tullivers father, Mr. Tulliver soon makes a bad investment with Philips father, and the family goes bankrupt. Mr. Tulliver makes the children promise never to see Philip again..."The Mill on the Floss" is widely regarded as George Eliots most autobiographical novel. Maggie Tulliver is often seen as an avatar for Eliot, who also grew up as a bookish and intelligent girl in a rural community, a farm in Warwickshire, that didnt support her literary ambitions."The Mill on the Floss" is set in the 1820s, in the period following the Napoleonic wars. In the wake of Britains triumph, many of the inhabitants of St. Oggsa fictional town in Lincolnshire, a region in the northeast of Englandfeel confident about the British empire and its predominance in the world. At the same time, however, there are some suggestions of social and political unrest.

I racconti finalisti della prima edizione di Giallofestival.50 racconti di altrettanti autori.

"Bleak House" is a satirical story written by Charles Dickens in 1853 and considered to be among the his best work."Bleak House" is the story of the Jarndyce family, who wait in vain to inherit money from a disputed fortune in the settlement of the extremely long-running lawsuit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce. The story of a number of people whose lives are consumed by a court case."Bleak House", like many of Dickens writings, is about various social issues. The novel is pointedly critical of Englands Court of Chancery, in which cases could drag on through decades of convoluted legal manoeuvring.

In 1938, at a point when Orwell had developed a distinct and known literary voice (but was not yet famous), he decided to write a novel that would achieve three things: warn against war, remind people of the values of traditional English life, and offer a glimmer of hope for the future during a dark time."Coming Up for Air" is a poignant, nostalgic work written in 1939 in which Orwell reminisces about the England of the early 20th century, which was characterised by peace, harmony with nature and community spirit. In this first-person novel, the 45-year-old novels protagonist, George Bowling, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who feels frustrated with his mundane life and returns to his rural hometown, to the home of his boyhood, where he was truly happy, only to find that the march of consumerism has transformed it almost beyond recognition. His unease is exacerbated by the inescapable awareness that a new global conflict is one the horizon, with the Second World War breaking out shortly after the novel was published.

"Era il terzo giorno di seguito che vedeva quelluomo al parco. Un tizio ordinario. Faccia pulita e sempre rasata, giacca di tweed fuori moda, doppio mento. Portava al guinzaglio un cucciolo di cane zoppo, fermandosi con un sorriso da fesso ad aspettare che la bestia annusasse ogni singola carta sullasfalto, ogni cazzo di ciuffo derba o traccia di piscio lasciata da qualche altro animale come se fosse la cosa piu importante del mondo. Vinnie fumava la sua canna e li osservava incuriosito. A volte sembrava che fosse il cane a portare a passeggio luomo, con landatura ciondolante, un orecchio mozzato e le cicatrici sul collo. Sembravano due relitti, due creature dimenticate dal mondo che si completavano a vicenda in un modo che lui non sarebbe mai riuscito a comprendere."Un racconto thriller dellautore de Il Buio Dentro.

First published in 1877, "Marie, A Story of Russian Love" is a very straightforward and elegant love story by Russias Father of Literature, Alexander Pushkin. The novel provides insight into Russian history of the eighteenth century during the reign of Catherine the Great.Set on the Russian plains, young Peter Grineff leaves the comfort of his home to face blizzards, hardship, the barbarous Kalmouk, and the Corporal of the Cossacks. During a snowstorm, a mysterious figure appears, to whom Peter gives his warm coat. This encounter is to prove crucial to Peters future. Against a gelid backdrop, love blossoms for Peter and Marie, Captain Mironoffs daughter. However, Peters love, as pure as the untrodden snow on the steppes, is threatened by a rival for Maries affection, as well as having to unravel entangled conflicts and fend off the hatred around him.

George Orwells second novel, "A Clergymans Daughter" was published in March 1935.Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy Hare performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play, by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay in 1930s Depression England. Suddenly her routine shatters and Dorothy finds herself down and out in London. She is wearing silk stockings, has money in her pocket and cannot remember her name. The novel follows the eponymous Dorothy as an attack of amnesia takes her into poverty, a police cell and employment at a school for girls. Though she regains her life as a clergymans daughter, she has lost...Orwell leads us through a landscape of unemployment, poverty and hunger, where Dorothys faith is challenged by a social reality that changes her life.

"The Home and the World", written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1916, is set during the height of the Swadeshi movement, a boycott of British goods that was initiated in 1905 as a protest against Great Britains arbitrary division of Bengal into two parts. At first, Tagore was one of the leaders of Swadeshi, but when protests evolved into violent conflicts between Muslims and Hindus, Tagore left the movement. In "The Home and the World", he explained why he did not approve of what Swadeshi had become."The Home and the World" consists of 26 chapters, each of which is told from the point of view of one of the novels three central characters: Bimala; her husband, Nikhil; and Sandip, a leader within the Swadeshi movement. By presenting the story from three different perspectives, Tagore reflects the lack of social unity and political organization characteristic of Bengal and of India at the time the story takes place and gives insight into the diversity of perspectives held about the future direction of India.

"A Lady of Quality" is a romance by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published in 1896 that became the second highest-selling novel in the U.S. that year. If the name rings a bell, its because Burnett also wrote "Little Lord Fauntleroy", "A Little Princess", and "The Secret Garden". Today Burnett is remembered for her childrens books, but she also wrote a lot of romantic novels for adults, one of which is "A Lady of Quality".It is 1690, and another baby girl is born to Sir Jeoffrey Wildairs. Undismayed at the news of his wifes death in childbirth, he packs the infant off to a remote wing of his stately home, where her two elder sisters live and has nothing whatsoever to do with them.Unlike her plain, obedient sisters, Clorinda Wildairs becomes beautiful and highly intelligent, masterful and arrogant. When she comes of age, she changes overnight into an elegant temptress and naturally every man she meets falls in love with her. The novel eventually becomes an unlikely historical romance with murder at its heart...

Written in 1819 by Walter Scott, "Tales of My Landlord" consisted of two tales, "The Bride of Lammermoor" (also published by E-Bookarama Editions), which occupied the first two-and-a-half volumes, and the shorter "A Legend of Montrose", which occupied the remainder of the third and the whole of the fourth volume."A Legend of Montrose" is set in the tumultuous 17th century during the Earl of Montroses military campaign in Scotland. Allan MAulay and his friend Lord Menteith both serve in Montroses army, together with the loose cannon Dugald Dalgetty. The friends are also both in love with Annot Lyle, a beautiful young lady of mysterious heritage. Will they all make it through the war, and which of the friends will Annot finally choose?

Lebook contiene i nove racconti inediti pubblicati sul portale Biblon nel corso del 2019.Abbiamo pensato di raccoglierli in un ebook da scaricare gratuitamente, come omaggio per voi lettori che avete letto con attenzione i racconti sul sito e per ringraziare gli autori che hanno avuto fiducia nel nostro progetto, quello di proporre delle voci (non necessariamente nuove, alcuni autori hanno gia allattivo diverse pubblicazioni) originali e valide.Crediamo che questa breve antologia, speriamo la prima di una lunga serie, possa fornire una finestra su autori che, ne siamo sicuri, sapranno far parlare di se.Gli autori (in ordine alfabetico): Paola Curia, Umberto Mentana, Vincenzo Montisano, Elena Ramella, Edelweiss Ripoli.A loro va nuovamente il nostro ringraziamento.

The storm which hit the south of England 296 years ago today, on the night of November 26th, 1703, was of such severity that it has gone down in history as "the Great Storm". From the north Atlantic it hammered into Britain at over seventy miles an hour, claiming the lives of over 8,000 people. Eyewitnesses reported seeing cows left stranded in the branches of trees and windmills ablaze from the friction of their whirling sails. For Daniel Defoe, bankrupt and just released from prison for seditious writings, the storm struck during one of his bleakest moments.But it also furnished him with the material for his first book, "The Storm", and in his powerful depiction of private suffering and individual survival played out against a backdrop of public calamity we can trace the outlines of his later masterpieces such as "A Journal of the Plague Year" and "Robinson Crusoe".

Jack London est né en 1876 à San Francisco. Il passe son enfance dans le ranch de son beau père : une enfance dure, presque misérable. Poussé par son tempérament aventureux, il quitte très jeune la m

Angela, 42 anni, e una donna in carriera ambiziosa, entusiasta, energica. È madre di tre ragazzi fantastici, moglie di un uomo dedito alla famiglia che si e sempre preso cura di lei e dei figli. Improvvisamente conosce Andrea che stravolge completamente la sua vita e i suoi principi.Lamore e stabilita e serenita, oppure e un fuoco che divampa e diventa quasi unossessione?Un romanzo intenso, ricco di emozioni e sentimenti contrapposti alla statica e rassicurante abitudine che ricerchiamo, ma dalla quale talvolta vogliamo fuggire.

Breve racconto autobiografico sulladolescenza di due diciottenni.Le loro domande non trovano facili risposte, ma la voglia di conoscere e lesperienza portera i due giovani ad affrontare un viaggio attraverso lItalia, ma soprattutto dentro il loro animo.

Premio Letterario Nazionale Michele Benetazzo Quarta Edizione

Per la settima edizione della Scuola estiva di traduzione siamo tornati in Toscana, a Casa Cares, e abbiamo anche deciso di cambiare nome: non piu Castello Manservisi ma Gina Maneri e Anna Rusconi. I laboratori di questanno erano tre: due di inglese, a cura di Anna Rusconi e Leonardo Marcello Pignataro, e uno di spagnolo, a cura di Gina Maneri. Tre dunque i racconti tradotti che vi presentiamo qui, storie che spaziano dallArgentina allIndia e al Sudafrica: Il castigo di Ines Garland, Rumore bianco di Anosh Irani e Apertura di Yewande Omotoso.Un ebook dei Dragomanni (www.idragomanni.it)

Hermann Hesses works have captivated readers for generations, exploring the depths of self-discovery, existential longing, and the search for meaning. The Hermann Hesse Collection, published by Steppenwolf Press, brings together six of his most profound and influential works, offering a sweeping journey through his literary and philosophical vision. From the passionate struggles of the artist to the mystical quest for enlightenment, this collection is a testament to Hesses ability to illuminate the human soul with poetic grace and unflinching introspection. At the heart of this anthology is Demian, the novel that first established Hesse as a literary force. With its themes of personal transformation, inner duality, and the symbolic battle between light and shadow, Demian remains one of the defining explorations of self-awareness. Siddhartha, one of his most celebrated works, follows a young mans spiritual odyssey through Eastern philosophy and self-discovery, offering timeless wisdom on the path to enlightenment. In Steppenwolf, Hesse crafts a haunting and exhilarating psychological novel about alienation, desire, and the complexities of the human psyche, blending surrealism with profound existential inquiry. This collection also includes Gertrude, a deeply moving novel of love, art, and unfulfilled longing, where music becomes both salvation and torment. In the Old Sun, one of Hesses early works, portrays the quiet lives and unspoken dreams of a small German town, revealing his keen eye for human nature. Faldum, a fable-like tale infused with allegory and symbolism, explores the nature of happiness, desire, and the unexpected consequences of our wishes. Together, these works form a compelling portrait of an author whose fiction is both deeply personal and universally resonant. With themes of self-exploration, spiritual awakening, and the tension between individuality and society, The Hermann Hesse Collection is an essential volume for those drawn to literature that challenges, inspires, and transforms. Whether encountering his work for the first time or rediscovering its profound beauty, this collection invites readers to step into the world of Hessewhere every journey is an inward one, and every story a mirror to the soul.