Resultados para "Adam" en Narrativa literaria

This anthology features a wide array of thought-provoking, genre-defining works from the 1900s, showcasing the range of modern storytelling—from existential musings to dark humour and intricate social commentary. These are the stories that have shaped modern literature, offering timeless insights into human nature and society. This collection brings together the finest modernist narratives, political reflections, and social commentaries that have shaped literature as we know it.

A Publishers Weekly Editor’s Pick A darkly funny 1991 road novel about two actors touring a stripped-down Huckleberry Finn through a hostile America—perfect for listeners of Paul Beatty’s The Sellout and Percival Everett’s James. Axel Emerson isn’t chasing a dream—he’s running from...

One of the more political novels from the pen of Pearl Buck, Dragon Seed brings to light the tragedy of the Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during WWII. Centering her story around the fictional family of Ling Tan, Buck recreates the heart wrenching devastation that war...

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers - a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village - will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.

Paul is a recently demoted adjunct instructor of freshman comp, a divorced but doting Brooklyn father, and a self-desc­ribed “curmudgeonly crank” cataloging his resentment of the priorities of modern life in a book called The Luddite Manifesto. Outraged by the authoritarian creeps ruining the country, he is determined to better the future for his young daughter, one aggrieved lecture at a time. 

Charlotte Kingston, étudiante en dernière année d'université, mène deux vies et les réussit toutes les deux. Le jour, elle est la parfaite fille de sororité, une étudiante en génie biomédical et la fille adoptive d'une famille de surdoués. La nuit, elle est Charlie : une casse-cou qui...

On the Sunday of his 18th birthday, in 1975, Colin takes a walk on Box Hill, a biker hang-out. There he accidentally trips over Ray, a biker napping under a tree - and that’s where it all starts. This transgressive, darkly affecting love story between men, winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, is a stunning novel of desire and domination by one of Britain’s most accomplished writers.

Angie is awakened by a midnight call from an officer with the Boise Police Department and thinks there must be a misunderstanding. The officer tells her that her husband was involved in a shooting at a local bar, but how can that be when her husband is sleeping right next to her? But when she turns to wake him, he isn’t there. Tessa is the 23-year-old bartender who escapes to a backroom storage closet during the shooting. When it comes to light that five people were killed, she is burdened with the question of why she survived. 

On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu carries out a decision she has been planning for a long time: she tells her husband that after twenty-four years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife. The House of Wu, one of the oldest and most revered in China, is...

Adam Sagittarius is an intensely private man running from life. To that end he works at a solitary career as a book illustrator living in isolation among the cornfields in the rural farmlands of a backwater locale. Life, however, won't leave him alone.

Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the 18th century, the book relates a story of seduction issuing in 'the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis'. But it is also a rich and pioneering record - drawing on intimate knowledge and affectionate memory - of a rural world that we have lost.

Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the 18th century, the book relates a story of seduction issuing in "the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis". But it is also a rich and pioneering record - drawing on intimate knowledge and affectionate memory - of a rural world that we have lost.

Mason was the Army’s best-kept secret. A reservist with a gift for long-range precision and a life he finally thought was safe. But when an IRA splinter cell executes his fiancée, the "quiet life" ends. The soldier is awake, and he’s seeing red.

Una novel·la inspiradora que mostra la importància de prioritzar el que realment importa. En Nil sent que la seva vida s'ha acabat: fa temps que no li arriben feines d'actor i la seva dóna l'ha deixat. Però un dia coneix en Walrus, un nedador expert amb un passat dolorós. En Nil aprendrà a nedar amb ell i, pel camí, sortirà de l'espiral de pensaments autodestructius. Una història intimista i positiva que ensenya a deixar-se anar i, simplement, ser.

George Eliot's first full-length novel is the moving, realistic portrait of three people troubled by unwise love. Adam Bede is a hardy young carpenter who cares for his aging mother. His one weakness is the woman he loves blindly: the trifling town beauty, Hetty Sorrel, who delights only in her...

An absorbing, semi-philosophical fable. Our hero, a carpenter, loves Hetty Sorel, but she loves Arthur Donnithorne, a local squire. This story of a love triangle quickly progresses to themes altogether much darker, such as: who has the right to determine who lives and who dies? Adam Bede...

The is the heart-rending tale of carpenter Adam Bede's love for pretty, superficial Hetty Sorrel, her trial for the murder of her ilegitimate child, the plight of her seducer, and Adam's growing affection for Dinah Morris, a Methodist preacher. Eliot's comments on pastoral life and the wisdom and candor of Mrs. Poyser add zest and humor.

Dix ans jour pour jour après la mystérieuse disparition de son fils, Hélène croise la route d’un garçon qui lui ressemble à s’y méprendre. Elle a besoin de croire qu’il peut revenir, qu’il peut sauver sa famille de ce deuil impossible. Et Liam, ce jeune homme à l’existence...

Fast-paced and suspenseful, The Last of the Mohicans follows an intrepid group of frontiersmen and Native Americans as they navigate the rugged terrain of both the landscape and their racial differences. Together they strive to deliver Colonel Munro’s two daughters to safety at Fort William Henry during the French and Indian War. Widely considered the first “Great American Novel”, James Fenimore Cooper’s classic encapsulates the violence and beauty, tragedy and heroism at the heart of the American frontier, set against the stunning backdrop of the northern New York wilderness.

La vita del giudice dell'Alta Corte britannica Fiona Maye è stata da sempre una difficile pratica di misura e sobrietà. In servizio presso la Sezione Famiglia ha cercato di restituire ragionevolezza a situazioni nelle quali sembrava esserci solo irrazionalità. Sposata da trentacinque anni e senza figli viene d'improvviso lasciata dal marito per un "ultimo giro" extraconiugale con la ventottenne Melanie. Umiliata, ferita, "abbandonata agli albori della vecchiaia", Fiona cerca rifugio, come d'abitudine, nel caso successivo.