Resultados para "América" en Clásicos

Primo e meno noto romanzo di Kafka, "America" narra le tragicomiche vicende di un ragazzo praghese che, per una disavventura con una cameriera, viene spedito dalla famiglia oltreoceano. In questa terra sconfinata, il candido e disorientato Karl cercherà la sua strada incappando in sventure e tradimenti, benefattori o presunti tali, e situazioni oltremodo bizzarre. Kafka lasciò incompiuta questa sua opera dagli echi dickensiani.

In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through the eastern United States. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the strengths and weaknesses of the nation’s evolving politics. His insightful work has become one of the most influential political texts ever written on America.

Best-selling books have played a critical role in influencing the tastes and purchasing habits of American readers for more than 100 years. But there is more to America's great best-selling books than the sales figures they rake in. American bestsellers also offer us ways to appreciate and understand particular periods of American culture.In this series of 24 lectures you'll enjoy a pointed look at key best-selling works and their places within the greater fabric of American cultural history.

Antologia di Spoon River, tradotta da Fernanda Pi vano e scoperta da Cesare Pavese è stata pubblicata per la prima volta in Italia nel 1963, da allora sono state fatte innumerevoli edizioni; il numero di copie vendute, da autentico bestseller, è straordinario. Dal libro sono stati tratti dischi, riduzioni teatrali, musicali, radiofoniche, televisive e non poteva mancare anche questa edizione in audiolibro letta da due grandi attori del cinema italiano come Elena Radonicich e Claudio Santamaria.

«Partendo per gli Stati Uniti, e anche durante il viaggio, spergiuravo che non avrei scritto un libro sull'America (ce n'è già tanti!). Invece ho cambiato idea. I libri di viaggio sono un modo utile, modesto eppure completo di fare letteratura. Sono libri che servono praticamente, anche se, o proprio perché, i paesi cambiano d'anno in anno e fissandoli come li si è visti se ne registra la mutevole essenza; e si può in essi esprimere qualcosa che va al di là della descrizione dei luoghi visti, un rapporto tra sé e la realtà, un processo di conoscenza.

It may seem odd that Mark Twain delivered a 4th of July speech in London in 1907. Aside from poking fun at the American obsession with fireworks and drunken revelry, however, the brilliant Twain knew just how to tie the topic of American independence with his British audience. He recounts how the Revolutionary War was fought between Brits over a Declaration of Independence written by Brits before the United States officially formed as a nation.

Uma narrativa envolvente esta de "O Tio da América". Com enredo surpreendente, a leitura é daquelas que não se consegue parar, até que chegue ao fim o espanto estampado na face do leitor. Narra-se nele a chegada do tio Sabino à Lisboa, depois de 30 anos no Pará, onde fizera fortuna. Seu sobrinho Carvalhosa, mais a esposa Maria do Resgate, são seus anfitriões e de tudo fazem para bem receber o rico parente.

This anthology of unabridged short stories represents some of the most significant works from the most influential American authors of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes the following: "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving, "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Mermaids" by Louisa May Alcott, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce, and "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry.

L'audiolibro è il diario di un anno trascorso a Georgetown, il vecchio quartiere di Washington. Beppe Severgnini guida l'ascoltatore attraverso i primi dubbi (perché non abbassano l'aria condizionata?) e le prime risposte (perché gli piace così), descrivendo le molte sorprese della vita quotidiana: le scaramucce con un idraulico di nome Marx; la terribile potenza dei telefoni e dei bambini, veri padroni del paese; le fallimentari escursioni nello shopping elettronico e le battaglie per (non) ottenere una carta di credito. Con la gentile partecipazione di Marta Rizzi.

The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. This is the document which defines the rights and responsibilities of federal government of the United States of America.

The perhaps greatest and extensive collection of humor ever published.

An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had...

"C'era una volta in America" è il romanzo dello scrittore americano Harry Grey dal quale Sergio Leone ha tratto ispirazione per l'omonimo e celeberrimo film...

No one could have been more surprised than our Provincial Lady to receive an invitation from her American agent to travel transatlantic and embark upon a programme of lectures and signings. She was particularly amazed because, having received an overture sometime before and feeling that she would rather stay in the English countryside, she requested that they meet quite a few ‘requirements’ before she would agree to go. They met every stipulation. ‘

The perhaps greatest and most extensive collection of humor ever published.

After voting in the 1872 presidential election, suffragette Susan B. Anthony was arrested and charged with a $100 fine. She refused to pay it, instead embarking on a speaking tour around the US to advocate for women’s legal right to vote. In this fiery speech she memorably stated, “It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens... who formed the Union.” Anthony argued that the fight for women’s right to vote was also a fight for their right to personhood in the eyes of the state, something women were finally granted nearly 50 years later.

The first of Kafka’s three great novels, The Man Who Disappeared (America) follows the picaresque adventures of Karl Rossman, who is banished to America following a family scandal. Upon his arrival, Karl immediately happens upon his uncle, and from there follows a pattern of wandering, adoption and expulsion as Karl marches inexorably on towards the interior of the continent. With its blitheness and comical moments, The Man Who Disappeared is perhaps the most charming of Kafka’s works.

This is a mostly polemical essay by Emma Goldman about her deportation from the United States to Russia in December 1919. It was written before disillusionment with Bolshevism, as recounted in "My Disillusionment in Russia" (1923).

A Scrap of Curious History is an essay by Mark Twain dealing with the fictional history of abolitionism in a Missouri town. It was originally published as part of the What Is Man? And Other Essays collection.

Few writers are more often read, and better loved, than Charles Dickens and Samuel Langhorne Clemens - Mark Twain. Many of the characters populating their novels have become household words, cultural landmarks in their own right - Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, David Copperfield and Oliver Twist. It is as if we have known them life-long. In this course we take a look at the lives and works of both authors.