Resultados para "Americana" en Literatura y ficción

At twenty-eight, David Bell is the American dream come true. He has fought his way to the top, surviving office purges and scandals to become a high-powered television executive. David’s world is made up of the images that flicker across America’s screens, the fantasies that enthrall...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889) è un celebre romanzo dello scrittore e umorista statunitense Mark Twain. Rappresenta uno dei primi esempi di romanzo basato sul tema del viaggio nel tempo.Di questo romanzo, che alterna momenti toccanti a pezzi di grande umorismo, mai scontati, Mark Twain sembra quasi fare un manifesto dei propri principi e ideali. Apparentemente la civiltà moderna la vince alla lunga sul vecchio mondo, ma….

La banconota da un milione di sterline è un racconto dell'autore americano Mark Twain. La storia è ambientata nella Londra vittoriana, dove due ricchissimi, eccentrici fratelli Oliver e Roderick Montpellier, danno allo squattrinato protagonista della storia, Henry Adams, un milione di sterline nella forma di un'unica, singolare banconota da un milione di sterline. Henry non avrebbe potuto facilmente cambiare quella banconota in banca senza essere interrogato su come ne era venuto in possesso, incriminato per furto e arrestato.

One minute he's livestreaming workout routines and outrageous gun stunts to millions. The next, he's crash-landing half-naked through a poker table, blasting out a fart heard 'round the frontier. Welcome to the weirdly violent, explosively funny world of Thunder Pops. Percival Thaddeus Thunderpots IV isn't your typical hero—unless your heroes wear muscle shirts, carry suppressed revolvers, and suffer from chronic gastrointestinal issues.

Now that Stetson Jeff has captured one of A.S.P.'s most dangerous operatives, he's on the trail of The Don. His pursuit of justice takes him to Gibraltar, Bilbao, and Pamplona, the site of Spain's greatest rodeo. Soon enough he's hiking his way across northern Spain on the Camino de Santiago, where he encounters a friendly band of modern Vikings. Together they must survive deadly attacks and hike all the way to Valhalla or something. But will Stetson Jeff be able to track down The Don before The Don finds him? And what's really behind A.S.P. and all these shadow government separatist groups?

Join Oasis Audio for 100 radio shows from across all genres. Thrill to detective stories and mysteries, dig your spurs in for some dusty trail Western adventures, laugh until you cry with the kings and queens of radio comedy, sit on the edge of your seat for the greatest radio dramas. Be filled with nostalgia as you enjoy this unique collection of 100 of the all-time best radio shows.

Enjoy 16 of the greatest episodes from the Golden Age of Radio in this collection spanning from 1939 through 1956.

Enjoy 16 of the greatest holiday shows from radio’s Golden Age and the Hollywood celebrities that starred in them.

""It began as a mistake."" By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged...

Set during a doom-fated vacation to the Oregon coast, The Disappointment follows a couple trying to hold close to one another while a bent reality—warped by personal losses and an ever-increasing drift toward the surreal—threatens to unravel them It’s the night before a much-needed...

Most folks worldwide have visited a flea market, swap shop, or bazaar. Still, few take the time to get to know the variety of vendors peddling their lightly used or dubiously acquired inventory every weekend. At the Dusty Bucket, a self-described "androgynous pansexual with no more ambition nowadays than making a living as a flea market 'artist," sets up a table with their recently deceased mother's unremarkable collectibles. The booth neighbor sells discount cigarettes and has a tale of bluster for every occasion.

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A raucous and wickedly smart satire of Hollywood, toxic fandom, and our chronically online culture, following a washed-up actor on his quest to revive the cult TV show that catapulted him to...

“O’Brien’s first novel in two decades was well worth the wait. . . . In the age of ‘mythomania,’ O’Brien takes aim at the lies that power this country, and how and why they sustain us. America Fantastica peers straight into the dark heart of the American psyche, and it's unafraid of...

From the author of Canada Reads winner Nikolski comes a sweet, smart and occasionally surreal romantic comedy, featuring two young friends who could become lovers—if only one of them hadn't convinced herself that the end of the world is nigh. The Randall family was always a little strange. For...

The New Yorker magazine named Matt Klam one of the twenty best young writers in America, and the seven stories that comprise Sam the Cat are all the proof we need. Knowing, perceptive, and wickedly funny, Matt Klam loves his characters but spares them nothing: the swaggering womanizer Sam falls...

Bucky Wunderlick is a rock and roll star. Dissatisfied with a life that has brought fame and fortune, he suddenly decides he no longer wants to be a commodity. He leaves his band mid-tour and holes up in a dingy, unfurnished apartment in Great Jones Street. Unfortunately, his disappearing act...

In a unique listening experience from the unforgettable writer and public speaker W.O. Mitchell, An Evening with W.O. Mitchell is a curated, abridged selection of nine remarkable pieces from Mitchell’s lifetime of public readings, read by the author himself. Featuring both a wide variety of...

Benjamin Kunkel’s brilliantly comic debut novel concerns one of the central maladies of our time–a pathological indecision that turns abundance into an affliction and opportunity into a curse.Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he’s having a midlife crisis. Of course, living a...

In Improbable Fortunes, Jeffrey Price takes us on a wild ride into Vanadium, a dusty, down-on-its-heels mining town in Southwest Colorado where it would be fair to assume that nothing has ever happened. But you'd be wrong. As it turns out, quite a lot has happened, starting with a suspicious mudslide that destroys the town's Main Street and a cowboy, Buster McCaffrey, arrested for the death of one of the richest men in America, Marvin Mallomar.

Seien Sie dabei, wenn unsere Chronologen ein vom Wahnsinn gefärbtes Potpourri mit dämonischen Kreaturen jenseits des Begreifens, maskierten Legenden des Wilden Westens und Revolverschwingern, die einem nur allzu bekannt vorkommen, verrühren.