Resultados para "George" en Psicológica

Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth - or Minitrue as it is called in Newspeak - altering newspapers and reports to follow the arbitrary dictates of Big Brother’s propaganda.

Sophie Émel è una donna carismatica e fuori dagli schemi: pilota spericolata, amante degli eccessi e di una vita disordinata, capace di slanci generosi quanto superficiali. È proprio uno di questi impulsi a spingerla ad accogliere in casa la nonna, un'anziana di ottant'anni dal carattere durissimo, costretta a lasciare la propria abitazione dopo un lungo e ostinato assedio alle autorità. Quello che inizia come un atto di carità si trasforma rapidamente in un perverso gioco di specchi.

Come ogni domenica, anche quel giorno il signor Hubert Cardinaud ha assistito alla messa con suo figlio, a seguire, la passeggiata vicino al mare, poi una sosta al tavolino di un caffè. Fa caldo, il signor Cardinaud non vede l'ora di togliersi la giacca e appenderla all'attaccapanni nel corridoio di casa. Sa già che ad accoglierlo ci sarà il profumo d'arrosto che sua moglie Marthe sta preparando. Appena entrato, però, chiama, ma non gli risponde nessuno; poi capisce cosa c'è che non va, non si sente profumo d'arrosto ma puzza di bruciato.

A respected professor begins a secret affair with her son’s girlfriend one summer on the Brittany coast in this intense, poetic novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop. Claire is one of Paris’s most esteemed behavioral biologists, with an enviable career...

“There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies—I mean books—that were written for one person only…A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the...

The worldwide bestseller, over half a million copies sold. A Nearly Normal Family is the stunning psychological thriller from M. T. Edvardsson, which asks what would a parent do if their child was suspected of murder, and just how far they’d go to protect them . . . 'A deceptive and riveting...

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “[A] sizzling summer thriller . . . a kind of morality tale, a Rorschach test for all of us.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) Five lives. Five stories. Four will live—one will die. Who it will be? In this slow-burn masterpiece of psychological...

DNA Never Lies is the first in a series of novels featuring Karen Copperfield, investigative genealogist. Karen helps people make sense of sometimes dark family secrets revealed by DNA tests as they ask: 'what happens when nothing you believed is true?'

"Silas Marner" is a classic novel that delves into the intricacies of human nature, societal dynamics, and the power of redemption. The story begins with Silas Marner, a skilled weaver living in the fictional village of Raveloe. Silas is unjustly accused of theft by his best friend, and as a result, he is ostracized from the close-knit community he once belonged to. Broken-hearted and embittered, Silas relocates to a remote cottage on the outskirts of the village, where he lives a reclusive and miserly existence, finding solace only in his work and in hoarding gold coins.

The year is 2054, and the American landscape has shifted in ways no one could have predicted. Meet Sid Belmont: a former rap legend who traded his microphone for the highest office in the land. Inauguration Day doesn’t feature "Hail to the Chief"; instead, the rebel-turned-statesman takes the stage to the defiant notes of David Bowie, signaling a presidency that will be anything but conventional. Belmont is a man of the people, a political outsider who clawed his way from the top of the charts to a sub shop, a mechanic’s garage, and finally, the White House.

Se «la vecchia» ha proprio con lui, Vladimir, un rapporto così speciale, è perché loro due si somigliano: provano entrambi un profondo disgusto per tutto quanto li circonda, e la medesima pietà per se stessi. Due mascalzoni infelici, intrisi di amarezza e di cinismo, questo sono.

Alan is wrenched from this life by suicide. Dusty, haunted by the loss of the man he thought he knew, must deal with his own regrets before accepting one final task for his friend. Every step takes Dusty further from the friend he remembers and closer to the man he is becoming.

In A Clergyman's Daughter, Orwell leads us through a landscape of unemployment, poverty and hunger, where Dorothy's faith is challenged by a social reality that changes her life.

Only four years after publishing his fable Animal Farm, a biting satire of Joseph Stalin’s horrific regime of terror, George Orwell turned his attention to the future. But his next book was to be no satire, no fable. What emerged from Orwell’s pen in 1949 was the most grimly dystopian novel ever written: 1984.

Bright, willful Maggie Tulliver longs for acceptance from Tom, her obstinately responsible brother whom she cherishes above all. As their father falls ill and loses Dorlcote Mill in a lawsuit, Maggie and Tom are forced down two divergent paths in life, each dictated by familial and societal expectations. Wasting away in the Tullivers' home, Maggie is soon inspired to follow her heart and lead a life of passion and impulse, which results in her brother renouncing her. As the siblings drift apart, only tragedy along the River Floss can bring them together again.

Ethan and Claire are young Americans studying abroad in the hilltop town of Asolo, Italy — a place where time moves more slowly, and beauty lingers in the air like rosemary and old stone. They arrive together, in love and full of plans, but it doesn’t take long for the cracks to form. Then they meet Luca and Sofia — an Italian couple with their own history — and everything begins to shift.

In Physics and Philosophy: A Modern Love Story, George Le Savant offers a luminous, witty, and emotionally resonant exploration of a relationship as seen through the dual lenses of science and meaning. Blending narrative, essay, and observation, this novel traces the arc of two minds—Leo, a hopelessly reflective philosophy lecturer, and June, a brilliant physicist who trusts equations more than emotions.

Evelyn, a geneticist and amateur archeologist, makes a formidable discovery in Israel, the consequence of which is the birth of Christopher and José, identical twins raised apart, one in affluent Sydney, the other in the slums of Buenos Aires. The twins, unaware of each other’s existence or their origin, will meet for a moment only, in the Amazon, adversaries in the battle for the forest. Standing by both twins is Lorena, a medical student who under the claws of a dictatorship organizes the student environmental resistance.

Rachel was barely more than an infant when her father, Dennis, murdered her mother and sister. In prison ever since, Dennis has never said one word about why he killed two family members-or why he spared Rachel. Now a grown woman, Rachel has done everything she can to leave her terrible past behind. She has changed her identity and is now happily married to the love of her life, Dan. But there is a dark cloud on the horizon.