Resultados para "The Piazza" en Literatura de género

Il corpo del Gladiatore, un piccolo delinquente, viene trovato riverso in una pozza di sangue nell’ascensore di un palazzo in piazza Vittorio, cuore multietnico di Roma. Le indagini si concentrano su Amedeo, esule algerino amico di tutti, ma i suoi condomini coltivano ipotesi diverse.

The Piazza published by Herman Melville in 1856. The sketch describes Melville's farmhouse, called Arrowhead, in Pittsfield, Mass. Supposedly, the other tales in the collection, including "Bartleby the Scrivener" and "Benito Cereno," were narrated on the piazza of the farmhouse.

With disparate settings such as a Massachusetts farmhouse and the strange volcanic clime of the Enchanted Isles, this six-story anthology features some of Herman Melville’s most exceptional works. Included here is “Bartleby,” the dark tale of a Wall Street clerk who possesses a confounding and disarmingly passive insubordination; and “Benito Cereno,” in which the captain of a whaler boards a tattered Spanish slave ship in South America only to be drawn into an intricately plotted mutiny.

In piazza della Scala venne pubblicata da Verga nel 1883 e fa parte della raccolta "Per le vie"....

Exploring the diverse landscape of American life, the stories in Blues and Trouble: Twelve Stories capture the lives of people caught between circumstance and their own natures or on the run from fate. Tom Piazza’s debut short story collection, originally published in 1996, heralded the arrival of a startlingly original and vital presence in American fiction and letters. Set in Memphis, New Orleans, Florida, Texas, New York City, and elsewhere, the stories echo voices from Ernest Hemingway to Robert Johnson in their sharp eye for detail and their emotional impact.

Roma, 1473. All'ombra degli alti palazzi e delle basiliche secolari, Papa Sisto IV ha una sola ossessione: riprodurre nella Città Eterna il Tempio di Salomone, per riportare la Chiesa di Roma all'antico splendore. Ecco allora prendere forma il progetto grandioso della Cappella Sistina, che del Tempio di Gerusalemme ha le stesse misure. Ma per completare il suo piano, serve un simbolo di potere le cui tracce si perdono nel tempo e nel mito: la misteriosa melagrana d'avorio che ornava lo scettro del Sommo Sacerdote.

The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly between 1853 and 1855. The collection includes what has long been regarded as three of Melville's most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno", and "The Encantadas", his sketches of the Galápagos Islands.

Il Prigioniero, il capo del più importante partito cristiano d’Italia, dopo essere stato catturato da uomini che minacciano la sua vita riceve in cella la visita di Satana, che lo tenterà nel corso di un viaggio notturno alla scoperta del futuro del paese. Il Presidente, espressione luciferina del potere che non tramonta mai, cerca di reagire ai sospetti di collusione con la mafia in seguito all’arresto di uno dei suoi uomini chiave. L’Esule, scappato in Tunisia dopo che gli scandali di corruzione hanno travolto la sua carriera politica, riflette, in limina mortis, sulla propria caduta.

Un’altra estate idilliaca alle Vignole, la casa nell’Alta Langa piemontese di Sebastiano Guarienti. Un’estate piena di fervore, perché lo sceneggiatore, in combutta col suo più caro amico, ha messo su una scuola di cinema alla quale partecipa un gruppo di ragazzi che vivono nella cascina trasformata alla bisogna in laboratorio e campus. La vicenda prende avvio dall’arrivo di un giovane giornalista che da subito cade vittima dello charme sofisticato ed elusivo di Guarienti&Company. Si mangia pane e cinema allestendo il set dove i ragazzi stanno girando un cortometraggio.

The perfect escape on the French Riviera. Sun, sea and secrets... After a disagreement with a billionaire, architect Jess Milton is ‘let go’ from her job. However fortune intervenes - an elderly client asks Jess to dog-sit overweight, but loveable dog Brutus in St. Tropez. Fed up with the mega-rich, Jess is reluctant to visit the playground of billionaires, but an all-expenses-paid trip and the promise of sunshine seals the deal. Little does Jess know how much time she’ll be spending with the family living in St. Tropez.

Its the dream Christmas: snow, mountains... and, er, an ex-boyfriend. But can Zoe still find love in the Alps? Dumped on Christmas Eve by her long-term boyfriend, its been a rough year for Zoe Lumsley. But then she gets an invitation she cant refuse: an all-expenses-paid skiing holiday with old university friends. The bad news: her ex,Grant, will be there with his new girlfriend. But so will her former flatmate Billy, the organiser, and in the meantime, hes done rather well for himself.

Paris, 1860s. For Mimi Bisset, survival is everything on the streets of Paris. She tries to forget the pain of losing her daughter Colette, who was born out of wedlock and forcibly given away to a rich family. But Mimi’s world turns upside down after a chance encounter with handsome artist Édouard Manet.

Poco prima che la morte lo raggiunga, Razziddu Buscemi, un vecchio siciliano da tempo emigrato a Milton, West Virginia, rievoca la sua vita passata. Nel disfacimento dei ricordi, mischiati a suggestioni metafisiche, il vecchio narrerà di un'infanzia suo malgrado visionaria, scaturita dagli esorcismi subiti, e di un'evoluzione violenta e dolorosa verso la maturità.

Lydia and Theo face the unthinkable when a knock at the door changes everything. As Lydia begins to pick up the pieces, not every part of the puzzle fits together as neatly as it did before, and as she discovers the truth about the man she loves, she finds herself stuck in limbo. Lydia is faced with an impossible choice.

A natural mystic guides Coach throughout his journey as humanity continues to ignorantly ravage the Earth with no regard for the negative effects and byproducts it produces along the way. In order for Mother Nature to persist, she is forced to take matters into her own proverbial hands. Coach is perpetually guided by Mother Nature, and his antics are charming for most of the people he encounters, but not everyone is swayed by such exuberance. As life continues to unfold for Coach, the environment is deteriorating due to human negligence.

When Sara Marsala’s beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, she leaves Sara a valuable piece of land in Sicily, but there’s a catch: the locals refuse to acknowledge the rightful owner of the deed, and if Sara wants the land she must first uncover the truth about what happened to her great-great grandmother, Serafina Marsala. Because Rosie didn’t think Serafina died of illness as family lore states... Rosie believed Serafina was murdered, and she wants Sara to prove it.

From bestselling author Jo Piazza comes one of People’s “Best Summer Books,” a “comically accurate” (New York Post) novel about what happens when a woman wants it all—political power, marriage, and happiness. Charlotte Walsh is running for Senate in the most important race in the...

Cinnamon Haynes has fought hard for everything she has – her marriage, a stable job as a career counsellor, and home of her own. She’s overcome the difficult circumstances of her childhood to build this life, and yet, she can’t help but wonder...is this all there is? Just nineteen years old, Daisy Dunlap has already faced her share of hardships, but she has big dreams for her future. A future which is threatened when she gets unexpectedly pregnant and, desperate and alone, she makes a drastic decision with devastating consequences.

The acclaimed authors of the “emotional literary roller coaster” (The Washington Post) and Good Morning America book club pick We Are Not Like Them return with this moving and provocative novel about a Black woman who finds an abandoned white baby, sending her on a collision course with her...

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Named a Best Book Pick of 2021 by Harper’s Bazaar and Real Simple Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by People, Essence, New York Post, PopSugar, New York Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Town & Country, Bustle, Fortune, and Book Riot Told from...