Resultados para "The Privateer" en Narrativa literaria

Questo volume comprende i racconti inediti "La prova" e "La guerra privata di Samuele, detto Leli". Le altre storie sono state pubblicate in tempi diversi: "L'uomo è forte" in Articolo 1. "Racconti sul lavoro", Sellerio, 2009; "I quattro Natali di Tridicino" in Storie di Natale, Sellerio, 2016; "La tripla vita di Michele Sparacino" in allegato al «Corriere della Sera», 2008 e Rizzoli, 2009; "La targa" in allegato al «Corriere della Sera», 2011 e Rizzoli, 2015. Una rete di storie, ovvero una proliferazione di intrecci sorprendenti, è questo libro di racconti.

In a hardboiled noir mystery by the creator of The Wire, a Washington, D.C. liquor store heist shows a drifter named Constantine what it means to be a shoedog—a tale that throbs with soul and pulsates with menace. "Haunting, gritty ... an exceptional, memorable book." —Booklist Constantine...

This tale was first published in "The Week's News" on 14 July, 1888, and collected in the Indian Railway Library No 1 and Soldiers Three in the same year. Mrs DeSussa, a wealthy Eurasian lady, has taken a fancy to the Colonel's wife's dog, 'Rip', an engaging terrier. She offers Learoyd 350 rupees if he will steal the dog for her, so that she can take it home at the end of the cold season. The three soldiers steal another dog from the Canteen Sergeant, dye its coat so that it looks like Rip, and hand it over to her at the railway station.

Austin's attempt of finding a life partner failed while he was in high school, but with the help of his domineering, hilarious sister, Candace, his second attempt may be successful before the two move back to Alaska.

First published in Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in successive subsequent editions of this collection, in which it was the fourth of the Mulvaney stories. Private Stanley Ortheris, small, tough, a crack shot, Cockney to his bones, and serving the Queen in India, is plunged in suicidal gloom. He is overcome with homesickness for London, '...sick for the sounds of 'er and the stinks of 'er; orange-peel and hasphalte an' gas comin' in over Vaux'all Bridge.

Donne Private (12 ritratti su carta) di Simonetta Corrado. Narrazione di Cinzia Corallini, con la partecipazione di Mino Profico per il racconto "Troppo poco". La bambina violata in cerca di riscatto.Una bambola piuttosto umana. L'incontro con un amante mai dimenticato. La scrittrice dannatamente insicura. L'ex-moglie alle prese con gli stereotipi quotidiani. La madre di famiglia con un debole per il gioco. La sessantenne e il rimpianto per gli amori perduti. Una misteriosa e mistica clochard. Una sconosciuta, immaginata da un disincantato pendolare.

Break free from limiting beliefs and discover true inner freedom. From childhood, we unknowingly absorb countless beliefs from family, society, and our surroundings. Over time, these beliefs shape our thinking, decisions, and ultimately our life. But are these beliefs really true?

Gerardo Conforti è un contadino del Cilento, moro, alto un metro e ottanta, dal corpo ossuto e appuntito e gli occhi verde scuro. Ha il cosiddetto fisico del ruolo, di quelli che al cinema ottengono sempre la parte del protagonista, e nel paese si fa rispettare, non abbassa mai la testa, ed è capace di affondare il coltello nel fianco di un cinghiale. Il 17 aprile del 1948 - alla vigilia delle prime elezioni repubblicane - nella trattoria affollata di Paolino Pescatore riceve una telefonata che gli cambia la vita, e quando riaggancia l'apparecchio nessuno parla più.

The Skelf women are recovering from the cataclysmic events that nearly claimed their lives. Their funeral-director and private-investigation businesses are back on track, and their cases are as perplexing as ever. Matriarch Dorothy looks into a suspicious fire at a travellers' site, and takes a grieving, homeless man under her wing. Daughter Jenny is searching for her missing sister-in-law, who disappeared in tragic circumstances, while granddaughter Hannah is asked to investigate increasingly dangerous conspiracy theorists targeting a retired female astronaut...putting her own life at risk.

Wells weaves a story of scientific excess into a high-speed thriller. Montgomery, a brilliant but twisted biologist, is delivering exotic animals to his private island when he rescues a shipwrecked man. An act of compassion, or another addition to his collection?

Here are four unforgettable stories by Yann Martel, the New York Times best-selling author of Life of Pi. In the exquisite title novella, a very young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, set against the yearly march of the 20th century.

Private investigator Heredia spends his days reading detective novels; commiserating with his cat, Simenon; and peering out over the Mapocho River from his Santiago apartment. The city he loves may be changing, but Heredia can't stop chasing the ghosts of the past. This time, they've come to him...

“One of my favorite novels of the past few years.” —Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, centering three sisters navigating queer love and loss in a drowning...

Based on Kipling's own adolescent experiences, Stalky and Co. is a cunning story of mischievous 19th century British schoolboys attempting scholastic mutiny. The faculty and headmaster of a boys' private school repeatedly pursue a trio of poetic pranksters, "Stalky", "Beetle", and "Turkey", as they wage war on fellow students and the "establishment" with unwavering energy and creativity.

‘Only someone like Jeffrey Archer … could have written a compelling story like this. Every page bristles with suspense and the ending comes at you with the force of a tank round’ DAVID BALDACCI THE UNPUTDOWNABLE THRILLER FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER London, 1988. Royal fever sweeps the...

The second novel by the internationally celebrated writer Alejandro Zambra, a “short and strikingly original” (The New Yorker) book about the stories we spin for ourselves and our loved ones—now reissued by Penguin Veronica is late, and Julián is increasingly convinced she won't ever come...

Kelly was in deep trouble; her husband was a pastor and she his loyal first lady. Well she was…until she had an affair with Chris; the first elder of their church. And now she was pregnant with his child. Could she keep the secret from her husband and pretend that all was well? Or should she confess her private sin and let the chips fall where they may?

A deliciously compulsive first novel from New York Times Editor's Choice author of Lights On, Rats Out, Cree LeFavour's Private Means captures the very essence of summer in a sharply observed, moving meditation on marriage, money, and loss. It's Memorial Day weekend and Alice's beloved dog...

'Brilliantly audacious' GUARDIAN 'Stunning' DAZED 'Her prose sparkles' ELIZA CLARK ‘Hauntingly good’ iNEWS ’A must read’ GLAMOUR 'One of my favourite novels' JEFF VANDERMEER From the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting, heart wrenching novel of three sisters...

Knotshead is a school catering for the children of the rich, famous, liberal - and deluded. With its progressive curriculum, complacent staff and beautiful grounds, it looks like paradise. But the clever, the odd and the bookish are relentlessly persecuted as pupils make their own rules in a bubble of privilege and prejudice.