Títulos en Literatura y ficción

With magic declassified in the UK, the fake psychics and fraudulent healers are running amok, and it's up to the Department of Extradimensional Affairs' newly appointed Skepticism Officers to crack down. But when they set their sights on Modern Miracle, a highly suspicious and fast-growing faith healing cult with remarkably good social media presence, even their skepticism is put to the test.

Book Two in the instant USA TODAY bestselling trilogy! From the viral TikTok author of the stalker romcom, LIGHTS OUT, comes Navessa Allen’s second book in bestselling The Into Darkness Trilogy, upping the ante with voyeurism and play club kink. “I wanted this woman, and I was a man who...

Il più celebre romanzo di Pirandello, scritto nel 1904, narra la storia del bibliotecario Mattia Pascal, il quale, da ricco proprietario terriero, dopo una vita di sprechi e scioperataggine, si ritrova ridotto in miseria, a causa delle ruberie perpetrate dall'amministratore dei suoi terreni.Un vortice di disgraziate vicissitudini travolge la sua vita, quando infine, alla morte delle due figliolette, in preda alla disperazione, fugge da Miragno e, per puro caso si ritrova nel Casino di Montecarlo, dove vince una considerevole somma alla roulette.

Sconvolgente, lungimirante, avvincente. "La Fattoria Degli Animali". In una nuova traduzione, con doppia voce narrante, questa edizione ti farà conoscere uno dei capolavori della letteratura mondiale. Stanchi delle ingiustizie, gli animali di una fattoria decidono di ribellarsi agli umani dando vita a un nuovo sistema fondato sull'uguaglianza. Ben presto, però, si renderanno conto che non sarà così facile. "Tutti gli animali sono uguali, ma alcuni sono più uguali di altri." L'autore: Pseudonimo di Eric Arthur Blair, George Orwell è uno degli scrittori più conosciuti al mondo.

Leonard and Hungry Paul is the story of two friends who ordinarily would remain uncelebrated. It finds a value and specialness in them that is not immediately apparent and prompts the idea that maybe we could learn from the people that we overlook in life.

Timid, socially awkward, and plagued by self-esteem issues, Fred has never been the adventurous sort. One fateful night - different from the night he died, which was more inconvenient than fateful - Fred reconnects with an old friend at his high school reunion. This rekindled relationship sets off a chain of events thrusting him right into the chaos of the parahuman world.

Giò Coppola ha cinquant'anni, per lavoro legge delle poco affidabili previsioni meteo e ha una vita sentimentale che assomiglia a una giostra. Ma la vera rivoluzione arriva quando l'ex moglie parte per lavorare un anno all'estero e lui si ritrova, dopo tanto tempo, a vivere con suo figlio: Duccio, nove anni, un concentrato di domande scomode e innocente saggezza.

From the National Book Award–winning author of Underworld, a “daring…provocative…exquisite” (The Washington Post) novel about five people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment, in the midst of a catastrophic event. It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an...

After moving into a house in kent, five children go exploring and in a gravel pit, find a Sand Fairy, known as a "Psammead" who says he will give them one wish each day. What follows are eleven misadventures where it is discovered that making a good wish is actually much harder than it first...

Tender Branson - last surviving member of the so-called "Creedish Death Cult" - is dictating his incredible life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the plane, which will shortly reach terminal velocity and crash into the vast Australian outback.

El misterio que rodea el pasado de su esposa, y que él se comprometió a respetar, entorpece la aclaración del nerviosismo y la inquietud de la señora Cubitt. Holmes tranquiliza a Hilton Cubitt y le promete su ayuda una vez termine un caso delicado que está resolviendo.

Escritor satírico y periodista estadounidense,nacido en Ohio. Prestó sus servicios en el ejército de la Unión durante la Guerra Civil estadounidense (1861 - 1865). Bierce se estableció en San Francisco, donde escribió ingeniosos artículos políticos y una columna para el periódico News-Letter. En 1868 se convirtió en su editor

La mujer ajena y el marido debajo de la cama escrito en 1848 antes de su arresto y exilio, formando parte de sus primeros relatos cómicos y de crítica social, cuando Fiódor Dostoyevski experimentaba con el relato breve humorístico dentro de la tradición satírica rusa del siglo XIX. Aunque no posee la profundidad estructural de sus grandes novelas, anticipa rasgos esenciales de su obra: la atención a la conciencia alterada, el análisis del autoengaño y la exposición pública de la vergüenza. El espacio físico reducido —debajo de la cama— funciona como símbolo de una conciencia atrapada.

Un alto ejecutivo se queda en paro y decide rehacer su vida al margen de todo lo que le rodea, contando con su imaginación como única aliada. A partir de ahí, y desde el mayor de los sarcasmos, vivirá como una aventura fantástica cualquier hecho cotidiano. El protagonista crea un mundo propio, unas veces siendo él mismo, otras haciéndose pasar por otro. Otro que actúa con la insolencia y el respaldo de la locura más cuerda.

Una novel·la irreverent, plena d'humor i espontaneïtat, d'un autor perfectament descarat, clar exponent de la nova narrativa en català. Un llibre per no parar de riure, però amb el qual podries plorar.El protagonista d'aquest llibre és un jove a la trentena que intenta viure passant per sobre dels problemes dels altres. Però, això és possible? Com vius quan ets incapaç d'experimentar cap sentiment vers ningú? Què passa amb la feina? I amb la parella? I amb les noies que t'envolten?

In Flatland, originally published in 1884, a humble square describes his two-dimensional world to benefit the inhabitants of Spaceland, the three-dimensional realm he discovers when he is visited by a being from beyond his plane. With dry wit and wild imagination, author Edwin Abbott Abbott builds a meticulous fantasy world rooted in an astute apprehension of psychology, politics, and social structures, as well as basic geometry. The story of Flatland, at once ridiculous and profound, delivers an incisive satire of social discourse that remains remarkably relevant today.

Charlotte has always been a good girl. But being good is getting boring She’s not just stuck in a rut – she’s buried in it up to her chin. The only company she has in bed is the back catalogue of Netflix and falling in love feels like the stuff of fairy tales. So when she stumbles across a...

Captain Willard Phule has whipped his troops into shape, turning Phule's Company from the laughingstock of the Legion into...a crack team of casino security guards. Now his company is deployed to help an underdeveloped planet. And what better way to utilize their major area of expertise - goofing off - than to turn the planet into the biggest intergalactic playground ever?

Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian—but not an historian of the Jews—is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with nonfiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive comedy of blending, identity, and politics.

Lucas Thorn wasn't born a cheater. All it took was a single moment - say, a certain disastrous incident on the night before his wedding - and boom. Reputation destroyed forever and always. So now he owns it. He has a lady friend for every night of the week (except Sundays - God's day and all), and his rules are simple: No commitments. No exceptions. But a certain smart-mouthed, strawberry blonde vixen is about to blow that all to hell.