Reducere. Ilheus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendonca dis...
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Reducere. "I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and...
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Reducere. Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man ...
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Reducere. The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixt...
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Reducere. One of the most celebrated novels of its time, the Pulitzer Prize winner "A Summons to Memphis" introduces the Carver family, natives of Nashville,...
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Reducere. Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillia...
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Reducere. A rousing and uproarious novel of the life, loves, and misadventures of a working-class rogue, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning marked the arrival of ...
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Reducere. A new selection for the NEA s Big Read program A compact selection of Poe s greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Ar...
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Reducere. The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevsky's strikingly origina...
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Reducere. Para ser una esclava en el Saint-Domingue de finales del siglo XVIII, Zarite habia tenido buena estrella: a los nueve anos fue vendida a Toulouse V...
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Reducere. F. Scott Fitzgerald's cherished debut novel announced the arrival of a brilliant young writer and anticipated his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Pu...
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Reducere. "Muchos anos despues, frente al peloton de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendia habia de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo lle...
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Reducere. In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rus...
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Reducere. A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote's life's work in the form he called his -great love, - The Complete Stories confirms Capot...
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Reducere. In one volume, the screenplays to two contemporary classics, directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, about the imm...
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Reducere. From a highly decorated general, a brilliant new way of understanding war and its role in the twenty-first century.Drawing on his vast experience a...
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Reducere. The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In this groundbreaking h...
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Reducere. The missing piece of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Kurt Wallander's beginnings. Revealing a side of W...
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Reducere. From the award-winning author of Remains of the Day comes an inspired sequence of stories, which is as affecting as it is beautiful. With the clari...
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Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his...
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Reducere. Perhaps one of the most revered works of fiction in the twentieth-century, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a modern classic about int...
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Reducere. An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the ...
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Reducere. A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region...
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Reducere. This landmark book shows how five African civilizations--Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River--have informed and are reflected in the aest...
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Reducere. The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious C...
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Reducere. National Bestseller September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U...
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Reducere. We live in an age of unprecedented anxiety. Spending all our time trying to anticipate and plan for the future and to lamenting the past, we forget...
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Reducere. #1 National Bestseller From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violatio...
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Reducere. A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Piraha, a small tribe of ...
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Reducere. This remarkable book--the fruit of almost two decades of study--traces in compelling fashion the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dyin...
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