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“The Adolescent” is Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1875 novel which tells the story of the life of a 19-year-old intellectual, Arkady Dolgoruky, and his conflict with his father. Arkady is the illegitimate child of the controversial and womanizing landowner Versilov and was raised by one of Versilov’s serf, the pious Makar Dolgoruky. The novel’s primary tension arises between Arkady and Versilov, when Arkady becomes an adult and joins Versilov’s family in St. Petersburg. Arkady has been away at boarding...
| Автор | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Raskolnikov is an impoverished former student living in Saint Petersburg, Russia who feels compelled to rob and murder Alyona Ivanovna, an elderly pawn broker and money lender. After much deliberation the young man sneaks into her apartment and commits the murder. In the chaos of the crime Raskolnikov fails to steal anything of real value, the primary purpose of his actions to begin with. In the period that follows Raskolnikov is racked with guilt over the crime that he has committed and begins...
| Автор | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
First published in 1874, «The Mysterious Island» is French author Jules Verne’s exciting adventure which begins amidst the siege on Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War. Five northern prisoners plan an unconventional escape by hijacking a hot air balloon. What is in store for them is more than they bargained for. Cyrus Harding, an engineer in the union army; his servant Nebuchadnezzar, a former slave; sailor Bonadventure Pencroft; his protege Herbert Brown; and the journalist Gideon...
| Автор | Жюль Верн |
First published in 1876, “Daniel Deronda” was George Eliot’s final novel. Controversial in its time for its morally ambiguous characterizations and its sympathy for the proto-Zionist movement, the novel is regarded today as one of the great social satires of the Victorian era. The story begins with the meeting of Daniel Deronda and the beautiful but stubborn and selfish, Gwendolen Harleth, whom he witnesses loses all her money at a game of roulette. The following day, Gwendolen learns that her...
| Автор | George Eliot |
First published in 1915, “The Voyage Out”, Virginia Woolf’s first novel, may be her most accessible. It is a witty social satire that chronicles the maturity of the young Englishwoman Rachel Vinrace as she takes a long voyage to South America from London on her father’s ship. Rachel encounters an eclectic array of passengers on the boat and through them Woolf satirizes Edwardian life. This physical passage also becomes a journey of self-discovery for Rachel. She takes both a literal and mythical...
| Автор | Virginia Woolf |
Combined in this volume are two famous Spanish picaresque novels, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's «Lazarillo de Tormes» and Francisco de Quevedo's «The Swindler.» «Lazarillo de Tormes» portrays the clever ploys of a young Salamancan boy determined to outsmart his long string of masters. This Spanish novella was first published in 1554, during the Spanish Inquisition, by an author who wished to remain anonymous due to the work's heretical content. Scholars now attribute the authorship...
| Автор | Francisco de Quevedo |
My Mother's Kitchen is an enchanting place filled with promise, change and good food. If the weathered walls of this magical room could talk they would tell the story of Meena and her childhood life. Each chapter is a slice in her young life and depicts her spunk and youthful spirit. A visit to the local Fruit and Flower Show becomes an adventure as told by Meena. Her distress at finding out about her aunt's dark secret or her joy of making a new friend are all told...
| Автор | Meera Ekkanath Klein |
This feel-good sequel to the award-winning My Mother's Kitchen is all about family, good food, love and finding the way back home. Since the death of her husband three years ago, Meena's mother has wanted to see her oldest daughter married and so she organizes Meena's "seeing ceremony," a ritual associated with arranged marriages. However, eighteen-year-old Meena is not ready to be married and wants to leave her hilltop home in Mahagiri, south India,...
| Автор | Meera Ekkanath Klein |
A deeply affecting and daring novel about small towns, art, and loneliness. “A gorgeous, urgent, nonlinear exploration of loss, belonging, rage, and connection, Evie of the Deepthorn announces André Babyn as an unmissable talent.” – Grace O'Connell What is Evie of the Deepthorn ? It’s a cult Canadian movie that Kent looks to for inspiration as he struggles to understand the death of his brother. It’s a fantasy novel that Sarah wrestles with as she navigates a traumatic childhood and...
| Автор | André Babyn |
A rich, nuanced inter-generational family tale that brings visibility to the practice of female genital cutting Leaving New York to visit India with her husband, Sharifa dives into genealogical research and is intrigued by the missing stories of her great-great-grandfather's four wives. Soon Sharifa uncovers uncomfortable truths about her family's past and is faced with reconciling age-old traditions with their place in the modern world. Author's previous novel Six Metres of...
| Автор | Farzana Doctor |
• Super lead title for Fall 2019 with an AFP of 20,000 copies • #1 bestseller in France, with 100,000 copies sold within the first month of publication • Mega-international bestseller with 14 licenses sold in heated multi-day auctions to the world’s most prestigious publishers: Italian (Solferino), German (Dtv), Dutch (Atlas Contact), Polish (Znak), Greek, Spanish (Salamandra), Croatian (Znanje), Hebrew (Keter), Finnish (WSOY) and Arabic (Centre Culturel Arabe). • Ecstatic reviews from...
| Автор | Adeline Dieudonné |
A hurricane is heading straight for the tiny coastal town of Turning Point, Texas. Four volunteers from Courage Bay Emergency Services rush to the town's aid. Their lives will never be the same again…Love came early to teenagers Amy Sherwood and Jesse Boone. Then Jesse suddenly disappeared. Now, fourteen years later, Amy doesn't know whether she's disappointed or relieved that Turning Point's sheriff isn't her Jesse. Or is he? The face is different, yet Amy feels an...
| Автор | Darlene Scalera |
Following the overwhelming success of Enchanted, author Nancy Madore has responded to her fans' pleas for a follow-up with a brilliant second collection–this time comprised of superbly sensual, delightfully debauched and decidedly darker modern-day interpretations of classic nursery rhymes.Meet Dan, the handyman whose toolbox is full of surprises. . . Georgie Porgie, no longer the boy who's content with only kissing girls. . . Jessica, who, torn between two men, may be lured into the...
| Автор | Nancy Madore |
Allow yourself to be drawn into a fantasy world like no other…Where a beautiful princess is seduced into a love triangle with a handsome prince and her winsome maid…Where a mysterious gentleman`s young bride is deliciously disciplined for her unchecked curiosity…Where a naive daughter is married off to a beast of a man whose carnal appetites awaken her budding desire….With a unique and decidedly adult twist on thirteen classic fairy tales, Nancy Madore intrigues and arouses with her titillating,...
| Автор | Nancy Madore |
One autumn morning, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her lavish Beijing apartment to find her husband dead. One minute she was breakfasting with him and packing for an upcoming trip, the next, she finds him motionless in their half-full bathtub. Like something out of a dream, next to the tub Jia Jia discovers a pencil sketch of a strange watery figure, an image that swims into Jia Jia’s mind and won’t leave.<p>The mysterious drawing launches Jia Jia on an odyssey across contemporary...
| Автор | An Yu |
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD[/b][i]Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher’s policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city’s notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie’s mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie’s guiding light but a burden for him and his...
| Автор | Douglas Stuart |
Praise for Earthlings : “I loved this book! It easily converted me to being an alien. A radical, hilarious, heartbreaking look at the crap we have all internalized in order to fit in and survive.” —Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot “ Earthlings takes the mood of colorful disquiet she honed in Convenience Store Woman and pushes it further out. The boy and a girl at the heart of her latest believe they have landed on earth from outer space. Raised by separate families, treated badly, they...
| Автор | Sayaka Murata |
Ramiza Shamoun Koya reveals the devastating cost of anti-Muslim sentiment in <i>The Royal Abduls</i>, her debut novel about an Indian-America family. Evolutionary biologist Amina Abdul accepts a post-doc in Washington, DC, choosing her career studying hybrid zones over a faltering West Coast romance. Her brother and sister-in-law welcome her to the city, but their marriage is crumbling, and they soon rely on her to keep their son company. Omar, hungry to understand his cultural...
| Автор | Ramiza Shamoun Koya |
The town of New Eden, peopled with hereditary oddities, has arrived at its last days. As two near-centenarian citizens prepare for their annual birthday tea, a third vows to interrupt the proceedings with a bold declaration. The Remnants cartwheels rambunctiously through the lives of wood-splitters, garment-menders, and chervil farmers, while exposing an electrical undercurrent of secrets, taboos, and unfulfilled longings. With his signature wit and wordplay, Robert Hill delivers a bittersweet...
| Автор | Robert Hill |
Kate Gray takes an unblinking look at bullying in her debut novel, Carry the Sky. It’s 1983 at an elite Delaware boarding school. Taylor Alta, the new rowing coach, arrives reeling from the death of the woman she loved. Physics teacher Jack Song, the only Asian American on campus, struggles with his personal code of honor when he gets too close to a student. These two young, lonely teachers narrate the story of a strange and brilliant thirteen-year-old boy who draws atomic mushroom...
| Автор | Kate Gray |
The Last Summer is a story of friendships that were born on a baseball field in a small but growing North Carolina town. Swansville once had baseball fever, and over a decade later, a group of twelve-year-old boys reignite the love of baseball for everyone in town. Narrator Carson Smith is nearly thirty-eight years old as he looks back on the magical summer when he was only twelve years old. Carson, or sometimes called Worm, as in bookworm, chronicles his and his teammates’ summer playing Little...
| Автор | Chan Howell |
Steph never planned on following in his father’s footsteps. Growing up in NYC, he knew what living life in the streets could do to a young kid. The fact that he was an orphan was living proof. Steph had a few golden rules he abided by: stay true to himself and his friends and to follow his plan. The plan was simple: graduate high school, attend college, and take care of his grandmother. However, as is often true, things don’t always go according to plan. As summer vacation looms closer,...
| Автор | Vincent Montgomery |
This outstanding compilation presents stories by two of the writers who helped launch the early nineteenth-century German Romanticism movement: Ludwig Tieck and Jean Paul Richter. Translated by the great British historian Thomas Carlyle, it features seven highly influential tales that range in mood from fantasy and fairy tale lightness to witty satire. Shemlzie's Journey to Fletz and Life of Quintus Fixlien, a story and a novella by Richter, the least translated of the major German...
| Автор | Ludwig Tieck |
[i]“I don’t believe in love at first sight.” I was taken aback. I thought we were definitely in love at first sight. “What do you mean? Wasn’t it clear the moment you picked the elderflowers by the park and we looked at each other? Or was it in that book club?” You gave me a damp smile, as if my confusion proved that you were right.[/i] A Chinese woman moves from Beijing to London for a doctoral program—and to begin a new life—just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and...
| Автор | Xiaolu Guo |