Felipe es un hombre victorioso en todos los aspectos de la vida. Nada más puede desear ser feliz hasta que algo terrible suceda. La nueva situación provoca una gran revuelta en su mundo. Perdido, se encuentra por casualidad con el pensamiento de un joven inocente. Sus palabras son tan reconfortantes y optimistas que abren una nueva perspectiva en medio de tanto dolor, y luego se lanza el siguiente reto: ¿Podría entender la voluntad de Dios y, en consecuencia, descifrar su código?
A brilliantly funny novel from the author of ‘The Abstinence Teacher’ and ‘Little Children’, made into an acclaimed film starring Reece Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick.Tracy Flick wants to be president of Winwood High. She’s one of those ambitious girls who finds time to do it all: edit the yearbook, star in the school musical, sleep with her English teacher. Staunch idealist, Jim McAllister (aka ‘Mr M’) thinks the students deserve better. So he persuades Paul Warren – a well-liked,...
Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband and wife double murder that is still an open verdict…Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. Here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies – a husband and wife – shot dead.But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into the past and discovers that ‘old sin leave long shadows’.
Powieść, która ukazała się na przełomie XIX i XX w., można czytać na wielu poziomach: jako utwór realistyczny i satyryczny, a także jako dzieło skonstruowane na archetypicznej zasadzie przeciwieństw. Jest to zarówno powieść o pensji, ale nie o sztuce wychowania i kształcenia dziewcząt, jak i powieść edukacyjna oraz utwór, który niesie refleksję nad sensem istnienia w obliczu życia i śmierci. Powieść Prusa bawi, wzrusza humor miesza się tu z osobistą tragedią bohaterów, ponoszących konsekwencje...
Beloved and bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith lends his delightful touch to the Austen classic, Emma.‘It's comfort reading at its most soothing’ IndependentPrepare to meet a young woman who thinks she knows everything.Fresh from university, Emma Woodhouse triumphantly arrives home in Norfolk ready to embark on adult life with a splash. Not only has her sister, Isabella, been whisked away on a motorcycle up to London, but her astute governess, Miss Taylor is at a loose end, abandoned in...
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.‘The real evils, indeed, of Emma’s situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself…’Beautiful, rich, self-assured and witty, Emma Woodhouse delights in matchmaking those around her, with no apparent care for her own romantic life. Taking young Harriet Smith under her wing, Emma sets her sights on finding a suitable match for her friend. Chided for...
In the future, mankind’s physiology has been improved. Utopia prevails throughout the solar system, in a communistic system of government. When six of its members are lost on an unregenerate planet, the stresses begin to show.In the future, mankind’s physiology has been improved. Utopia prevails throughout the solar system, in a communistic system of government. When six of its members are lost on an unregenerate planet, the stresses begin to show.This novel is part of the Brian Aldiss...