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Doctor Dolittle’s Circus is in a bad way and so the Doctor searches for a special new animal to add to the Circus’ attractions. His discovery of Pippinella, a canary with the most beautiful voice he’s ever heard, seems to solve the problems at first. But Dab-Dab the duck is still unhappy, and longs to return to her home in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh…

The Dolittle household have been anxiously hoping for a year for the Doctor to return from the Moon, and it seems he will never come. What excitement when he does finally arrive, and what dramatic tales he has to tell! But now he is eager to write a book about the moon and his experiences, and in a quest for peace and quiet, attempts to have himself put in jail…

More adventures of the eccentric country physician with a bent for natural history and a great love of animals. Doctor Dolittle’s garden is teeming with insects, so he is determined to learn the insect languages, and soon hears some fascinating stories. None is more intriguing than the tale of the...

Grace Livingston Hill’s love for humankind shines through her character’s journey to manhood. Mickey, a young newsboy, saves the life of heiress Starr Endicott by taking a gunman’s bullet himself. To show his gratitude, Starr’s father sends the boy off to school where he studies law. Then...

Roman um eine junge Komtess und eine alte Schuld. Einsam und verbittert lebt Graf Ravenau in seinem Schloss, brennenden Hass im Herzen auf die Frau, die das Leben seines einzigen Sohnes zerstörte. Nie wieder soll Gräfin Gwendoline Schloss Ravenau betreten und ihre Tochter, Komtess Jutta, nie erfahren,...

La virtù di Checchina, una situazione piuttosto banale come quella della seduzione di una quasi comica «aspirante» Madame Bovary da parte del solito aristocratico mellifluo e indolente, viene trattata dalla Serao con una magistrale e sapida malizia che rasenta la perfidia. Sembra quasi che la Serao...

Non ostante i suoi quarant’anni vicini, la marchesa Anna di Oriente era ancora una bellissima donna, alta, bionda dalla carnagione di neve e gli occhi grandi e grigi con riflessi d’oro. E poi che chic nella sua persona dalle forme stupende, dalla vita lunga, elegantemente sottile e soprattutto nelle sue mani di cui è impossibile darvi un’idea.

Nell’azzurro è il titolo della prima raccolta pubblicata da Grazia Deledda ed è composta da cinque novelle ormai classiche: Vita silvana, Sulla montagna, Memorie infantili (frammenti), Una terribile notte, La casa paterna.

Comprende dodici testi pubblicati negli anni che vanno dal 1899 al 1908. La raccolta appare disomogenea e i vari testi si differenziano fra loro nell’impostazione, nei procedimenti narrativi, nei temi e nell’ambientazione. Per esempio, c’è l’alternanza di ambientazione sarda a contesti continentali. Le...

Antonio Azar e il suo antico amico Efes Mulas, ora farmacista e riccone, avevano deciso di passar una notte in campagna. Efes era cacciatore; Antonio letterato; entrambi figli di pastori, avevano trascorso l’infanzia sull’altipiano, fra i pascoli e le macchie, e serbavano un profondo sentimento...

Shaw Manifold is a born forester, of hardy stock. A fatherless boy of nine, he was brought up in the rugged environment of his grandfather’s farm, a lonely youngster in the midst of callous elders. His only ally was his mother, Cristabel, whose work removed her to a distant city. Mother and son...

Life became complicated for Joyce Radway when her beloved aunt died. Joyce was left to live with her cousin and his wife, who saw Joyce as a handy cook, maid and babysitter. But their oppressive and demanding way of treating Joyce drove her out of the house one night and onto the road—destitute...

Trois courts récits d’importance majeure dans son œuvre et pourtant méconnus sont rassemblés dans ce volume : “Madame Dargent” (1922), “Une nuit” (1928) et “Dialogue d’ombres” (1928), où l’auteur de Sous le soleil de Satan se révèle plus que jamais obsédé par la mort, cette...

Ces premiers écrits sont ceux d’un Bernanos royaliste militant. (Il rompra une première fois avec l’Action française à la fin de la guerre en 1918 puis définitivement en 1932, horrifié par la répression franquiste en Espagne, pays qu’il quittera pour le Brésil après que sa tête ait...