Anna Ruggieri: 136 books

Cover of Piccolo mondo moderno
by Antonio Fogazzaro
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 31, 2017

In questa seconda opera della tetralogia che comprende anche "Piccolo mondo antico", "Leila" e "Il santo", Fogazzaro inizia il percorso di analisi del conflitto fra senso del dovere borghese e spirito di ribellione alla morale imperante in provincia. Uno spaccato della...
Cover of Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017

A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Austen's "Gothic parody." Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers give the story an uncanny air, but one with a decidedly satirical twist. The story's...
Cover of Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017

Don Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers' imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred years.
Cover of Una vita
by Italo Svevo
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 29, 2017

Nel 1925 in una lettera a Valery Larbaud, Svevo scrive: «Ho riletto Una vita. James Joyce diceva sempre che nella penna di un uomo c'è un solo romanzo (allora egli non aveva neppure pensato a Ulysses) e che quando se ne scrivono diversi si tratta sempre del medesimo più o meno trasformato. Ma in...
Cover of La guerra su tre fronti
by Herbert George Wells
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 28, 2017

Il pacifismo convinto di Wells si scontra con la vita dei territori in guerra. Come altri uomini di cultura dell’epoca volle recarsi al fronte per avere l’esperienza diretta di cosa significava l’atroce conflitto mondiale. Fu in Italia nell’agosto 1916, tra l’Isonzo e le “carrette siciliane”...
Cover of La visita meravigliosa
by Herbert George Wells
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 28, 2017

La visita meravigliosa è un romanzo del 1895 di H.G. Wells. Con un angelo per protagonista - una creatura di fantasia diversa dall'angelo religioso - e ambientato nell'Inghilterra contemporanea, il libro potrebbe essere classificato come un fantasy contemporaneo, benché il genere non fosse riconosciuto...
Cover of La lettera scarlatta
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 31, 2017

La lettera scarlatta", pubblicato nel 1850, è un classico della letteratura statunitense scritto da Nathaniel Hawthorne. Ambientato nel New England puritano nel XVII secolo, il romanzo racconta la storia di Hester Prynne che, dopo aver commesso adulterio, ha una figlia di cui si rifiuta di rivelare...
Cover of Le mille e una notte
by Autori vari
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 12, 2017

Il re persiano Shāhrīyār, che, essendo stato tradito da una delle sue mogli, uccide sistematicamente le sue spose al termine della prima notte di nozze. Un giorno, Sharāzād, figlia maggiore del Gran Visir, decide di offrirsi volontariamente come sposa al sovrano, avendo escogitato un piano per...
Cover of Il paradiso perduto
by John Milton
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 15, 2017

Il Paradiso perduto (titolo originale: Paradise Lost), pubblicato nel 1667, è il poema epico in versi sciolti (blank verse) di John Milton che racconta l'episodio biblico della caduta dell'uomo: la tentazione di Adamo e Eva a opera di Satana e la loro cacciata dal giardino dell'Eden.
Cover of The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017

The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has continued to hold its place in the popular imagination to this day. Could the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound that is said to have haunted his family for generations?...
Cover of The Critique of Pure Reason
by Immanuel Kant
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018

The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, first published in 1781, second edition 1787, is one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Also referred to as Kant's "first critique," it was followed in 1788 by the Critique of Practical Reason and in 1790 by the Critique...
Cover of - White Nights and Other Stories -
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017

White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a compilation which contains these 7 works: - White Nights - Notes from the Underground - A Faint Heart - A Christmas Tree and a Wedding - Polzunkov - A Little Hero - Mr. Prohartchin
Cover of Short Stories
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017

After a brief military career, the illustrious Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky quickly turned to writing as a profession with the publication of his first novel, "Poor Folk," in 1846. This novel sparked a literary career that would eventually cement Dostoyevsky's reputation as one of the...
Cover of Phrases and names - their origins and meanings
by Trench H. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017

Few words are necessary to introduce this work to the reader. It partakesof the nature of an encyclopædia, with the saving clause that the information it sets forth is confined to a plain statement of facts. Verbal embellishments have been studiously avoided. Those who seek for additional intelligence...
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