Classica Libris: 325 books

Le strade sono luride e le case fatiscenti. Nei vicoli si agitano mercanti di avanzi ed agenzie di pegni. Questo è il «ventre di Napoli», la vita delle strette stradine dove il Sole più non arriva e, con esso, anche le istituzioni, cieche di fronte ad una realtà abbastanza aberrante e lontane...

When Dale Hathaway heard a knock at her door late one winter evening, she had no idea that her life was about to turn upside down. But suddenly she and a handsome young journalist were caught up in a desperate mission: saving the life of an abandoned baby! Could they bring the poor waif back from...

By the Gods Beloved was first published in Britain in 1905 and was later released in America under the title The Gates of Kamt. Mark and Hugh are school friends. Mark has visited Hugh's house, whose father is an archaeologist and Egyptologist and where there is an odd museum, complete with mummies....

En 1922, une soirée comme sait les décrire Emmanuel Bove… Parmi les invités, le docteur Salmand. Surgie d’une nuit pluvieuse, Colette, sa fille le demande : il y a quatre ans elle n’a donné de nouvelles et elle a besoin d’argent. Amoureuse, éperdument, elle s’est enfuie avec un homme,...

Maurice Lesca aura bientôt 60 ans. Il partage avec sa sœur Emily un petit appartement rue de Rivoli. Il était médecin, mais ne pratique plus. Pas vraiment pauvre, ni vraiment riche, son comportement étonne. Est-il malade ou simplement malheureux ? Est-ce un escroc ou un manipulateur ? En apparence,...

Arrivé en France, le héros de Départ dans la nuit et de non-lieu retrouve sa famille et ses amis. Mais il ne trouve qu’indifférence et hostilité. Pour la première fois, l’Occupation, jusque-là absente des romans d’Emmanuel Bove, est à l’origine du récit, mais elle est vite dépassée par les sentiments propres la solitude et la persécution que ressent le héros.

Armand vit avec Jeanne, une veuve plus âgée que lui, qui l’entretient et l’aime tout en lui laissant beaucoup de liberté. Armand ne travaille pas, il se balade souvent pendant la journée et la soirée, et vient à rencontrer un ancien ami, Lucien. Celui-ci n’a pas eu la chance d’Armand,...

Ce livre peint l’affrontement amoureux d’un homme velléitaire et d’une jeune fille éprise de liberté. Drame émouvant étudiant avec finesse les rapports nouveaux qui se créent entre les sexes au XXe siècle, ce roman, deux fois porté au cinéma, n’en est pas moins un des plus intéressants...

Un recueil de contes, comprenant, entre autres Le chaland de la reine, Valserine et La fiancée.

At sixteen, Anne is grown up… almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes....

New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With her old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport and her frivolous new friend Philippa Gordon at her side, Anne tucks her memories of rural Avonlea away and...

The Brenva Glacier at Mont Blanc has always been a legend among mountaineers. When the talented John Lattery sets out one day to cross this sea of ice, no one thinks that it will be his last expedition. But, when Lattery fails to return, his long time friend, Captain Chayne, is sent to search for...

The Sea Lady is a fantasy novel that has some of the aspects of a fable. It was serialized from July to December 1901 in Pearson’s Magazine before being published as a volume. The inspiration for the novel was Wells’s glimpse of May Nisbet, the daughter of the Times drama critic, in a bathing...

“La regina delle tenebre” è il titolo di questa raccolta composta da sei racconti di vario genere ed ambientazione che permettono di conoscere in maniera dettagliata lo stile narrativo della scrittrice nuorese, apprezzata dal pubblico, non solo come autrice di romanzi, ma anche come novellista e scrittrice di racconti brevi.