The mighty warrior Beowulf offers to help the King of the Danes in a quest to kill the monster Grendel and free his people from terror. After killing Grendel, Beowulf must also kill the monster's mother before he can return to his homeland, where he eventually becomes king. But he is called for a new adventure ... [4e de couverture]
FAIRY TALE & FANTASY A story of love and friendship about a fisherman who catches a mermaid. He lets her go because she promises to help him fish. Each day the mermaid appears and sings her song, so he falls in love with her. However, she cannot marry him until he has lost his human soul. Dossiers: Children’s Literature Aestheticism
Copertine alternative qui e qui.Pubblicato postumo agli inizi del 1818, "Northanger Abbey", forse il piu' inconsueto dei romanzi di J. Austen, e' ha un tempo uno dei piu' essenzialmente austeniani. Raffinatissimo gioco intellettuale in cui realta' e immaginazione si affrontano riflettendosi l'una nell'altra, nella apparente semplicita' di una narrazione di straordinaria immediatezza che sembra nascere, "farsi", di pagina in pagina, il romanzo si caratterizza per una complessa struttura a piu' livelli in cui la grande scrittrice inglese, rivela, come in un gioco ad incastro l'origine e l'essenza della sua narrativa. Divertita denuncia dei pericoli di una acritica accettazione della letteratura, e' al tempo stesso una appassionata difesa della letteratura; parodia di falsi orrori, della romanzesca fantasia della narrativa gotica, insensibilmente si muta in un romanzo gotico di disincantato realismo le cui vicende mettono a nudo, con spietata eleganza, gli orrori autentici della realta' quotidiana.
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Doctor Faustus is the most brilliant scholar of his day. He has studied hard and is now master of all areas of learning. However, he wants something more, so he enters into an agreement with the Devil. He agrees to sell his soul in return for twenty-four years of knowledge, power and riches, which only brings him despair and terror as he realises the full implication of his impulsive action.
