Questa serie offre rielaborazioni avvincenti e condensate di capolavori letterari di fama mondiale. Ogni volume presenta un racconto classico di diverse culture in un formato accessibile ai lettori più giovani. Funge da eccellente introduzione alla ricchezza della letteratura mondiale, ampliando gli orizzonti di molti. Questi libri fungono da ponte verso i testi originali, arricchendo sia gli studenti di lingue che i lettori occasionali.
The Life And Death of a Man of Character
The moving, humane tragedy of a deeply flawed and self-destructive man, The Mayor of Casterbridge is the story of Michael Henchard, who sells his wife and baby daughter at a country fair in a fit of drunken anger.
Though Aladdin's childhood had been full of beauty, comfort and happiness, without any trace of sadness or sorrow, he entirely failed to learn the lessons of hard work and responsibility.
Well's science fiction of time travel, and his protagonist's adventures in the future.
I had been given a simple but enormous task. This was the role for which I had spent my whole life preparing.
"In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year by year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death's head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembliing with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. Miss Havisham stares at Pip coldly, and murmers to the girl at her side: "Break his heart, Estella. Break his heart!"--Back cover
Depicts the joyless existences of the citizens of the imaginary mid-Victorian city of Coketown, whose workers toil endlessly for factory owner Josiah Bounderby, and whose students drudge for utilitarian educator Thomas Gradgrind
If there ever was an epic that touches upon every conceivable human emotion and poses the most complex of questions, it has to be the Mahabharata, the most famous of stories from India.
`It seems pretty clear to me that sooner or later we'll be at war with Germany, whether we like it or not.'
Dickens's classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.
Can the path to the ultimate truth about human life be found by leaving behind wealth, comfort, family and security?
Jane Austen è una delle poche, autentiche grandi scrittrici che hanno saputo fare breccia nei cuori e nelle menti di tutti i lettori, senza eccezioni. Fra i suoi tanti capolavori, "Orgoglio e pregiudizio" (pubblicato nel 1813) è sicuramente il più popolare e amato: le cinque figlie dell'indimenticabile Mrs Bennet, tutte in cerca di un'adeguata sistemazione matrimoniale, offrono l'occasione per tracciare un quadro frizzante e profondo della vita nella campagna inglese di fine Settecento. I destini di Elizabeth, Jane, Mr Bingley e dell'ombroso Mr Darcy intrecciano un balletto irresistibile, una danza psicologica che getta luce sulla multiforme imprendibilità dell'animo umano, specie quando si trova alle prese con l'amore o qualcosa che all'amore somiglia.
It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography. ...Identification with everything that lives is impossible without self-purification; without self-purification, the observance of the law of Ahimsa must remain an empty dream; God can never be realised by one who is not pure of heart. Self-purification, therefore, must remain purification in all walks of life. And purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings. But the path to self-purification is hard and steep. To attain perfect purity, one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet the triple purity, in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me; indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me far harder than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms. Ever since my return to India, I have had experiences of the dormant passions lying hidden within me. The knowledge of them has made me feel humiliated though not defeated. The experiences and experiments have sustained me and given me great joy. But I know I still have before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 26 November, 1925.
If there ever was an epic that touches upon every conceivable human emotion and poses the most complex of questions, it has to be the Mahabharata, the most famous of stories from India.
Here is a test, a puzzle for you. It is a faithful account of two most gruesome murders. Can you work out what actually happened in the early hours of one fateful morning in the Rue Morgue?
A strange figure stood in front of him, dressed from head to foot in white clothing. The moonlight showed her pale, youthful face.
In ancient China a magical monkey appears, creating chaos everywhere he goes. The only way to put his tricks and talents to good use is to make him protector of Xuanzang, a young and handsome monk determined to travel from China to India in search of the precious scriptures.
È la storia di un giovane che ripercorre la sua vita, dall'infanzia infelice alla scoperta della vocazione letteraria e al successo come romanziere. Orfano di padre, attraverso mille difficoltà, David si realizzerà senza dimenticare gli amici che lo hanno aiutato e accompagnato. "Figlio prediletto" di Dickens, in virtù dell'ampiezza degli spunti autobiografici, è caratterizzato da una vasta costellazione di personaggi minori, tutti, come sempre nelle opere dello scrittore inglese, indimenticabili: il crudele patrigno Murdstone e la sua degna sorella, l'amorevole governante Peggotty, il compagno Steerforth, la spigolosa zia, il raccapricciante Uriah Heep e il tragicomico Mr Micawber, vero gioiello della letteratura caricaturale.
After ten long years of war and the fall of Troy, the Greek hero Odysseus sets sail for his homeland. His voyage, however, is destined to take much longer than he expects.
Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes mystery. This book also includes another Sherlock Holmes mystery, The Speckled Band.
Although Song Jiang is only a lowly local government official, he is loyal to the emperor and kind to all the citizens in his care. But Song is in trouble. A series of unfortunate incidents have led to him being arrested, and his political enemies are keen to see him sentenced to death.
The arrival of a gold bug leads the three men on an exciting adventure towards skeletons, a skull and a hunt for buried treasure.
The blackness of eternal night encompassed me. The intense darkness oppressed and stifled me so that I struggled for breath.
My darkness lifted, never to return. This man was truly the light of the world.
Makes a portrait of India. In this book, these unabridged observations of the British in India and Indian life were originally commissioned for The Civil and Military Gazette where the author worked as a journalist in the 1880s.
Catching fish. That's what I was doing on the day that changed my life for ever.
Although the shortest of George Eliot's novels, Silas Marner is one of her most admired and loved works. It tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner - a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England - and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie. Silas Marner is a tender and moving tale of sin and repentance set in a vanished rural world and holds the reader's attention until the last page as Eppie's bonds of affection for Silas are put to the test.
A classic novel about the Chancery court and its cases while dwelling upon the romanic side of familiar things.
`Send the brat home? Oh no we won't! Her mother must have met some rich man - we can make a load of money out of this.'
Rachel opened the box and lifted out the diamond. She held it up in a ray of sunlight that poured through the window, and cried out in amazement.
If there ever was an epic that touches upon every conceivable human emotion and poses the most complex of questions, it has to be the Mahabharata, the most famous of stories from India.
A storm, a shipwreck, an enchanted island ...