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Here is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the hunchback; Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer; and Claude Frollo, the priest tortured by his own damnation. Shaped by a profound sense of tragic irony, the work gives full play to the author's brilliant imagination. Revised reissue.

This historically significant novel of love and betrayal led to a renewed interest in preserving the grand architecture of Paris. Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame was written in 1831, at a time when the Notre Dame Cathedral in Pa

The glory and romance of archery culminated in England before the discovery of America. There, no doubt, the bow was used to its greatest perfection, and it decided the fate of nations. The crossbow and the matchlock had supplanted the longbow when Columbu

Exactly 500 years after its first publication by the great Venetian printing house Aldus Manutius, Francesco Colonna's weird, erotic, allegorical antiquarian tale, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, was translated into English and reprinted in full, together ..

I promessi sposi un celebre romanzo storico di Alessandro Manzoni, ritenuto il pi famoso e il pi letto tra quelli scritti in lingua italiana. Preceduto dal Fermo e Lucia, spesso considerato romanzo a s , fu edito in una prima versione nel 1827 (detta e

Fantastic journey that intertwines the political and personal, as hotel waiter Ditie becomes a millionaire but loses it all in the victory of Communism.

Calvino's masterpiece opens with a scene that's reassuringly commonplace: apparently. Indeed, it's taking place now. A reader goes into a bookshop to buy a book: not any book, but the latest Calvino, the book you are holding in your hands. Or is it? ..

La cronaca, tra magia, leggenda, realtŕ e antropologia, del grande viaggio compiuto nella seconda metŕ del XIII secolo da Marco Polo nella Cina di Kubilay Khan, il nipote di Gengis Khan, il Signore dei Tartari. Cittŕ fantastiche, la setta degli "assa ..

„Nel 1953 Goffredo Parise si trasferisce a Milano, dove ha trovato lavoro presso un grande editore. Ha pubblicato due romanzi che pochi conoscono – "Il ragazzo morto e le comete“ e „La grande vacanza“ – e ha il vago desiderio di scriverne un terzo ch ..

Kniha Iliad and The Odyssey autora Homer vydaná v nakladatelství Sterling Juvenile v roce 2019, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, počet stran: 752, ISBN-13: 9781435167940, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

Illusions perdues raconte le destin de deux amis, l'imprimeur David Séchard et le poète Lucien de Rubempré. L'un restera à Angoulême, l'autre partira pour Paris à la recherche de la gloire. Comédie des moeurs provinciales et parisiennes, fresque sur ..

Zum hundertsten Jahrestag des Kriegsbeginns 1914: sämtliche Werke von Erich Maria Remarque zum Ersten Weltkrieg, durchgesehen und in neuer Ausstattung.Wie kein anderer Autor erzählt Remarque in diesem sensationellen Erfolgsroman von den Schrecken d ..

Zum hundertsten Jahrestag des Kriegsbeginns 1914: sämtliche Werke von Erich Maria Remarque zum Ersten Weltkrieg, durchgesehen und in neuer Ausstattung.§Mit neuer Materialiensammlung und einem Nachwort des Remarque-Spezialisten Thomas F. Schneider: Re ..

Vor 100 Jahren brach der Erste Weltkrieg aus. Er wurde in Europa, Afrika und dem Nahen Osten geführt. Über 17 Millionen Menschen verloren ihr Leben. Um an die Ereignisse dieser Zeit zu erinnern, veröffentlicht der Spaß am Lesen Verlag eine der bekann ..

Der bedeutendste deutsche Roman zum Ersten Weltkrieg in einer Sonderausgabe§Mit diesem Roman begründete Erich Maria Remarque seinen Weltruhm und schuf ein zeitlos gültiges Bild der Schrecken des modernen Krieges. Zum hundertsten Jahrestag des Kriegsb ..

Kniha In Our Time autora Ernest Hemingway vydaná v nakladatelství Dover Publications Inc. v roce 2021, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 128, ISBN-13: 9780486848969, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

Since the original prewar translation, there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. „In Search of Lost Time“ is one of the greatest ..

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country is vintage William H. Gass: two novellas and three short stories, set in the Midwest, exhibiting Gass's characteristic and wildly original verbal brilliance and philosophical acuity. The volume includes The Pe ..

Arkady Renko is back . . . ‚One of those writers that anyone who is serious about their craft views with respect bordering on awe‘ Val McDermid

One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry – all complete, standalone works, some never published in Penguin Modern Classics before.

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Reprint. Originally published: 2002. With new afterword.

Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. „Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity–powerfully imagined and written with a savage, wryly humorous gusto“.–Atlantic.

Kniha Irish Fairy Tales and Folklore vydaná v nakladatelství Skyhorse Publishing v roce 2022, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, počet stran: 408, ISBN-13: 9781949846447, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.