Ergebnis für "The Essays" in Saga

In sixteen wonderful stories, Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener burrows deep into the secret lives of animals and the hidden world of nature. Here he sheds light on nature’s most awesome and beguiling handiwork, from the sublime shaping and reshaping of earth’s lands and seas...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus...

Faith ultimately bursts into flame as Updike's major new novel, charting the lives of one family through four generations, shows readers an America whose dream of perfection is translated into an obsession with God and the Moving Picture. Paterson, New Jersey, 1910: When a Presbyterian minister...

A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers—an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals At the center of Jonathan Lethem’s superb new novel stand two extraordinary women: Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an...

In una notte di tempesta, una balena si arena sulle rive della tenuta di Chilcombe nel Dorset. Per legge, tutti i relitti appartengono al re, ma la dodicenne Cristabel Seagrave ha altri piani. È determinata a rivendicarla come sua e a utilizzare le ossa del cetaceo per costruire un teatro sulla spiaggia. Un palcoscenico per tutti i libri che ha letto negli anni, di nascosto, nella polverosa biblioteca di famiglia; libri che non hanno mai per protagoniste ragazze come lei. Ora però è arrivato il momento che le cose cambino.