Ergebnis für "The Piazza" in Belletristik

Il corpo del Gladiatore, un piccolo delinquente, viene trovato riverso in una pozza di sangue nell’ascensore di un palazzo in piazza Vittorio, cuore multietnico di Roma. Le indagini si concentrano su Amedeo, esule algerino amico di tutti, ma i suoi condomini coltivano ipotesi diverse.

The Piazza published by Herman Melville in 1856. The sketch describes Melville's farmhouse, called Arrowhead, in Pittsfield, Mass. Supposedly, the other tales in the collection, including "Bartleby the Scrivener" and "Benito Cereno," were narrated on the piazza of the farmhouse.

A hot, twisty summer debut thriller about a Caribbean bachelorette party that takes a sinister turn. It’s Lord of the Flies meets And Then There Were None...but with Instagram and too much prosecco. The party of a lifetime is nothing like what they expected... Annabel, Esther, Tanya, and Chloe...

With disparate settings such as a Massachusetts farmhouse and the strange volcanic clime of the Enchanted Isles, this six-story anthology features some of Herman Melville’s most exceptional works. Included here is “Bartleby,” the dark tale of a Wall Street clerk who possesses a confounding and disarmingly passive insubordination; and “Benito Cereno,” in which the captain of a whaler boards a tattered Spanish slave ship in South America only to be drawn into an intricately plotted mutiny. 

When Sara Marsala’s beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, she leaves Sara a valuable piece of land in Sicily, but there’s a catch: the locals refuse to acknowledge the rightful owner of the deed, and if Sara wants the land she must first uncover the truth about what happened to her great-great grandmother, Serafina Marsala. Because Rosie didn’t think Serafina died of illness as family lore states... Rosie believed Serafina was murdered, and she wants Sara to prove it.

From bestselling author Jo Piazza comes one of People’s “Best Summer Books,” a “comically accurate” (New York Post) novel about what happens when a woman wants it all—political power, marriage, and happiness. Charlotte Walsh is running for Senate in the most important race in the...

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by People, Essence, New York Post, PopSugar, New York Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Town & Country, Bustle, Fortune, and Book Riot Told from alternating perspectives, this “propulsive, deeply felt tale of race and...

Riley and Jen have been best friends since they were children and they thought their bond was unbreakable. It never mattered to them that Riley is Black and Jen is white. Then Jen's husband, a Philadelphia police officer, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager and everything changes in an instant.

From bestselling author Jo Piazza comes one of People’s “Best Summer Books,” a “comically accurate” (New York Post) novel about what happens when a woman wants it all—political power, marriage, and happiness. Charlotte Walsh is running for Senate in the most important race in the...

Il Prigioniero, il capo del più importante partito cristiano d’Italia, dopo essere stato catturato da uomini che minacciano la sua vita riceve in cella la visita di Satana, che lo tenterà nel corso di un viaggio notturno alla scoperta del futuro del paese. Il Presidente, espressione luciferina del potere che non tramonta mai, cerca di reagire ai sospetti di collusione con la mafia in seguito all’arresto di uno dei suoi uomini chiave. L’Esule, scappato in Tunisia dopo che gli scandali di corruzione hanno travolto la sua carriera politica, riflette, in limina mortis, sulla propria caduta.

The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly between 1853 and 1855. The collection includes what has long been regarded as three of Melville's most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno", and "The Encantadas", his sketches of the Galápagos Islands.

In piazza della Scala venne pubblicata da Verga nel 1883 e fa parte della raccolta "Per le vie"....

Bestselling authors Christine Pride and Jo Piazza return with a gripping and thought-provoking new novel about a Black woman whose interracial marriage is tested when a journalist investigates a decades-old murder tied to her wealthy husband’s family. Simone Hartwell has made trade-offs to...

Biografia dell'autore: La coda del diavolo, Il bastione di Monforte, In Piazza della Scala, L'ultima giornata, Primavera, Semplice storia...

A natural mystic guides Coach throughout his journey as humanity continues to ignorantly ravage the Earth with no regard for the negative effects and byproducts it produces along the way. In order for Mother Nature to persist, she is forced to take matters into her own proverbial hands. Coach is perpetually guided by Mother Nature, and his antics are charming for most of the people he encounters, but not everyone is swayed by such exuberance. As life continues to unfold for Coach, the environment is deteriorating due to human negligence.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad comes a sweeping World War II historical novel set in Depression-era New York, where a young...

Keep the cold at bay and cozy up with New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan’s Christmas Book Set, collecting two novels—Christmas at Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop and Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery—a pair of sweet stories full of romance, cheer, and hope for this magical...

It's the most wonderful time of the year… and the perfect moment to escape to a charming English village! From the beloved author whose novels are ""sheer indulgence from start to finish"" (SOPHIE KINSELLA) comes a delightful holiday story — funny, heartfelt, romantic and packed with recipes...

Roma, 1473. All'ombra degli alti palazzi e delle basiliche secolari, Papa Sisto IV ha una sola ossessione: riprodurre nella Città Eterna il Tempio di Salomone, per riportare la Chiesa di Roma all'antico splendore. Ecco allora prendere forma il progetto grandioso della Cappella Sistina, che del Tempio di Gerusalemme ha le stesse misure. Ma per completare il suo piano, serve un simbolo di potere le cui tracce si perdono nel tempo e nel mito: la misteriosa melagrana d'avorio che ornava lo scettro del Sommo Sacerdote.

The acclaimed authors of the “emotional literary roller coaster” (The Washington Post) and Good Morning America book club pick We Are Not Like Them return with this moving and provocative novel about a Black woman who finds an abandoned white baby, sending her on a collision course with her...