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Tolstoy'un insanın iç serüvenini incelediği kitap dört öyküden oluşuyor: İnsan Ne İle Yaşar' da üç soruya cevap arıyor. İnsana yön veren şey nedir? İnsana ne verilmemiştir? İnsan ne ile yaşar? Surat'daki Kahvehane'de ise her millet ve dinden insanın Allah'ı ve evreni anlamaya çalışmalarına tanıklık ediyor. İnsana Ne Kadar Toprak Lazım'da hırsın ve açgözlülüğün sonunu, nereye kadar gidebileceğini gösterirken, Üç Soru'da ise yaşadığımız anın değerini gösteriyor bize.

Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community to donate short stories he could use to counter mounting medical debt. The result was Unfettered, an anthology offering tales from some of the best authors working today. Now, in Unfettered III, Speakman continues to pay forward the aid he received, raising money to combat medical debt for SF&F artists and authors.

"L'amore vincerà su tutto. Lui l'avrebbe rapita e condotta in capo al mondo". "Guerra e pace" è indubbiamente il capolavoro di Tolstoj, che vi lavorò ininterrottamente, animato da un entusiasmo creativo che non ammetteva soste né riposo, dal 1863 al 1869, cioè negli anni della sua piena maturità. È un'opera unica nel suo genere, come la "Divina Commedia" o il "Faust", e quindi indefinibile, ma certo non un romanzo nel significato comunemente inteso.

Some truths are carefully concealed; others merely forgotten. In this spellbinding collection, seven acclaimed fantasy authors create characters who venture into the depths where others fear to tread. But when forbidden knowledge is the ultimate power, how far can they go before the darkness consumes them?

Lavender House, 1952: the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the famous Lamontaine soap empire. Irene’s recipes for her signature scents are a well guarded secret—but it's not the only one behind these gates. This estate offers a unique freedom, where none of the residents or staff hide who they are. But to keep their secret, they've needed to keep others out. And now they're worried they're keeping a murderer in. When your existence is a crime, everything you do is criminal, and the gates of Lavender House can’t lock out the real world forever.

San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander “Andy” Mills has started a new life for himself as a private detective—but his business hasn’t exactly taken off. It turns out that word spreads fast when you have a bad reputation, and no one in the queer community trusts him enough to ask an ex-cop for help. When James, an old flame from the war who had mysteriously disappeared, arrives in his offices above the Ruby, Andy wants to kick him out. But the job seems to be a simple case of blackmail, and Andy’s debts are piling up. He agrees to investigate, despite everything it stirs up.

A beautiful, startling, and candid memoir about growing up without boundaries, in which Ariel Leve recalls with candor and sensitivity the turbulent time she endured as the only child of an unstable poet for a mother and a beloved but largely absent father, and explores the consequences of a psychologically harrowing childhood as she seeks refuge from the past and recovers what was lost.

Anna Karenina fu pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1877. Era già stato pubblicato a puntate dal 1875, ma non fu mai pubblicata l'ottava parte perché la rivista non tollerò le prese d posizione antinazionaliste di Tolstoj, che fu quindi costretto a pubblicare l'opera completa a sue spese.Tolstoj vedeva in questo libro, considerato un capolavoro del realismo, il suo primo vero romanzo.

Including a preface, introduction and some final words read by the authors, Gidon Lev and Julie Gray. “To me, hard times are like hide-and-seek: where is the solution, where is the hope? We can never give up looking for these things because they are just waiting to be found.” Gidon Lev, an...

Private Detective Evander “Andy” Mills has been drawn back to the Lavender House estate for a missing person case. Pat, the family butler, has been volunteering for a book service, one that specializes in mailing queer books to a carefully guarded list of subscribers. With bookseller Howard Salzberger gone suspiciously missing along with his address book, everyone on that list, including some of Andy's closest friends, is now in danger.

About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a hotshot young investment banker, is sent to help one of his firm's most important and mysterious clients. His task is to search their library stacks for a precious medieval codex, a treasure kept sealed away for many years and for many reasons.

വിവാഹിതയും ഒരു കുട്ടിയുടെ അമ്മയുമായ അന്നയ്ക്ക് അന്യപുരുഷനോടുണ്ടാകുന്ന പ്രണയവും അതേതുടര്‍ന്നുണ്ടാകുന്ന ദുരന്തവുമാണ് നോവലിലെ പ്രമേയം. സമൂഹത്തിന്റെ പ്രതികാരത്തിനിരയാകുന്ന അന്നയെ അത്യുദാരമായ സഹഭാവത്തോടെയാണ് ടോള്‍സ്‌റ്റോയ് ചിത്രീകരിച്ചത്.

A prolific writer for radio and TV, Philip Levene scripted numerous crime dramas and serials for the BBC in the 1960s. One of the most popular was Destination – Fire!, inspired by his fascination with the varied motivations of those who commit arson. Intrigued by ‘the puzzle of the charred remains of a burnt out building,’ he came up with the idea of an investigator who would work out how a fire was started, by whom, and why.

Ever since her dad disappeared five years ago, Persephone has quietly walled off the feelings she’d rather not feel. There’s no room for pain or anger when you’re just trying to get through the hell that is high school. But one day, the crush of taunts and disappointments is finally too much—and a power breaks loose inside her that she never knew was there.

Kate and her younger brother, Tom, lead dull, uninteresting lives. And if their dull, uninteresting parents are anything to go by, they don't have much to look forward to. Why can't Kate have thrilling adventures and save the world the way people do in books? Even her 11th birthday is shaping up to be mundane - that is, until her mysterious and highly irresponsible Uncle Herbert, whom she's never even met before, surprises her with the most unexpected, exhilarating, inappropriate birthday present of all time: a colossal steam locomotive called the Silver Arrow.

Personal Column is a captivating collection of original radio dramas conceived by the esteemed writer Philip Levene, known for his work on 19 episodes of ITV's The Avengers, including the iconic "The Cybernauts." Each drama in this series offers a gripping narrative with unexpected twists, showcasing the talents of various writers and actors.

Um dos maiores escritores da literatura russa, reconhecido mundialmente, Lev Tolstói foi mestre do romance do século XIX reconhecido também pela narrativa curta. Nesta novela – considerada uma das mais perfeitas já escritas –, Tolstói narra a história de Ivan Ílitch, juiz de instrução que, depois de alcançar uma vida confortável, descobre que tem uma grave doença. A partir daí, ele passa a refletir sobre o sentido de sua existência, numa experiência-limite de rara força poética, que só a grande literatura consegue traduzir.

"E ode di nuovo l'appello di colui che l'ha chiamato. "Vengo, vengo!", dice tutto il suo essere, invaso da letizia e da tenerezza. E sente che è libero e che nulla lo trattiene più." "Non aveva voglia di dormire. Sdraiato sulla paglia, pensava. Pensava sempre alla stessa cosa, a ciò che rappresentava lo scopo, il senso, la felicità e l'orgoglio della sua vita."

In 2008, with no event production experience and two college degrees between the four of them, Elliott Bisnow, Brett Leve, Jeff Rosenthal, and Jeremy Schwartz became business partners and set out to build a global events company. With passion and tenacity, they began cold calling as many inspiring company founders as they could and tried to convince them to attend their first event. In the beginning, only nineteen people said yes.

La historia de Anna Karénina, junto a la de Madame Bovary, es la del adulterio más célebre de la literatura. El enamoramiento de la protagonista, casada con el alto funcionario Karénin, por el atractivo militar Vronski y el estrepitoso romance que con él vive son el eje de una novela que es mucho más que la pulida tragedia de una caída en desgracia: es un esmerado y delicado retrato de todo un tiempo y un lugar, la vivisección de una sociedad en la que la felicidad de algunos convive con la desdicha de otros.