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Meet Orlando: a young nobleman in Elizabethan England, poet, lover, adventurer—and, after a transformational sleep, a woman. Spanning over 300 years of British history, Orlando bends the rules of time, gender, and narrative as its protagonist navigates shifting societies, identities, and expectations, all while seeking something elusive: the truth of the self. Playful, profound, and radically ahead of its time, Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel is part love letter, part satire, and part meditation on the fluid nature of existence.

From the author of the #1 international bestseller Gomorrah comes an electrifying investigation of the international cocaine trade, as vicious as it is powerful, and its hidden role in the global economy In many countries, “000” flour is the finest on the market. It is hard to find, but it...

Il giorno in cui lascia il collegio londinese nel quale ha studiato, Claire Marshall è felicissima: non vede l’ora di tornare nel Derbyshire per riabbracciare il padre, al quale è legata da un profondo affetto. Il destino, però, ha in serbo per lei due eventi non proprio piacevoli: l’incontro, o meglio lo scontro, con Lord Braxton Cornwell, che ha da poco ereditato il titolo di duca di Woburn, e la scoperta che suo padre, vedovo da tempo, si è risposato all’improvviso con una perfetta sconosciuta, anche lei vedova e con una figlia di diciassette anni.

«Tutto ha inizio con due gemelli che una madre disperata è costretta ad affidare alla nonna, lontano da una grande città dove cadono le bombe e manca il cibo. La nonna è una "vecchia strega" sporca, avara e senza cuore e i due gemelli, indivisibili e intercambiabili quasi avessero un'anima sola, sono due piccoli maghi dalla prodigiosa intelligenza.

Grimbold Drake, influential patriarch of the Drake family, revels in his solitary life of order - a life which is thrown into chaos when his son pays him an unexpected visit, bringing with him a broken but gorgeous young man more than a millennium Grimbold’s junior. A man Grimbold instantly finds himself yearning to fix, protect, and claim.

Grim Wolds, England: Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect governess—she’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But long, listless days spent within the estate’s dreary confines come with an intimate knowledge of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family—Mr. Pounds can’t keep his eyes off Winifred’s chest, and Mrs. Pounds takes a sickly pleasure in punishing Winifred for her husband’s wandering gaze.

Gray Smythe has been the unchallenged leader of their group of friends for years. Stoic and determined, he's managed to be there for them all through some crazy shit. But when Robbie, the only girl in their group, gets into a car accident, the line between friendship and lover suddenly gets a hell of a lot thinner.

Based on two lectures Woolf delivered at the University of Cambridge, A Room of One’s Own compellingly argues for women’s intellectual freedom and the importance of financial independence. It is still considered one of the most powerful pieces of feminist writing to this day. Published in 1929, A Room of One’s Own asserts a simple message: in order for women to reach their full creative potential, they must have their own money and space with which to do it with.

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. Here, Virginia Woolf perfected the interior monologue and the novel's lyricism and accessibility have made it one of her most popular works.

Kyran Loyal is the last heir to the lost throne of a forgotten planet, the figurehead of a nomadic people fleeing the galactic tyranny of a brutal regime. Davia Sifane is the unrecognized daughter of an imperial despot. When happenstance pits them against each other in battle, neither expects the outcome: they are the only two people to survive. Marooned on a barren moon, their only hope of survival is to rely on each other, but what they learn will either kill them or change the galaxy forever.

La última novela de George March es un gran éxito, y nadie se enorgullece tanto de ello como su devota esposa, la señora March, que lleva una vida exquisitamente ordenada en el Upper East Side. Una mañana cualquiera, mientras se dispone a comprar el pan de aceitunas en su pastelería favorita, la dependienta insinúa que la protagonista del nuevo libro de George parece inspirada en ella.

Adorably naive and shockingly brilliant Harrison Lessardi only needs two things in life: his pet iguana, Steve, and his undying love of science. That is until he witnesses his best friend lay eggs, and a third must-have strolls into his apartment - the sardonic and mischievous Everard Drake. Everard Drake, celebrated doctor of the tremendously wealthy Drake family, has one goal in mind when he arrives at the scene of his youngest brother’s latest disaster: incinerate Harrison Lessardi.

Never Wager with a Wallflower is the third and final delightful installment in the Merriwell Sister's Regency rom-com series. Miss Venus Merriwell has been waiting for her prince to come since the tender age of fourteen. She wants a man who is selfless, academic like her, and free from all the...

Hamburg 1962. Der Star-Club öffnet seine Pforten als eine Beatband aus Liverpool, bestehend aus John, Paul, George und Pete, von sich reden macht. Aufsehen erregt der neue Beat und der freche Lebensstil der vier Pilzköpfe. In allernächster Umgebung tummelt sich die Mädchenband She Bees,deren Gitarristin Tina sich in John verliebt hat. Als ein Star-Club-Kellner ermordet wird und die Kriminalpolizei ermittelt, wird es richtig mulmig. Johns Verhaftung kann nicht verhindert werden, die beiden Bands verstricken sich im Reeperbahngeflecht. Es geht um Opium, um die Chinesenmafia, um Geldschiebereien. Wann schlägt der Serienkiller wieder zu?

FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M...

Was der französische Meisterkoch und Amateurdetektiv Jacques Pistoux auf seinen Reisen durch Europa erlebt, passt auf keine kriminalistische Speisekarte. Unsere Empfehlung zum heutigen Verbrechensmenü: ein englisches Landhaus voller Leichen, Jahrgang 1876, mit anstößiger Note und fanatischem Abgang!

Zu schlau'n'schlank für ein bestimmtes Geschlecht? - Virginia Woolfs "Orlando" geistert durch vier Jahrhunderte. Mal als Mann, mal als Frau mischt er/sie historische Genderrollen auf und ist dabei doch immer dicht beim alten Shakespeare. Orlandos epische Zeit- und Weltreise, nimmt uns mit auf eine furiose Achterbahnfahrt der Gefühle. So wild die Kapriolen und so amüsant die Hakenschläge auch sein mögen, sind sie doch unerschütterlich durchtränkt von echt britischem Humor. Orlando, das ist Verführung pur.

Sebastian Drake, stoic protector of the Drake family, always gets what he wants - and there is nothing he wants more than the half-starved Pedigree omega named Peregrine he comes across on his travels. It doesn’t matter that Peregrine is a disgrace. Sebastian will do whatever it takes to keep him...and somehow, as impossible as it might be, find a way to be his mate.

Un mercoledì di metà giugno del 1923, Clarissa Dalloway esce per comprare dei fiori per la festa che si terrà la sera. Rivedrà Peter Walsh, l'amante respinto appena tornato dall'India, e l'amica tanto amata, Sally Seton. Per le strade di Londra passeggia anche Septimus Warren Smith, veterano della Prima guerra mondiale. Nulla sembra legarli, eppure i due, senza mai incontrarsi, comunicano.

As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge, but will find that his unique position as a woman who knows what it is to be a man will give him insight into matters of the heart.