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Hidden between distant cliffs, in some remote place visited by wolf hunters, bandits, ambushers, Carlists, sorceresses, maquis, rally drivers, ghosts, beasts and demons, the Clavell farmhouse clings to the earth like a tick. It is a house inhabited by women, and where a single day contains centuries of memories. Those of Joana, who made a pact to find a husband that inaugurated an apparently cursed progeny. Those of Bernadeta, whose eyelashes ...

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A comparative and historical perspective, a synthesis of his research on economic inequalities, this accurate text by Thomas Piketty analyzes issues such as education, inheritance, taxation and the persistent gender gap, while stressing the need to drastically reduce the North-South imbalances as a condition to fight against global warming. Faced with hopelessness and conformism, the author reminds us that the road to equality has always been ...

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The Aeneid narrates the adventures of Aeneas, the prince of the Dardani, the son of Anchises and the goddess Venus. When Troy, his hometown, bursts into flames he is forced to flee and embark on a journey that will eventually take him to Hesperia, ancient Italy. But until reaching this point, seven long years pass full of adventures: before Polidoro, against the terrible harpies, with Dido, through Avernus with the Sibyl... and always at the m...

In the eight stories of First Love, Last Rites, depravity can masquerade as innocence and butterflies can be sinister. The author is equally capable of showing how the life of a child is devastated by the macabre and of distilling the sensations of first love, tracing his initiation rituals, infusing them with a luxurious sensual imagery. Combining the unusual and the provocative, tenderness and icy humor, Ian McEwan reveals the hidden face of...

Is the novel important? Why and for whom?" Karl Ove Knausgård asks himself in this speech, delivered in London in October 2022. His answer is a complete defense of the novel as the only thing capable of capturing life as it is: as something always open, changing, traversed by multiple conflicting and contradictory energies. In dialogue with the ideas of D. H. Lawrence, Knut Hamsun and other authors, Knausgård achieves here an extraordinary pie...

Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are two farming brothers. Both are now old, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to manage the land alone, so they decide to adopt a boy who can help them. However, someone makes a mistake and from the orphanage it is not who they expect but Ana, an eleven-year-old girl, who arrives. Redhead, with a face covered in freckles and a lot of character, her inexhaustible imagination and vitality will have to conquer...

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Twelve stories that stage the mastery of Conan Doyle raising mysterious cases in a few pages. In the first of them, Sherlock Holmes will face Irene Adler, the only woman who has stood up to him, in the famous "Scandal in Bohemia", he will also be forced to follow the risky adventure of "The League of Redheads" and of course, he will end up finding the true culprits of the strange "identity case" or the "Boscombe Valley mystery"... All this wit...

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When she was eleven years old, Lea Ypi witnessed the end of the world. At least from the end of a world. In 1990, the communist regime in Albania, the last bastion of Stalinism in Europe, collapsed. She, indoctrinated at school, did not understand why the statues of Stalin and Hoxha were being torn down, but with the monuments, secrets, and silences also fell: the population control mechanisms were revealed, the murders of the secret police......

The kiss is the image that, perhaps more than any other, encompasses the beauty and poetry of love. Every love is required to maintain the kiss, to make it last. When they kiss, lovers carve out their hiding holes, finding their peace from war. When they kiss, the noise of the world is silenced, its laws broken, time is stolen from its normal continuity. They fall together in their distinct, embraced tongues. The kiss joins the tongue that dec...

When Emile Maugin, a famous veteran actor, discovers that a heart problem seriously threatens his health, he decides to reflect on his life. Arrogant, brusque, and cynical, yet at heart generous, he reigns as a tyrant over the small group of devoted subjects who surround him, including Alice, his very young second wife. The fear of death, however, looms over him inevitably and leads him to dream of making an old aspiration of his first wife co...