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Hace 5 días · Set during World War II and featuring Capt. John Yossarian, a B-25 bombardier, the novel presaged, in its black humor, its outraged intelligence, its blend of tragedy and farce, and its awareness...
Hace 2 días · poetry, novel 1917: Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857–1919) Denmark: Danish and German: 60 "for his varied and rich poetry, which is inspired by lofty ideals" poetry Henrik Pontoppidan (1857–1943) Denmark: Danish: 60 "for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark" novel 1918: Not awarded: 1919: Carl Spitteler (1845–1924 ...
Hace 4 días · A historical novel highlights the workers who built the Panama Canal. Cristina Henríquez’s ‘The Great Divide’ explores the violence, squalor and adventure that everyday people experienced as they...
Noble House is a novel by James Clavell, published in 1981 and set in Hong Kong in 1963. It is the fourth book published in Clavell's Asian Saga and is chronologically the fifth book in the series. The "Noble House" in the title is the nickname of Struan's, the trading company first introduced in Clavell's Tai-Pan.
Hace 3 días · The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway 's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan .
Hace 2 días · Dune is a 1965 epic science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials (1963-64 novel 'Dune World' and 1965 novel 'Prophet of Dune') in Analog magazine. It tied with Roger Zelazny 's This Immortal for the Hugo Award for Best Novel and won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1966.
Hace 5 días · Casa editrice. BUR. Un provinciale idealista vive a Pietroburgo della rendita di una tenuta dimenticata, nella piú assoluta inerzia fisica e psichica. In una camera coperta di ragnatele e di libri ingialliti giace nella sua «normale posizione» su un emblematico divano, dormendo e sognando, stanco e insensibile ai rumori della vita.