"Parliamoci chiaro, ero un barbone, quello ero, niente di più e niente di meno, ma lui non se ne era preoccupato tanto, non si era fermato a quello che sembravo, ma si era soffermato su quello che ero veramente. [...] Eravamo così simili eppure irrimediabilmente diversi."
Libro di culto per intere generazioni, infallibile manuale del gusto e del costume dei "ruggenti" anni Venti americani, Il grande Gatsby é il capolavoro indiscusso di uno dei più importanti scrittori statunitensi del Novecento. Francis Scott Fitzgerald era parte integrante, col suo carico di difficoltà e di tragedie...
I N R E V I S I O N E «Una volta entrati nella Città di Fumo, non c'è modo di andarsene». Scappare di casa spesso porta a situazioni pericolose, e questo, la diciannovenne Selena Parker, lo sa bene; l'essere disperati e sull'orlo di una crisi fa compiere azioni avventate, che, in situazioni normali, mai sarebbero...
The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertf...
Emma Woodhouse, aged 20 at the start of the novel, is a young, beautiful, witty, and privileged woman in Regency England. She lives on the fictional estate of Hartfield in Surrey in the village of Highbury with her elderly widowed father, a hypochondriac who is excessively concerned for the health and safety of his lo...
On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about six years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother, father, and siblings. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles, from the home he shares with his abusive olde...
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is...
Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak.