Risultati per "bambini" in Letteratura mondiale

È il 1946 quando Amerigo lascia il suo rione di Napoli e sale su un treno. Assieme a migliaia di altri bambini meridionali attraverserà l'intera penisola e trascorrerà alcuni mesi in una famiglia del Nord; un'iniziativa del Partito comunista per strappare i piccoli alla miseria dopo l'ultimo conflitto. Con lo stupore dei suoi sette anni e il piglio furbo di un bambino dei vicoli, Amerigo ci mostra un'Italia che si rialza dalla guerra come se la vedessimo per la prima volta. E ci affida la storia commovente di una separazione.

Un romanzo autobiografico, delicato e pieno di ironia, che racconta gli anni della Seconda guerra mondiale visti dagli occhi di una bambina ebrea. Trasferitasi da Torino a Roma, la piccola viene nascosta in un convento cattolico per sfuggire alla deportazione. Qui la sua identità religiosa vacilla e il rapporto con la madre si fa difficile. Ma sarà proprio lei, a guerra terminata, a dire alla figlia: non sei una bambina ebrea, sei una bambina e basta.

A New York una famiglia chiude casa e si mette in macchina verso il sudovest del Paese. Il padre vuole raggiungere i monti dove vivevano gli apache, gli ultimi ad arrendersi, la madre vuole documentare l'emergenza dei bambini migranti. Con i due figli attraversano deserti e montagne, fermandosi in diner e motel lungo la strada. Nello stesso momento, migliaia di bambini sono in marcia verso il nord, senza mappe né passaporti, solo un numero di telefono cucito nel colletto. Non tutti riusciranno ad arrivare.

For a century Bram Stoker's Dracula has reigned supreme as the undisputed masterpiece of horror writing. We have all grown up under the shadow of the elegant Count, at once an attractive, brutal, and erotic creature of the night. A skilled and imaginative cast, including Brian Cox as Van Helsing and Heathcote Williams as Dracula, brings this classic horror story to life!

This is a story from the The Happy Prince and Other Stories collection.

This is a story from the The Happy Prince and Other Stories collection.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the comic masterpiece of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who trained as a river-boat pilot (from which experience he took his pen-name, Mark Twain). His most famous book describes a boy's journey down the Mississippi aboard a raft with the runaway black slave Jim.

È il 1939 e siamo in una placida cittadina cecoslovacca adagiata sulle rive di un fiume. Margit e János sono cresciuti pattinando sul ghiaccio e correndo nei boschi, dipingendo con la madre e ascoltando jazz col padre. Ma il giorno in cui i tedeschi invadono Praga, la loro vita cambia per sempre. Hanno appena undici e sette anni e, come tanti bambini ebrei, sono costretti a diventare adulti da un giorno all'altro. Le parate naziste e le svastiche che compaiono sulla bottega del padre sono solo la prima avvisaglia: nel giro di qualche stagione cominciano i rastrellamenti.

The complete "box set" of T. H. White's epic fantasy novel of the Arthurian legend. The novel is made up of five parts: "The Sword in the Stone", "The Witch in the Wood", "The Ill-Made Knight", "The Candle in the Wind", and "The Book of Merlyn".

Robinson Crusoe, the first English novel, was an immediate success when first published in 1719, and has been an internationally popular classic ever since. The compelling tale of a man who put to sea in search of adventure and found himself shipwrecked on a desert island and alone for decades has become a resonant modern myth.

This is a story from the The Happy Prince and Other Stories collection.

The gothic tale of Frankenstein and his construction of a human being who runs amok has, with the help of numerous films, become one of the most vivid horror stories. But Mary Shelley's original novel, written in 1816, dealt more sympathetically with "the daemon," showing how an initially beneficent creature is hammered into a daemon by the way he is treated. Her ideas, and her dramatic but poignant story, is brought to life in this sound dramatization.

This is a story from the The Happy Prince and Other Stories collection.

This is a story from the The Happy Prince and Other Stories collection.

This is a story from the The Happy Prince and Other Stories collection.

In Wonderland, she encounters strange creatures like the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, and the Queen of Hearts, each more surreal than the last.

"The Christmas Tree and the Wedding" is a bittersweet story written in 1848, the year of revolutions throughout Europe. The story has an undercurrent reflecting the tumultuous changes of that year. The narrator, attending a Christmas party with the Christmas tree referenced in the title, sees the Guest of Honor take an undue interest in a young girl, the daughter of his host....

For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of readers and listeners. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon the conflict between good and evil - but in this case a particularly engaging form of evil.

'Young Adult Classics' is a new series from Naxos AudioBooks which aims to bring key works of literature to a young audience in abridged form. Lively, accessible readings with music is the key. Jane Eyre is the tale of a young governess who becomes entangled with the powerful Mr Rochester, finding mystery and uneasiness in his house.

This is the story of a boy's adventures growing up in a small town on the banks of the Mississippi river over 100 years ago. The cheerful, adventurous hero plays truant to form a pirate band and, together with his best friend, Huckleberry Finn, finds fun, excitement, and buried treasure along the shores of the great river.