Risultati Editore "Audible Studios" in Letteratura e fiction

Eugene Debs Hartke describes an odyssey from college professor to prison inmate to prison warden back again to prisoner in another of Vonnegut's bitter satirical explorations of how and where (and why) the American dream begins to die. Employing his characteristic narrative device - a retrospective diary in which the protagonist retraces his life at its end, a desperate and disconnected series of events here in Hocus Pocus show Vonnegut with his mask off and his rhetorical devices unshielded.

"Questa è la storia di Giulia, della bionda e della loro decisione di avere un bambino e di mettere su famiglia. Giulia e la bionda sono pronte. Ma il mondo è pronto per loro? E il loro futuro bambino, che le aspetta su un isolotto magico al largo del quale Giulia passa ogni tanto per dirgli "Aspettaci! Stiamo arrivando!" riuscirà a traslocare dal mondo dell'immaginazione a quello della realtà?Questa è la storia, vera, di un amore, di una maternità e di una famiglia. Non è vero che tutte le famiglie felici sono uguali."

Filippo è un aspirante attore romagnolo, trentenne, che vive a Milano e i cui sogni di gloria si scontrano quotidianamente con una realtà fatta di pubblicità di infissi e di richieste imbarazzanti da parte del suo agente. Tra aperitivi, amici, storie occasionali e delusioni amorose, vive in attesa del suo momento. Si muove in una Milano sonnacchiosa e inedita, tra i bar di Lambrate, dove vive, le improbabili suggestioni di Ricky, il suo agente, e le feste a casa di Marchino, ex collega all'Accademia e amico che, contrariamente a lui, ha avuto successo.

"Quello che so è che mi chiamo Piedimonte. Di più, non posso garantire." Stefano Piedimonte, scrittore napoletano trapiantato a Milano tra molto alterne fortune, si è ridotto così, steso sul letto nel suo monolocale di periferia, a dubitare del proprio passato, del proprio presente e della propria stessa identità, in compagnia di un cucciolo di bassotto forse immaginario. Come può essere successo? C'entra uno studente universitario che per un esame ha ricevuto il compito di compilare la voce Stefano Piedimonte su Wikipedia.

From the author, whom The Times called 'a comic genius' and ' an old master of farce', are eleven further stories featuring such eccentric characters as Freddie Widgeon, Cyril (Barmy) Fotheringay Phipps, Percy Wimbolt and Pongo.

I had an uncle who left his hometown and the family business there to become a fine actor. His talent was a minor one, but a pretty one. It lasted for 15 years and was gone. He came home with the ashes of it and died 20 years later, poor and, as it happened, drunk.

From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of "the sisterhood of women". She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes, and marked out for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, veteran of the Civil War, with rigid views concerning society and women's place therein. Is the lovely, lighthearted Verena made for public movements or private passions?

A Signature Performance: Four-time Emmy Award winner David Hyde Pierce delivers an air of lovable self-importance in his rendition of the classic social satire that remains as fresh today as the day it was published.

Il Generale, Mario Castelli, è stato alla guida di un'azienda, ha avuto una bella famiglia, ha avuto molto dalla vita. Ora non ha più niente. La sua è stata una discesa veloce, inarrestabile, provocata da un imprevedibile tradimento. Dopo la galera, scivolare in basso è stato più facile di quanto potesse immaginare. Ora vive insieme ad altre creature notturne negli anfratti dei senzatetto, dei disperati, dei barboni. Eppure, anche lì, gli uomini e le donne con cui divide la nuova condizione di dropout gli riconoscono la naturale autorevolezza di chi sa come ci si muove nel mondo.

Despite the title, Dickens's portrayal of early industrial society is less relentlessly grim than that in novels by contemporaries such as Elizabeth Gaskell or Charles Kingsley. Hard Times weaves the tale of Thomas Gradgrind, a hard-headed politician who raises his children Louisa and Tom without love and to have no empathy, their lives completely devoid of beauty, culture, or imagination. Only after a series of crises does their father realise that the manner in which he raised his children has ruined their lives.

Questa novella a metà tra la satira sociale e l'allegoria amara, descrive una popolazione ridotta a uno stato di sonnambulismo che si scoprirà essere indotto dal governo per accrescere il PIL nazionale.

The peaceful slumber of the Worcester village of Rudge-in-the-Vale is about to be rudely disrupted. First there's a bitter feud between peppery Colonel Wyvern and the Squire of Rudge Hall, rich but miserly Lester Carmody. Second, that arch-villain Chimp Twist has opened a health farm - and he and Soapy and Dolly Molloy are planning a fake burglary so Lester can diddle his insurance company.

The house-party at Chateau Blissac, Brittany features a rather odd array of guests this year. Mr. J. Wellington Gedge is hoping for some peace and quiet while his wife takes herself off for a while. She, however, has invited numerous visitors to the chateau, to whom he will have to play reluctant host. Senator Opal and his daughter are expected, and so is the chateau's handsome owner Vicomte de Blissac.

The corridor of the Fine Arts Building was deserted, save for two figures at the far end, two men approaching slowly. Rose was about to go into the classroom, where she'd left her purse, when she saw a sign on the door - a crude sign in pencil, on a ragged sheet of paper. "Collapse of Western Civilization - Dr. Norbert Beilstein," it said. "Visitors welcome."

Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was 84 and she was 36. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside. Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must put aside a lifetime of feuding to save their émigré engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina.

In the bar-parlour of the Angler’s Rest, Mr Mulliner tells his amazing tales, which hold the assembled company of Pints of Stout and Whiskies and Splash in the palm of his expressive hand. Here you can discover what happened to The Man Who Gave Up Smoking, share a frisson when the butler delivers Something Squishy on a silver salver (‘your serpent, Sir,’ said the voice of Simmons) – and experience the dreadful Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court.

His year in Hollywood completed, Monty leaves behind his heartbroken secretary and arrives in London to claim the hand of hockey international, Gertrude Butterwick. But the Bodkin road to happiness is arduous, and pitfalled through and through.

Walsingford Hall belongs to Sir Buckstone, who is in a little financial difficulty. So for a little monetary help he puts a roof over the heads of an odd assortment of people.

Walter Starbuck, a career humanist and eventual low-level aide in the Nixon White House, is implicated in Watergate and jailed, after which he (like Howard Campbell in Mother Night) works on his memoirs. Starbuck is innocent (his office was used as a base for the Watergate shenanigans of which he had no knowledge), and yet he is not innocent (he has collaborated with power unquestioningly and served societal order all his life). He represents another Vonnegut Everyman caught amongst forces he neither understands nor can defend.

In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too-human journey through life. This is a work that resonates with Vonnegut's singular voice: the magic sound of a born storyteller mesmerizing us with truth.