Titoli in Letteratura mondiale

In un villaggio sardo, Efix, servitore delle dame Pintor, combatte con la sua fragilità umana per riuscire a riportare la felicità e il benessere nella casa delle sue padrone. Un romanzo commovente dal sapore antico, ma che racconta tanto delle paure della società moderna.

Arthur Miller’s most famous play, Death of a Salesman, has become a key text in Western literature. This unusually powerful recording, made for radio in 1953, was directed by Elia Kazan who premiered the play. It features Thomas Mitchell and Arthur Kennedy as father and son. Willy, a travelling salesman, based in New York, relentlessly chases material success.

Dopo il successo di Nebula, questa seconda antologia di racconti di fantascienza cinese dal titolo Sinosfera raccoglie altre cinque storie di autori e autrici che in Cina rappresentano le migliori voci della narrativa di genere.

La realizzazione di questa Commedia di Dante si deve al contributo appassionato di diversi attori:Ivano Marescotti ha prestato la sua voce profonda...

Brought to you by Penguin. *NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES STARRING FLORENCE PUGH* 'There is only one book to a man,' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden, his most ambitious novel. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the intertwined...

"Lavorare stanca" (nell'edizione del '36, con le poesie aggiunte nel '43 e le altre non raccolte), "La terra e la morte", "Due poesie a T.", "Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi": le composizioni piú conosciute accanto a quelle meno note, qui riunite sotto i titoli di Prima di "Lavorare stanca" e "Estravaganti scelte".

A once-in-a-generation debut from a major new talent, The Names is the story of three names, three versions of a life, and the infinite possibilities that a single decision can spark. THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2026 'I've just...

Un enigmatico viaggio in una Sicilia settecentesca accecante e favolosa. Una quête impossibile che è a un tempo ricerca e negazione del mondo. Al ritmo dei loro racconti si rianima un universo che pareva scomparso e che ricorda ora il tono della grande memorialistica settecentesca, ora quello della divagazione favolosa.

"Desconcertante, lista a inquietar a la crítica, está ya en los escaparates la primera novela de Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo, que transcurre en una serie de transposiciones oníricas, ahondando más allá de la muerte de sus personajes, que uno no sabe en qué momento son sueño, vida, fábula, verdad, pero a los que se les oye la voz al través de la perspicacia despiadada y certera de tan sin duda extraordinario escritor". Con estas palabras iniciaba Edmundo Valdés la primera reseña de Pedro Páramo, aparecida el 30 de marzo de 1955 y conservada por Juan Rulfo entre sus papeles.

Magic is in the air at San Salvatore. At least, Lotty Wilkins seems to think so. Tired of living in the shadow of her perfectly proper solicitor husband and desperate for some alone time, she recruits a new friend to join her in renting a small Italian castle for the month of April. Rose...

In 1846, a young bride arrives at Dunmara as the Great Famine tightens its grip on Ireland. Evelyne Reid quickly learns that her marriage is nothing more than a debt repaid, and that her husband, Lord Reid, is as cold and merciless as the hunger stalking his tenants. Powerless by law, Evelyne...

For generations, the patriarchy held everyone in a tight fist, but after a mysterious virus devolved society’s worst into literal monsters, women and marginalized communities have been freed of its clutches. This could be a world where people can hold their heads high, speak their minds, wear whatever they want, and most of all, hope for a better future—one where violence is no longer normalized. This could be a world where the infected learn from their actions now that they're wearing the consequences in the curve of their spines, the set of their jaws. But who is Delilah without violence?

When a body is found in a hot-spring town, dead from hydrogen sulfide poisoning, geochemist Shusuke Aoe is brought in by the police to investigate. The death is written off as an accident, but something doesn’t add up, and at the scene, Shusuke comes across a young woman searching for her...

Sumérgete en las escalofriantes profundidades del terror latino con Lo que nos siguió a casa, editada por la ganadora del Premio Bram Stoker Cynthia Pelayo, una antología revolucionaria en la que cada historia reinventa la inmigración, la colonización, la fe y el folclore como los miedos...

Brimming with his signature warmth and wisdom, the Booker Prize–winning author of Time Shelter returns with a brilliant new collection of stories. Written over three decades, The Man with Many Names gathers the best of renowned author Georgi Gospodinov’s short fiction into a single new volume. Exhibiting the author at his most playful and profound, the collection captures the peculiarities of existence across forty-one tales set in and around his beloved Bulgaria: In “A Second Story,” strangers pass their time on a train through the Balkans telling stories only to be lost in translation.

A ragtag group of activists plan a mission to repatriate the bones of a Blackfeet boy who was sent to the infamous Carlisle Indian Industrial School in author Stephen Graham Jones's return to the Blackfeet reservation of his award-winning New York Times bestsellers The Only Good Indians and The...

A haunting gathering of classic Japanese tales of monsters and demons, yōkai and oni and yūrei, that live on in popular manga, anime, J-horror films, and video games A Penguin Classic Flesh-eating oni demons, kappa water sprites, shapeshifting kitsune foxes, vengeful yūrei ghosts, and other...

A ragtag group of activists sets out to repatriate the bones of a Blackfeet boy taken to the infamous Carlisle Indian Industrial School in author Stephen Graham Jones’s return to the Blackfeet reservation of his award-winning New York Times bestsellers The Only Good Indians and The Buffalo...

The debut novel by one of the bestselling Never Whistle at Night’s most memorable contributors, in which, after a young Anishinaabe woman vanishes, her sister tries to pick up the pieces of her broken family, even as her investigations put her at risk of suffering a similar fate. Middle Sister...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "Full of tenderness and delirium, moving between suburban realism and fairy tale." —Mariana Enríquez "A darkly enchanted expedition into the eviscerating oblivion of motherhood. de Fez writes with her sharpest knife." —Rachel Yoder "An eldritch Pedro Almodóvar...