Titoli in Romanzo di formazione

Insoddisfazione, apatia, frustrazione. Sono sensazioni che proviamo ogni giorno, bloccati nelle nostre vite vissute a metà. Fortunatamente però, la forza di reagire insita nell'essere umano è l'impulso che ci consente di andare avanti, ed è lo stesso che permette a Max, il protagonista di questa storia, di affrontare il suo malessere. Il destino però, è cosa nota, riserva sempre delle sorprese ed una semplice passeggiata in montagna può trasformarsi in un'avventura inaspettata.

Fiver could sense danger. Something terrible was going to happen to the warren; he felt sure of it. They had to leave immediately. So begins a long and perilous journey of survival for a small band of rabbits. As the rabbits skirt danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band, its humorous characters, and its compelling culture, complete with its own folk history and mythos. Fiver’s vision finally leads them to Watership Down, an upland meadow. But here they face their most difficult challenges of all.

Brought to you by Penguin. The haunting love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar. When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student...

Sicilia, anni Sessanta. Tresa è una bambina di undici anni a cui la famiglia sembra non riconoscere un'identità autonoma rispetto al gemello Gero. Al momento della partenza del padre, che si trasferisce all'estero in cerca di lavoro, i due fratelli vengono affidati a una zia materna. Ed è qui, sotto l'ala protettiva di una donna fiera e misteriosa, che Tresa inizia finalmente a scoprire la propria intima natura. Non solo quella di persona, ma anche, e soprattutto, quella di donna.

The second born son in a broken marriage, Joey Lynch has spent a lifetime picking up the pieces of a family unraveling. When his older brother Darren skips town on his first day of secondary school, twelve-year-old Joey finds himself thrown into the role of protector to his younger siblings and mother. Plagued by self-loathing, and furious with the world, he grapples with teenage life, his unwavering sense of duty to his family, while balancing precariously close to a life of addiction that threatens to swallow him whole.

Luc O'Donnell is tangentially - and reluctantly - famous. His rock-star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next 20 years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye, and one compromising photo is enough to ruin everything. To clean up his image, Luc has to find a nice normal relationship...and Oliver Blackwood is as nice and normal as they come. He's a barrister, an ethical vegetarian, and someone who has never inspired a moment of scandal in his life. He’s perfect boyfriend material.

Vittorio ha poco più di quarant'anni e per lavoro commenta notizie curiose su un quotidiano nazionale: un giorno scrive di granchi che scappano dai loro acquari, un altro di ricerche secondo cui l'universo odora di pancetta abbrustolita, o di piedi, o di lampone. Quando arriva, la pandemia lo prende in contropiede e in un attimo accartoccia la sua vita, proprio come succede a milioni di persone intorno a lui. Da un giorno all'altro Vittorio si ritrova a fare i conti con una realtà inaudita e il suo universo finisce per coincidere a poco a poco con i confini del condominio.

The Saint of War spares the life of a servant girl so she can fulfill her destiny as the kingdom’s greatest warrior in this short story of love and loyalty by New York Times bestselling author Alix E. Harrow.

Questo romanzo di Gustave Flaubert, fu scritto dal 1864 al 1869. Il progetto del romanzo prevedeva un lavoro a metà strada fra il romanzo sentimentale e quello dei costumi parigini, per fornire al lettore un quadro sulla storia morale della sua generazione.[1] La critica moderna inserisce questo romanzo tra gli esempi più convincenti del romanzo ottocentesco,[1] sottolineando lo stile fluido, le novità tecniche e grammaticali che lo hanno contraddistinto.Cornice musicale: Funerale di una marionetta, di Gounod.

To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live. It was the children who saw - and felt - what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers...

Cinque racconti come un romanzo sul male di vivere. Infanzia e memoria, sentimento e comprensione sulle storie atroci e dolcissime di bambini soli e molto infelici. È un libro che accompagna alla maturità del sentire, alla rivelazione di una verità e alla possibile rinascita.

Thomas Hart e Grace Macaulay sono spiriti affini, divisi tra l'impegno religioso e il desiderio di esplorare il mondo al di là della loro piccola comunità battista. Quando un evento incrina la loro amicizia, allontanandoli, Thomas inizia a sviluppare un'ossessione per un’astronoma scomparsa nel XIX secolo e Grace fugge da Aldleigh per raggiungere Londra e un’esistenza che immagina più indipendente, più libera.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST ...

Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may—or may not—be a witch. A single mother at that. Sure, she fits in with her starched dresses, string of pearls, and floral aprons. Then there are the hushed and mystical consultations with neighborhood women in distress. The unsavory, mysterious plants in the flower beds. The divined warning to steer clear of a boyfriend whose fate is certainly doomed.

In the first of an extraordinary series from bestseller S.J.A. Turney, the fate of Empire hangs in the balance… Istanbul, 1481: The once great city of Constantine, a strange mix of Christians, Turks and Jews, now forms the heart of the Ottoman empire. The conquest, still a recent memory, means...

A trio of dramas based on Henry Green’s most notable novels Born Henry Yorke, aristocrat and industrialist Henry Green led a double life as a managing director of an engineering firm and one of the finest English modernists of the 20th century. A contemporary and friend of Evelyn Waugh and...

'A gorgeous cat's cradle of a book . . . The swirling vapors of Holden Caulfield are present in Playworld, for sure, but also Lolita, Willy Loman, Garp.' Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review 'Extraordinary . . . A beguiling ode to a lost era . . . Line for line the book is a...

Set in 1960s New York, this piquant coming-of-age story concerns a teenage girl, Queenie, raised to become a "kept woman" in an exceedingly comfortable and well-adjusted - yet insular and retrograde - household. After enrolling in college, Queenie confronts new understandings, both personal and political, and gradually becomes cognizant of the dated values imparted upon her.

A confused and conflicted but not altogether angry young man shares his observations, disappointments, rants, and sexual desires in a revealing series of letters to an unnamed friend. Our hero wants to be a writer, but is stuck doing mind-numbing work for an unscrupulous encyclopedia publisher. He muddles through two engagements, one to a bright-eyed Catholic virgin, the other to a woman pregnant with another man’s child.

Late summer near Dublin, 1920, and up at the great house there are still cucumber sandwiches for tea. Slipping away from Aunt Mary and dotty Grandfather, 18-year-old Nancy has escaped down to the shore to dream in the beach hut - longing for her life to begin.