Titoli in Epistolare

Up the Down Staircase is the funny and touching story of a committed, idealistic teacher whose clash with school bureaucracy is a timeless lesson for students, teachers, parents – anyone concerned about public education. Bel Kaufman lets her characters speak for themselves through memos, letters, directives from the principal, comments by students, notes between teachers, and papers from desk drawers and wastebaskets, evoking a vivid picture of teachers fighting the good fight against all that stands in the way of good teaching.

Set in middle America during the economic hard times of the Nixon era, this tragicomic, epistolary masterpiece chronicles everything Andrew Whittaker - literary journal editor, negligent landlord, and aspiring novelist - commits to paper over the course of four critical months. From his letters, diary entries, and fragments of fiction, to grocery lists and posted signs, we find our hero hounded by tenants and creditors, harassed by a loathsome local arts group, tormented by his ex-wife, and living on a diet of fried Spam, cupcakes, and Southern Comfort.

En kvinde forlader sin familie for at arbejde og stå på egne ben. I tolv breve til sin veninde fortæller hun om sine frihedsdrømme og sin sorg over at føle sig fanget i en snæver, ydmygende kvinderolle. Clara Raphael er et inderligt og radikalt manifest for en kvindes ret til at tænke. Romanen er Mathilde Fibigers debut, og den udkom til stor skandale i 1851.

Twenty-something Ruthie Cohen, a data entry minion for a second-tier movie app, spends her days thinking about the kickass meals she’s going to make for her besties, Trish and Lilly, while pining for Dean (sigh, Dean), her vacation fling from six months earlier. Could they have made it work in real life? On top of that, Bubbe Bobby Grace, Ruthie’s beloved and inspiring grandmother, passed away and left Ruthie an inheritance of $62,873.42, along with instructions on how to use it: “Follow your passion, Dollface.”

For readers of Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove, Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things, and Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl, Diane Smith’s warmhearted and award-winning epistolary novel about a spunky young woman who joins a makeshift field study in Yellowstone National Park at the end...

This program is read by Black Panther star, Chadwick Boseman "Baby, the first thing I need to know from you is do you believe I killed my father?" So begins Upstate, a powerful story told through letters between seventeen-year-old Antonio and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Natasha, set in the...

Brought to you by Penguin. Bridget Jones is mad about the boy – the gloriously funny and heartwarming million-copy bestseller, now a major film starring Renée Zellweger. What do you do when a girlfriend’s 60th birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend’s 30th? Is it morally wrong to...

La scoperta ci accarezza il cuore, è il filo che attraversa lo spazio e il tempo, le radici che ci tengono ben saldi alla terra. Quella che scopriamo in noi non è la madre che abbiamo avuto, ma la donna che è stata. Scrivere una lettera è quello di cui abbiamo tutti bisogno, a un certo punto. Per fare pace con la madre. Per riconoscerle il diritto di essere stata donna.

Ein Obstgarten, drei Frauen, elf Briefe. Die Geschichte einer großen Liebe Hannah hat ihr ganzes Leben in Berllan Deg, einem kleinen Ort in Wales, verbracht. Anders als ihre Schwester Sadie, ist sie nie aus ihrem Elternhaus ausgezogen, nicht einmal nach ihrer Hochzeit mit John. Sie ist in diesem Haus und dem dazugehörigen Obstgarten verwurzelt, behandelt die Bäume, als gehören sie zur Familie. Als ihr Mann stirbt, ist Hannah das erste Mal allein. John, einst Schriftsteller und Imker, der die Welt durch die Sprache der Bienen zu verstehen lernte, hat ihr elf Liebesbriefe hinterlassen.

Veteran authors Everett and Kincaid present an uproarious send-up of one of America's most controversial American icons. "[A]n outrageously funny satire of race relations and racism, US history, contemporary sexual mores and behavior, academia, and the publishing industry . . . It could become a...

In this improbably joyous novel about two recovering concentration camp survivors, love is the best medicine. July 1945. Miklos is a twenty-five-year-old Hungarian who has survived the camps and has been brought to Sweden to convalesce. His doctor has just given him a death sentence — his...

Jerusha Abbott, who much prefers to be called Judy, has received the offer of a lifetime: an anonymous benefactor has chosen to pay for her college education, in return for monthly letters. As a poor orphan with nothing of her own—even her name was chosen at random by the matron of the orphanage—this is the chance to choose her own future. Through heartfelt, witty, and honest correspondence, Judy discusses her friendships, classes, triumphs, and failures. Along the way, Judy also encounters a relationship that was entirely unexpected.

A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen Dewitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America’s “War on Terror,” countless years of literary history, authorial sleight of hand, Scientology, dream analysis, multiple languages, emails, images, graphs, into something wondrous and unique.

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN meets THE VEGETARIAN in this chilly and chilling epistolary novel of four characters locked in a frightening cycle of vengeance and comeuppance. Mira is a desperate young woman, hired by a wealthy single mother to tutor her lonesome son, Yuchan. But Mira is not who...

Penguin Classics presents Bram Stoker's Dracula, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actor Richard E. Grant. 'Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window' A...

When Rajaa Alsanea boldly chose to open up the hidden world of Saudi women—their private lives and their conflicts with the traditions of their culture—she caused a sensation across the Arab world. Now in English, Alsanea’s tale of the personal struggles of four young upper-class women...

"Just because the men have gone to war, why do we have to close the choir? And precisely when we need it most!" As England enters World War II's dark early days, spirited music professor Primrose Trent, recently arrived to the village of Chilbury, emboldens the women of the town to defy the...

It's April of 1997 in Erie, Pennsylvania, and an unsolved crime has just shattered Rosalyn's life. To cope with her heartache, she begins writing a series of private letters to Nova in her journal, where she confides a shameful secret about the night before it happened. In her anguish, Rosalyn recounts the recent dreams that still haunt her, recording them as poems, just as her grandmother had taught her as a young girl. But after she moves to New York City and her letters progress, Rosalyn begins to realize that her dreams are delivering her a series of clues.

Bittersüß und voller Charme: ein ebenso bewegender wie tiefgründiger Briefroman mit großen Themen und einer eigensinnigen Heldin. Adoptivtochter und Starjuristin, Gartenliebhaberin und Ehefrau, Mutter und mütterliche Freundin – die 73-jährige Sybil van Antwerp hatte schon viele Rollen inne in ihrem bewegten Leben. Eines hat sie dabei stets begleitet: ihre Leidenschaft fürs Briefeschreiben. Jeden Tag greift sie zu Füller und Papier und schreibt darüber, was sie bewegt und stört, was sie begeistert und betrauert.

Diary of Felicia Grace Porter is a compelling story told through the diary entries of Felicia, a motivational speaker facing the challenges of love and betrayal. As she prepares to move, Felicia grapples with her feelings for two very different men: her devoted partner, Vohn, and her passionate ex, Rashad. Through her intimate writings, we see Felicia's inner struggles as she deals with guilt and longing. Each diary entry reveals her emotional turmoil as she tries to make sense of her choices and their impact on her life and the lives of those she loves.