Ernst Sander Książki

Quando lo zio Horace, che sua sorella chiama solo "il vecchio libertino", è in fin di vita nella sua villa in Virginia, anche suo nipote Wilfred Ingram arriva per dirgli addio. Poco prima della morte, lo zio gli consegna un mazzo di lettere d'amore ingiallite e un pacchetto di titoli. Con il cugino Angus, Wilfred intrattiene appassionate conversazioni sulla religione, senza rendersi conto che Angus nasconde una passione ben diversa. Ma anche Wilfred non è così innocente come sembra. Nella cittadina dove lavora come venditore in un negozio di biancheria maschile, è perseguitato da un tipo losco che osserva le sue attività notturne. Mentre Wilfred si reca ogni notte da una donna diversa, la mattina successiva viene sempre colto dal rimorso, essendo un cattolico devoto. La sua conflittualità interiore aumenta quando si innamora di Phoebe, la bella moglie del suo parente James Knight. La lettera inequivocabile che le scrive viene intercettata dal marito, che finge di nulla. Ma perché mostra a Wilfred la pistola nel suo cassetto? Wilfred non sa ancora che morirà per il colpo di un altro, un misterioso inseguitore notturno di nome Max, che è sceso più in profondità nelle abissali oscurità del vizio e della coscienza rispetto a lui.

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Powieść irlandzkiego pisarza Oscara Wilde’a, Portret Doriana Graya, należy do ścisłego kanonu literatury pięknej. Wydana po raz pierwszy w 1890 roku, w epoce wiktoriańskiej, uważana jest za najwybitniejsze dzieło estetyzmu angielskiego. Oscar Wilde pyta w niej o kwestie nurtujące ówczesną epokę, ale jakże aktualne i dzisiaj, jak czym są sztuka, piękno, młodość i moralność. Portret Doriana jest powieścią fantastyczną, w której zdarzenia wyimaginowane przechodzą do świata rzeczywistego i są pretekstem do podkreślenia atrakcyjności intrygi i pogłębienia wymowy filozoficznej dzieła. Powieść Oscara Wilde’a wywołała w swoim czasie oburzenie i polemikę. Krytycy atakowali zwłaszcza postać głównego bohatera, Lorda Henry’ego – uosobienie hedonistycznego dandysa, wyznawcy dekadenckich obyczajów i wyrafinowanych przyjemności – często utożsamianego z samym autorem.Portret Doriana Graya stał się przedmiotem wielu adaptacji teatralnych i ekranizacji filmowych.Lektura dla szkół średnich

A devastating novel about the treachery of love by Maupassant, now in a new translation by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning poet and translator Richard Howard Olivier Bertin is at the height of his career as a painter. After making his name as a young man with his Cleopatra, he has gone on to establish himself as “the chosen painter of Parisiennes, the most adroit and ingenious artist to reveal their grace, their figures, and their souls.” And though his hair may be white, he remains a handsome, vigorous, and engaging bachelor, a prized guest at every table and salon. Olivier’s lover is Anne, the Countess de Guilleroy, the wife of a busy politician. Their relationship is long-standing, close, almost conjugal. The countess’s daughter is Annette, and she is the spitting image of her mother in her lovely youth. Having finished her schooling, Annette is returning to Paris. Her parents have put together an excellent match. Everything is as it should be—until the painter and countess are each seized by an agonizing suspicion, like death. . . . In its devastating depiction of the treacherous nature of love, Like Death is more than the equal of Swann’s Way. Richard Howard’s new translation brings out all the penetration and poetry of this masterpiece of nineteenth-century fiction.

All the world's an Xbox and you're a playerCandide is an optimist. A dreamer. He believes that everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. But that belief is about to be tested as Candide's comfortable life is overtaken by an endless barrage of misfortune.First published in 1759, the story traces the journey of a young man who leads a sheltered life, believing that mankind lives in the best of all possible worlds and that everything happens for the best. But Candide's happiness comes to a sharp end when he is unfairly evicted from his uncle's castle for kissing his cousin and true love, Lady Cunégonde. Cast out into the big wide world, Candide is forced to confront reality.As his world collapses around him, we are transported across the centuries to new locations and parallel universes. How will Candide's optimism fare when it collides with life in the twenty-first century?