Rossella Bernascone Książki

Cormac McCarthy’s award-winning, bestselling trio of novels chronicles the coming-of-age of two young men in the south west of America. John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, two cowboys of the old school, are poised on the edge of a world about to change forever. Their journeys across the border into Mexico, each an adventure fraught with fear and pain, mark a passage into adulthood, and eventual salvation. In All the Pretty Horses, young John Grady Cole, dispossessed by the sale of his family’s Texas ranch, heads across the border in search of the cowboy life, where he finds a job breaking horses, and a dangerously ill-fated romance. In The Crossing, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a wolf that has been marauding his family’s ranch and, instead of killing it, decides to take it on a perilous journey home to the mountains of Mexico.These two drifters come together years later in Cities of the Plain, a magnificent tale of friendship and passion. In the vanishing world of the Old West, blood and violence are conditions of life. Beautiful and brutal, filled with sorrow and humour, The Border Trilogy is both an epic love story and a fierce elegy for the American frontier.

When Greg Heffley and his family hit the road for a cross-country camping trip, they're ready for the adventure of a lifetime. But their plans hit a major snag, and they find themselves stranded at a campsite that's not exactly a summertime paradise

Kolejny tom bestsellerowej serii! Gregowi Heffleyowi zawsze okropnie się spieszyło do tego całego dojrzewania. Dobra, ale czy dojrzałość naprawdę ma jakiś sens? Raz że dziewczyny robią się nie do zniesienia, a dwa że Rowley, najlepszy kumpel Grega, jak zwykle kompletnie nie jest w temacie. Co gorsza, on chyba nigdy nie zrozumie, o co chodzi w byciu nastolatkiem. No i taka jest właśnie przykra prawda. To książka dla twoich dzieci, jeżeli lubią czytać... a zwłaszcza jeżeli nie lubią.

DRUGA CZĘŚĆ TRYLOGII POGRANICZA Południowy zachód Stanów Zjednoczonych. Lata II wojny światowej. Billy Parham, nastoletni kowboj, trzykrotnie przeprawia się do Meksyku. Za każdym razem cel jest inny: polowanie na wilczycę, pościg za koniokradami, poszukiwanie zaginionego brata. Przeprawa to jednak nie tylko przekroczenie granicy między dwoma krajami. To także duchowa transgresja, wkroczenie w dorosłość, przekroczenie granicy życia i śmierci. Ta przepiękna westernowa opowieść jest zarazem przesyconą melancholią powieścią o dojrzewaniu, utracie niewinności,zdobyciu mądrości i odwagi. Cormac McCarthy, amerykański pisarz, dramaturg, ur. 1933. Uważany za jednego z najwybitniejszych współczesnych pisarzy amerykańskich (obok Thomasa Pynchona, Dona DeLillo i Philipa Rotha), porównywany także z Faulknerem i Melvillem.� Podobnie jak T. Pynchon strzeże swojej prywatności, prawie w ogóle nie udziela wywiadów, nie kontaktuje się z czytelnikami, postać bardzo tajemnicza, a przez to – wyjątkowa.

Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family’s mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his people: loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan. There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in “the land of trees,” where his descendents became a separate Nova Scotia clan. There is the team of brothers and cousins, expert miners in demand around the world for their dangerous skills. And there is Alexander and his twin sister, who have left Cape Breton and prospered, yet are haunted by the past. Elegiac, hypnotic, by turns joyful and sad, No Great Mischief is a spellbinding story of family, loyalty, exile, and of the blood ties that bind us, generations later, to the land from which our ancestors came.

Get ready for a whole new look into Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid! Introducing the newest Wimpy Kid author--Rowley Jefferson! Rowley's best friend Greg Heffley has been chronicling his middle-school years in thirteen Diary of a Wimpy Kid journals . . . and counting. But it's finally time for readers to hear directly from Rowley in a journal of his own. In Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid, Rowley writes about his experiences and agrees to play the role of biographer for Greg along the way. (After all, one day Greg will be rich and famous, and everyone will want to know his life's story.) But Rowley is a poor choice for the job, and his "biography" of Greg is a hilarious mess. Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal offers readers a new way to look at the Wimpy world--one fans won't want to miss!

"Heart of Darkness" is one of the most significant British novels. Written during the height of imperialism, Conrad explores themes of evil, colonial obsession, and racial madness. The narrative follows Marlow, a sailor who recounts a pivotal experience to four friends aboard a ship at the Thames estuary. As the captain of a steamboat in the Congo, Marlow embarks on a two-month journey into the wilderness, serving a colonial company that brutally imposes nonsensical rules on the indigenous people while seeking the unscrupulous colonialist Kurtz. As he ventures deeper into the enigmatic jungle, Marlow confronts the unfathomable darkness within the human soul and uncovers horror. This profound exploration of colonialism and its moral implications continues to resonate, shedding light on the disturbing realities behind racial fanaticism and the nature of civilization itself.

Penguin inaugurates a series of revised editions of Conrad's finest works, with new introductions Exploring the workings of consciousness as well as the grim realities of imperialism, Heart of Darkness tells of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, who journeys into the heart of the African continent to discover how the enigmatic Kurtz has gained power over the local people.