Namjoon lost his way after his mom was murdered. He spends his time on the computer when he's home. Jin is everyone's favorite, everyone loves him. Even if he was gay. Boys and girls love him. They meet but they don't that it's them. What they talk about over the computer stays on the computer. They never meet in r...
Le mille e una notte è forse la più straordinaria raccolta di storie di tutta la letteratura. Il pretesto che dà luogo alla narrazione e che è all'origine del titolo è ben noto: la principessa Shahrazàd riesce a salvarsi dalla morte, a cui il sultano condanna le amanti con le quali ha trascorso la notte, raccontandogl...
"Il sogno di un uomo ridicolo" è il monologo di un uomo che, abbandonato da tutti e deciso ad uccidersi, sprofonda in un sogno che lo trasporta in un mondo primordiale, un'onirica età dell'oro. traduzione di Antonio Sterpi (la storia non appartiene a me)
Le notti bianche è un romanzo breve giovanile di Fëdor Dostoevskij, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1848. L'opera prende il nome dal periodo dell'anno noto col nome di notti bianche, in cui nella Russia del nord, inclusa la zona di San Pietroburgo, il sole tramonta dopo le 22. Un sognatore, isolato dalla realtà e da...
Il classico intramontabile di Bram Stoker in una versione curata con mappe, approfondimenti e curiosità. 🐺 ꜱɪɴᴏꜱꜱɪ 💬La storia narra, tramite lettere e diari dei protagonisti, la disperazione, lo sgomento, il coraggio, la crescita ed infine la lotta contro questa creatura, contro la paura e contro se stessi. Un roman...
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes...
Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell. The novel is set in Airstrip One, formerly Great Britain, a province of the superstate Oceania, whose residents are victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulatio...
Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal 'The Russian Messenger' in twelve monthly installments during 1866. Later, it was published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels following his return from 5 years o...
Journey to the Center of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre, also translated under the titles A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey to the Interior of the Earth) is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volc...
The Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks o...
The Brothers Karamazov, also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880. The Brothers Karamazov is a pass...
The Time Machine is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. Wells is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposely and selectively forwards or backward in time. The term "time m...
Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Orwell wrote the book between November 1943 and February 1944, when th...
Notes from Underground, also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (g...
The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois from 23 September 1909, to 8 January 1910. It was published in volume form in late March 1910 by Pierre Lafitte. The novel is partly inspired by historical event...
