On Beauty - format ePub

Dopo Henry Miller, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, la collana Filigrana continua a ospitare le riflessioni dei grandi narratori sul mestiere di scrivere. Stavolta si tratta di Zadie Smith, autrice...

Oltre a essere una delle narratrici britanniche di maggior successo della sua generazione, Zadie Smith è anche una brillante autrice di non-fiction. Feel Free raccoglie ventisei articoli e saggi scritti...

La giovane autrice-bestseller dei romanzi Denti bianchi, L'uomo autografo e Della bellezza, acclamata dalla critica come una delle voci più importanti della narrativa anglofona contemporanea, tradotta...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM 2019From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Changing My Mind and Swing Time - discover a second unmissable collection...

This winter, take the time to reflect on an extraordinary year with this perfectly distilled set of essays from one of our wisest and most humane thinkersFrom the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free,...

Treat yourself to a treasure trove of outstanding stories from 'the best writer of our generation' (Gary Shteyngart) 'She's already one of our best novelists and essayists, this reminds us that her short...

From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, White Teeth and On Beauty'A pleasure from the first page to the last' Evening Standard'A glorious concoction by our most...

The Book of Other People is just that: a book of other people. Open its covers and you’ll make a whole host of new acquaintances. Nick Hornby and Posy Simmonds present the ever-diverging writing life...

Oltre a essere una delle narratrici britanniche di maggior successo della sua generazione, Zadie Smith è anche una brillante autrice di non-fiction. Feel Free raccoglie ventisei articoli e saggi scritti...

Sei brevi saggi scritti fra marzo e giugno 2020, nati dall’attualità ma con un respiro universale. La fragilità del corpo, la rimozione della morte, il valore del pubblico e del privato, il privilegio...

La giovane autrice-bestseller dei romanzi Denti bianchi, L’uomo autografo e Della bellezza, acclamata dalla critica come una delle voci più importanti della narrativa anglofona contemporanea, tradotta...

Dopo Henry Miller, Flannery O’Connor, Raymond Carver, la collana Filigrana continua a ospitare le riflessioni dei grandi narratori sul mestiere di scrivere. Stavolta si tratta di Zadie Smith, autrice...

Sei brevi saggi scritti fra marzo e giugno 2020, nati dall'attualità ma con un respiro universale. La fragilità del corpo, la rimozione della morte, il valore del pubblico e del privato, il privilegio...

From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, White Teeth and On Beauty - a masterful and intimate novel of modern London life'A triumph. Every sentence sings' Guardian'Intensely...

A far-ranging, invigorating and irrepressible collection of essays on literature, cinema, art - and everything in between - from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Feel Free...

Eliza Touchet est loin d’être une femme ordinaire dans l’Angleterre victorienne de la fin du XIXe siècle. Non seulement, après avoir perdu son mari, elle vit en concubinage à peine masqué avec son cousin...

Dans un quartier populaire de Londres, deux petites filles métisses nouent une relation fusionnelle autour d’un même rêve : devenir danseuses. Mais seule Tracey, la plus effrontée, a du talent. L’autre...

Rien ne va plus pour le très britannique Howard Belsey, spécialiste de Rembrandt et gauchiste convaincu, qui végète en fin de carrière dans la petite université de Wellington, près de Boston : son épouse...

Deux petites filles métisses d’un quartier populaire de Londres se rencontrent lors d’un cours de danse. Entre deux entrechats, une relation fusionnelle se noue entre elles. Devant les pas virtuoses de...

"On ne combat pas le feu avec de l’air. Mais on ne peut se battre pour une liberté qu’on ne sait plus identifier. À un lectorat toujours avide de liberté, je propose ces textes afin qu’ils soient utilisés,...

Depuis une dizaine d’années, Zadie Smith publie des essais ponctuels comme elle aime à les appeler, dans les journaux et revues les plus prestigieux d’Amérique et d’Angleterre. Changer d’avis (au fil...

Dans ce premier recueil de nouvelles, Zadie Smith allie son inimitable pouvoir d’observation et sa voix unique pour explorer les arcanes du monde moderne. Entrelaçant les thèmes, les registres et les...

"Face aux choses qui nous arrivent, nous nous efforçons tous de nous adapter, d’apprendre, de nous accommoder, parfois de résister, d’autres fois de nous soumettre. Mais les écrivains ne s’arrêtent pas...

Leah, Nathalie, Félix et Nathan ont grandi dans la cité de Caldwell, au nord-ouest de Londres. Ils se sont connus, aimés, ou juste frôlés, puis ont pris leur envol. Mais à l'approche de la quarantaine,...

Transcription d’un discours livré à Berlin le 10 novembre dernier, au moment où Zadie Smith recevait le prix littéraire Welt 2016. Considéré dans ce texte, traduit par Fanny Britt: La nature humaine et...

"Un matin de bonne heure, tard dans le siècle, à Cricklewood Broadway. À six heures et vingt-sept minutes, en ce 1er janvier 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones, tout de velours côtelé vêtu, était assis dans...

"Philip Roth était-il à lui seul un Complot contre l’Amérique ? Oui, assurément, si on accepte que la littérature soit ce cocktail explosif de mots qui vous saute à la figure et fait trembler tout un...

Comment garder foi en la politique, en 2017? Comment rester convaincus que les choses peuvent être faites autrement? Comment croire en l’amour, malgré tout? Comment continuer à imaginer l’avenir, jour...

One of the most iconic fictional debuts of all time turns 25 this year!‘What’s past is prologue…’First published in the year 2000, Zadie Smith’s White Teeth was one of the most celebrated novels of the...

Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The Oldie, i Paper, The Standard, Washington Post, Independent,...

The inspiration for the new Netflix series, Lupin, starring Omar Sy. Leblanc's creation, Gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat—witty, charming, brilliant,...

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for more than half a century,...

An enchanting collection containing the first three novels in New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Bridgerton series set in Regency England—The Duke and I, The Viscount Who Loved Me,...

Pre-order Beth's epic new novel, SWEPT AWAY, now! 'Beth O'Leary is that rare, one-in-a-million talent who can make you laugh, swoon, cry and ache all in the same book' EMILY HENRYTiffy and Leon share...

"'There is a plot, Harry Potter. A plot to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year.'" Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy...

The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the Number One New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive. Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future...

Readers love The Ingredients for Happiness! ‘A gorgeous summer read’ ‘Uplifting, funny, romantic and charming’...

The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother – 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom...

A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece.A...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his...

"'Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. Just stick out your wand hand, step on board and we can take you anywhere you want to go.'"When the Knight Bus crashes...

‘Addictive. A first-class page-turner.’ Lisa Hall, author of Between You and Me Can the past ever be forgotten? As soon as nurse Maura Lyle sets foot inside the foreboding Essen Grange,...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE'An utterly mesmerising novel..I absolutely loved this book' Bernardine Evaristo,...

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov’s iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire,...

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being...

Jonathan Harker, a young London solicitor travels to Transylvania to help a rich nobleman, Count Dracula, purchase an estate in England. Dracula is planning to immigrate to England, and wants Harker to...

This ebook compiles Jule Verne's complete collection, including "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth", "The Mysterious Island", "Around the World in Eighty Days",...

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil...

Fame. Fashion. Friendship. Hollie can't catch a break. She's broke, she's back living with her family, and her career prospects are precisely zero. So when the chance arises for her and her best friend...

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being...

In the vast expanse of the treacherous ocean, a legendary tale unfolds, gripping the hearts of readers for generations to come. Immerse yourself in the thrilling world of "Moby Dick," a literary masterpiece...

"One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world." —D. H. Lawrence "‘Moby-Dick’ is the book which I put down with the unqualified thought, 'I wish I had written that'…" —William Faulkner "What...

Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of...

The series that inspired the Netflix show. This collection contains 38 Arsène Lupin stories (the biggest and greatest Arsène Lupin collection in the eBook world), including: - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman...

Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway–a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide...

The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov...

"Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'."Harry Potter has never even heard...

The most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories, Animal Farm is the account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny...

Isolated from society in a tenement basement in St. Petersburg, a malicious former civil servant vents his resentments. In the rambling notes that follow, we are exposed to the inner turmoil of the Underground...

By the time the novel appeared to tremendous popular and critical acclaim in 1871-2, George Eliot was recognized as England's finest living novelist. It was her ambition to create a world and portray...