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'Dizzyingly flexible, deeply human, often funny, it blasts aside our preconceptions and urges us to see the world as it is' iFeminist philosophy meets family memoir in Siri Hustvedt's most personal essay...

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A compelling, radical, “richly explored” (The New York Times Book Review), and “insightful” (Vanity Fair) collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prize-winning...

Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in this “profound” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) new essay collection from Siri Hustvedt, an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience,...

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Alles beginnt in einem Sommer in Island. Die Nächte sind lang und hell. Siri Hustvedt, 13, liest David Copperfield und weiß, dass sie Schriftstellerin werden will. Mit 14 liest sie Simone de Beauvoir...

Ich schreibe, also bin ich Schriftstellerin: Wenn es so einfach wäre, gäbe es die Geschichten in dieser Sammlung nicht. Ist Dichten das große Glück, ein großer Kraftakt - oder beides? Wie entstehen Ideen,...

Incapable de supporter plus longtemps la liaison que son mari entretient avec une femme plus jeune qu'elle, Mia quitte brusquement New York pour se rendre dans le Minnesota et se réfugier quelque temps...

Ce nouveau recueil d’essais de Siri Hustvedt, qui mêle philosophie féministe et mémoire familial, explore les frontières mouvantes qui définissent l’expérience humaine, y compris celles que l’on pense...

Dialogue à plusieurs niveaux de narration entre une jeune femme en quête de sa vocation à New York à la fin des années 70 et l’écrivain chevronné qu’elle est devenue quarante ans plus tard, ce “portrait...

Les Mirages de la certitude revisite la manière dont l’antique question (jamais résolue) du rapport du corps et de l’esprit a informé la pensée contemporaine, et ce souvent pour la déformer, voire la...

Une série d'essais combinant intelligence, émotions et passion, où Siri Hustvedt, explorant les multiples facettes qui caractérisent la personnalité de tout écrivain, débusque les préjugés culturels à...

Un ouvrage aussi exigeant qu'ambitieux qui rassemble diverses conférences prononcées par Siri Hustvedt sur la condition humaine. On y trouvera notamment une puissante lecture de Kierkegaard, une analyse...

  À travers quelques figures majeures des arts plastiques (peintres, photographes, cinéastes…), Siri Hustvedt, fidèle à son engagement vis-à-vis de la cause des femmes, évoque la nature et les implications...

Après sa disparition, une artiste plasticienne, Harriet Burden (dite “Harry”), méconnue de son vivant, fait l’objet d’une “enquête” menée par un professeur d'esthétique auprès de tous ceux qui, de près...

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A provocative, exuberant novel about time, memory, desire, and the imagination from the internationally bestselling and prizewinning author of The Blazing World.A young woman, S.H., moves to New York...

Named one of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of the Year ** Publishers Weekly’s Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** Kirkus Reviews Best Literary Fiction Books of...

'A great mind that is constantly exploring, searching, "becoming" . . . an impressive collection' Elif Shafak, Observer'A phenomenal book' Claire Kohda Hazelton, Guardian'We are fortunate to have Hustvedt...

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED'A work of dizzying intensity . . . an intriguing and sure-handed debut ' Don DeLillo'Brilliant . . . a dark, mesmerising debut' Independent...

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BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU Newspeak, Doublethink, Big Brother, the Thought Police - the language of 1984 has passed into the English language as a symbol of the horrors of totalitarianism. George Orwell's...

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...

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Is it ever too late to leave the friend zone? Friends-to-lovers TikTok sensation, The Cheat Sheet, is the rom-com that has readers laughing and rooting for these lovable best friends from the first page!...

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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...

OVER 12 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDENOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREA NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFor years, rumours of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina...

The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble,...

A burned-out pop star stranded in small-town Kentucky can't help falling for her unlikely knight in shining armour - the notoriously grumpy owner of the local pie shop - in this charming slice of romance...

“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.”—Ann Patchett“Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma...

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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",...

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...

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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...

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...

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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...

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,...

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...

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...

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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,...