Rete Bibliotecaria della Provincia di Como

Abstract: Un reduce dal Vietnam fa visita a un ex commilitone con una sorella che gli fa da madre e da serva. La corteggia facendola rifiorire e costringe l'amico a confrontarsi con il passato e la realtà.

Abstract: Ebenezer Scrooge despises Christmas. He has no time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men and is only interested in money. Then, on the night of Christmas Eve, his life is changed by a series of ghostly visitations that show him some bitter truths about his choices. Discover Dickens's most influential book and one of the world’s favourite Christmas reads.

Abstract: F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, made him instantly famous, and prefigured the themes and characters in later works such as The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. A thinly disguised account of Fitzgerald's own Princeton years, the novel's frank description of the main character's love affairs shocked and delighted its first readers, and the book was an immediate success. The book recounts the story of Amory Blaine as he grows from pampered childhood to young adulthood, and learns to know himself better. At Princeton he becomes a literary aesthete and makes friends with other aspiring writers. As he moves out into the world and tries to find his true direction he falls in love with a succession of beautiful young women. Youthful exuberance and immaturity give way to disillusion and disappointment as Amory confronts the realities of life.

Abstract: 'One ought to choose something very deliberately, and be faithful to that.' Isabel Archer is a young, intelligent, and spirited American girl, determined to relish her first experience of Europe. She rejects two eligible suitors in her fervent commitment to liberty and independence, declaring that she will never marry. Thanks to the generosity of her devoted cousin Ralph, she is free to make her own choice about her destiny. Yet in the intoxicating worlds of Paris, Florence, and Rome, her fond illusions of self-reliance are twisted by the machinations of her friends and apparent allies. What had seemed to be a vista of infinite promise steadily closes around her and becomes instead a 'house of suffocation'. Considered by many as one of the finest novels in the English language, this is Henry James's most poised achievement, written at the height of his fame in 1881. It is at once a dramatic Victorian tale of betrayal and a wholly modern psychological study of a woman caught in a web of relations she only comes to understand too late. This edition reproduces the revised New York Edition, with James's own Preface.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Abstract: La mostra di scultura e dipinti Archeovertigo, presso il complesso monumentale di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, nel cortile dei Fiorentini, sede dell'Archivio di Stato di Venezia, quale Evento collaterale della 53ª Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Biennale di Venezia, si propone come un'iniziativa che va oltre la semplice occasione espositiva della produzione d'arte dei fratelli Alviti.

Abstract: Cosmic Egg is the second studio album by Australian hard rock band Wolfmother, released on 23 October 2009. It is the first album by the second lineup of the band, featuring vocalist, songwriter and lead guitarist Andrew Stockdale, bassist and keyboardist Ian Peres, rhythm guitarist Aidan Nemeth and drummer Dave Atkins,formed in 2009 after original members Chris Ross and Myles Heskett left in August 2008. Upon its release, Cosmic Egg peaked at number three on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart, the same position as the band's first album. The album was the only studio release by the band to feature Atkins, who left the band in April 2010 during the Cosmic Egg promotional tour cycle. The album was recorded between April and May 2009 at Sound City Studios and Sunset Sound Studios[7] in Los Angeles, California. The title of the album comes from a position in yoga described by frontman Stockdale as "like the fetal pose". The album's release was promoted throughout 2009 and 2010 by the New Moon Rising World Tour, beginning in September 2009 in Australia. The first song released from the album was the promotional digital download single "Back Round" on 2 June 2009; "New Moon Rising" was the first full single release from Cosmic Egg, on 25 August 2009. (Wikipedia)

Abstract: Roma, 63 a.C. Mancano appena due giorni all'investitura di Marco Tullio Cicerone a console di Roma, quando nelle acque del Tevere viene ritrovato il corpo di un ragazzino orrendamente mutilato. Tutto lascia credere che si sia trattato di un sacrificio umano. Ma davvero dietro l'orrendo delitto ci sono i Galli, come sospetta qualcuno, oppure il responsabile è da cercare dentro le stanze del potere romano? Una cosa è certa: questo omicidio è un cattivo presagio alla vigilia del consolato e sembra gettare una maledizione sulla Repubblica. Poche ore dopo il ritrovamento del cadavere, Cicerone è chiamato a difendere un vecchio senatore accusato di alto tradimento, commesso più di trent'anni prima: una prova di lealtà verso la vecchia aristocrazia che potrebbe attirargli molti nemici. L'accusa è chiaramente pretestuosa, e nasconde le reali intenzioni di Giulio Cesare, l'eterno rivale di Cicerone, dal quale lo dividono visione etica e politica. Ma in una città che sta per conquistare un immenso impero sono in molti a contendersi il potere. Personaggi del calibro di Pompeo, Crasso, Catone, Catilina sono pronti a tutto per difendere i rispettivi interessi e ottenere privilegi. Alleanze e tradimenti, crudeltà e sotterfugi sono all'ordine del giorno, e la grave crisi economica rende ancora più incombente il rischio di una guerra civile.