Rete Bibliotecaria della Provincia di Como

Abstract: Il primo Quaderno della Fondazione Giuseppe Mozzanica è dedicato all'attività dello scultore nel Cimitero di Lecco. Inserito nella Route of European Cemeteries promossa dal Consiglio Europeo, il sito si presenta ricchissimo di storia e di testimonianze artistiche: Mozzanica vi ha contribuito con il suo linguaggio immediato e diretto, intessuto di amore per la fisicità e per la perfezione del corpo umano, ma anche di un forte slancio spirituale. Con la pubblicazione dei Quaderni, la Fondazione Giuseppe Mozzanica si propone di far conoscere la sfaccettata attività di un artista che ha attraversato con coerenza il XX secolo, cercando sempre, con pazienza e determinazione, l'armonia delle forme.

Abstract: AD 65. Sebastos Pantera, spy to the Emperor Nero, has undertaken the most dangerous of missions. Hunting often alone, with few he can trust, he must find the most dangerous man in Rome's empire, and bring him to bloody justice. Against him is Saulos. Consumed by private enmities and false beliefs, Saulos is pledged to bring about the destruction of an entire Roman province. Brilliantly clever, utterly ruthless, he cares only for his vision of total victory - and not the death and devastation such a campaign would bring. Between them is the huntress Iksahra. Beautiful and deadly, feared by men, loved by the beasts she cares for, she must decide who to support if she is to avenge her father's death. Fought inside the palace of a royal city and within the rocky fastness of a desert fortress, this will be a conflict between two men who have everything to gain - and a kingdom to lose .

Abstract: Il romanzo allegorico-avventuroso narra i viaggi di Lemuel Gulliver, nelle sue quattro tappe: dopo aver fatto naufragio a Lilliput, si ritrova tra i giganti di Brobdingnag e infine raggiunge, dopo molti paesi, Amsterdam e l'Inghilterra.

Abstract: A blinding snowstorm—and a homicidal maniac—traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate. Out of this deceptively simple setup, Agatha Christie fashioned one of her most ingenious puzzlers, which in turn would provide the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in history. From this classic title novella to the deliciously clever gems on its tail (solved to perfection by Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple), this rare collection of murder most foul showcases Christie at her inventive best, proving her reputation as "the champion deceiver of our time" (New York Times).

Abstract: At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instant of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can slip through, like a blade between the ribs, and switch you into a new and terrifying world. FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT: four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense, the fragments spinning away from the desperate, clutching reach of sanity . . .

Abstract: welve-year-old Jack spends his days alone in a deserted coastal town, his father gone, his mother dying. Then he meets a stranger - and embarks on a terrifying journey. For Jack must find the Talisman, the only thing that can save his mother. His quest takes him into the menacing Territories, a parallel world where violence, surprise and the titanic struggle between good and evil reach across a mythic landscape.

Abstract: Set in his fictional Wessex countryside in southwest England, Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's breakthrough work. Though it was first published anonymously in 1874, the quick and tremendous success of Far from the Madding Crowd persuaded Hardy to give up his first profession, architecture, to concentrate on writing fiction. The story of the ill-fated passions of the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors offers a spectacle of country life brimming with an energy and charm not customarily associated with Hardy.