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Une chercheuse craignant de devenir folle mène une enquête pour tenter de rompre le silence qui entoure la maladie de son arrière-grand-mère Elisabeth, dite Betsy, diagnostiquée schizophrène dans les années 1950. La narratrice ne dispose, sur cette femme morte avant sa naissance, que de quelques légendes familiales dont les récits fluctuent. C'est à peu près tout. Les enfants d'Elisabeth ne parlent jamais de leur mère entre eux et ils n'en parlent pas à leurs enfants qui n'en parlent pas à leurs petits-enfants. "C'était un nom qu'on ne prononçait pas. Maman, c'était un non-sujet.

Helmer doet zijn vader naar boven; het is tijd om schoon schip te maken. Hij haalt de woonkamer en de voormalige ouderlijke slaapkamer leeg, schildert de boel en koopt nieuwe spullen. Ooit had hij een tweelingbroer, Henk, de lieveling van zijn vader, degene die de boerderij zou overnemen. Van de ene op de andere dag werd Helmer tot opvolger gebombardeerd, door vader uit de stad gehaald en onder de koeien gezet. Nu is het grote wachten begonnen, bijna zonder dat hij het zelf in de gaten heeft.

A duty-bound prince. A rebellious historian. A royal romance neither saw coming. Prince Alexander of Caledonia is the perfect heir: stoic, traditional, and ice-cold. His only flaw? Being forced to work with Emilia Carter, a sharp-tongued historian who thrives on rattling royal cages. Emilia doesn’t care about protocol—she cares about truth. Hired to curate a royal exhibition, she’s armed with historical secrets, a scandalous podcast, and zero tolerance for Alexander’s controlling nature. Their clashes are legendary: he’s rigid, she’s reckless, and their debates spark more than ...

This anthology of Old English poetry brings together sacred texts from two of the great surviving Anglo-Saxon poetic codices: the Vercelli Book, including one of the most famous of medieval texts, the Vision of the Rood, and the Exeter Book, source of the Advent Lyrics, Riddles and Physiologus. The Venerable Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum is the source for the only surviving work by the poet Cædmon. John Gallas, has not simply translated these texts but has crafted beautiful and accessible contemporary poetry, retaining the half-line alliteration of Old English poetic ...

Amado Nervo (1870–1919) was a Mexican poet generally considered the most distinguished exponent of the literary movement known as Modernismo. Although he intended to become a priest, he abandoned his studies in 1888 and turned first to journalism and then the diplomatic service, becoming Mexican Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay in 1918. His poetic and literary works have been collected in twenty-nine volumes. This translation has sought to reproduce the plain, rhymed forms of Nervo’s poems to convey the direct, yet complex, ideas of faith and doubt of the original texts. Nervo ...

David Lambert is dissatisfied. Above all, he is dissatisfied with his wife, Rachel’s, dissatisfaction with him. He is all work and no play, and forever critical of the money she spends and of her constant disappointment with him and her life with him. Apart from his contentious relationship with his wife, David is happy. He has a job he enjoys, he has a supportive family, he has friends, he adores his two sons, and the family is living in a château on the shores of the Mediterranean. Is he expecting too much from life? To answer that question, David delves back into the lives of his ...

Matters of Urgency (Biz): A poem about the cut and thrust of the Business world. How businesses in the boardroom deal with the aspects of promotion.

Ad oggi la raccolta di fiabe abruzzesi più completa e autentica, storie raccolte dal Ciampoli nel corso dei suoi peregrinaggi in lungo e in largo per l’Abruzzo a cavallo tra la fine dell’800 e l’inizio del ‘900, questo volume getta luce sulle tradizioni e sul folklore di una tra le regione più suggestive d’Italia. Domenico Ciampoli (Atessa, 23 agosto 1852 – Roma, 21 marzo 1929) è stato uno scrittore, bibliotecario e slavista italiano.FEAT DESC

O munaciello, il diavolo di Mergellina, la leggenda di Capodimonte e molti altri ancora: una Napoli esoterica, magica e circondata dalla nebbia del mito. Mancano a noi le nere foreste del Nord, le nere foreste degli abeti, cui l'uragano fa torcere i rami come braccia di colossi disperati; mancano a noi le bianchezze immacolate della neve che dànno la vertigine del candore; mancano le rocce aspre, brulle, dai profili duri ed energici; manca il mare livido e tempestoso.

Marking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, What Matters in Jane Austen? solves the mysteries of Austen’s fictional world. Jane Austen’s novels have been a staple of the English canon since the nineteenth century. Yet critics of the time did not appreciate the true complexity of her work. Nothing, John Mullan argues, is accidental or coincidental in Austen. As Austen herself said, she wrote for readers who have "a great deal of ingenuity themselves."

Marking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, What Matters in Jane Austen? solves the mysteries of Austen’s fictional world. Jane Austen’s novels have been a staple of the English canon since the nineteenth century. Yet critics of the time did not appreciate the true complexity of her work. Nothing, John Mullan argues, is accidental or coincidental in Austen. As Austen herself said, she wrote for readers who have "a great deal of ingenuity themselves."

Lili es una niña de nueve años que carga en su pequeño cuerpo el peso de una vida difícil. Vive con su padre, un hombre severo cuya crueldad ha marcado sus días desde que su madre falleció años atrás. Cada año, Lili visita la tumba de su madre para honrar su memoria, un ritual lleno de nostalgia y amor que le permite sentirse cerca de ella, aunque sea por unos momentos. Pero ese día, después de perder la noción del tiempo, todo cambiará. Cuando llega tarde a la fábrica donde su padre trabaja, él la recibe con furia y la envía de regreso a casa bajo la sombra de una amenaza: ...

In spring 1095, Christian and Emelye make love for the first time. When it is announced Christian must fulfill his obligation to marry Lady Arianna the lovers know their dream of bring together is over. Months later Emelye realizes she is with child but refuses to tell anyone who the father is and is exiled from the home and family she loves. Emelye suffers the ultimate pain a mother can feel and is left without the man she loves and the child they created. The arrival of Christian and his newborn daughter gives Emelye a purpose. Christian is being forced to join the crusade and decides to ...

Stanislaw Korab-Brzozowski's Collected poems (in English translation) Little is known about the poet. Stanislaw Korab-Brzozowski was born in 1876, in Lattakia, Syria. Both his father, Karol, and his brother, Wincenty, were noted poets. In addition to writing his own poems, Stanislaw translated French poets: Baudelaire and Verlaine, among others. He edited two periodicals in Lviv, where he lived. In 1901, he committed suicide by taking poison. Tadeusz Boy-Zelenski, a distinguished Polish poet and translator, claimed that Stanislaw's suicide had been caused by a tragic love affair. I came ...

Poems by the most famous Polish poets since Renaissance until the19th century translated into English.