Bern - Fiction & Literature 95

EXTRAIT: Un nouveau genre de milice est né, dit-on, sur la terre, dans le pays même que le Soleil levant est venu visiter du haut des cieux, en sorte que là même où il a dispersé, de son bras puissa……続きを見る

EXTRAIT: Un vieux Corbeau nous annonce la mort prochaine d’un de nos collègues ; il se flatte de lapressentir. Le mot est fier, mais la chose pourrait bien se réaliser ; car, à l’instant même, un pa……続きを見る

EXTRAIT: Blonde enfant aux cils d’or qu’une mère protège, Sans laisser tes regards se voiler sous les pleurs, Toi, tu viens du pays où scintille la neige, Moi, du riant Midi tout parfumé de fleurs. ……続きを見る

EXTRAIT: Dès la plus haute antiquité, des philosophes ou des médecins célèbres ont regardé les phénomènes qui se déroulent dans les êtres vivans comme émanés d’un principe supérieur et immatériel ag……続きを見る

From the bestselling author of Random Passage and Waiting for Time comes this masterful, engrossing story of the last surviving Beothuk, a World War II deserter and a recently widowed English woman ……続きを見る

Bernhard Schlink brings to these seven superbly crafted stories the same sleek concision and moral acuity that made The Reader an international bestseller. His characters–men with importunate appeti……続きを見る

Bestselling author William Bernhardt is an unsurpassed master at blending psychological suspense with gripping, surprise-filled legal action. Now, Bernhardt and his crusading attorney Ben Kincaid re……続きを見る

William Bernhardt’s bestselling novels featuring Oklahoma defense attorney Ben Kincaid capture the bare-knuckles reality of high-stakes criminal defense, as lofty ideals of justice clash with power,……続きを見る

In the glamorous world of professional golf, one match is synonymous with excellence, tradition, and prestige. The Masters is played on the sweeping fairways of Georgia’s exclusive Augusta National ……続きを見る

Fiercely observed, often hilarious, and “reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg” (The New York Times Book Review), this exquisitely controversial novel was initially banned in its author’s homeland. A ……続きを見る

The scientist Roithamer has dedicated the last six years of his life to “the Cone,” an edifice of mathematically exact construction that he has erected in the center of his family’s estate in honor ……続きを見る

Compassionate and profound in their wry humor, this collection of stories captures the poetry of human relationships at the point where reality and imagination meet. 続きを見る

Treat a loved one to this joyful, big-hearted read from Booker Prize-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo... '[Mr Loverman is] Brokeback Mountain with ackee and saltfish and old people' Dawn French ……続きを見る

Back to Methuselah (A Metabiological Pentateuch) is a 1921 series of five plays and a preface by George Bernard Shaw. The five plays are: In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden); The Gos……続きを見る

While some of Shaw’s earlier plays are still performed, his later plays, such as the ones in this volume, are barely known. As the collective title indicates, the themes here are political; yet, fra……続きを見る

This translation of The Iliad equals Fitzgerald's earlier Odyssey in power and imagination. It recreates the original action as conceived by Homer, using fresh and flexible blank verse that is both ……続きを見る

Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw. Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requited mercy of a lion. In th……続きを見る

Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Came……続きを見る

SOON TO BE THE MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES, TOTENFRAU KILL BILL meets DEXTER via THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, WOMAN OF THE DEAD is a wild ride of a thriller where the first stage of grief is revenge. A……続きを見る

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical f……続きを見る

Having defined the term Cabala, which was still commonly used for “oral tradition” in the 13th and 14th centuries even after the technical sense of the word was established, we must be careful to di……続きを見る

Opium. A shipwreck. Lost treasure and; a murder mystery: The Kong Meng Legacy is a historical thriller with the lot. Melbourne, the 1850s. Three strangers’ from around the world are drawn to the Gol……続きを見る

At the most wretched hour between a black night and a wintry morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hampshire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room of her farm house on the……続きを見る

Bernd Breitbachs Debütroman erzählt die Lebensgeschichte eines Einzelgängers. Schon früh verlässt er seine Familie, in der er sich nie zuhause gefühlt hat. Er versteht die Frauen nicht, in die er si……続きを見る

2015 Readers' Choice Nominee: BigAl's Books & Pals Uptight British lit lover meets a free spirit at a book club and his world is turned upside down! After placating to his father’s demands that he p……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Die Versuche und Hindernisse Karls" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Die Versuche und Hindernisse Karls i……続きを見る

This story of the little house at Behtany is worthy of a place among the few really great novels based on the New Testament--Ben-Hur, Saul of Tarsus, Quo Vadis must admit The Coming of the King to t……続きを見る

Often, you don't see the heroes around you. Jack and Charlie are two of the millions of farm boys who dropped their bales of hay and joined the Army in 1943 because it was the right thing to do. The……続きを見る

Since it was first established in the 1970's the Applied Linguistics and Language Study series has become a major force in the study of practical problems in human communication and language educati……続きを見る

Deutschlands beste Kurzkrimiautoren haben zugeschlagen: in der Nordstadt, in der Südstadt, op der schäl Sick. Einfach überall. Und jetzt hat unsere schöne Domstadt ein paar Leichen mehr. Die Bestsel……続きを見る