Daniel - Fiction & Literature 13

AJ Duchien, a middle age man overwhelmed by a personal tragedy and haunted by a recurring dream: Find the People of the Light, sells his home and business in New Hampshire. He packs up his belonging……続きを見る

When young Eddie Gillespie discovers a World War II airplane in the jungle, with a grinning skeleton at the controls, he sets a story in motion. Two American fighter pilots in the Chinese Air Force,……続きを見る

It came to me then - no, to be fair - in a flash of inspiration when I hit the ground, that the matchstick is an incredibly fragile stick which the frailest of babies could snap in pieces, and when ……続きを見る

In 1980 adult Jamie Ferguson returned to his hometown to collect an inheritance and is forced to relive the Polio scourge of the summer of 1946. He was nine-years-old and the nation was recovering f……続きを見る

'Engrossing . . . the reader falls under the spell that the author is weaving, surrendering to the story's exotic magic.' - The Times White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is ……続きを見る

Voracious Children explores food and the way it is used to seduce, to pleasure, and coerce not only the characters within children's literature but also its readers. There are a number of gripping q……続きを見る

"Schwarz's study is chock full of judicious evaluation of characters, narrative devices, ethical commentary, and helpful information about historical and political contexts including the role of Nap……続きを見る

Few, if any, U.S. writers are as important to the history of world literature as Edgar Allan Poe, and few, if any, U.S. authors owe so much of their current reputations to the process of translation……続きを見る

Découvrez dans ce livre numérique gratuit les ouvrages de la collection “e-Baskerville” ! Cette collection, qui compte une trentaine de volumes, vous présente, dans des traductions inédites ou resta……続きを見る

Robinson Crusoe is an adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The story is widely perceived to have been influenced by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway w……続きを見る

LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE The breakout book from Daniel Alarcón, one of the New Yorker’s 20 best writers under 40: a breathtaking, suspenseful search for the truth of one man’s spectacul……続きを見る

"I couldn't put it down ... like a jilted lover, when I reached the end I wanted more" Danielle Goldstein, Time Out Love Virtually is a funny, fast-paced and utterly absorbing novel, with plenty of ……続きを見る

'A comic tour de force, a biting satire on the hypnotized world of artificial wants and needs that Huxley predicted, a moving study of brotherhood and family failure, F is an astonishing book, a wor……続きを見る

Judith, in her mid-thirties and single, meets Hannes when he steps on her foot in a crowded supermarket. Before long he turns up in the exclusive little lighting boutique that Judith runs with the h……続きを見る

The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (now more commonly rendered as "The Further adventures of Robinson Crusoe") is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. Just as in its significantl……続きを見る

The narrative describes the life of an Englishman, stolen from a well-to-do family as a child and raised by Gypsies who eventually makes his way to sea. 続きを見る

For fifteen years the world of Ever-Earth has been subject to rising temperatures causing droughts and famine worldwide. In the nation of Switch Yard, the rich holds what remains of the water hostag……続きを見る

When kids are little, they love poetry. Think Dr. Suess, Shel Silverstein, Jack Prelutsky. As they grow older, however, that love fades and by the time they’re in middle school, it’s just about gone……続きを見る

Der Friedhofsänger ist eine Horror-Mystery-Reihe. Jede Nacht zieht der Friedhofsänger, so nennen ihn die Leute, weil er so schaurige Geschichten zu erzählen weiß, durch die Straßen von Kevelaer, ein……続きを見る

In 1929, an explosion in a Missouri dance hall killed forty-two people. Who was to blame? Mobsters from St Louis? Embittered gypsies? The preacher who cursed the waltzing couples for their sins? Or ……続きを見る

In Drugstore Cowboy, Backside Of The Mirror, it's 15 years later in the life of Bob Hughes.  Things are very different for Bob.  He's sober, off drugs.  He goes to his steady job, goe……続きを見る

In this headline-making book, Daniel Bergner turns everything we thought we knew about women's desire on its head. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with renowned behavioural scientists, ……続きを見る

In Jorge Luis Borges's finely wrought, fantastic stories, so filigreed with strange allusions, critics have consistently found little to relate to the external world, to history--in short, to realit……続きを見る

An irreverent romantic comedy of biblical proportions! 'I was wondering if you'd like me to suck yourー' The deck of cards I was carefully thumbing through flipped out of my hands across the table a……続きを見る

IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS. You are standing in a room filled with books, faced with a difficult decision. Suddenly, one with a distinctive cover catches your eye. It is a groundbreaking ……続きを見る

"A new Hemingway" (San Francisco Chronicle) weaves together the stories of two men and the Vietnamese call girl who unites them. Set on the rain-slicked streets of Chicago, critically acclaimed auth……続きを見る

Aristotle and other ancient writers regarded comets as meteors generated in the atmosphere. This opinion was generally accepted, even by the learned, until the observations of Tycho, near the close ……続きを見る

TRANSFORMAÇÃO DO HOMEM EM ANIMAL NA CHINA Proclamações officiaes e noticias publicadas pelas folhas periodicas sobre a recrudescencia do roubo de creanças, nesta (Kuangsi) e nas provincias adjacente……続きを見る

Most readers are quite familiar with the fact that a well-developed method of picture writing, or "didactic painting," as it has been appropriately named, prevailed through Mexico and Central Americ……続きを見る

When St. Louis homemaker Pearl Curran began writing fiction and poetry at a Ouija board in 1913, she attributed the work to the “discarnate entity” Patience Worth, a seventeenth-century Puritan. Tho……続きを見る