La casa delle conchiglie
By: Ivo Torello
4.16
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Parigi, 1863. Nel bordello di lusso conosciuto come la "Maison des Coquillages" si incontrano prost…
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1. The Canterville Ghost
By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore
3.88
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more
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"Love is stronger than death is"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
2. Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
By: Agatha Christie
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
Murder at the Vicaragemarks the debut of Agatha Christie's unflappable and much beloved female dete… read more
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3. Sirene
By: Laura Pugno
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
In un futuro imprecisato ma spaventosamente vicino, gli uomini hanno costruito rifugi sotto l'ocean… read more
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4. Rain (Blackwater, #6)
By: Michael McDowell
4.16
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
The mysterious saga of the Caskey family concludes in Blackwater VI: Rain. Time heals old wound… read more
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5. La chimera
By: Sebastiano Vassalli
3.51
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
In un villaggio padano del Seicento, cancellato dalla storia, si consuma la tragica vita di Antonia… read more
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"Il mondo è un gomitolo di strade e seguendole trovi tutto: vita e morte, miseria e felicità, lacrime e consolazione, avventura e amore."-Sebastiano Vassalli, La chimera
6. Poor Things
By: Alasdair Gray
3.94
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more
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"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
7. Il fu Mattia Pascal
By: Luigi Pirandello
4.01
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Pubblicato nel 1904, Il fu Mattia Pascal, il più famoso dei romanzi di Pirandello, riveste un'impor… read more
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"Ma i libri [...] pesano tanto: eppure, chi se ne ciba e se li mette in corpo, vive tra le nuvole."-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal
"Si reconocemos que equivocarse es propio del hombre, ¿no es una crueldad sobrehumana la justicia?"-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal
"come se parimenti dalle proprie sofferenze vi fosse abilitato. E se gli altri non gli fanno il bene quasi per dovere, egli li accusa, e di tutto il male ch’egli fa quasi per diritto, facilmente si sc…"-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal
"E dimentichiamo spesso e volentieri di essere atomi infinitesimali per rispettarci e ammirarci a vicenda, e siamo capaci di azzuffarci per un pezzettino di terra o di dolerci di certe cose, che, ove …"-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal
8. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
By: J.M. Barrie , Arthur Rackham
4.25
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Before he flew away to Neverland, the little boy who wouldn't grow up dwelt in the heart of London,… read more
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9. The Master and Margarita
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , None , Katherine Tiernan O'Connor , None
4.29
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An au… read more
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"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)"-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!"-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые."-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
10. Anima
By: Wajdi Mouawad
4.02
Format: 360 pages,
Lorsqu'il decouvre le meurtre de sa femme, Wahhch Debch est tetanise : il doit a tout prix savoir q… read more
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11. Piccoli suicidi tra amici
By: Arto Paasilinna , Diego Marani , Nicola Rainò , None
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Ci sono momenti in cui i ripetuti insuccessi, un matrimonio a rotoli, lo stress, la solitudine semb… read more
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12. La guerra (Blackwater, #4)
By: Michael McDowell
4.05
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
1938. È l’alba di una nuova èra per il clan Caskey e nulla sarà mai più come prima. La determinazio… read more
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"Southerners are an easygoing race when it comes to aberrations of conduct. They will react with anger if something out of the ordinary is presented as a possible future occurrence; but if an unusual …"-Michael McDowell, La guerra (Blackwater, #4)
13. La casa (Blackwater, #3)
By: Michael McDowell
4.19
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
1928, Perdido. Il clan Caskey è dilaniato dalla spietata lotta tra Mary-Love ed Elinor. Ma all'oriz… read more
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14. I baffi
By: Emmanuel Carrère
3.73
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
È quasi un capriccio, uno scherzo, quello di tagliarsi i baffi, da parte del protagonista di questo… read more
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15. Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
By: Shea Ernshaw
3.85
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Jack and Sally are "truly meant to be" ... or are they? Sally Skellington is the official, newl… read more
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"Even if my seams can be broken, that doesn't mean I will be."-Shea Ernshaw, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
"I was born in Dream Town, but I am also the Pumpkin Queen. I will fight for Jack. I will fight to set things right."-Shea Ernshaw, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
"It's a ghastly thing to lose an arm--or any part of yourself, really--to feel disconnected from your body. Not quite whole."-Shea Ernshaw, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
" Your curiosity will kill you , Dr. Finkelstein once told me. Maybe he was right. But instead of killing me, it's taken the man, the skeleton, I love."-Shea Ernshaw, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
16. The Shards
By: Bret Easton Ellis
4.00
Format: 595 pages, Hardcover
A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more
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"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
17. La favola di Amore e Psiche
By: Apuleius
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Comincia come ogni favola il racconto di Amore e Psiche, con un re e una regina e le loro tre figli… read more
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"Iam nil officiunt mihi nec ipsae nocturnae tenebrae: teneo te, meum lumen."-Apuleius, La favola di Amore e Psiche
"I little esteeme to see your visage and figure, little doe I regard the night and darknesse thereof, for you are my only light."-Apuleius, La favola di Amore e Psiche
"Night fell, and her husband came to bed, and as soon as they had finished kissing and embracing each other, he fell fast asleep. Psyche was not naturally either very strong or very brave, but the cru…"-Apuleius, La favola di Amore e Psiche
18. The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
By: Hisashi Kashiwai
3.70
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series f… read more
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"Ah, Setchubai. "Plum Blossoms in the Snow." Perfect, and not just because of the name. It's a little sweet, but it'll go very well with the hotpot."-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
"We get used to things too easily. You think something's tasty the first time you eat it, but then you start taking it for granted. Never forget your first impressions."-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
"It's Swatow lace, I believe-- beautiful, isn't it? The design is titled "The Disc of the Moon"-- apparently it was inspired by the poem "Midnight Song" by the Tang-era poet Li Bai. I looked it up, an…"-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
"Miyajima oysters, simmered Kurama-style, miso-glazed baked butterburs with millet cake, bracken and bamboo shoot stew, chargrilled moroko, breast of Kyoto-reared chicken with a wasabi dressing, and v…"-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
19. Our Lady of the Fallen. La palude di ossa
By: Shane Crowley
4.70
Format: 781 pages, Paperback
CITTÀ DEL MESSICO, 1995 Catherine Browning, figlia dell'Ambasciatore britannico, ha diciassette … read more
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20. Malinverno
By: Domenico Dara
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Ci sono paesi in cui i libri sono nell’aria, le parole dei romanzi e delle poesie appartengono a tu… read more
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"Quando non abbiamo le persone che amiamo ce le inventiamo. Ma tutto, nella vita, funziona così. C'inventiamo sempre ciò che ci manca."-Domenico Dara, Malinverno
21. Il re delle volpi
By: Fiore Manni
3.85
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
Il giorno del suo diciottesimo compleanno, Marian ha ben poco da festeggiare: la madre l'ha promess… read more
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22. I fiori di Yggdrasill
By: Veronica De Simone
4.26
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Weth e il suo compagno Vidar vivono in un villaggio di umani in grado di tramutarsi in lupi. Ma la … read more
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23. Zappa e spada
By: Mauro Longo
3.38
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Cajelli, De Feo, Fantoni, Gonnella, Hoffmann, Lanzoni, Leonardi, Mala Spina, Mana, Mazza, Nerdheim,… read more
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24. El dique (Blackwater, #2)
By: Michael McDowell
3.82
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Mientras Perdido se recupera de la inundación, se propone la construcción de un dique que impida un… read more
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"Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie." "Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all right to play with Zaddie, but she's not your rea…"-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)
"Mary-Love liked to see herself as the family cornucopia, dispensing all manner of good things, unstintingly, unceasingly. She considered herself amply rewarded by her children's gratitude, and if she…"-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)
"That her niece should find such profound pleasure in the company of a thirteen-year-old black girl--and, more to the point, always within the precincts of Elinor's house--was a slap in Mary-Love's fa…"-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)
"To the little girl the house seemed a gigantic head, and she only a morsel of meat conveniently positioned in its gaping mouth. The front porch was that grinning mouth, the white porch railing its lo…"-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)
25. Ballata di fango e ossa
By: Maurizio Ferrero
3.67
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Il Diavolo è apparso nella contea dell’Occhio Che Ride, portando con sé la morte sotto forma di art… read more
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26. The Sirens
By: Emilia Hart
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A story of sisters separated by hundreds of years but bound together in more ways than they can ima… read more
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27. La fortuna (Blackwater, #5)
By: Michael McDowell
4.04
Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition
1946. Come un organismo vivente, la famiglia Caskey si sviluppa e si trasforma. Alcuni affrontano l… read more
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28. La riada (Blackwater, #1)
By: Michael McDowell
3.74
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Descubre el primer volumen de la saga Blackwater. Una saga matriarcal. Mujeres poderosas que luc… read more
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29. La casa delle conchiglie
By: Ivo Torello
4.16
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Parigi, 1863. Nel bordello di lusso conosciuto come la "Maison des Coquillages" si incontrano prost… read more
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30. L'anno delle volpi
By: Cristiano Demicheli
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
L'Anno delle Volpi, nelle parole del vecchio Esmeraldo Salacca, è "un anno fatto per quelli che han… read more
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