The Last Days - formato ePub

Una manera inédita de conocer la obra y vida de Kafka y de atravesar un siglo tras las huellas de un gigante.«Robert, mátame o eres un asesino»: estas fueron las últimas palabras de Franz Kafka antes...

A incrível história do filho esquecido de Albert Einstein. "Não se trata de uma questão de natureza. Trata-se de uma questão de coragem. Ele foi um homem corajoso. Afrontou a Gestapo, foi um dos primeiros...

"Eles construiriam um mundo de solidão. O esquecimento seria sua tarefa cotidiana." (página 111) Um dos escritores mais lidos e traduzidos da história moderna, com cerca de 60 milhões de livros vendidos...

« - Tu sais ce qui cause notre perte, frérot ? C’est l’ambition. - Charlie, ton ambition, elle a changé le visage du cinéma !»

Comment un garçon, né dans un quartier pauvre de Londres, de deux parents artistes ratés, père alcoolique, mère folle, a pu devenir, à 25 ans, le plus grand cinéaste de son temps,...

Un homme se rend sur la tombe de son père un an après sa disparition pour y tenir un discours devant une assemblée de proches… Le neuvième roman de Laurent Seksik, le premier où il ose le je, embrasse...

Le 22 février 1942, exilé à Pétropolis, Stefan Zweig met fin à ses jours avec sa femme, Lotte. Le geste désespéré du grand humaniste n'a cessé, depuis, de fasciner et d'émouvoir. Mêlant le réel et la...

"He looked long and deep into her eyes. "I'll go first," he said. "You'll follow me... if that's what you want." On the 22nd February 1942 Stefan Zweig, one of the most popular authors of his generation,...

Le 22 février 1942, exilé à Petropolis au Brésil, l’écrivain autrichien Stefan Zweig se suicide avec son épouse, Lotte. Le désespoir a eu raison du grand humaniste, acteur essentiel de la littérature...

"Après la trilogie romanesque « Zweig, Einstein, Gary », je voulais raconter le destin tragique et lumineux de Modigliani. Le personnage, multiple et grandiose, semblait à l’étroit dans mes pages. Sa...

Avant d’inventer Émile Ajar, Romain Gary s’est inventé un père. Bâtissant sa légende, l’écrivain a laissé entendre que ce père imaginaire était Ivan Mosjoukine, l’acteur russe le plus célèbre de son temps....

STEFAN ZWEIG Tu voudrais un enfant… à notre époque ? LOTTE Je n’ai pas d’autre époque. STEFAN ZWEIG Donner le jour… au milieu des ténèbres ? LOTTE Vous cherchez des excuses !... La seule chose...

Léna Kotev est cancérologue à Paris. Elle descend d’une longue lignée de médecins : Pavel Alexandrovitch exerça dans la Russie tsariste, Mendel fut professeur dans le Berlin des années 1920, Natalia fut...

« Mon fils est le seul problème qui demeure sans solution », écrit Albert Einstein en exil. Eduard a vingt ans au début des années 1930 quand sa mère, Mileva, le conduit à l’asile. Le fils d’Einstein...

Phoenix, Arizona, automne 1962. Scott vit des instants de grâce auprès d’une mère aimante et tente d’échapper à l’ivresse sauvage d’un père revenu brisé de la guerre. Scott est un doux rêveur, en quête...

1913. Victor Samson veut réaliser le rêve de son père, Jacob, et faire découvrir au monde entier la Jacobine, une boisson gazeuse qui fait des miracles. Comptant embarquer pour l’Amérique, Victor se retrouve,...

This is the third, and probably the last, of the Fairy Books of many colours. First there was the Blue Fairy Book; then, children, you asked for more, and we made up the Red Fairy Book; and, when you...

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little...

The "Times.""For its rapid action, in fact, we have seldom read a better story, or one which is more full of incidents, sanguinary, trenchant, and robust."The "Daily Telegraph.""A true and a wonderfully...

The SCENE is the Exterior of a Cottage in West Issacshire on a desperately Arcadian afternoon in August. MR. ICKY, quaintly dressed in the costume of an Elizabethan peasant, is pottering and doddering...

COMMON opinion said that Lord Lynborough ought never to have had a peerage and forty thousand a year; he ought to have had a pound a week and a back bedroom in Bloomsbury. Then he would have become an...

Tales of Space and Time, A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come" & "The Man who could Work Miracles" Some Books of...

The stories begin with those which children like bestthe old Blue Beard, Puss in Boots, Hop o my Thumb, Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty, and Toads and Pearls. These were first collected, written,...

Quite aside from its natural characteristics, there is an atmosphere about a college town, especially a New England college town, that is unmistakable. It is not so much actively intellectual as passively...

"Eugene Witla, wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour her, and keep her in sickness...

Then came a glimmer of daylight that grew and grew, and presently ended in another arch that looked out over a scene so like a picture out of a book about Italy that everyone's breath was taken away,...

In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as an adventure only, is I suppose one of the most wonderful and mysterious experiences ever undergone by mortal men, I feel it incumbent on me to...

Jaime Febrer arose at nine o'clock. Old Antonia, the faithful servant who cherished the memory of the past glories of the family, and who had attended upon Jaime from the day of his birth, had been bustling...

Agatha-nominated series! A madcap mystery set in the off, off, OFF Broadway world of theater (#4 in the Ivy Meadows Mystery series)There's a new sheriff in town—and she can sing! When Gold Bug Gulch's...

Have you ever felt that itch in the back of your brain you just can't scratch? A particular gnawing on your mind biting away your best thoughts? Meet Wormy: the literal brain worm residing inside the...

Children are not brought up in society to focus on politics. They are often encouraged to enjoy their life and their childhood. It is often said that kids should just be kids. But when there is a political...

Emmaline has been in a coma for two crucial years of her teenage life. Waking life is almost as disorienting, but finally she is reunited with her sister and father. Now she must make up for lost time,...

Aidan Black left the Marine Corps to skip the red tape, but it's a woman from his past he's now trying to avoid… one who believes him capable of murder. Briar Sutton is the last person I expect to see...

Cillian is no stranger to the pull of dark magic as he is the son of both the Dark realm Princess and the Light realm Prince. What doesn't help is that he may have been further infused with dark magic...

The Stygian Lepus Magazine is a thrilling foray into dark speculative fiction. In each new edition, readers explore the depths of imagination, where fear and fascination intertwine.Offering diverse genres...

This is a collection of ten horror microfiction tales, sometimes called bite-sized fiction or 'drabbles'. These stories are limited to precisely one-hundred words and aim to pack a punch, all the while...

SAMSARA'S DEAD HAVE CHOSEN NEL. AND THE CACOPHONY CALLED FOR JUSTICE. Archaeologist Dr. Nel Bently has never been farther from home. With a tenuous ceasefire from Lin's rebellion force and genocidal Harris...

Nina Rosethorn, a university student, survives a lightning strike and returns home to Vancouver. But the incident triggers a haunting ability: premonitions manifest in her nightmares. Determined to prevent...

Dangerously good-looking. Dangerously breathtaking. This dangerously sinful cowboy is going to steal her heart. When the outback's bare-knuckle champion, Dex Riggs, arrives in Sophie's emergency room,...

The "Love on the Ice" series delivers a pulse-pounding journey through five heart-stopping books that redefine love on and off the hockey rink!Book #1: Melting the Ice Between Us (Novella)I'm not sticking...

This captivating narrative blends stunning descriptions, powerful dialogues, and profound storytelling to bring a fresh totally unexplored perspective to the ancient legend. Encounter unknown characters...

The perfect neighborhood hides the most dangerous secrets.Sarah thought her new neighbors, Emily and Ryan, had it all: charm, kindness, and a flawless marriage. But beneath their polished smiles lurks...

When high-ranking official Henry Caldwell is found brutally murdered in his opulent estate, Detective Paul Johnson is called to the scene of what appears to be a straightforward case of political retribution....

MYTH: ITS BIRTH AND GROWTH. "Unchecked by external truth, the mind of man has a fatal facility for ensnaring, entrapping, and entangling itself. But, happily, happily for the human race, some fragment...

The contents of the work which gave such pleasure to this learned antiquary are as follows:I. IntroductionSimilarity of Arts and CustomsSimilarity of NamesOrigin of the WorkImitationCasual CoincidenceMiltonDante.II....

he Brothers Karamazov, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger...