European Cities

Nanà a Milano di Cletto Arrighi è un ritratto vivace e spietato della borghesia milanese dell’Ottocento. Con ironia tagliente e una prosa incisiva, il romanzo ci porta nel cuore di una città in fermento, tra salotti eleganti e tensioni sociali, dove il progresso incontra il conformismo. Arrighi, con sguardo acuto, svela ipocrisie e contraddizioni di un’epoca che somiglia fin troppo alla nostra. Un’opera imprescindibile per chi ama la letteratura che racconta, provoca e lascia il segno.

A dark and intricate fantasy, City of the Uncommon Thief is the story of a quarantined city gripped by fear and of the war that can free it. "Guilders work. Foundlings scrub the bogs. Needles bind. Swords tear. And men leave. There is nothing uncommon in this city. I hope Errol Thebes is dead...

Amidst the upheaval of the French Revolution, former aristocrat Charles Darnay becomes wrongly tangled in unfortunate events, endangering his freedom and family. Sidney Carton, a cynical lawyer who squandered his life away, seeks to redress his unhappiness through Darnay's beautiful wife, Lucie. A work of historical fiction by one of the world's greatest writers, A Tale of Two Cities is a story about love, chaos, sacrifice, and redemption.

Орхан Памук — известный турецкий писатель, обладатель многочисленных национальных и международных премий, в числе которых Нобелевская премия по литературе за «поиск души своего меланхолического города». Новый роман Памука «Мои странные мысли», над которым он работал последние шесть лет, возможно, самый стамбульский из всех. Его действие охватывает более сорока лет — с 1969 по 2012 год. Главный герой Мевлют работает на улицах Стамбула, наблюдая, как улицы наполняются новыми людьми, город обретает и теряет новые и старые здания, из Анатолии приезжают на заработки бедняки.

“Timbuktu is a real place, and Charlie English will fuel your wanderlust with true descriptions of the fabled city’s past, present, and future.” –Fodor’s Two tales of a city: The historical race to “discover” one of the world’s most mythologized places, and the story of how a...

The gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive...

A delicious account of a murder most gallic—think CSI Paris meets Georges Simenon—whose lurid combination of sex, brutality, forensics, and hypnotism riveted first a nation and then the world. Little Demon in the City of Light is the thrilling—and so wonderfully French—story of a...

Scritto in risposta alla frase pronunciata dal ministro Depretis "bisogna sventrare Napoli!", il romanzo, scritto nel 1884, è molto più di un'inchiesta giornalistica. "Il ventre di Napoli" è un grido accorato di denuncia che conduce il lettore negli splendori e nelle miserie di Napoli, con le sue usanze e le sue tradizioni, laddove il degrado, la miseria e lo scempio non possono che generare rabbia e pietà.

"I began to daydream about the jungle...." On April 6, 1940, explorer and future World War II spy Theodore Morde (who would one day attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler), anxious about the perilous journey that lay ahead of him, struggled to fall asleep at the Paris Hotel in La Ceiba, Honduras...

Una de las novelas más conocidas de Dickens, un clásico de la literatura inglesa del siglo XIX. La historia transcurre entre dos ciudades, Londres y París, durante la época de la Revolución Francesa. La indiferencia de Dickens por la política y su desprecio por los políticos alejan la novela de cualquier debate político o filosófico sobre la revolución.