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La Fattoria degli Animali di George Orwell è una satira politica e un'opera allegorica che esplora il tema della corruzione del potere. Ambientato in una fattoria, gli animali si ribellano contro il loro padrone, aspirando a un'utopia egualitaria. Tuttavia, l'ideale "Tutti gli Animali Sono Uguali" viene distorto dai nuovi leader, portando a un regime altrettanto tirannico. Il romanzo, famoso per slogan come "Quattro zampe buone, due zampe cattive", critica l'uso di slogan per manipolare l'opinione pubblica.

Con le letture esclusive dell'autore Vincenzo Consolo. In un piccolo albergo di Parigi, dove aspetta di incontrare il figlio esule per terrorismo, lo scrittore Gioacchino Martinez ricorda la sua infanzia in Sicilia, negli anni della guerra, la tragedia che ha segnato la sua vita, e un altro trauma, più piccolo ma non meno ossessionante: un film, Judex, visto all'oratorio, dove le avventure di un giustiziere in mantello nero venivano improvvisamente interrotte dalle incursioni belliche.

Originally published in serial installments stretching from May 1849 through November 1850, the tale follows the titular David Copperfield throughout the course of his life in Victorian England. In parts a coming-of-age story, satire, and autobiographical novel, Dickens called David Copperfield ""a very complicated weaving of truth and invention""—as well as named it his favorite of his own works.

We're back with Bertie Wooster and his devoted man, Jeeves, in Carry On, Jeeves, the second collection of P.G. Wodehouse's much-loved series. There are trips to America, scandalous books and articles to tend with, near misses in love, and schemes aplenty, all under the watchful eye of Jeeves, who always finds a way to make things just right.

A gifted raconteur, distinctive humorist, and irascible moralist, Mark Twain transcended the apparent limitations of his origins to become a popular public figure and one of America's best and most beloved writers.

War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature.

Elizabeth Bennet has taken to walking near Hunsford to avoid any more chance encounters with Mr. Darcy while he visits his aunt at Rosings. When that very man comes to aid her during a rainstorm, Mr. Collins catches them unawares. Certain Elizabeth's virtue has been compromised, Mr. Collins insists on their immediate marriage. Darcy claims he intended to marry Elizabeth all along. Lady Catherine is furious. Mr. Collins is adamant. The rest of their friends and family hardly know what to say. Can our dear couple overcome the challenges of such a precipitous wedding? Compromised is a clean ...

War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature.

Raphael Romagnoli, half black, half Italian, was born into slavery. During the Civil War, he escaped his bondage and headed to the Rocky Mountains to shed his chains to become a trapper and a mountain man. Outlaw Dunny Dunbar, a wanted man with a price on his head, took everyone Raphael had ever loved away from him. Raphael, a man not to be trifled with, became a haunted man, seeking retribution, seeking an eye for eye.

“What do you mean, he knows our secret?” Having survived the Acktus Trials and kept his secret safe—for now—Baz has returned to Erstwhile. But his rest is short lived when an unwelcome guest visits Torchsire Library, bearing news of a revolt amongst the Speakers in Fortune, Oration's wealthiest city. A special session of Oration's Congress has been called and Baz's master is selected to travel to Fortune and represent Erstwhile. Of course, Baz must go with him. Suddenly, Baz has an opportunity to fulfill his promise to the Keepers of Tome—search Fortune for the prophecy that ...

What if reading were a capital offense? "This series is right up there with Robin Hobb’s Elderling books." -Review on Fantasy Faction FB Group In the land of Oration, magic exists only when read aloud from rare books, and only a select few are born able to cast it. To maintain their power, the wealthy elite enslave all such people from birth and never teach them to read. But when a slave named Baztian secretly becomes literate, he'll start an uprising, whether he wants to or not... The first in an epic fantasy series with five books and growing! Fans of Sanderson, Weeks, Eddings, and Hobb...

This is a continuation of a Science fiction story of a family of intergalactic explorers that are telepathic and endowed with supernatural powers due to their interaction with intergalactic space-faring dragons. Wayne, the paranoid leader using a spaceship named Hugo, leads a mixed-species family and sentient computers on an adventure through the Milky Way Galaxy, searching for lost planets of an ancient civilization.

Dieser einzige Roman Oscar Wildes ist ein Selbstporträt in zwei Figuren: Der dekadente, arrogante, in seine amoralischen Sentenzen verliebte zynische Snob Lord Henry und der von ihm verdorbene unschuldige Dorian Gray, der die Lehren Lord Henrys in die Tat umsetzt. Dorians Gewissen wird dabei durch ein Porträt ersetzt, das seine Sünden stellvertretend durch fortschreitenden Verfall auf sich nimmt, während er selbst sich in völlig unveränderter Jugendfrische ungehemmt seiner Lasterhaftigkeit hingeben kann.

Wanneer de houtbewerker Geppetto een vallende ster ziet, wenst hij dat de pop die hij net heeft afgemaakt, Pinokkio, een echte jongen zou worden. 's Nachts vervult de Blauwe Fee Geppetto's wens.

Een grote boze wolf blaast de huizen van de eerste twee biggetjes omver, die respectievelijk van stro en stokken zijn gemaakt, maar kan het huis van de derde big niet vernietigen omdat het van stenen is gemaakt.

Lang geleden toen legeraanvoerder Julius Caesar zijn legioen gereed maakte voor de overtocht naar Brittannië, liet hij vele volgelingen achter in de provincies op het vasteland. Hun taak was om de veroverde gebieden te verdedigen.

Lang, lang geleden gebeurde er elk jaar iets vreselijks in een stad, gewoon hier in Nederland. In die stad, die we nu kennen als Ridderkerk, leefde toen een hele enge draak. Een draak met wel vier koppen en een vreselijke adem. Deze draak wilde elk jaar een mooi jong meisje om haar lekker op te peuzelen. De koning van die stad was wel rechtvaardig, want elk jaar deed hij alle namen van de meisjes in de stad in een grote ton en werd er eentje getrokken. Dat meisje was dan degene die naar de draak werd gestuurd.

Het verhaal van Goudlokje gaat over een jonge vrouw die in het huis van drie beren woont terwijl zij weg zijn. Goudlokje eet hun eten, slaapt in hun bedden en ruimt hun huis op. Wanneer de beren terugkomen en ontdekken wat er gebeurd is, zijn ze boos, maar besluiten ze haar niets te doen en gewoon te accepteren dat ze er is.

Een vos verloor op een dag zijn staart. Hij was bang dat alle andere vossen hem zouden uitlachten. Hij bedacht een plannetje zodat andere vossen ook hun staart af wilden knippen, zo was hij niet meer de enige zonder staat. Zo makkelijk ging dat helaas niet, al snel kwamen de andere vossen tot de ontdekking dat de vos zelf helemelaal geen staart meer had en begrepen toen waarom hij wilde dat alle andere vossen ook hun staat af zouden knippen.

Duimelijntje wordt geboren uit een bloem en is slechts enkele centimeters groot. Ze is bang dat ze nooit iemand van haar eigen grootte zal ontmoeten, totdat ze de aandacht trekt van de feeën.