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Botuesi: Scribner UK

29 New Stories from the Pandemic, The New York Times

In March 2020, the editors of The New York Times Magazine created The Decameron Project, an anthology with a simple, time-spanning goal: to gather a collection of stories written as our current pandemic first swept the globe. How might new fiction from some of the finest writers working today help us memorialize and understand the unimaginable? And what...

The Humanist Tradition in the West, Alan Bullock

Freedom, Jonathan Franzen

Patty and Walter Berglund were the pioneers of old St. Paul―the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant garde of the Whole Foods generation. But now, in the new millennium, they have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? 

Botuesi: Harper Collins

Sharpe’s Eagle, Bernard Cornwell

Soldier, hero, rogue - Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty, he joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.

The Complete Prefaces of Bernard Shaw, George Bernard Shaw

He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of its causes, which included gaining equal rights for men and women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthy lifestyles. For a short time he was active in local politics, serving on the London County Council.

Botuesi: Collins Classics

Myth and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, E.M. Berens

They include the almighty Zeus and his many wives; heroic Perseus, slayer of the snake-headed Medusa; Helen of Troy, whose beauty caused a great war; Medea, driven mad by jealousy; and tragic Persephone, doomed to live half of each year in the Underworld, condemning the world above to winter.

Botuesi: Faber and faber

The Way to Paradise, Mario Vargas Llosa

Gauguin abandons his wife and children, and job as a stock-broker in Paris, to pursue his passion for painting. In the process he does his best to distances himself from European civilization, fleeing to Tahiti and French Polynesia for inspiration.

Botuesi: Harper Perennial

The Woman Destroyed, Simone De Beauvoir

Finally, in ‘The Woman Destroyed’, Simone de Beauvoir tells the story of Monique, trying desperately to resurrect her life after her husband confesses to an affair with a younger woman.

Botuesi: Dukagjini

Uta and the Mountains, Tefta Kelmendi

The love, curiosity and admiration that Uta received from children who heard about her expeditions, and their very profound questions on her activities made her recall everything she did and delve into retrospective to find the source of her inspiration since childhood.

Botuesi: Collins Classics

The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle

When the body of Sir Charles Baskerville is found on the misty and desolate Devon moors, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson decide to investigate. The locals blame his death on the family curse, a legendary phantom hound which has supposedly haunted the Baskervilles for generations.

Botuesi: Penguin Books

A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess

In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?

Botuesi: Penguin Books

The Stolen White Elephant, Mark Twain

From the father of American literature, four sparkling comic tales of extraordinary animals and parables subverted.