Something happened, Joseph Heller

The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male counterparts - Louis, the powerless tutor, and Robert, his cloth-manufacturing brother - also stand at odds to society's expectations. 

A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win. Stefan Zweig's acclaimed novella Chess is a disturbing, intensely dramatic depiction of obsession and the price of genius.

Shpend Sollaku Noé, shkruan një poesi civile, me retrospektiva në histori e mitologji, por për t'u kthyer gjithmonë në bashkëkohoren dhe problemet e sotme të një bote të populluar nga tiranë, xhelatë, banca të kthyera në perëndi...Në qender të veprës së tij është raporti midis fuqiplotëve dhe individit, midis fuqiplotëve e intelektualit ...

 Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation.

Medaljet, së bashku me pullat dhe monedhat, përbëjnë një nga simbolet më shprehëse të "Unit" të një shteti, të përpjekjeve të tij për të afirmuar popullin e vet, veçantinë e tij, gjurmën e tij mbi Glob. Në rastin e Shtetit Shqiptar, gjejmë rikonfirmimin e përjetshëm të kësaj. 

Vepra e Shpend Sollaku Noé-së mund të përfshihet e gjitha në fillin e zi të traditës europiane që shkon nga "Marionettetheater" i Kleist-it tek "Teatro della crudeltà" të Artaud-it e më tej. Kjo vepër mund të radhitet, madje në mënyrë të ndryshme,me veprën e një brezi të tërë poetësh (Brodskij, Milosz, Herbert, Kancev), të cilët,ashtu si Shpend Sollaku...

Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would ‘curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart.’ The tale is a superb blend of science fiction, mystery and thriller.

 Through drink, Bukowski is able to be alone, to be with people, to be a poet, a lover, and a friend—though often at great cost. As Bukowski writes in a poem simply titled “Drinking,”: “for me/it was or/is/a manner of/dying/with boots on/and gun/smoking and a/symphony music background.”

A bittersweet homage to love that overpowers reason, to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the world-weary beauty and majesty of Venice, Across the River and into the Trees stands as Hemingway's statement of defiance in response to the great dehumanizing atrocities of the Second World War.

Neglected and uncherished, she is horribly lonely, until one day she discovers a walled garden in the grounds that has been kept locked for years. When Mary finds the key to the garden and shares it with two unlikely companions, she opens up a world of hope, and as the garden blooms, Mary and her friends begin to find a new joy in life.

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me so I could see it was really a nose.'

The emergence of the Cham issue, 1820-1943", by the young scholar Blerina N. Sadiku, is welcomed for a couple of reasons. First, it adds an original light on the Cham historiography, which, in spite of the numerous publications over the last twenty years, still remains incomplete compared to the need for satisfying both the common reader's and scientific...

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky. An introduction by Agnes Cardinal, Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland.

David Copperfield relates the story of his life transmuting many of the early experiences of his creator-right from his birth to his attainment of settled maturity and successful authorship. On his journey, David encounters a gallery of memorable characters, kind, cruel or grotesque: MR Micawber, Uriah Heep and  Steerforth are among the many who shape his...

The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.

After spending several years in a sanatorium recovering from an illness that caused him to lose his memory and ability to reason, Prince Myshkin arrives in St Petersburg and is at once confronted with the stark realities of life in the Russian capital – from greed, murder and nihilism to passion, vanity and love.