European Authors

When the oil and gas ran out, civilization collapsed. Now, centuries later, mankind is once again beginning to discover the secrets of the past...starting with clockwork.

Esta es la historia de dos parejas cuyas vidas se entrecruzan cuando el tiempo de la realización de los sueños había pasado, pero no el de los sueños. Daniel un joven guapo, soñador quien la búsqueda de una mejor calidad de vida lo lleva a explotar su cuerpo con el turismo femenino en el ardiente calor del caribe. Alfonso desciende de buena cuna, nacido para ser feliz, amo y señor de su microuniverso, pero no de si mismo, logra casarse con el amor de su vida, una dama, pero dentro una mujer ávida de ser deseada y amada con pasión.

John Keats died 200 years ago, in February 1821. F. Scott Fitzgerald defined a decade that began 100 years ago, the Jazz Age. In this biography, prizewinning author Jonathan Bate recreates these two shining, tragic lives in parallel. Not only was Fitzgerald profoundly influenced by Keats, titling Tender Is the Night and other works from the poet’s lines, but the two lived with echoing fates: both died young, loved to drink, were plagued by tuberculosis, were haunted by their first love and wrote into a new decade of release, experimentation and decadence.

The Tale of the Golden Cockerel, (romanized: Skazka o zolotom petushke) is the last fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin wrote the tale in 1834 and it was first published in literary magazine Biblioteka dlya chteniya (Library for Reading) in 1835. While not officially based on any specific fairy tale, a number of similar stories were later revealed by scholars, most famously by Anna Akhmatova in her 1933 essay Pushkin's Last Fairy Tale.

Qu'on se le dise, qu'on se l'enchante, par les temps qui courent en accéléré-à-reculons, s'adonner au merveilleux constitue un acte politique. Une escouade de résistants poétiques se sont mis à l'œuvre dans le plus grand secret. Réunis plus ou moins télépathiquement pour une mission de la plus haute importance amusante : s'émerveiller suffisamment fort pour que le bleu de la flamme de leurs souvenirs d'enfance puisse éclairer vos nuits.

“Do not be fooled by their freedom, for they are bound to gold and silver as any man.” Falls Ende – Secundus, the second novel in the Falls Ende series, is a gripping, page-turning window into our storied past. This riveting sequel to Falls Ende – Primus, is Paul W. Feenstra’s next installment of his fast-paced medieval saga that will leave you breathless. When Mellester Manor, a small peaceful hamlet in southern England, is overcome by a catastrophic disaster, Odo and Charlotte’s life is in absolute turmoil. With Sir Gweir, Lord of Mellester Manor, away in Ireland fighting ...

Dal Taccuino dell’aiuto-regista impaginato da Bruno Munari a Parliamo d’altro, passando per L’uovo alla kok, straordinario capolavoro di letteratura gastronomica, per la prima volta sono qui raccolte in un unico volume tutte le opere di Aldo Buzzi (1910-2009), "maestro nascosto" della nostra letteratura. Eclettico, (auto)ironico, imprevedibile, in oltre sessant’anni di scrittura Buzzi conduce il lettore dalla Roma del cinema di Fellini e Lattuada alla New York dell’amico Saul Steinberg, alla Russia di Cechov.

Thomas Love Peacock is today remembered as the author of seven satirical novels which many regard merely as literary curiosities. However, he was also a man of considerable learning, a skilled poet, and an astute literary critic. This collection includes Recollections of Thomas Love Peacock, an affectionate reminiscence by Sir Edward Strachey; Some Recollections of Childhood, a window into Peacock's early youth; "Four Ages of Poetry", in which he pokes fun at his contemporaries; and "The Last Day of Windsor Forest", an old man's recollection of a memorable episode.

A Christmas Carol is a novella by the great Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley, and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.

Award-winning author Colm Tóibín turns his incisive gaze to three of the world's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, and James Joyce, and their earliest influences: their fathers. In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, Colm Tóibín illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest writers in the English language and their fathers, but also illustrates the surprising ways they surface in their work.

"Mr. Right". How do you find him? What does he look like? Is there a formula to know who he is? Just ask Kimberly Kay Nezda, a successful young diva with a budding career in a big city. She had it all, or so she thought. She had many encounters and was confident she had finally found Mr. Right. A rich, handsome, suitor, the mark of perfection, but did she let him walk "The Maze?" Was it the perfect love story or the perfect storm? The Maze Effect is a steamy, riveting short story about dating, sex, and falling in love.