در کتاب پیش رو راوی داستان جوانی است که از ۱۶ سالگی در شهر کار می‌کند. او تعمیرکار لوازم خانگی است و با درنظر گرفتن وضعیت اقتصادی آلمان پس از جنگ دوم جهانی، درآمد خوبی دارد.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in r…
A busy young writer struggling to cope with domestic chores, hires a housekeeper recommended by a friend. The housekeeper's reputation is one built on dependable efficiency, though she is something of…
دار سایه درازی داشت. وحشتناک و عجیب. خورشید که برمی‌آمد، سایه‌اش از جلو همه مغازه‌ها و خانه‌ها می‌گذشت. با این صحنه شگفت سال بلوا آغاز می‌شود. داستانی که در آن همه چیز منظم است و منظم…
First published in 1970, nine years after Ernest Hemingway's death, Islands in the Stream is the story of an artist and adventurer — a man much like Hemingway himself. Rich with the uncanny sense of l…
Çehov bir taşra kasabasındaki akıl hastanesinde geçen bu novellasında, eğitimli bir hasta olan İvan Dmitriç ile Doktor Andrey Yefimıç arasındaki felsefi çatışmaya odaklanır. İvan Dmitriç maruz kaldıkl…
Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a peasant girl who ends up a prison…
“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering th…
Raymond Chandler's fifth novel has Philip Marlowe going to Hollywood as he explores the underworld of the glitter capital, trying to find a sweet young thing's missing brother. Along the way he uncove…
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the ce…
In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Loveship), Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conj…
