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After France’s defeat in 1940 (and its armistice with Germany), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and his wife fled occupied France, and sojourned in North America, where he became one of the expatriate voices of the French Resistance. Its earlier memoir, recounted his aviation experiences in the desert of Sahara, the same experiences in this novella. In July 1944, Saint-Exupéry’s aircraft disappeared …

THE LITTLE PRINCE 1/3 – After France’s defeat in 1940 (and its armistice with Germany), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and his wife fled occupied France, and sojourned in North America, where he became one of the expatriate voices of the French Resistance. Its earlier memoir, recounted his aviation experiences in the desert of Sahara, the same experiences in this novella. In …

This Herman Koch’s novel takes place in a well-known Amsterdam restaurant. It’s a summer’s evening in Amsterdam, and two brothers (and their wives), meet for dinner and some unsavoury truths emerge. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their single act, an act that has triggered a police investigation. Highly controversial tale of two families …

The Tea Lords, the story of ambitious Rudolf Kerkhoven, who becomes a tea planter in the Dutch East Indies. Bitten by the East Indies adventure, in the early 1870s he takes ship for Java, and plunges into the uncleared jungle foothills of the mountains (west Java), to follow his father as a tea planter. Over the seasons, Rudolf’s diligence gradually …

Invisible Cities / by Italo Calvino > “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” When you open the book, you can discover that the writer changed the way we read, also discovering what is possible in the …

A Romance is an 1850 work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, where you can know Hester Prynne, she bears an illegitimate child. It was June 1642, in the Puritan town of Boston, when a crowd gathers to witness the punishment of a young woman found guilty of adultery. The Hawthorne’s compelling novel, of the callous …

She was caught between her entitled taste for luxury and her yearning for true love. “She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.” Lily Bart, the beautiful and intelligent heroine of this novel, slowly slithers down the rungs of the New …

Our Young Man, interrogates the crucible of vanity prevalent in modern gay life. “He thought he was like an expensive racehorse whom all the people around him kept inspecting and trotting not for his well-being but to protect their investment. Feel his withers … is he off his feed? The grandstand seems to spook him, he needs blinders … his …

You can read this novel, is an partly epistolary novel written by Irish novelist Sydney Owenson. Is a romance set in Ireland, pages where you can find wild landscapes and ruins. The story involves a young Englishman, a kind of prodigal son who is banished to his aristocratic father’s Irish estates. In this setting and among these characters Horatio learns …

For more than a century and a half, Dream of the Red Chamber has been recognized in China as the greatest of its novels (a Chinese Romeo-and-Juliet love story and a portrait of one of the world’s great civilizations). Written in the mid-18th century, Dream of the Red Chamber was the last of the four great novels of Chinese literature …