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Ο ΖΟΦΕΡΟΣ ΟΙΚΟΣ (ΔΙΤΟΜΟ)
Το σημαντικότερο, συναρπαστικότερο και πιο εμβληματικό μυθιστόρημα (κατά Χάρολντ Μπλουμ, αλλά και σύμφωνα με σύνολη την κριτική) ενός από τους μεγαλύτερους αφηγητές της παγκόσμιας λογοτεχνικής παράδοσης. Βαθύτατος γνώστης των ανθρώπινων τύπων, αμείλικτος κατήγορος της κοινωνικής αδικίας, εντελής πεζογράφος που ποτέ δε βρήκε μιμητές στη γλώσσα του, ο Κάρολος Ντίκενς χτίζει με ενάργεια ένα πολυδαίδαλο σύμπαν, όπου ο σύγχρονος αναγνώστης μπορεί να βρει καταφυγή, πραγματικό ενδιαφέρον και υψηλή αισθητική απόλαυση. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθ...
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(P/B) ATALANTA
When a daughter is born to the King of Arcadia, she brings only disappointment. Left exposed on a mountainside, the defenceless infant Atalanta is left to the mercy of a passing mother bear and raised alongside the cubs under the protective eye of the goddess Artemis. Swearing that she will prove her worth alongside the famed heroes of Greece, Atalanta leaves her forest to join Jason's band of Argonauts. But can she carve out her own place in the legends in a world made for men? (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) CLOUD ATLAS
A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan`s California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified `dinery server` on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation - the narrators of CLOUD ATLAS hear each other`s echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small. In his extraor...
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(P/B) ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL
Now settled into the sleepy Yorkshire village of Darrowby, and married to Helen the farmer's daughter, James Herriot thinks he's finally got himself sorted. But life as a vet in the 1930s was never going to be easy. Quite aside from his unpredictable colleagues, brother Siegfried and Tristan Farnon, he must contend with new-fangled medical techniques, delivering calves after far too much home-made wine, and a grudge-holding dog called Magnus who never forgets. And then, with Britain on the verge of war, James faces a decision that could se...
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(P/B) THE LORD GOD MADE THEM ALL
Finally home from London after his wartime service in the RAF, James Herriot is settling back into life as a country vet. While the world has changed after the war, the blunt Yorkshire clients and menagerie of beasts with weird and wonderful ailments remain the same. But between his young son, Jimmy, trailing him around aping his every move, stubborn farmers refusing to try his 'new-fangled' treatments and a goat that has eaten 293 tomatoes, Darrowby is far from quiet. And with another baby on the way, life is about to get even more chaoti...
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(P/B) ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL
Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James Herriot 1930s Yorkshire seems to offers an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world. But from his erratic new colleagues, brothers Siegfried and Tristan Farnon, to incomprehensible farmers, herds of semi-feral cattle, a pig called Nugent and an overweight Pekingese called Tricki Woo, James find he is on a learning curve as steep as the hills around him. And when he meets Helen, the beautiful daughter of a local farmer, all the training and experience in the world c...
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(P/B) ALL THINGS WISE AND WONDERFUL
Training as an RAF pilot in the smoke and bustle of London is a far cry from James Herriot's day job as a country vet in the Yorkshire Dales. And while he is keen to serve Queen and country, James cannot help but miss his life in Darrowby - despite frequent arguments between his colleagues, ornery cattle and equally ornery farmers, and the continuing saga of Cedric the flatulent dog. But most of all he misses his wife Helen; pregnant with their first child. The question is constantly hanging over him - will he be going to war? And when wil...
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(P/B) ITHACA
This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. Beyond Ithaca's shores, the whims of gods dictate the wars of men. But on the isle, it is the choices of the abandoned women - and their goddesses - that will change the course of the world. 'The greatest power we women can own is that which we take in secret.' Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting age from the isle of Ithaca. None of them has returned, and the women of Ithaca have ...
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(P/B) THE ROAD
In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscape is destroyed, nothing moves save the ash on the wind and cruel, lawless men stalk the roadside, lying in wait. Attempting to survive in this brave new world, the young boy and his protector have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves. They must keep walking. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Road is an incandescent novel, the story of a remarkable a...
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Ο ΚΑΛΟΓΕΡΟΣ
Υγρές, μελαγχολικές αυλές, φασματικοί πύργοι, ζοφερές προοπτικές, μοναστήρια όπου κατοικεί το Κακό, ψίθυροι και τρεμάμενες σκιές, πανέμορφες ηρωίδες που ακροβατούν στα όρια της τρέλας, δαιμονικοί χαρακτήρες που πουλάνε την ψυχή τους στον Εωσφόρο, αλλότρια, μυστικά πάθη, τρέλα, ποίηση... Το γοτθικό μυθιστόρημα σε όλο το ανατριχιαστικό του μεγαλείο είναι εδώ, με έναν ογκόλιθο τους είδους, που ξεπερνά σε ένταση, ρίγος, παλμό, φαντασία και αυτοαναφορική ειρωνεία το σύνολο της σύγχρονης «λογοτεχνίας τρόμου». (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ...
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(P/B) DAUGHTERS OF SPARTA
Two sisters parted. Two women blamed. Two stories reclaimed. For millennia, two women have been blamed for the fall of a mighty civilisation - but now it's time to hear their side of the story... As princesses of Sparta, Helen and Klytemnestra have known nothing but luxury and plenty. With their high birth and unrivalled beauty, they are the envy of all of Greece. Such privilege comes at a high price, though, and their destinies are not theirs to command. While still only girls they are separated and married off to legendary foreign kings ...
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(P/B) MILK TEETH
A girl grows up in the north-east of England amid scarcity, fearing her own desires and feeling undeserving of love. Years later, living in tiny rented rooms and working in noisy bars across London and Paris, she meets someone who offers her a new way to experience the world. But when he invites her to join him in Barcelona, the promise of care makes her uneasy. In the shimmering Mediterranean heat, she is faced with both pleasure and shame, and must find out if she is able to change. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE LADIES OF GRACE ADIEU
Faerie is never as far away as you think. Sometimes you find you have crossed an invisible line and must cope, as best you can, with petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates or with endless paths in deep, dark woods and houses that never appear the same way twice. The heroines and heroes bedevilled by such problems in these fairy tales include a conceited Regency clergyman, an eighteenth-century Jewish doctor and Mary, Queen of Scots, as well as two characters from Jonathan Strange & Mr Nor...
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ΤΟ ΝΗΣΙ
Ο δυτικός και ο ανατολικός πολιτισμός μπορούν να συνυπάρξουν ειρηνικά; Είναι δυνατόν μια εκλεκτικιστική θεώρηση και των δύο να γεννήσει έναν καινούριο, ανώτερο πολιτισμό; Χαρακτηρισμένο ως έργο "πολιτικής φαντασίας" και διαπνεόμενο από την ελπίδα για έναν κόσμο ανθρωπιάς και ειρήνης, το "Νησί" του Άλντους Χάξλεϋ προσπαθεί να δώσει απαντήσεις στα παραπάνω ερωτήματα. Πόσο, όμως, ανήκουν στη σφαίρα της φαντασίας τα ζητήματα που συνθέτουν την πλοκή του βιβλίου αυτού; Ζητήματα όπως η νεοαποικιοκρατία, ο τριτοκοσμικός εθνικισμός, τα στρατιωτικά ...
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ΟΙ ΠΥΛΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΝΤΙΛΗΨΗΣ
Οι περισσότεροι άνθρωποι που μπορούν και βλέπουν εικόνες στο μυαλό τους μεταμορφώνονται από τη μεσκαλίνη σε οραματιστές. Μερικοί απ' αυτούς (...) δεν χρειάζονται καμιά αλλαγή ήταν και είναι οραματιστές. Ο Μπλέηκ ανήκε σ' ένα πνευματικό είδος που είναι αρκετά πλατιά διαδεδομένο ακόμα και στις αστικο-βιομηχανικές κοινωνίες του καιρού μας. Η μοναδικότητα του ποιητή-καλλιτέχνη δεν βρίσκεται στο γεγονός ότι (για να χρησιμοποιούμε τα ίδια του τα λόγια από τον "Περιγραφικό Κατάλογο") είδε πραγματικά "εκείνα τα αρχικά πλάσματα που στις Άγιες Γραφ...
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(P/B) One Day
TWENTY YEARS, TWO PEOPLE, ONE DAY 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows? (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) 1982, JANINE
An unforgettably challenging book about power and powerlessness, men and women, masters and servants, small countries and big countries, Alasdair Gray's exploration of the politics of pornography has lost none of its power to shock.1982 Janine is a searing portrait of male need and inadequacy, as explored via the lonely sexual fantasies of Jock McLeish, failed husband, lover and businessman. Yet there is hope here, and the humour (if black) and the imaginative and textual energy of the narrative achieves its own kind of redemption in the e...
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Ένα δικό σου δωμάτιο
Το "Ένα δικό σου δωμάτιο" δημοσιευμένο τον Σεπτέμβριο του 1929, βασίζεται σε δύο διαλέξεις που έδωσε η Βιρτζίνια Γουλφ, τον Οκτώβριο του 1928 στα δύο κολέγια του Πανεπιστημίου του Κέμπριτζ, όπου για πρώτη φορά φοιτούσαν γυναίκες. Στο εκτεταμένο αυτό δοκίμιο η συγγραφέας αναφέρεται στη ζωή των γυναικών και ειδικότερα των καλλιτεχνών, όπου σύμφωνα με την Γουλφ αιώνες κοινωνικών, οικονομικών και εκπαιδευτικών προκαταλήψεων έχουν καταπνίξει τη δημιουργικότητα των γυναικών. Υποστηρίζει ότι η πνευματική ελευθερία απαιτεί οικονομική ελευθερία και...
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(P/B) REBECCA
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again ... Working as a lady's companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to the ominous and brooding Manderley, the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. And the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding Mrs Danvers ...Not since Jane...
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(P/B) THE NIGHT WATCH
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching ...Helen, clever, sweet, much-loved, harbo...
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