Showing results for "Problems" in Literary Fiction

Internationally best-selling novelist Irvin D. Yalom explores the mindsets of two men separated by 300 years. Using his skills as a psychiatrist, he explores the inner lives of Baruch Spinoza, the Jewish 17th-century secular philosopher, and of Alfred Rosenberg, outspoken Nazi ideologue, faithful servant of Hitler, the main author of racial policy for the Third Reich, and a godless mass murderer....

Maya's been able to get by in New York on her wits and a dead-end bookstore job for years, but when her husband leaves her and her favorite professor ends their affair, her barely-calibrated life descends into chaos, and she has to make some choices. Maya's struggle to be alone, to be a woman, and to be thoughtful and imperfect and alive in a world that doesn't really care what happens to her is rendered with dead-eyed clarity and unnerving charm. This book takes every tired trope about addiction and recovery, "likeable" characters, and redemption narratives and blows them to pieces.

31. Dezember. Steuererklärung, Wohnung putzen, Bett für die Tochter zusammenschrauben, Lebenswerk schreiben, mit dem Rauchen aufhören – eigentlich wollte Lars, neunundvierzigjähriger Vieldenker und angehender Schriftsteller, die Lücke zwischen den Jahren dafür nutzen, endlich alles zu erledigen, was in den letzten Dekaden so auf der Strecke geblieben ist. Doch die Woche, in der noch alles zu schaffen gewesen wäre – plötzlich ist sie aufgebraucht. Der letzte Tag des Jahres hat begonnen – mit Nieselregen, wie sonst? Das Haus ist immer noch chaotisch. Das Leben sowieso.

"Svaret på vad de flestas problem är var förvånansvärt enkelt. Andra människors existens." Det eviga mellanbarnet som ingen riktigt bryr sig om. Precis så har hela livet varit för Amalia. Hon har försökt hävda sig genom karriärvalen - först massös, sedan terapeut - utan att hitta rätt. Men i en session med en patient får hon plötsligt sitt livs idé.

"Over the last few years I've started writing a number of stories that, for various reasons, I never finished writing..." So begins Special Problems, the comic tale of Christie Hodges, a writer who can't seem to finish a story. The problem isn't that Hodges has nothing to write about - there's her recent divorce, her paralyzed foot, trouble with her daughter and job - it's that once she starts writing, she can't stop. One problem leads to another, and another.

"The Final Problem" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Strand Magazine under the title "The Adventure of the Final Problem" in December 1893. It appears in book form as part of the collection The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. This story, set in 1891, introduced Holmes's archenemy, the criminal mastermind Professor James Moriarty. Conan Doyle later ranked "The Final Problem" fourth on his personal list of the twelve best Holmes stories. Holmes arrives at Dr.

"The Problem of Thor Bridge" is a Sherlock Holmes murder mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, first published in 1922 in The Strand Magazine. Neil Gibson, the Gold King and former Senator from "some Western state", approaches Holmes to investigate the murder of his wife Maria in order to clear his children's governess, Grace Dunbar, of the crime. It soon emerges that Mr. Gibson's marriage had been unhappy and he treated his wife very badly.

Professor Van Dusen solves a variety of different mysteries together with his friend, Hutchinson Hatch, a reporter for a fictional newspaper called The Daily New Yorker. The professor is known as the "Thinking Machine", and he solves problems by the remorseless application of logic. In this story, he thinks his way out of a maximum-security prison.

Invece di annullarle, la luna di miele pare aver accentuato le incomprensioni tra Valentina e Tommaso. Di ritorno dalle Seychelles, dopo giorni di dubbi e paure sul loro futuro, l'aereo dove viaggiavano s'imbatte in una tempesta inaspettata: in seguito a una turbolenza, la coppia rimane bloccata su un'isola deserta. Valentina e Tommaso si troveranno ad affrontare non solo gli ostacoli naturali di una sopravvivenza difficile, ma anche i problemi di un'esistenza, la loro, contraddistinta da incertezze e precarietà.