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Un caballero de industria ruso, Chichikov, ha descubierto que si compra a sus antiguos duenos los siervos muertos despues del ultimo censo, puede lograr grandes subvenciones y esas son las almas muertas. La meta del autor fue "tratar de mostrar el alma rusa, con su variedad de dotes y riquezas morales pero tambien con sus defectos, que caracterizan al pueblo ruso".

تصنَّف رواية الوجه الأصفر بأنها إحدى روايات الرعب التي تدور حول الشعور بالوحدة في مجال الأدب شديد التنافسية؛

Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folks; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle. Three witches gathered on a lonely heath. A king cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child heir and the crown of...

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Phineas Finn is an Irish MPA who is climbing the political ladder, largely through the assistance of his string of lovers. The questions he is forced to ask himself about honesty, independence, and parliamentary democracy are questions still asked today. Phineas Finn is the second of Anthony...

From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of "the sisterhood of women". She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes, and marked out for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, veteran of the Civil War, with rigid views concerning society and women's place therein. Is the lovely, lighthearted Verena made for public movements or private passions?

The beloved author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared returns with an enchanting adventure that skewers the greed and hypocrisy that dominates our time and holds lessons about what’s truly important in life. Meet Ole Mbatian Jr., a Maasai warrior; Kevin...

Wren Daniels is in over her head. Between organizing a charity auction and trying to renovate a cabin she cant afford, shes barely keeping her head above water. The only bright spot is her new friend she met on an anonymous dating app four months ago. That is, until she discovers hes the last...

As irreverent as it is amusingly insightful, Cinephilia is the world’s only transgressive work of satirical fiction that involves both cat strangling AND ninjas. The characters are as hilarious as they are absurd and persons of every potential gender, race, and creed are welcome to laugh...

Kelvin is a mild-mannered guy with dreams like anyone else. He works at a fast-food restaurant, keeps to himself and crushes on one of his coworkers. Things never change...Until one day, Kelvin discovers he has a super power when he gets annoyed. The power to slap people with gory and deadly...

I "Her går det godt" (1952) udstiller Finn Søeborg blandt andet naboskab, familieforhold, sportsidioter og læserbrevsskribenter i 1950’ernes Danmark, hvor bolignøden præger mange menneskers hverdag. En mild satire med herlige typer som fx den koleriske Jeronimus, der med stor iver søger...

Why do Brits say “I’m fine” when they are absolutely not fine? Why can a queue jumper inspire more silent fury than an actual crime? And why is putting the kettle on considered an appropriate response to almost every crisis?Brits Don’t Do Drama: We Just Complain About Everything Quietly...

Twenty days to go-live. One CRM & ERP project. What could possibly go wrong?Liam Lane has spent years implementing business systems and has learned one important lesson:The software is rarely the problem.With go-live approaching, the project is held together by stand-ups, status reports...

The system isn’t done with Jake Long.After the biggest payday of his life, Jake thought he’d finally won, until Amazon lobbied the government to money-print his fortune into scraps. Right across the street they built the Feminist Tower of Babel: a gleaming monument where men are quarantined...

When a brutal alien invasion turns out to be a galaxy-wide reality TV show, Chad Jenkins, a broken man given wolverine-like regeneration must team up with an android, a sasquatch, and a teen tentacle abomination in order to save humanity from enslavement.Humanity isn’t just expected to survive...

One broken Republic. One impossible choice. One bargain no honest politician should ever accept.Lucilla Minor has never wanted power. She prefers laws to speeches, ledgers to glory, and believes Rome's problems can usually be solved by competent administration.Then someone offers her the chance...

Gnot Normal woke up dead.At least, that was his first assessment.His second was that being dead involved considerably more mud than expected.Now he’s stranded on Anachronia, a world where time is broken, neighboring towns belong to different centuries, and reality has an alarming habit of...

Fünf Frauen unter einem Dach – das kann nur in einer Katastrophe enden? Tut es, aber anders als gedacht. Als dann auch noch Benno auf die Idee kommt, Brigitte ungefragt einen Hund zu schenken – noch dazu einen Welpen – ist das Chaos perfekt und die Nerven liegen blank. Und noch bevor alle...

Book #1 in the Wilt series. The hilarious first Henry Wilt novel from Tom Sharpe, the British master of farce and bestselling author of Porterhouse Blue. Meet Henry Wilt. Professionally overlooked. Demoralised at home. Passed over for promotion yet again. At work, he faces yet more years of trying to force literature into the heads of students who'd rather be anywhere else.

Eine Reise in den Rausch! Nach ihrem Hörbuch über den Opernball legt Stefanie Sargnagel mit einem weiteren Abenteuer nach: Allen Warnungen zum Trotz und in ein Dirndl geschnürt begibt sie sich an einen Ort, der für viele eine Zumutung ist und für andere der Himmel: das Münchner Oktoberfest. Das bietet viel Anlass zum Nachdenken über die liebenswerten und weniger schmeichelhaften Gemeinsamkeiten von Österreich und Bayern.