Bruno Oddera Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence--a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon. As the treatment takes effect, Charlies intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie? --back cover

Il nome di Conrad è indissolubilmente legato al mare. In numerosi romanzi e racconti, infatti, lo scrittore ha trasferito, rievocandole e trasfigurandole col soffio del mito, le sue avventure di vagabondo degli oceani, e in particolare delle rotte orientali. Questo volume riunisce, oltre a Il negro del Narciso (1897) e a Tifone (1903) – tra i più celebri romanzi brevi di Conrad – Un colpo di fortuna e Freya delle Sette Isole , entrambi del 1912, storie di mare nelle quali compaiono due singolari personaggi femminili. In queste pagine il magico mondo del mare è descritto in tutti i suoi aspetti: l’ostilità e la furia degli elementi, l’esistenza dura degli equipaggi, gli uomini e le donne che popolano i porti, le coste, le navi, i sogni e gli incubi dei marinai.

A spellbinding novel of romantic obsession. Vernon Deyre is a sensitive and brilliant musician, even a genius. But there is a high price to be paid for his talent, especially by his family and the two women in his life. His sheltered childhood in the home he loves has not prepared Vernon for the harsh reality of his adult years, and in order to write the great masterpiece of his life, he has to make a crucial decision with no time left to count the cost... Famous for her ingenious crime books and plays, Agatha Christie also wrote about crimes of the heart, six bittersweet and very personal novels, as compelling and memorable as the best of her work.

Een geesteszieke Vietnam-veteraan wil tijdens een belangrijke sportgebeurtenis een aanslag plegen op een stadion in New Orleans.

Singer roept een ongewone, bijna fantastische wereld op waarin het Poolse jodendom een centrale plaats inneemt, vol geesten, fanatici, charlatans, valse messiassen, duivels en dromen. Singers scepsis en spot, zijn opmerkingsgave voor het gruwelijke en groteske, zijn dynamische verteltechniek worden magistraal geetaleerd in 'De magier van Lublin' dat speelt in het Polen aan het einde van de negentiende eeuw. De joden zijn de gesjochten schlemielen in deze kleurrijke historische roman over het leven van Jasja Mazur. De magier is een rondreizende artiest. Hij heeft zijn orthodoxe geloof verloren en is een ware Don Juan, onvermoeibaar jager op geld en vrouwen. Zijn grote liefde is een oudere, rooms-katholieke weduwe waarmee hij, weg van zijn vrouw, naar Italie wil reizen. Meester in het openen van sloten als hij is gaat hij om zijn plannen te financieren een inbraak plegen. Als die mislukt stort zijn rijk ineen. Hij wordt achtervolgd door een reeks ongelukken. Hij raakt gewond, de vrouwen keren zich van hem af en ook zijn geliefde is onbereikbaar geworden. Hij gaat terug naar zijn vrouw in Lublin, laat zich inmetselen en wordt een asceet.

Testi successivi alla raccolta dei Quarantanove Racconti pubblicati in volumi e riviste, pubblicati originariamente come "Part II" e "Part III" de "The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway"

For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders ...until he meets Donald Shimoda - former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's imagination soar...

On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time men are sent out deep into our solar system. But long before their destination is reached, things begin to go horribly, inexplicably wrong... One of the greatest-selling science fiction novels of our time, this classic book will grip you to the very end.

Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, this is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempts to do battle with the awesome power of the Combine Kesey's galvanizing novel probes the meaning of madness, often turning the conventional notion of sanity on its head, and offers and unforgettable portrait of a man teaching the value of self-reliance and laughter who is destroyed by the forces of hatred and fear.

Don Juan de Zavala is the most skilled fighter in all of New Spain. But the magnificent Aztec empire lies broken under the Spanish boot. And valiant men and fearless women now battle their brutal overlords in an Aztec revolt. No one, including Juan de Zavala, can stay neutral. Especially when a shocking secret from Zavala's lurid past is exposed.