Tommaso Pisanti Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Explore the transcendent world of unity and ultimate beauty in Edgar Allan Poe’s verse in this complete poetry collection. Although best known for his short stories, Edgar Allan Poe was by nature and choice a poet. From his exquisite lyric “To Helen,” to his immortal masterpieces, “Annabel Lee,” “The Bells,” and “The Raven,” Poe stands beside the celebrated English romantic poets Shelley, Byron, and Keats, and his haunting, sensuous poetic vision profoundly influenced the Victorian giants Swinburne, Tennyson, and Rossetti. Today his dark side speaks eloquently to contemporary readers in poems such as “The Haunted Palace” and “The Conqueror Worm,” with their powerful images of madness and the macabre. But even at the end of his life, Poe reached out to his art for comfort and courage, giving us in “Eldorado” a talisman to hold during our darkest moments—a timeless gift from a great American writer. Includes an Introduction by Jay Parini and an Afterword by April Bernard

A bestseller when it was first published, The Children is a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers and stepsisters grown weary of being shuttled from parent to parent are eager for their parents' latest reconciliation to last. A chance meeting between the children and the solitary 46-year old Martin Boyne leads to a series of unforgettable encounters.

IN the old fairy tales the cradles of new-born infants were visited by beneficent beings who granted special gifts of fortune, beauty, talent, though sometimes a jealous hag would slink in and by a malevolent counter- charm try to spoil the bright future. Such things have long ago ceased in commonplace England, but it is differ- ent in India; and we can hardly help believing that the power of understanding the speech of animals and birds is still occasionally conferred on fortunate mortals. Else how can one explain "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," and "Tomai of the Elephants " ? Fortunate for special purposes is the man of one race and language who is born amid the men of another, and thus inherits two tongues and the knowledge of two peoples. Such was the good fortune of Rudyard Kipling, and it is not a mere legend that, on meeting with Indian elephants amid the tawdry surroundings of an American circus, he was able to talk and understand the mystic language of the jungle.

Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the world's literature.

A sailor recounts the terrible fate that befell his ship when he shot down an albatross.

Yvette is an innocent rector's daughter. When she meets a handsome gipsy she feels him watching her, acutely aware of her virginity. Half drawn to him and half afraid, it is only when her life is endangered that she finally feels true love. United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love's endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love . . . .

Massime spirituali è un'opera piuttosto singolare, che a una prima ampia raccolta di aforismi, tipica espressione del pensiero denso e immediato di Gibran, fa seguire alcuni brevi scritti di argomento filosofico, etico e politico, che conferiscono maggiore respiro alle riflessioni dell'autore sulla vita, la morte, la religione. Particolare importanza riveste l'ultima prosa raccolta in questo volume, Il tuo pensiero e il mio, che contiene in nuce tutta la straordinaria visione umana, religiosa e sociale di Gibran. L'unitarietà e la coerenza dell'intero testo vanno rintracciate nel proposito ideale dell'autore di creare un ponte spirituale tra la cultura occidentale e il mondo islamico, superando e risolvendo in un'unica dimensione sovraculturale tutte le differenze concettuali, ideologiche e storiche: è qui la chiave di lettura di tutta la scrittura di Gibran.

Pubblicato tre anni dopo Il Profeta, il libro che ha fatto di Gibran uno dei poeti più letti del mondo occidentale, Sabbia e onda ripropone con forza la sorprendente comunicatività e la suggestiva, solenne, non di rado enigmatica densità del suo discorso. Il segreto della riuscita di Gibran risiede appunto nella capacità (perlomeno insolita nella poesia del Novecento) di conciliare una naturale tendenza all’aforisma, al «versetto» con un’altrettanto spontanea ed efficace vocazione all’affidabilità, alla chiarezza. Le pagine di Gibran hanno un fascino luminoso e senza tempo, giungono senza mediazioni al cuore del lettore per parlargli con davvero «profetica» semplicità dei grandi, eterni temi dell’esistenza spirituale e corporea.

En pleine nuit, des cris effrayants réveillent les habitants de la rue Morgue, à Paris. Ils vont bientôt découvrir les cadavres atrocement mutilés d'une jeune fille et de sa mère. Des meurtres qui auraient pu rester inexplicables, sans la présence d'esprit d'Auguste Dupin, un jeune et brillant détective amateur... La plus célèbre nouvelle d'Edgar Allan Poe, suivie de la non moins énigmatique Lettre volée.

Natura, storia, fiducia in se stessi, amore, cerchi, il poeta, esperienza, doni, politica.

Il primo volume contiene: "La tempesta", "I gentiluomini di Verona", "Le allegre comari di Windsor", "Misura per misura", "La commedia degli errori", "Molto rumore per nulla", "Pene d'amor perdute", "Sogno di una notte di mezza estate", "Il mercante di Venezia", "Come vi piace", "La bisbetica domata", "Tutto è bene quel che finisce bene", "La dodicesima notte", "Il racconto d'inverno", "Enrico IV", "Enrico V", "Enrico VI".