Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden sex worker, can offer the chance of redemption.

Tutti hanno un Istinto. Tutto è perfetto. Nessuna scelta. Nessuna deviazione. Nessuna libertà. Ma quando alcuni studenti scompaiono nel silenzio generale, si scopre che il Noi non è affatto ciò che sembra.Dall’autrice dell’Attraversaspecchi, un nuovo straordinario mondo.Il mondo è dominato dal Noi, entità immateriale che governa tramite gli Altissimi, secondo i princìpi della Burocrazia Istintiva. Gli uomini sono suddivisi in base al loro Istinto, pura espressione del Noi che determina la loro vita e guida le loro azioni. Nell’abbraccio del Noi, tutto è perfetto e l’individualismo è un crimine. Eppure in quell’incrollabile armonia Claire, da poco diciottenne, sa di essere fuori posto. Lo sa e non può dirlo, perché sarebbe un comportamento contrario al Noi. Un comportamento che la Burocrazia Istintiva reprimerebbe senza pietà. Allora vive fingendo, adeguandosi all’andamento generale, ma dentro di sé vuole capire se in quel mondo perfetto è l’unica diversa o ce ne sono altri come lei. La prima avvisaglia che qualcosa non va per il verso giusto ce l’ha quando una sua compagna di collegio sparisce da un giorno all’altro misteriosamente. Da lì in poi è tutto un susseguirsi di eventi in cui Claire scopre l’esistenza di una setta segreta che conosce ogni risposta. Ma farsi delle domande è proibito.

Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. In just a few weeks she'll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunning pretty. And as a pretty, she'll be catapulted into a high-tech paradise where her only job is to have fun. But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to become a pretty. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world—and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally a choice: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. Tally's choice will change her world forever....

"I live for the dream that my children will be born free," she says. "That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them." "I live for you," I say sadly. Eo kisses my cheek. "Then you must live for more." Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity already reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class. Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity's overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society's ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies... even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.

Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.