Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his band of rebel angels plot their revenge against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, motivated by all too human temptations, but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love. Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years it has held generation upon generation of scholars, students and readers in rapt attention and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture.

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Ensimmäisen maailmansodan jälkeiseen aikaan sijoitettu avioliittoromaani Huojuva talo on kuvaus pahuudesta ja julmuudesta. Teosta voi myös pitää jopa varoittavana esimerkkinä heikon naisen alistumisesta avioliittohelvetissä. Kirjan yhteydessä on puhuttu moraliteetista eli vertauskuvallisesta tarinasta, jossa elämä, kuolema, ahneus, hyveet ja paheet ovat henkilöityneet Eero ja Lea Markun hahmoihin. Huojuvan talon Lea näkee jo lapsuudessaan vanhempiensa avioliiton vaikeudet ja ihmissuhteiden epäonnistumisen. Hän on itsenäistyvä, työtätekevä nainen, joka vastuuntuntoisena huolehtii siskostaan kuten aikaisemmin isästään. Lea kiinnostuu työpaikan Juhannusjuhlissa tohtori Aulis Heliosta, mutta päätyy tohtori Eero Markun seuraan. Lean ja Eeron suhde etenee nopeasti: he avioituvat ja pian Lea odottaa lasta. Ylpeän ja sovinnaisen Eeron mukaan miehen on elätettävä vaimonsa, joten Lean on pakko jättää työpaikkansa. Vähitellen Lea joutuu tinkimään myös ruuastaan ja vaatteistaan sekä luopumaan vapaudestaan ja fyysisestä koskemattomuudestaan. Hän epäilee jakavansa Eeron vaihtuvien kotiapulaisten kanssa. Elämästä kehkeytyy pahenevien nöyryytysten sarja, josta perheen lapset Poju ja Tytti saavat myös osansa. Suuruudenhullun ja vainoharhaisen Eero Markun ailahtelevuus pitää perhettä alituisessa jännityksessä; uhrautuva ja hyveellinen Lea antaa kuitenkin kerta toisen jälkeen Eerolle anteeksi. Maria Jotunin pojanpojan Kari Tarkiaisen mukaan romaani heijastaa myös kirjailijan oman elämän ja avioliiton vaikeuksia.

This Everyman’s Library edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli’s marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations. Translated in this edition by Allen Mandelbaum, The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity. Mandelbaum’s astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.

Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--and they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Yet against all odds, they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds. As they fall in love, they dream of finding somewhere they belong, while Mungo works hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his big brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold. And when several months later Mungo's mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in Western Scotland with two strange men whose drunken banter belies murky pasts, he will need to summon all his inner strength and courage to try to get back to a place of safety, a place where he and James might still have a future. Imbuing the everyday world of its characters with rich lyricism and giving full voice to people rarely acknowledged in the literary world, Young Mungo is a gripping and revealing story about the bounds of masculinity, the divisions of sectarianism, the violence faced by many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much.

Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story of first love between two young men who eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the political divide—a stunningly poetic and heartrending literary debut for fans of Andre Aciman, Garth Greenwell, and Alan Hollinghurst.When university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a summer agricultural camp, he is fascinated yet wary of this handsome, carefree stranger. But a chance meeting by the river soon becomes an intense, exhilarating, and all-consuming affair. After their camp duties are fulfilled, the pair spend a dreamlike few weeks camping in the countryside, bonding over an illicit copy of James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room. Inhabiting a beautiful natural world removed from society and its constraints, Ludwik and Janusz fall deeply in love. But in their repressive communist and Catholic society, the passion they share is utterly unthinkable. Once they return to Warsaw, the charismatic Janusz quickly rises in the political ranks of the party and is rewarded with a highly-coveted position in the ministry. Ludwik is drawn toward impulsive acts of protest, unable to ignore rising food prices and the stark economic disparity around them. Their secret love and personal and political differences slowly begin to tear them apart as both men struggle to survive in a regime on the brink of collapse. Shifting from the intoxication of first love to the quiet melancholy of growing up and growing apart, Swimming in the Dark is a potent blend of romance, post-war politics, intrigue, and history. Lyrical and sensual, immersive and intense, Tomasz Jedrowski has crafted an indelible and thought-provoking literary debut that explores freedom and love in all its incarnations.

Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them. What grows from the depths of their spirits is a romance of scarcely six weeks' duration and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. The psychological maneuvers that accompany attraction have seldom been more shrewdly captured than in André Aciman's frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion. Call Me by Your Name is clear-eyed, bare-knuckled, and ultimately unforgettable.

On vuosi 1982. Nuori ja kaunis Rasmus astuu junasta Tukholman keskusasemalla. Taakse jää pikkukylä Värmlannissa, edessä on syntinen Tukholma. Benjamin on Jehovan todistaja. Hän kiertää ovelta ovelle puhumassa ihmisille Jumalasta. Mikään ei voi horjuttaa hänen uskoaan paitsi, että oven sattuu avaamaan Paul; Jumalan luomista homoista lämpimin, hauskin ja flirtein ikinä. Ja kun jouluaattona pimeys on laskeutunut kaupungin ylle ja lumihiutaleet leijuvat maahan, Rasmus ja Benjamin kohtaavat. Eikä mikään palaa enää koskaan ennalleen. Kirjassa kerrottu on todella tapahtunut. Kauan sitten, Tukholman kaupungissa. Nuoria miehiä sairastui, kuihtui ja kuoli pois. Jonas Gardell oli yksi niistä, jotka selviytyivät. Tämä on tarina hänestä ja hänen ystävistään.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062060624. Achilles, "the best of all the Greeks," son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful, irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the gods' wrath. They are trained by the centaur Chiron in the arts of war and medicine, but when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, all the heroes of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the cruel Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice.