LA PAURA SI SVEGLIA AL TRAMONTO. LA PAURA SI NUTRE DEL BUIO. LA PAURA È UN ANIMALE NOTTURNO. Quando calano le tenebre, una donna si aggira per i corridoi di un antico palazzo. Ha gli occhi chiusi, dorme, eppure le sue azioni la tradiscono. Forse è posseduta. Forse è un’assassina. In un museo, un quadro maledetto ossessiona un giovane visitatore, che vede il suo riflesso nel volto dell’uomo dipinto, straziato dalle ferite. Un’illusione o il passato che riaffiora? Solo l’oscurità conosce la risposta. Un arazzo di storie notturne per immergersi nel cuore delle tenebre

Two graduate students must set aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul, perhaps at the cost of their own. Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality—her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world—that is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault. Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands, and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams. Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the same conclusion.

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. According to Mother, he’ll be married by the end of the year. It doesn’t matter that he’s needed a decade of tutors to hide his autism; that he practices surgery on slaughtered pigs; that he is a boy, not the girl the world insists on seeing. After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is diagnosed with Veil sickness—a mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madness—and shipped away to Braxton’s Sanitorium and Finishing School. The facility is cold, the instructors merciless, and the students either bloom into eligible wives or disappear. So when the ghosts of missing students start begging Silas for help, he decides to reach into Braxton’s innards and expose its rotten guts to the world—as long as the school doesn’t break him first.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present. Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.

50th Anniversary Edition, with a new introduction by David Mitchell and a new afterword by Charlie Jane Anders Ursula K. Le Guin’s groundbreaking work of science fiction—winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters... Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.

LA PAURA SI SVEGLIA AL TRAMONTO. LA PAURA SI NUTRE DEL BUIO. LA PAURA È UN ANIMALE NOTTURNO. Quando calano le tenebre, una donna si aggira per i corridoi di un antico palazzo. Ha gli occhi chiusi, dorme, eppure le sue azioni la tradiscono. Forse è posseduta. Forse è un’assassina. In un museo, un quadro maledetto ossessiona un giovane visitatore, che vede il suo riflesso nel volto dell’uomo dipinto, straziato dalle ferite. Un’illusione o il passato che riaffiora? Solo l’oscurità conosce la risposta. Un arazzo di storie notturne per immergersi nel cuore delle tenebre

Essays on Storytelling. In over 30 essays, written over 20 years, one of the world's great story-tellers meditates on story-telling. Warm, funny, generous, entertaining, and above all, deeply considered, they offer thoughts on a wide variety of topic, including the origin and composition of Philip's own stories, the craft of writing and the story-tellers who have meant the most to him. The art of story-telling is everywhere present in the essays themselves, in the instantly engaging tone, the vivid imagery and the striking phrases, the resonant anecdotes, the humour and learnedness. Together, they are greater than the sum of their parts.

Picking up right where The Secret Commonwealth left off, this story finds Lyra alone in a city haunted by daemons, searching for her beloved Pan. Malcolm Polstead isn't far behind, searching for Lyra. And they are both racing toward the desert of Karamakan, following the trail of roses said to hold the secret of Dust. Their allies and enemies are converging on the mysterious red building at the heart of the desert: Marcel Delamare and the military might of the Magisterium; the radical Men from the Mountains; scientists, scholars and spies; troops of witches and other people of the air. And awaiting them all is a previously unseen and chilling new threat that will change everything. The intertwining odysseys of Malcolm and Lyra, their journeys both internal and external, will test their limits and challenge even their most dearly held beliefs. As ever, Philip Pullman is using the language of fantasy to illuminate our world and to explore the deepest questions of what it means to be alive and awake to all the splendors and horrors around us. The extraordinary novels of The Book of Dust speak powerfully to today's readers and will take their place alongside the forever-favorites of His Dark Materials.

Two graduate students must set aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul, perhaps at the cost of their own. Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality—her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world—that is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault. Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands, and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams. Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the same conclusion.

50th Anniversary Edition, with a new introduction by David Mitchell and a new afterword by Charlie Jane Anders Ursula K. Le Guin’s groundbreaking work of science fiction—winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters... Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.

Announcing the first expansion in more than 40 years of the venerable New Penguin Parallel Text series. Here is the perfect introduction to contemporary Japanese fiction. Featuring many stories appearing in English for the first time, this collection, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without having to constantly consult a dictionary. Richly diverse in themes and styles, the stories are by well-known writers-like Haruki Murakami and Banana Yoshimoto-as well as by emerging voices. Complete with notes, these selections make excellent reading in either language.

Il Giappone del XIII secolo rivive nelle pagine di questo diario, scritto da una donna affascinante e raffinata, la nobile Nijò. Nata a Kyoto nel 1258 da una delle più illustri famiglie dell'epoca, Nijò fu educata alla Corte imperiale e a tredici anni divenne concubina dell'ex imperatore Go Fukakusa: la bellezza, l'animo sensibile, l'ingegno artistico, la cultura classica e soprattutto il fascino che esercitava, avrebbero potuto permetterle di divenire imperatrice; invece, per le sue intemperanze amorose e per l'odio di una rivale fu allontanata da corte a venticinque anni e da allora, fattasi monaca, si dedicò ai viaggi e alla stesura di questo diario, il più vivido e palpitante affresco dell'antico Giappone. L'unione contraddittoria ma intensissima con Go Fukakusa, il dolore per la morte del padre, la relazione segreta con l'inquietante cugino, la sacrilega e tormentata passione del principe-monaco, la nascita dei figli, l'esilio dalla Corte, la nuova vita di monaca e di pellegrina, i viaggi in luoghi incantevoli e selvaggi, tra monti e boschi sacri, gli incontri con guerrieri, sacerdoti, prostitute, mercanti di schiavi, sono descritti con leggiadria, con passione, con dolore, con impavida schiettezza.