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The novel follows a married couple, Eduardo and Charlotte, who, after years of separation, are living in harmony again on their estate. When they invite two guests to join them, their emotional connections begin to change.
"Surviving Death" (1939) is a romantic-psychological novel by Czech writer, actress, and playwright Olga Scheinpflugová, completed shortly before the death of her husband, Karel Čapek, in 1938.
The novel gives a cross-section of family relationships in the writer's time. Many men have cheated on their wives in order to enjoy some pleasures for one night. They had no idea that their wives had psychological trauma because of it.
The Biscounted Viscount is a novel by Italo Calvino published in 1952. It is the first part of the Our Ancestors trilogy, which also includes the short novels The Baron in the Trees from 1957 and The Nonexistent Knight from 1959.
A collection of 41 short stories: the characters act like "automatons" – mechanical, listless, incapable of authentic reaction to life's problems. Modern man alienated, trapped in routine, sex, money and passivity, without will or feelings.
One of the most significant works of 20th-century Russian literature, the novel follows the life of Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, through the dramatic events of World War I, the October Revolution, and the Russian Civil War.