One copy is available
Are you interested in another book? You can search the offer using our search engine or browse books by category.
Norman Mailer's novel The Naked and the Dead (1948) is a masterpiece of American literature about World War II. The plot follows a platoon of American soldiers on the fictional Pacific island of Anopopeia during their fight against the Japanese army.
A story about family love, about memory's ability to keep the truth alive, and about the danger of denying memory. At the same time extensive and intimate, comic and tragic, it is a kaleidoscopic, deeply emotional saga about home and the heart.
The novella was published for the first time in 1961 in the magazine Novij mir and aroused anger among critics, pointing out that it is only "about the narrow, intimate experiences of the heroine".
Sweetness is the first novel by Gabriele d'Annunzio, written in 1889 in Francavilla al Mare, and published the following year by Fratelli Treves.