American literature • Autobiographies and Memoirs
Istočni grijeh
Anthony Quinn
Autobiographical work, winner of several awards for exceptional literary value. A story of misery, violence, sex and death in the suburbs of Los Angeles. The honest confession of a man torn by self-doubt.
Fourteen years after "Corrections" and five years after "Freedom," Franzen wrote another great novel, "his most intimate yet, in which he added some new tones to his voice.
V.B.Z, 2015.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
13.56 €
American literature • Erotic Novels • Psychological novel
This is an accusation, a slander, a personal insult. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a continuous insult, a spit in the face of Art, a foot in the tur against God, Man, Fate, Time, Love, Beauty...whatever you want.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, the messenger of a lost generation, paints a portrait of the era between the two wars in this collection of eleven stories: hedonism that bites, moral decay that intoxicates, and youth that burns like fireworks.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the first truly realistic children's novel, not only in American but also in world children's literature. Twain's most famous work and a favorite children's book in which the writer described his boyhood experiences.
Margaret Atwood described the novel as speculative fiction and adventure romance rather than pure science fiction, as it does not deal with things that "we cannot yet do or begin to do", but it goes beyond the amount of realism she associates with the nov