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Thirteen-year-old Agostino spends the summer at the seaside with his beautiful widowed mother. When she becomes close to her lover, the boy feels rejected and joins the company of rough local boys to get revenge and grow up.
The first novel that Dreiser achieved commercial success is a story based on a true story about a young man who does not shy away from any obstacle, not even murder, just to become part of respectable American society.
The book consists of two parallel stories that explore love, freedom, responsibility, and destiny, and show how life's decisions determine a person's path.
Historical and psychological novel by Stendhal, published in 1830. The full title of the novel is "Red and Black, Chronicle of the 19th Century". The protagonist is Julien Sorel. The work is a bildungsroman that follows his upbringing and life path.
Ladislav Fuks's "Mr. Theodor Mundstock" follows a lonely Jew in occupied Prague who, expecting deportation to a concentration camp, mentally and physically prepares himself for survival.
A psychological novel by Italian writer and director Mario Soldati about a love triangle, later adapted into a film: Italian professor Edoardo, his American wife Edith and her friend Anna. Passion, deception and tragedy.