Mario Biondi Books

In nineteenth-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal despair, unable to find a cure for the headaches and other ailments that plague him. When he agrees to treat Nietzsche with his experimental “talking cure,” Breuer never expects that he too will find solace in their sessions. Only through facing his own inner demons can the gifted healer begin to help his patient. In When Nietzsche Wept, Irvin Yalom blends fact and fiction, atmosphere and suspense, to unfold an unforgettable story about the redemptive power of friendship.

These richly hypnotic tales enfold the reader into Isaac Bashevis Singer's special world of imps, demons, lovers, and other mischievous creatures. His world is a world of feelings, driven by lust, lechery, greed, madness, and love. All of his creatures are seen with a clear but loving eye; all seem and are in fact possessed by good and evil, caught in fascinating dilemmas, now terrible, now wryly comic. Here is a dazzling new collection of stories from the fertile genius of Isaac Bashevis Singer, one of today's most entertaining and original writers. (from back cover)

Sean Courtney goes to South Africa in the late 19th century to begin farming.

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In 1860 Robyn Ballantyne and her brother return to Africa to search for their missing father and face the terrors of near certain death and the uncertainties of love in the heart of the Dark Continent

The Longman Fiction series consists of simplified works of fiction and covers a wide range of language levels from lower intermediate to advanced. Each book contains an introduction with background information on both the story and original author. This text is lower intermediate level.

[Longman Simplified Fiction]Contemporary / British English It is 1954 and Kabuo Miyamoto is on trial for murder. He is a Japanese American living on the island of San Piedro, off the north-west coast of America. The Second World War has left an atmosphere of anger and suspicion in this small community. Will Kabuo receive a fair trial? And will the true cause of the victim's death be discovered?

One of the greatest novels of the 20th century by one of the greatest writers in American history High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer on the republican side of the Spanish Civil War, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels. It is in these desperate days that his fate will be set.

Three tales of the vicissitudes of love, by the author of "Trainspotting" and "Shallow Grave". "Lorraine Goes to Livingston" features an authoress who suffers a stroke; "Fortune's Always Hiding" is a corporate drug romance; "The Undefeated" is set in the grim backstreets of modern Edinburgh.

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. 8vo pp. 352 Rilegato tela, sovracoperta (cloth, dust jacket) Ottimo (Fine)