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Mario Biondi

    Mario Biondi is an Italian author, renowned for his engagement with Anglo-American fiction. A skilled reviewer and translator of notable writers, he has lent his distinctive literary voice to numerous works. His own writing, encompassing both poetry and prose, offers profound insights into the human psyche and societal themes, establishing him as a unique figure in the literary landscape.

    The accidental tourist
    Flight of the Falcon
    Una porta di luce
    When the Lion Feeds
    A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
    When Nietzsche wept
    • When Nietzsche wept

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      A richly evocative novel that portrays an astutely imagined relationship between Europe's greatest philosopher and one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis.

      When Nietzsche wept
      4.4
    • A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories

      • 319 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      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)

      A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
      4.3
    • When the Lion Feeds

      • 544 pages
      • 20 hours of reading

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

      When the Lion Feeds
      4.2
    • 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

      Flight of the Falcon
      4.0
    • The accidental tourist

      • 90 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      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.

      The accidental tourist
      3.9
    • [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?

      Snow Falling on Cedars
      3.9
    • For Whom the Bell Tolls

      • 496 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      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.

      For Whom the Bell Tolls
      3.9
    • Lloyd from Leith has a transfiguring passion for the unhappily married Heather. Together they explore the true nature of house music and chemical romance. Will their ardour fizzle and die or will it ignite and blaze like a thousand suns? Ecstasy follows them and others through the backstreets of Edinburgh, stifling suburban sitting rooms and the bright lights of London. Exhilarating and dazzling, this is Welsh at his very best.

      Ecstasy
      3.4