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Adriana Motti

    Madre e Figlio
    Het geheim van Rosenbad
    Wide Sargasso Sea
    A Passage to India
    The catcher in the rye
    • When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape the parochial English enclave and explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that rouses violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects. A masterly portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate of individuals caught between the great political and cultural conflicts of the modern world. In his introduction, Pankaj Mishra outlines Forster's complex engagement with Indian society and culture. This edition reproduces the Abinger text and notes, and also includes four of Forster's essays on India, a chronology and further reading.

      A Passage to India1988
      3.7
    • The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books. "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.

      The catcher in the rye1986
      3.8
    • Wide Sargasso Sea

      • 176 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      This "tour de force" (New York Times Book Review) celebrates its 50th anniversary.

      Wide Sargasso Sea1980
      3.7
    • Het geheim van Rosenbad

      • 111 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      In een klein Duits vorstendom zorgt een prinsenkind dat te vroeg geboren dreigt te worden, rond 1840 voor verwikkelingen.

      Het geheim van Rosenbad1979
      3.6