This series embarks on a mission to rescue literary treasures from fading into obscurity. Each installment breathes new life into classic tales, ensuring their enduring magic reaches a contemporary audience. It offers a fresh perspective on timeless legends and adventures, bridging the gap between past narratives and younger readers. This collection is a celebration of the power of storytelling and its vital role in shaping imagination.
Desperate to escape his poverty, the poor student Raskolnikov murders his pawnbroker and her sister. At first, nobody suspects him, but his own conscience plagues him incessantly - and it isn't long before a police detective to have his doubts about Raskolnikov's innocence, and is determined to make him confess.
France's best tale of love and panache, retold for children
Grandi classici, raccontati da grandi nomi della letteratura così come potrebbero raccontarli ai figli o nipoti, una sera, nel loro salotto. "Save the story": frutto della collaborazione tra Scuola Holden e Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso, è anche un ciclo di reading affidati a grandi scrittori presentato all'Auditorium Parco della Musica e coprodotto con la Fondazione Musica per Roma. Non un'operazione di riscrittura, ma un appassionato omaggio ai libri che più abbiamo amato. Ecco le incredibili vicende di un naso scomparso dal viso del suo padrone, che vaga in alta uniforme per le strade di San Pietroburgo nello sgomento generale. Camilleri affronta il racconto perfetto, il capolavoro assoluto e padre putativo di tanti grandi romanzi della letteratura russa. Con la sua voce e la sua nota ironia prende per mano i lettori, li accompagna su e giù per la Prospettiva Nevskij a inseguire il Naso e il suo disperato padrone e nel contempo a osservare ingiustizie, soprusi, servilismo e vanitosi rituali di una piccola borghesia grassa, ignorante e presuntuosa. Età di lettura: da 8 anni.
The oldest written story on Earth, retold for children
The crazy life and courageous death of a man who loved women too much to want only one. Don Juan is a passionate lover of life and nearly 1,000 women. But one day he kills the Commendatore of Calatrava in a duel, and so begins the end for the incorrigible seducer.
"Don't you worry, son. Whatever it is that's been killing the sailors, I will kill it." In this science-fiction classic - reimagined by Dave Eggers in modern times, and from the point of view of the fourteen-year-old Consuelo - the famous oceanographer Pierre Arronax sets sail from New York to hunt down a mysterious sea-monster which has been terrorizing the oceans, wrecking ship after ship and causing countless deaths. But they discover an even stranger truth: the "sea-monster" is in fact a submarine, captained by Nemo, who is living in self-imposed exile in international waters. Consuelo and Arronax join Nemo on the submarine, and so begin their exciting adventures ... Dave Eggers says, of the series: "I couldn't be prouder to be a part of it. Ever since Alessandro conceived this idea I thought it was brilliant. The editions that they've complied have been lushly illustrated and elegantly designed."
"For the first time in his life, Gulliver felt ashamed of himself and his fellow-humans." Gulliver is a travel-hungry and adventurous ship's doctor, who has the odd misfortune of being ship-wrecked four times in as many voyages. Through Jonathan Coe's expert retelling of Swift's famous satire about our human hubris and desires, today's young readers are swept along as Gulliver finds himself a giant among tiny humans in Lilliput; a tiny human among giants in Brobdignag; on the flying island of Laputa, with its most impractical intellectuals; and finally in the land of the Houyhnhnms, talking horses who think precious little of human "Yahoos". Dave Eggers says, of the series: "I couldn't be prouder to be a part of it. Ever since Alessandro conceived this idea I thought it was brilliant. The editions that they've complied have been lushly illustrated and elegantly designed."