Libri di Letteratura

Valera’s late novel blends Andalusian society, wit, romance, reputation, and a nuanced portrait of female intelligence.

Fernán Caballero’s Spanish novel explores virtue, social expectation, marriage, moral sentiment, and domestic life.

A coastal historical novel of love, press-gangs, Quaker witness, family loyalty, and wartime trauma in Yorkshire.

An early Balzac story of shopkeeping Paris, artistic desire, marriage, and the painful mismatch between worlds.

A Valencian novel of politics, family expectation, sensual landscape, music, love, and social pressure among orange groves.

Mörike’s elegant novella imagines Mozart in transit to Prague, blending music, hospitality, charm, and mortality.

Stifter’s Alpine novella follows two children lost in snow between mountain villages, turning a simple journey into a luminous study of nature, fear, faith, and communal rescue.

A daring James novel that sees divorce, adult selfishness, desire, and moral confusion through a child’s changing awareness.

Henry James’s American novel explores reform politics, public speech, feminism, rivalry, and emotional possession in Boston.

Zola’s political Rougon-Macquart novel studies power, patronage, bureaucracy, salons, and ambition under Napoleon III.

Zola’s apartment-house novel exposes bourgeois manners, adultery, servants, commerce, and hypocrisy in Second Empire Paris.

Virginia Woolf’s modernist novel of the Ramsay family, time, memory, art, grief, and perception in a French BooksWhale edition.

Récit spirituel où l’auteur transforme une chambre en univers de voyage, de rêverie, d’humour et de philosophie intime.

Recueil provençal de Daudet mêlant contes, paysages, satire légère, souvenirs du Midi et portraits populaires.

Melville’s South Seas novel follows desertion, island captivity, and comic encounters with colonial power in Tahiti.

Walter Scott’s medieval romance of knights, Saxons, Normans, tournaments, outlaw bands, and the return of Richard the Lionheart.

The first Waverley novel follows Edward Waverley through Jacobite Scotland, divided loyalties, romance, and political rebellion.

E. Nesbit’s children’s fantasy sends five siblings into wish-making adventures with the strange sand-fairy Psammead.

Trollope’s parliamentary novel follows Phineas Finn through ambition, reform politics, society, love, and moral compromise.

Defoe’s late novel follows Roxana through survival, wealth, disguise, sexuality, guilt, and social risk in early modern Europe.

Roman des Rougon-Macquart centré sur Angélique, l’imagerie religieuse, le désir, la broderie et le rêve de pureté.

Stifters Erzählung über Erziehung, Einsamkeit, Besitz, Familienbindung und die langsame Erkenntnis des Herzens.

Historische Waldnovelle Stifters über Krieg, Rückzug, Naturgewalt, Schutz und tragische Familiengeschichte.

Grande romanzo risorgimentale di Nievo tra memoria, formazione, Venezia, patriottismo e nascita dell’Italia moderna.