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Jack Maggs
€11,00by Peter Carey
London,1837. Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a plush townhouse in Great Queen Street? And why is Jack himself an object of such interest to Tobias Oates, celebrated author, amateur hypnotist and fellow burglar – in this case of people’s minds, of their histories and inner phantoms? A thrilling story of mesmerism and possession, of dangerous bargains and illicit love against the backdrop of Victorian London.
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Jane and Louisa Will Soon come Home
€11,00di Erna Brodber
Enter the world of the protagonist, who explores the multiple dimensions of family and origin for a woman in a rapidly-changing Jamaica. A challenging but highly engaging read. .. not since George Lamming’s In The Castle Of My Skin have we had a first time novel with this kind of effortless , bottomless detail of life and leaf and sorrow
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Jane Eyre
€22,00di Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre is an orphan, penniless and plain, but full of courage and spirit. She has endured incredible hardship to secure her humble status as a governess in the household of her brooding employer, Mr. Rochester. Jane’s sharp wit and defiant nature meet with Rochester’s sardonic temperament. The two become enmeshed in a deep, intense bond.
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Jobs Act
€2,50a cura di Gianfranco Amato
Forse la riforma più discussa e più controversa in tema di legislazione del lavoro, destinata a incidere, in modo rilevante, sulle condizioni di vita e di lavoro delle persone.
Opportuna, dunque, una descrizione dei capitoli, e insieme indispensabile una analisi rigorosa e puntuale delle norme che li compongono.
Questa pubblicazione affronta proprio i temi del Jobs Act ed i problemi conseguenti alla loro applicazione; i percorsi di cambiamento; le novità rispetto al quadro normativo precedente.
Il tentativo è quello di fornire una visione d’insieme, seguendo la linea del pensiero critico, inteso a formulare le valutazioni dopo aver osservato i fatti.
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Joe Silver and the Tones
€15,00di Luca Sguazzardo
Giuseppe Argentario, “musicista” di Verona, con i suoi Toni ama la musica Rock (la “R” maiuscola è d’obbligo) e ha sempre desiderato scrivere delle canzoni che in qualche modo potessero rimanere nella storia. Ma chi è Joe Silver? E perché quel nome? E chi sono i personaggi che incontra? Amici, complici o fantasmi della sua mente? Ignoti che sembrano conoscerlo bene, donandogli ispirazioni da trasformare in canzoni cristalline e inediti capolavori, pronti ad entrare nella storia del Rock. Da Castel San Pietro ad una stradina in mezzo ad un bosco, da piazza Bra al teatro Filarmonico, dal teatro Romano a piazza San Zeno, dall’eremo dei Camaldolesi sul lago di Garda allo stadio Bentegodi, per finire inevitabilmente in Arena, Joe Silver, in una sorta di indecifrabile diario, vive una storia visionaria e reale allo stesso tempo. Dove nessuno sembra essere quello che è, e dove tutti i protagonisti hanno qualcosa da nascondere e molto da offrire, rivelando il loro lato umano. Mentre il mistero si fa sempre più fitto e la vita di Joe viene completamente stravolta, prendendo a piene mani dal suo passato, si dipana sullo sfondo una Verona calda, accogliente e misteriosa, proprio come solo le cose belle sanno essere.
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Joseph Andrews and Shamela
€10,80di Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding wrote both Joseph Andrews (1742) and Shamela (1741) in response to Samuel Richardson’s book Pamela (1740), of which Shamela is a splendidly bawdy travesty. Joseph Andrews begins as a parody, too, but soon outgrows its origins, and its deepest roots lie in Cervantes and Marivaux. In both stories, Fielding demonstrates his concern for the corruption of contemporary society, politics, religion, morality, and taste.
This revised and expanded edition follows the text of Joseph Andrews established by Martin C. Battestin for the definitive Wesleyan Edition of Fielding’s works. The text of Shamela is based on the first edition, and two substantial appendices reprint the preliminary matter from the second edition of Richardson’s Pamela and Conyers Middleton’s Life of Cicero, which is also closely parodied in Shamela. This Oxford World’s Classics edition also features a new introduction by Thomas Keymer which situates Fielding’s works in their critical and historical contexts.
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Joseph Knight
€12,00by James Robertson
‘A book of such quality as to persuade you that historical novels are the true business of the writer.’
Daily Telegraph
A gripping, shocking story of history, enlightement and slavery from the bestselling author of THE FANATIC. JOSPEH KNIGHT confirms James Robertson as one of our foremost novelists.
Exiled to Jamaica after the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Sir John Wedderburn made a fortune, alongside his three brothers, as a faux surgeon and sugar planter. In the 1770s, he returned to Scotland to marry and re-establish the family name. He brought with him Joseph Knight, a black slave and a token of his years in the Caribbean.
Now, in 1802, Sir John Wedderburn is settling his estate, and has hired a solicitor’s agent, Archibald Jamieson, to search for his former slave. The past has haunted Wedderburn ever since Culloden, and ever since he last saw Knight, in court twenty-four years ago, in a case that went to the heart of Scottish society, pitting master against slave, white against black, and rich against poor.
As long as Knight is missing, Wedderburn will never be able to escape the past. Yet what will he do if Jamieson’s search is successful? And what effect will this re-opening of old wounds have on those around him? Meanwhile, as Jamieson tries to unravel the true story of Joseph Knight he begins to question his own motivation. How can he possibly find a man who does not want to be found?
James Robertson’s second novel is a tour de force, the gripping story of a search for a life that stretches over sixty years and moves from battlefields to the plantations of Jamaica, from Enlightenment Edinburgh to the back streets of Dundee. It is a moving narrative of history, identity and ideas, that dramatically retells a fascinating but forgotten episode of Scottish history.
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Jude the Obscure
€20,00di Thomas Hardy
It is an exploration of the chaos that follows from excessive individualism and rationality. It is indeed the story of a difficult and tragic journey beyond culture, but the narrative point of view still evokes a moral sensibility continuous with the past
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Juliet’s Balcony and other stories…
€12,50di Lisa Albertini
The setting for the story of Romeo and Juliet is not a boast, but a gift the beautiful city of Verona offers its many visitors. These brief tales feature the less well-known streets, squares and districts of the city, between “…centuries-old houses, in alleyways dense whit the aromas and the lives of everyone…” where the hidden beauty and life of the city can be discovered: in Verona as in the soul of everyone.
