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    The Scarlet Letter

    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and will not reveal her lover’s identity. The scarlet letter A (for adultery) she has to wear on her clothes, along with her public shaming, is her punishment for her sin and her secrecy. She struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.

    €4,50
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    Le mariage de Figaro

    di Beaumarchais

    €4,00
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    Woyzeck

    di Georg Büchner

    €4,00
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    Dantons Tod

    di Georg Büchner

    €4,00
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    The Last of the Mohicans

    di J. F. Cooper

    HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.’Set in frontier America in the midst of the French-Indian war, as the French are attempting to overthrow an English fort, Cooper’s story follows Alice and Cora Munro, pioneer sisters who are trying to find their way back to their father, an English commander. Guided by an army major and Magua, an Indian from the Huron tribe, they soon meet Hawk-eye, a frontier scout and his Mohican Indian companions Chingachgook and Uncas.Magua is not all that he seems and the sisters are kidnapped. In The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper sets Indian tribe against Indian tribe and lays bare the brutality of the white man against the Mohicans.

    €3,90
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    The Three Musketeers

    di Alexandre Dumas

    ‘I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.’

    Adventurous and spirited in tone, The Three Musketeers is considered one of the greatest historical French novels. When Athos, Porthos and Aramis befriend a young and determined country boy d’Artagnan, together they confront the scheming King’s Minister, Cardinal Richelieu and the female spy Milady who threaten to undermine the King. Swashbuckling, romantic and often humourous, Dumas’ novel is a timeless tale of friendship and intrigue.

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    Il lavoro che verrà

    a cura di Gianfranco Amato

    “Il simulacro non è mai ciò che nasconde la verità, ma è la verità che nasconde il fatto che non c’è alcuna verità. Il simulacro è vero”.

    – Qoelet

    L’ultimo lavoro del Centro Studi si occupa della relazione tra la tecnologia e il sistema bancario.

    Non è la prima volta. Nei tempi più recenti, tuttavia, la questione si è fatta più ampia e più urgente, poiché diffusa in modo inarrestabile. Non solo. L’ultima figura della tecnica si è rivelata la Intelligenza Artificiale, ormai onnipresente in ogni luogo della comunicazione, e perciò coinvolta, in contemporanea, nei piani disviluppo di tutte le aziende, di qualsivoglia natura.

    Sembra diventata ormai come l’aria, di cui non si può fare a meno, pena l’asfissia.

    Nel volgere di pochi anni – forse meglio dire pochi mesi – nessuna impresa, nessun ente (pubblico o privato),nessuna realtà socio-economica potrà permettersi di rinunciare ai (presunti) vantaggi consentiti dalla I. A. Ma siamo così sicuri che si tratti solo di vantaggi? O è meglio riflettere anche su quello che verrà lasciato indietro, forse per sempre. Scrittura manuale; lettura su carta; dialogo e confronto in presenza; ricerca analitica. Per fare alcuni esempi.

    Senza contare le “bugie” che questa scoperta può generare. Come ampiamente osservato in tutti i campi della comunicazione.

    Domande aperte, che lasciamo alla riflessione dei lettori.

    Gianfranco Amato

    Direttore del Centro Studi Pietro Desiderato

     

    €3,60
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    Selected Poems

    di Robert Burns

    This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns’s reputation, as a lyricist and as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition, it includes lyrics to his most well known songs, such as the nostalgic “Auld Lang Syne,” the romantic “A Red, Red Rose,” and the patriotic “Scots What Hae.” As a poet, Burns wrote with deceptive simplicity and imaginative sympathy, and demonstrated enormous range—from comic dramatic monologues such as Holy Willie’s Prayer, which mocks hypocrisy, to narratives including the celebrated Tam O’ Shanter, about the ghostly visions of a drunk.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    €3,60
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    Die Lieben des jungen Werther

    di Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    €3,50