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At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing, however, in the face of terror, sin and evil. And as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far from reality as the hope of being rescued. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies is perhaps our most memorable novel about “the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart.”

It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school... Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning. The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind. J.D. Salinger's (1919–2010) classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.

Romanul Invitaţia la vals este un fenomen unic în literatura română, fiind un titlu atât de îndrăgit de cititori, încât, de-a lungul unui singur deceniu, treizeci şi patru de ediţii au fost epuizate. Cartea îşi seduce încă de la primele pagini cititorul, care rămâne cu sufletul la gură, conectat la acordurile poveştii de dragoste dintre cei doi studenţi, Tudor şi Micaela. Candoarea emoţiilor şi a frământărilor sfâşietoare provocate de iubire, înregistrate de scriitor cu sinceritate şi sensibilitate, are darul de a aduce revelaţia bucuriei de a trăi alături de cei dragi, făcând din Invitaţia la vals o lectură necesară maturităţii. „Invitaţia la vals are acordurile ei fine, sensibile, muzicalitate interioară şi rezonanţă intimă cu eternul omenesc, cu frământările subconştientului şi poate de aceea, mărturisită sau nu, trecerea ei în conştiinţa cititorului prin atingerea delicată a emoţionalului este adevăratul succes al acestei poveşti de iubire cu valoare cinematografică." Florea Firan - See more at: http://www.editura-art.ro/carte/invit...

Începuturile mele stau sub semnul unei fabuloase absenţe a cuvântului. Urmele acelei tăceri iniţiale le caut însă în zadar în amintire. N-am putut niciodată să-mi lămuresc, suficient de convingător pentru mine însumi, strania mea detaşare de logos în cei dintâi patru ani ai copilăriei. Cu atât mai puţin acel sentiment de ruşinare ce m-a copleşit, când, constrâns de împrejurări şi de stăruinţele ce nu mă cruţau ale Mamei, am ridicat mâna peste ochi, ca să-mi iau în folosinţă cuvintele. Cuvintele îmi erau ştiute toate, dar în mijlocul lor eram încercat de sfieli, ca şi cum m-aş fi împotrivit să iau în primire chiar păcatul originar al neamului omenesc.

Set in 1930s Calcutta, this is a roman à clef of remarkable intimacy. Originally published in Romanian in 1933, this semiautobiographical novel by the world renowned scholar Mircea Eliade details the passionate awakenings of Alain, an ambitious young French engineer flush with colonial pride and prejudice and full of a European fascination with the mysterious subcontinent. Offered the hospitality of a senior Indian colleague, Alain grasps at the chance to discover the authentic India firsthand. He soon finds himself enchanted by his host's daughter, the lovely and inscrutable Maitreyi, a precocious young poet and former student of Tagore. What follows is a charming, tentative flirtation that soon, against all the proprieties and precepts of Indian society, blossoms into a love affair both impossible and ultimately tragic. This erotic passion plays itself out in Alain's thoughts long after its bitter conclusion. In hindsight he sets down the story, quoting from the diaries of his disordered days, and trying to make sense of the sad affair. A vibrantly poetic love story, Bengal Nights is also a cruel account of the wreckage left in the wake of a young man's self discovery. At once horrifying and deeply moving, Eliade's story repeats the patterns of European engagement with India even as it exposes and condemns them. Invaluable for the insight it offers into Eliade's life and thought, it is a work of great intellectual and emotional power. Translated into French in 1950, Bengal Nights was an immediate critical success. The film, Les Nuits Bengali, appeared in 1987.

This volume was published in 1919. Excerpt from a Reviewer - 4 STARS Reviewer: stbalbach - - January 12, 2011 Subject: The Lucky Mill Slavici wrote many novels and short stories, but his best known, outside of Romania, is The Lucky Mill (1881), adapted to film in 1957 as "The Mill of Good Luck". It appears to be the only major work of his that has been translated into English, in 1919. Like many of his stories, The Lucky Mill is about peasant life in remote mountainous regions of Transylvania, where the modern rule of law conflicts with ancient customs. "Big Men", or Chieftains, who manage roaming pig herds in the woods, rule over the local peasants with impunity, stealing and murdering. They are immune from the law, which exists for the benefit of the powerful (whom the Chieftains work for), while the peasants live by ancient codes of honor. It's the kind of story any poor person living today in Iraq or Afghanistan or Chechnya would immediately connect with, but is probably remote to modern readers living in a society governed securely by law. The story is effective at conveying the feeling of oppressive fear in ones own home, of being trapped and forced into a degrading situation and unable to do anything about it, with no one but yourself to protect your interests. ...................................................................................... Excerpt from the Foreword: With the advent of national independence, Roumanian literature began to attain an originality which distinguishes it among Europe's other litera- tures. This is primarily due to the renaissance of everything Roumanian during the last twenty-five years. The writers freed themselves from the tradition, which had taught them to imitate for- eign authors; and they began now to seek inspi- ration in the fertile and rich soil of their own country. It is only too natural that poetry should find its stimulus in the folklore, and prose in the fairy-mystical tale of the people. The greatest part of modern Roumanian liter- ature deals with the stupendous problem that con- fronts Roumania to-day: the struggle between old and new Roumania, between its oriental and its occidental elements. Carried further, this is the conflict between sound patriarchalism and the bra- vado-culture of the overmodernized city-dweller. A native of Transylvania, loan Slavici is of that Roumanian stock which has most stubbornly kept to its Roman origin. On the other hand, being cut off by the Carpathians from a close intercourse with the Balkans, Transylvania has been forced least to yield its national characteristics to the Greek-Slav influence which constitutes the oriental element in the people of the kingdom of Rouma- nia. Also their contact with the Germanic peoples has displaced the Greek Catholic religion by the Roman Catholic and Protestant. The Roumanians of Transylvania are more genuinely sensitive, their horizon wider, and their natures more plastic to foreign influences. The Transylvanian element is surely the richest and most fertile. Here the people are more primi- tive in their feelings and their ideals. It is the life of this peasantry that Slavici introduces In Roumanian literature, that is sweeping like a new breeze over the literature of a people infected with the germs of an Ill-digested philosophy.

Durata: 15h 13m Liviu Rebreanu mărturisea la un moment dat că în lunga perioadă de şapte ani, cât a durat scrierea romanului „Ion“, un rol important l-a avut, pe lânga amplul material documentar, o scenă văzută pe colinele dimprejurul satului şi care l-a impresionat în mod deosebit. Aflat la vânătoare, scriitorul a observat ... un ţăran îmbrăcat în haine de sărbătoare, care s-a aplecat deodată şi-a sărutat pământul. L-a sărutat ca pe-o ibovnică. Scena m-a uimit şi s-a întipărit în minte, dar fără vreun scop deosebit, ci numai ca o simplă ciudăţenie. „Ion“ este o monografie a realităţilor satului ardelean de la începutul secolului al XX-lea, ilustrând conflictul generat de lupta pentru pământ, într-o lume în care statutul social este stabilit în funcţie de avere. În acest context, calea aleasă de protagonist pentru a scăpa de sărăcie este căsătoria cu o fată bogată, Ana. Florica, femeia pe care o iubeşte de fapt, se va căsători, la rândul ei, cu George pentru pentru aceleaşi argumente, iar Laura, fiica învăţătorului Herdelea îl va lua pe Pintea nu din dragoste, ci pentru că nu cere zestre. Marele merit al lui Rebreanu este acela că îşi lasă personajele să acţioneze liber, să-şi dezvăluie firea, să izbucnească în tensiuni dramatice, într-un cuvânt, să-şi aleagă singuri destinul.

This is a translated version of the late Mihail Sadoveanu's historical novel exploring the life and times of one of Romania's national heroes. The celebrated writer and historian's work is not only a classic of Romanian literature; Stephen and his "Great Moldavia" of the fifteenth century are potent symbols that have profound significance for the nationalist movements in Soviet and Romanian Moldavia today.