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The fifth novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire, The Small House at Allington, concerns the lives of the two Dale girls, Lily and Bell, who live at the Small House. While Bell is in love with the local doctor James Crofts, Lily is pursued by two men: the worldly, rich and handsome Adolphus Crosbie and the poor but honest Johnny Eames. With each determined to gain her hand in marriage, who will she choose?

Unfolding on the vast grasslands of the steppes of Kazakhstan before its independence from the USSR, this haunting novel limns the struggles of the world through the eyes of Nasyr, a simple fisherman and village elder, and his resolute son, Kakharman. Both father and son confront the terrible future that is coming to the poisoned Aral Sea.

Inseguito dalla luna, un uomo, un "lupo mannaro", corre gridando i suoi tormenti per le contrade e le colline argentate di ulivi. Giunge a Palermo una piccola comunità di forestieri stravaganti, cultori di misteriosi riti esoterici, di nozze pagane con la natura, guidati da un moderno superuomo, Aleister Crowley, venuto a giocare in un paese mediterraneo forse l'ultima delle sue provocazioni teatrali.

After WWII, a small Italian town struggles to emerge from under the thumb of Fascism. With wit, tenderness, and irony, Elsa, the novel’s narrator, weaves a rich tapestry of provincial Italian life: two generations of neighbors and relatives, their gossip and shattered dreams, their heartbreaks and struggles to find happiness. Elsa wants to imagine a future for herself, free from the expectations and burdens of her town’s history, but the weight of the past will always prove unbearable, insistently posing the question: “Why has everything been ruined?”

Una farfalla bianca sta sul corno del re dei camosci, un fucile sta a tracolla del vecchio cacciatore di montagna...

Alphonse Daudet schrieb leichtfüßige, lichtdurchflutete Prosa. Den literarischen Strömungen seiner Zeit schien er sich zu entziehen. Edmond de Goncourt, Gustave Flaubert und Emile Zola schätzten ihn als anregenden Gesprächspartner. Mit seinen Romanen begründete er seinen Ruhm. Seine heutige Bekanntheit beruht vor allem auf seinen Jugendwerken, den Briefen aus meiner Mühle (meist mit dem französischen Originaltitel Lettres de mon moulin bezeichnet) und vor allem Tartarin von Tarascon.