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A beautiful story about the possibility of changing one's destiny.A reflection on the difficult balance between the present, the past and the future.A denunciation of the exploitation of children and illiteracy. But above all "A Christmas Carol" is a fable, one of the...
The setting is the lush English countryside. We are at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Three sisters lose their father, coming into financial straits because of their sister-in-law's greed.The chain reactions generated by the sudden poverty will profoundly...
“Little Women” is Louisa May Alcott's masterpiece, the novel that made her famous and has been the subject of countless film versions (including one starring Susan Sarandon and Wynona Rider). We meet the March family at a critical time: they have suffered financial...
Jo March, now married to Professor Bhaer, works together with her husband at Plumfield School, a sort of foster home where the couple hosts the children in their care. Some of them are “difficult,” but they find inJo and the professor two teachers willing to the hard...
In the gentle and poignant unraveling of the exceptionally normal lives of her protagonists, through the telling of the joys and tragedies of the daily lives of the March sisters, Alcott creates a character like Jo who can defy any gender bias and embody the feminist...
Jane Austen tells the story of Emma Woodhouse, a beautiful, wealthy and intelligent woman who is vain and self-centered; she is not interested in romantic love and therefore believes that she should not marry, although the customs of the society of the time see marriage...
Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and charming recent widow, visits her brother and sister-in-law, Charles and Catherine, with little advance notice at Churchill, their country residence. Catherine is far from pleased, asLady Susan had tried to prevent her marriage to...
Sir Thomas Bertram is the owner of the luxurious Mansfield Park estate, where he lives with his wife Maria and four children. Lady Bertram's sister Frances, on the other hand, is in more dire straits, so much so that she is forced to ask for help from the Bertrams...
Catherine Morland, the novel's protagonist, is invited to spend a few days at the former Northanger Abbey, the home of the family of the young Anglican pastor to whom she is engaged and who believes her to be a wealthy heiress. Impressed by the place and even more so by...
Jane Austen is one of the few truly great writers who have managed to break into the hearts and minds of all readers, without exception. Among her many masterpieces, “Pride and Prejudice” is surely the most popular and beloved: the five daughters of the unforgettable...
Anne Elliot, the novel's protagonist, made a mistake: as a very young girl, barely nineteen, she allowed herself to be persuaded by the opposition of her father, Sir Walter, and the “persuasion” of Lady Russell to break off her engagement to the very young but poor...
An intense drama, in some passages lacerating, Aeschylus' “Suppliant Maidens” takes us on a journey where the echo of supplications resonates with the force of pain that only a war can cause. The daughters of Danaus, fugitives seeking asylum, amid the flames of war and...
The city of Thebes is besieged by seven valiant warriors, each armed with his own ardor and ambition. But it is not just a war of swords and shields: beneath the surface of battle lies the inexorable design of fate, orchestrated by divine forces that test men's courage...
With “Persians”, Aeschylus transports us to a time when the glory of an empire falters under the weight of its own ambitions. In this drama the echo of lost battles resounds within the ancient walls of Susa, as the once valiant and feared Persian soldiers mourn the...
In the icy embrace of an unforgiving nature, Prometheus, the rebellious titan, stands against the will of the gods, chained and condemned to a fate of eternal suffering.In this powerful tragedy, Aeschylus paints a fresco of defiance, where heroism meets divine vengeance...
Aeschylus, often considered the “father of tragedy,” represents a fundamental pillar not only of Hellenic culture but of the entire Western tradition. His work is distinguished by thematic depth, psychological complexity of characters and formal innovation that enriched...
Called upon to judge a painful affair bordering on the unspeakable, the Eumenides, guardians of destiny and divine law, delve into a tapestry of moral conflict, where blood calls for blood and the shadows of the past mingle with the aspirations of an unknown future. In...
Into the dark folds of human destiny, Aeschylus, undisputed master of Greek tragedy, leads us through the tormented events of “Libation Bearers,” the second part of the Oresteia. The scene opens on a mystery shrouded in the shadows of the past, where vengeance and...
Agamemnon, ruler of the polis of Argos, on leaving for the Trojan War had no favorable winds, so to propitiate himself to the gods he had sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia, a maiden of exceptional beauty. The winds then had begun to be propitious and the fleet had been...
More than one hundred years have passed since, in late 1919 - a few months after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles - John Maynard Keynes published The Economic Consequences of the Peace. The author, who had participated in the negotiations as a British...
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