Insieme all''Opera Galleggiante', questo romanzo forma, gią nelle intenzioni dell'autore, un dittico quasi inscindibile. Una situazione quanto mai tipica un triangolo amoroso sullo sfondo di un'universitą della East Coast - diventa un romanzo filosofico che alterna comicitą e disperato nichilismo, satira e tragedia. Al centro, uno dei pił irresistibili antieroi della letteratura postmoderna: Jacob Horner, il giovane professore adultero che fa della paralisi esistenziale un paradossale sistema di vita.

24 Songs by Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel contains youthful gems by two great Romantic composers, originally published only under Felix Mendelssohn's name. Includes word-by-word translations of the Italian, French and German text as well as a translation into the International Phonetic Alphabet.

A landmark of postmodern American fiction, Letters is (as the subtitle genially informs us) 'an old time epistolary novel by seven fictitious drolls & dreamers each of which imagines himself factual.' Seven characters (including the Author himself) exchange a novel's worth of letters during a 7-month period in 1969, a time of revolution that recalls the U.S.'s first revolution in the 18th century - the heyday of the epistolary novel. Recapitulating American history as well as the plots of his first six novels, Barth's seventh novel is a witty and profound exploration of the nature of revolution and renewal, rebellion and reenactment, at both the private and public levels. It is also an ingenious meditation on the genre of the novel itself, recycling an older form to explore new directions, new possibilities for the novel.

William Warner exhibits his skill as a naturalist and as a writer in this Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the pugnacious Atlantic blue crab and of its Chesapeake Bay territory. Penguin Nature Library.