Vintage Classics – Globolibri.it https://www.globolibri.it Libreria Genova libri inglesi spagnoli francesi tedeschi cinesi giapponesi piccolo principe books Mon, 06 Jan 2025 11:59:59 +0000 it-IT hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.globolibri.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cropped-LOGO-1-32x32.png Vintage Classics – Globolibri.it https://www.globolibri.it 32 32 Brave New World https://www.globolibri.it/negozio/libri-inglese/narrativa-in-inglese/brave-new-world-huxley-9780099477464/ Mon, 30 May 2022 16:16:33 +0000 https://www.globolibri.it/?post_type=product&p=16982 Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free.

A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress… Huxley’s ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.

]]> Across the River and into the Trees https://www.globolibri.it/negozio/libri-inglese/narrativa-in-inglese/across-the-river-into-the-trees-9781784872038/ Sat, 02 May 2020 06:42:13 +0000 https://www.globolibri.it/?post_type=product&p=12134 Richard Cantrell is an American colonel living in Venice just after the Second World War. The fighting has left him scarred and embittered, a middle-aged man with a heart condition. It seems that only the love of Renata, a nineteen-year-old countess can save him. But Cantrell is living in the shadow of war, every move he makes dictated by old battle instincts, and it is possible that for him the longed-for peace may have come too late.

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