The Red Pony
It is a work set in the Salinas Valley, California. The protagonist is Jody Tiflin, a ten-year-old boy whose life has been typical for a ranch: school, chores, spending time with his dogs, wandering through...
Literature - Realistic
The Tortoise and the Hare
A novel of high literary quality, published in 1954, about the marital crisis of Evelyn Gresham, a prestigious lawyer, and Imogen, his wife, younger than him, shortly after the end of the Second World War....
The Last One at the Wedding
Frank Szatowski is surprised when his daughter Maggie calls him for the first time in three years to invite him to her wedding. Maggie is going to marry the son of a wealthy magnate in a large mansion....
Pepita Jimenez: Historical Novel
Pepita Jiménez is a masterpiece of Spanish romantic realism, combining psychological introspection with a social portrait of 19th-century Spain. The novel tells the story of Luis de Vargas, a young...
Natasha
At its core, it is the story of the right to freedom as inalienable in human nature but nonexistent in Soviet Russia. Natacha always defends her freedom and pays the consequences; it is observed how others...
Beneficence
Meredith Hall was born in the United States in 1948; she is a writer and a teacher and lives in Maine.
The Senters are a family of farmers (father, mother, and three children) who live happily near...
Portraits of a Marriage
The work is divided into three parts: the first is dedicated to a woman, Marika, who is having something to drink with a friend in a Budapest pastry shop and sees her ex-husband entering; the second part...
One by One in the Darkness
Deirdre Madden (Northern Ireland, 1960) is the author of around ten novels, for which she has received important awards. Cate, who works in London, takes advantage of a few days off to travel to her native...
Papa, You're crazy
Pete, who is ten years old, is the narrator. His parents have separated, although the reasons are not explained. His sister stays with their mother, and he goes with his father, not very far away, on the...
Bodies and Souls
That this novel was a best seller in the 1960s says a lot about the readers of that time, because the truth is that it is not at all complacent in its first chapters, devoted to showing the atmosphere of...