Το κορίτσι που εξαφανίστηκε
Gillian Flynn, 2012
A portrait that ages while its subject stays young, a boy who mistakes a pirate's friendliness for safety: these books turn a single strange idea into a story you can't put down. Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray starts as a clever joke about vanity and darkens into something genuinely unsettling, and Treasure Island still sets the pace for every pirate tale since. Both are short, sharp, and built to keep you reading past your bedtime.
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Οι ερωτήσεις που δεν έκανες ποτέ φωναχτά, και γιατί μένουν να κρέμονται.
Τι σκέφτεσαι, Έιμι; Αυτή είναι η ερώτηση που έκανα πιο συχνά κατά τη διάρκεια του γάμου μας, έστω κι αν την έκανα από μέσα μου και όχι στο πρόσωπο που θα μπορούσε να μου απαντήσει. Φαντάζομαι πως αυτές οι ερωτήσεις μαζεύονται σαν σύννεφα που προμηνύουν καταιγίδα πάνω από όλους τους γά- RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTY1MTE= G I L L I A N F L Y N N 14 μους: Τι σκέφτεσαι; Τι νιώθεις; Ποιος είσαι; Τι κάναμε ο ένας στον άλλον; Τι θα κάνουμε ο ένας στον άλλον; Τα μάτια μου άνοιξαν απότομα στις έξι π.μ. ακριβώς – χωρίς να τρεμοπαίξω τις βλεφαρίδες, χωρίς να τα ανοιγοκλείσω προσπαθώντας να συνειδητοποιήσω πού βρισκόμουν. Gillian Flynn, 2012
Oscar Wilde, 1890
A beautiful young man wishes his portrait would age in his place. It is a sharp, funny, then frightening study of vanity, charm and moral drift, still uncomfortably current.
Hernan Diaz, 2022
A biography of a man who hated the family fortune and became, by accident, one of the most powerful financiers who ever lived.
Μάρκος Αυρήλιος, 180
A modern reader revisits Marcus Aurelius’s stoic reflections and asks what their ideals leave out.
Raja Shehadeh, 2024
The Palestinian Authority's former chief negotiator on why 1989 didn't reach the West Bank — a personal, forensic look at the stories states tell themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883
A boy finds a dead sailor's map and ends up aboard a ship where the friendliest man may be the most dangerous. Fast, funny, and the template for pirate stories.
Dan Brown, 2000
A Harvard symbologist is pulled from his bed into one night of pursuit beneath Rome, where a corpse is branded with a sign only he can read.
Ερη Ριτσου, 2008
A girl nicknamed Antelope is sent into service in a grand house, and learns what it costs to want a better life. A warm, sharp-eyed novel about class, shame and appetite.
Stephen W. Hawking, 1988
A physicist's guide to the biggest questions—time, black holes, the origin of the universe—written for readers who thought they couldn't do physics.
Lewis Carroll, 1865
A girl falls down a rabbit hole into a world where nothing keeps its size, its manners or its temper, and keeps asking the questions everyone else stopped asking.
Dan Brown, 2009
A symbologist is summoned to Washington for a lecture and pulled into one night of Masonic codes, hidden monuments and a missing mentor.
Τζ. Ρ. Ρ. Τόλκιν, 1980
Tolkien’s later writings map Middle-earth’s peoples, places, and underlying metaphysics, revealing the intricate thought behind the legendarium.
Λευτέρης Καντζίνος, 2021
A tour of the world in the 1860s and 1870s: how Bismarck, Garibaldi, the Suez Canal and a Greek diaspora in Alexandria redrew the map before our eyes.
Niccolò Machiavelli, 1532
A short, cool manual on how power is won and kept, written by a man who watched it up close. Its blunt realism still unsettles, and it still explains how leaders behave.
John Hirst, 2004
A short, opinionated history of the continent that tells the story through three inheritances — Greek reason, Christian faith, and Germanic warrior honour — and admits what historians cannot explain.
Agatha Christie, 1934
One murdered passenger, a compartment locked from the inside, and a small Belgian who reads lies better than anyone. A closed-circle puzzle at its purest.
J. K. Rowling, 1998
A second year at Hogwarts turns sinister when a hidden chamber opens, a voice hisses in the walls, and everyone suspects Harry—while a vain new professor steals the credit.
Michael Crichton, 1995
A rich man's expedition to a hidden island turns into a firsthand argument about dinosaurs, media, and whether humans are as smart as we think.
Arthur Conan Doyle, 1892
A detective who solves impossible crimes by noticing what everyone else looked past. Fifty-six stories of rooms, ruses and small, devastating deductions.
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886
A sharp-tongued tour of the habits of mind we take for granted: why philosophers lie to themselves, what our morals hide, and what it takes to think without flattering yourself.
Isaac Asimov, 1950
Nine linked stories in which robots obey the Three Laws perfectly and still cause trouble, because the humans around them do not.
Agatha Christie, 1937
A Nile cruise, a honeymoon, and a murder among strangers who all have a reason. Poirot, on holiday, must untangle a knot of jealousy before the boat docks.
Cassandra Clare, 2007
A girl who sees what others can't is pulled into a New York of tattooed demon-hunters, rune-magic and a boy with gold eyes who is trouble.
Sun Tzu, -500
A 2,500-year-old manual for conflict, written for generals and read by anyone who has to hold a position, win an argument, or know when to walk away.
What it feels like to envy your own portrait.
“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!” The hot tears welled into his eyes; he tore his hand away and, flinging himself on the divan, he buried his face in the cushions, as though he was praying.The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde
A man who hates luxury and finds it vulgar, but not money itself.
Η πολυτέλεια ήταν ένα χυδαίο βάρος. Η πρόσβαση σε νέες εμπειρίες δεν ήταν κάτι που το μοναχικό πνεύμα του λαχταρούσε. Η πολιτική και το κυνήγι της εξου σίας δεν ασκούσαν καμία γοητεία στο αντικοινωνικό μυαλό του. Τα παιχνίδια στρατηγικής, όπως το σκάκι ή το μπριτζ, ποτέ δεν τον ενδιέφεραν. Αν τον ρωτούσαν, ο Μπέντζαμιν θα δυσκολευόταν ενδεχομένως να εξηγήσει τι ακριβώς τον έλκυε στον κόσμο της οικονομίας. Ήταν, σίγουρα, η πολυπλοκότη τά του, αλλά και το γεγονός ότι έβλεπε το κεφάλαιο ως έναν ασηπτικό ζωντανό οργανισμό. Κινούνταν, καταβρόχθιζε, ανα πτυσσόταν, αναπαραγόταν, έφθινε και μπορούσε να χαθεί. Αλλά ήταν καθαρός από μικρόβια. Τούτο του έγινε ακόμα πιο ξεκάθαρο με τον καιρό.Παρακαταθήκη · Hernan Diaz
When conscience answers to a higher authority, what does the state hear?
Το σημείον όμως το οποίον πάντοτε εφαίνετο τελείως ανεξήγητον είναι κάποια συναισθηματική ατέλεια εις την ψυχοσύνθεσιν του Μάρκου Αυρηλίου, ιδία δε υπό μορφήν σκληρότητος και αναισθησίας ενώπιον ωρισμένων παθημάτων των ανθρώπων. Ούτω αγνοεί απολύτως την ζωοφιλίαν, μένει αδιάφορος ενώπιον των κατακρεουργήσεων των ξιφομάχων εις τον στίβον και ουδένα αισθάνεται οίκτον διά τα μαρτύρια των χριστιανών. [...] Τέλος, διατί να φαίνεται ανεξήγητος η αντίληψις ην είχεν ο Μάρκος Αυρήλιος περί των χριστιανών ως εκφύλων επαναστατών; Ήτο δυνατόν ο αυτοκράτωρ να μη θεωρή ως στοιχεία υποσκάπτοντα τα θεμέλια του κράτους ανθρώπους έχοντας την ιδέαν ότι οφείλουν προ παντός υπακοήν εις το ουράνιον κράτος, εις τον Θείον Παντοκράτορα;Μάρκος Αυρήλιος · Μάρκος Αυρήλιος
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