Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare, 1602
Shipwreck, disguise and a household in mourning: a comedy where everyone loves the wrong person and the fool is the only one telling the truth.
Twelfth Night turns a shipwreck and a household in mourning into a comedy where everyone loves the wrong person and the fool is the only one telling the truth. Little Women gives you four sisters, one thin purse and a long war, learning to work, quarrel, write and love in a New England town that feels like your own street. Both are books that let warmth and trouble sit in the same room, and you may want them for exactly that.
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The strange freedom of admitting you lack the thing everyone pretends to have.
Wit, an’t be thy will, put me into good fooling! Those wits, that think they have thee, do very oft prove fools; and I, that am sure I lack thee, may pass for a wise man: for what says Quinapalus? “Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.” William Shakespeare, 1602
Shipwreck, disguise and a household in mourning: a comedy where everyone loves the wrong person and the fool is the only one telling the truth.
Πηνελόπη Δέλτα, 1932
A lively summer among siblings, where small rebellions, shifting alliances and huge adventures fill the everyday.
Saul Bellow, 1959
A rich, enormous, furious American tells his own life at full volume: wives, a farm, a debt of love, and a hunger for something he can't name.
Charles Dickens, 1843
Three ghosts, one night, and the cheapest man in London forced to look at what his life has actually cost.
Walt Whitman, 1855
A big, boastful, tender American voice that talks directly to you across time, celebrating bodies, cities and ordinary people. Dip in anywhere and find yourself addressed.
Louisa May Alcott, 1868
Four sisters, one thin purse and a long war, learning to work, quarrel, write and love in a New England town that feels like your own street.
Robert Fulghum, 1986
A minister who worked as a bartender, ranch hand and singing cowboy argues that sharing, napping and cookies with milk are the whole of ethics.
Όμηρος, -750
A war ten years old and still not won: the quarrel, the losses, and the two impossible choices that keep people fighting.
Carsten Henn, 2020
A bookseller who carries books to readers' doors, and a widowed reader who judges novels by their cover colour.
William Shakespeare, 1600
Four lovers, a fairy king and queen, and a troupe of terrible actors collide in one wood outside Athens, all under the same love potion.
John Grisham, 2007
A battered third-string quarterback gets an unlikely second chance in Italy, where American football is smaller, stranger, and played for pride and pizza.
Kenneth Grahame, 1908
A mole leaves his burrow for the river, and a year of picnics, snug burrows, mad motor-cars and one strange dawn unfolds. It is the most comforting book about friendship and home.
William Goldman, 1973
A swashbuckling fairy tale with a narrator who keeps interrupting: fencing, true love, revenge, and the funniest asides in fiction.
Sarah J. Maas, 2018
A winter solstice in the Night Court: snowball fights, decorating disasters, and a family that fought a war and is now learning how to rest.
John Muir, 1911
A young Scot joins a sheep drive into the high Sierra in 1869 and writes daily, ecstatic journal entries about granite, light and water, as if seeing mountains for the first time.
Elizabeth von Arnim, 1922
Four Englishwomen answer an advertisement for a castle in Italy and swap grey London for a month of wistaria, freesias and unaccountable happiness.
Rick Riordan, 2008
Percy Jackson's summer starts with an exploding school and leads into a living maze beneath Camp Half-Blood, where every turn has a myth waiting.
Ντέιβ Πίλκι, 2016
A playful comic adventure about two cats, unlikely partners, and the stories we make together.
Λόρι Γκίλμορ, 2024
A cozy small-town romance with a bookshop, coded messages, and a treasure hunt that brings two opposites together.
Nora Roberts, 2002
A painter comes home to the Chesapeake, to four brothers, a porch rocker and a florist who has sworn off being charmed.
Ντέιβ Πίλκι, 2017
A playful graphic novel about friendship, acceptance, and finding your own way, from the creator of Dog Man and Captain Underpants.
Rabindranath Tagore, 1910
Short devotional songs that read like love letters to something unnamed. A way to spend an hour with longing, humility and joy, in English prose the poet shaped himself.
Ali Hazelwood, 2022
A neuroscientist lands her dream NASA project and finds her grad-school nemesis is co-leading it. Enemies, engineering, and a narrator with a stand-up's timing.
Ντέιβ Πίλκι, 2017
A playful graphic novel about an unlikely crime-fighting duo, packed with jokes, action, and a belief in kind-hearted people.
Children know which details make a story worth telling.
Μεμιάς κόπηκαν γέλια και φασαρίες. Τα τέσσερα αδέλφια ξαναγύρισαν στην πραγματικότητα, φρόνιμα και σωπασμένα, ο Αντώνης με το γδαρμένο χέρι στην τσέπη, η Πουλουδιά καμπουριασμένη, σηκώνοντας όσο μπορούσε τους ώμους, μη φανεί η τσουγκρανιά της γάτας. Στο τραπέζι διηγήθηκε ο θείος την εκδρομή τους στην Κηφισιά, μαζί και το τσίμπημα της μέλισσας. Μα οι μεγάλοι δεν ξέρουν ποτέ να διηγηθούν καλά, γιατί λένε πάντα μόνο τα βαρετά, την ώρα, τον ανήφορο, την κούραση, τη σκόνη, την ωραία θέα, το κρύο νερό, πόσα χρόνια είναι χτισμένο το μοναστήρι, πόσοι καλόγεροι είναι μέσα, και ξεχνούν όλα τα λαχταριστά, σαν την τούμπα του καλόγερου, το πανταλόνι κάτω από το ράσο, τους σπάγκους στα παπούτσια.Τρελαντώνης · Πηνελόπη Δέλτα
What it sounds like when someone loves you and you can't believe it.
Ἔχει τηλέφωνο στὴν κρεβατοκάμαρά μου». Ἔτσι λοιπὸν ἀνεβήκαμε ἐπάνω. Σᾶς διαβεβαιώνω πὼς ἡ συμπεριφορὰ τῆς Λίλι δὲν εἶχε τίποτα τὸ πρόστυχο ἢ τὸ χυδαῖο. Ὅταν ξεντύθηκε, ἄρχισε νὰ μιλάει μὲ τρεμάμενη φωνή: «Σ‘ ἀγαπῶ! Σ‘ ἀγαπῶ!» Κι ἐγὼ εἶπα ἀπὸ μέσα μου καθὼς ἀγκαλιαστήκαμε: «Πῶς εἶναι δυνατὸν ν’ ἀγαπάει ἐμένα – ἐμένα, ἐμένα;» Ἀκούστηκε ἕνα κουβάρι ἀπὸ μπουμπουνητὰ κι ὕστερα ξέσπασε δυνατὴ βροχὴ μὲ ἀστραπὲς ποὺ μαστίγωνε τοὺς δρόμους, τὰ δέντρα, τὶς στέγες καὶ τὰ παντζούρια. Τὰ πάντα ἄστραφταν.Χέντερσον, ο Βασιλιάς της Βροχής · Saul Bellow
Two eagles fall through the air locked together, then part.
Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles, The rushing amorous contact high in space together, The clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel, Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling, In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling, Till o’er the river pois’d, the twain yet one, a moment’s lull, A motionless still balance in the air, then parting, talons loosing, Upward again on slow-firm pinions slanting, their separate diverse flight, She hers, he his, pursuing.Leaves of Grass · Walt Whitman
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