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"The majority is never right…Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?" – Henrik Ibsen
Widely regarded as one of the foremost dramatists of the nineteenth century, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906), created realistic plays bringing the social problems of his day to center stage. His dramas portrayed psychological conflict that emphasized character over devious...
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With its high degree of tuning ease, and with all the new models coming into the market, the knowledge of an expert like Vizard is a requirement to meet your carburetor performance goals, now more than ever. This book is an essential addition to any hot rodder's library.
3) Prodigal Son
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When a troubled but gifted boy from the South Bronx finds himself shipped off to a private school in New Hampshire, the adjustment to the alien environment will lead to his ultimate dissolution or redemption. Teachers in the affluent institution do not know what to make of the new boisterous student, though the challenge really lies in his self-perception. Like his most celebrated play, Doubt, the author has based this new work on his own personal...
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura En el camino, novela autobiográfica de Jack Kerouac que le valió un inmenso éxito y contribuyó a que el autor sea uno de los más representativos de la generación beat. La obra muestra el viaje por América de sus jóvenes protagonistas, que escapan de la conformidad de la opresora sociedad americana del final de los años 40.
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6) In Absentia
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Four seasons after her husband Tom's disappearance, Colette remains emotionally paralyzed, isolated in a country cottage. She waits in anguish, not knowing whether he is dead or alive, but clinging to hope. A young stranger in a jean jacket waves to her from the frozen lake--a sign? She emerges to give him her husband's parka--strangely, the boy has a likeness to Tom. What is the stranger's connection to her geologist husband, kidnapped more than...
7) The idiot
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Prince Myshkin, a good yet simple man, is out of place in the corrupt world created by Russia's ruling class.
9) Lupus
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"Award-winning Swiss graphic novelist Frederik Peeters soars to new heights with an existential interplanetary epic that never strays far from the human heart. Lupus Lablennorre is a man on the run. Like a cosmic Odysseus, he wanders from planet to planet, haunted by his past and orbiting around a woman. It starts as a fishing trip with his old pal, Tony. Their friendship has started to feel different lately, and not just because of the drugs. Picking...
10) Under-Earth
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"'Under-Earth' takes place in a subterranean landfill, hollowed out to serve as a massive improvised prison. Sunken into the trash and debris of the past -- gameboys, iphones, coffee cups, old cars -- we follow two parallel stories. In the first, a new arrival struggles to adapt to the everyday violence, physical labour, and poverty of the prison city. Overwhelmed and alone, he finds a connection with a fellow inmate through an old, beat-up novel....
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