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This book is dedicated to all girls who have ever been spanked, only to discover that they were enjoying it! Anna is a beautiful, 18- year-old virgin, who has been left in the care of her tutor, Peter, while her grandparents are away for a month. With so many lonely hours to kill in her gloomy old house, Anna’s dreamy mind blooms with wildly erotic fantasies of being spanked and dominated by stern and controlling men.

After millionaire widower Leon Farrell dies, his three grown children are dismayed that their father’s will cannot be found. As tensions rise, they must learn to come together—or face being torn apart for good.

John Forster’s The Life of Charles Dickens is the fount, the foundation stone of all subsequent Dickens’ biographies. Forster’s three volume work is a vivid and fascinating account of Dickens’ prodigiously productive and fascinating life. Wilkie Collins, the novelist, collaborator and close friend of Dickens observed: "The assertion that no letters addressed by Dickens to other old friends revealed his character so frankly and completely as his letters to Forster, it is not necessary to contradict.

In this searching tragicomedy of manners, personalities, and world views, E.M. Forster explores the "idea of England" he would later develop in Howards End. Bookish, sensitive, and given to wild enthusiasms, Rickie Elliot is virtually made for a life at Cambridge, where he can subsist on a regimen of biscuits and philosophical debate.

E.M. Forster's Howards End is a vivid portrait of London's golden age, before World War I forever changed its values and culture. Forster brings the great city's upper classes to life, detailing their grandiose spending habits, popular fads, Monet and Debussy, the rise of feminism, and the beginnings of urbanization. More than a mere idealization of pre-war London, Howards End provides insightful commentary on the rapid societal changes that occurred at the onset of the 20th century. Masterfully blending the stories of three vastly different groups of people - the independently wealthy, educated Schlegels; the nouveau riche Wilcoxes; and the ambitious but struggling Leonard Bast - Forster weaves a wonderfully rich, unforgettably poignant novel.

Plagued all her life by her roisterous husband, straitlaced, outspoken, domineering Maudie is now on her own. Invited by her two daughters and her son to spend four months with each of them, she leaves Glasgow for the first time, uncertain of what awaits her. But what she finds in the very different homes of her children is not what she expects, causing her to reassess her life.

Lucy Honeychurch is an innocent abroad. Under the care of her well-meaning but infuriating chaperon, Cousin Charlotte, she is completing the final part of a conventional well-bred English upbringing: the Grand Tour. But the sensual atmosphere of the Florentine countryside exercises a strange power over Lucy's half-formed and untested character, as do her fellow guests at the Pension Bertolini.

Lucy Honeychurch, accompanied by her vigilant guardian, Charlotte Bartlett, makes her first foray into the world, touring Italy and discovering a country very different to the English countryside she was brought up in.

E. M. Forster's first novel is a witty comedy of manners that is tinged with tragedy. It tells the story of Lilia Herriton, who proves to be an embarrassment to her late husband's family as, in the small Tuscan town of Monteriano, she begins a relationship with a much younger Italian man - classless, uncouth, and highly unsuitable. A subtle attack on Edwardian values and a humanely sympathetic portrayal of the clash of two cultures, Where Angels Fear to Tread is also a profound exploration of character and virtue.

When Lilia, an English widow, marries a penniless Italian while on vacation, her dead husband's relatives are not amused. That the marriage should fail and Lilia die tragically are to be expected. But that she should have a baby, and that the baby should be raised Italian, of all things, are matters requiring immediate correction. E.M. Forster's first novel addresses cultural collisions and English middle-class sterility.

First published in 1910, Howards End is considered by many to be Forster's greatest novel. Set at the beginning of the 20th century it follows the fortunes and interrelations between three family groups of differing backgrounds and outlooks. At the top of the money tree are the Wilcoxes who represent broadly materialism and an upper-class English archetype. The family has made money in the colonies and also have a property - Howards End - owned by the terminally-ill mother, Ruth Wilcox, who must decide how best to pass on the estate.

This brilliant novel depicts cultural clashes between a middle-class English family and a penniless Italian. His marriage to a young widow from Sawston leads to a tumultuous situation within the family.

This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson---who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist - Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires.

A Room with a View portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living in Italy, a country which to Forster represents the forces of true passion. Caught up in a world of social snobbery, Forster's heroine, Lucy Honeychurch, finds herself constrained by the claustrophobic influence of her British guardians, who encourage her to take up with a well-connected boor.

Als Dominik Forster zum ersten Mal durch die Tore der Nürnberger Schule tritt, beginnt sein Leben als Underdog. Erst Crystal Meth macht den ängstlichen Jungen zu dem Menschen, der er immer sein möchte, und mit dem Einstieg ins Drogengeschäft beginnt der vermeintliche Aufstieg, umgeben von vermeintlichen Freunden: er wird zum Topdog. Dieser Weg führt ihn ins Gefängnis, in eine Welt aus Brutalität, die einzig zwischen "Mann" und "Opfer" unterscheidet und in der die Zeit nur genutzt wird, um den nächsten Coup zu planen...

"Casa Howard" è ormai considerato il capolavoro di Edward M. Forster, ed è certamente uno dei "classici" della letteratura del ventesimo secolo. La ricchezza del romanzo sta nella pregnanza di una narrazione piena di tensioni, in parte irrisolte perché lo stesso Forster è partecipe di esse e il "solo connettere" del sottotitolo del romanzo gli è impossibile solo in parte, come egli ben sa. Ma forse il fascino di "Casa Howard" sta proprio in questa difficoltà a risolvere contraddizioni ancora irrisolvibili.

L'avvocato Josie Baylor-Bates è impegnata in un nuovo e delicato caso, quando il suo compagno, l'ex poliziotto Archer, viene accusato di aver ucciso il proprio figliastro. L'inattesa scoperta della paternità del suo uomo lascia Josie incredula e delusa, senza tuttavia impedirle di assumerne la difesa. Ma i numerosi dettagli che emergono dal passato di Archer gettano continue ombre sulla sua innocenza e minano la loro relazione.

Dopo il difficile processo in cui è stata difesa dall'avvocato Josie Bates da un'ingiusta accusa di omicidio, la sedicenne Hannah Sheraton sta provando a rimettere insieme i pezzi della propria esistenza. Ma la vita è stata così crudele con lei che, quando le succede qualcosa di buono, trova difficile credere che sia reale... E infatti, ancora una volta, Hannah tocca con mano che mentre una prova è finita, sta per iniziarne un'altra, più profonda e infida.

Hannah Sheraton ha sedici anni quando viene arrestata con l'accusa di aver assassinato un giudice della Corte suprema della California. Se venisse riconosciuta colpevole, la sua vita e quella dei suoi familiari sarebbero distrutte. A sua madre Linda non rimane che chiedere aiuto a una vecchia compagna di college, Josie Bates, importante avvocato penalista ritiratosi dalle grandi scene giudiziarie.

Die Menschen leben in winzigen sechseckigen Waben tief unter der Erde, genießen jedoch allen Komfort. Ihr Alltag ist durch die "Maschine" perfekt geregelt. Ohne das Bedürfnis nach persönlichen Begegnungen kommunizieren sie über elektronische Hilfsmittel, die maximal miteinander vernetzt sind. Das Handbuch der Maschine ist zu ihrer Bibel geworden, wer nicht maschinenkonform denkt und handelt, wird verstoßen. Als der rebellische Kuno entdeckt, dass die Maschine langsam versagt, wagt er einen folgenschweren Ausbruch.