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Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spread at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time, the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain." Roquentin's efforts to try and come to terms with his life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize the tenets of his Existentialist creed.The introduction for this edition of Nausea by Hayden Carruth gives background on Sartre's life and major works, a summary of the principal themes of Existentialist philosophy, and a critical analysis of the novel itself.

Originally published in 1854, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of the time that Henry D. Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. It is one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. This new paperback edition-introduced by noted American writer John Updike-celebrates the 150th anniversary of this classic work. Much of Walden's material is derived from Thoreau's journals and contains such engaging pieces as "Reading" and "The Pond in the Winter" Other famous sections involve Thoreau's visits with a Canadian woodcutter and with an Irish family, a trip to Concord, and a description of his bean field. This is the complete and authoritative text of Walden-as close to Thoreau's original intention as all available evidence allows. For the student and for the general reader, this is the ideal presentation of Thoreau's great document of social criticism and dissent.

SAMUEL BECKETT is the first biography of the Nobel Prizewinning novelist and playwright. A monumental work of scholarship - arguably the most important book about Beckett ever published - SAMUEL BECKETT is also fascinating reading. Beckett's life has been as rich as his writing is spare, and Deirdre Bair tells his story superbly: the upper-middle-class Irish childhood; the early years in Paris and Beckett's complex relationship to Joyce; the psychological anguish of his apprenticeship, poured out by Beckett in more than 300 remarkable, heretofore-unknown letters to a confidant, Thomas McGreevy; Beckett's heroic service with the French Resistance, also unknown till now; "the siege in the room," that extraordinary period after the Second World War during which Beckett created the first masterpieces that would make him world famous; Beckett's increasing involvement with the theatre and his desperate attempts to guard his privacy against the encroachments of celebrity.SAMUEL BECKETT chronicles Beckett's tumultuous relationship with his family, recounts the psychosomatic illnesses that have often kept him from writing, and traces (where they exist) the autobiographical strains in his work. The book tells of his relationships with publishers, actors, directors, and friends. Above all, it portrays Beckett himself, the poet of despair, the angular, enigmatic artist who, in the words of his Nobel Prize citation, "has transmuted the destitution of modern man into his exaltation."When Deirdre Bair began the research for this book, Beckett said he would not authorize it nor would he read it before it was published. To friends he wrote, "I am sure Mrs. Bair is a serious scholar and is out to do a fine book. I will neither help nor hinder her." After literally hundreds of interviews and years of research in Ireland, England, France, Italy, Spain, Northern Ireland, Canada and the United States, after correspondence with people living on every continent, Deirdre Bair has produced a book that is everything a scholar or a reader could hope for: SAMUEL BECKETT is one of the remarkable literary biographies of our time.Deirdre Bair received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and worked as a journalist on newspapers and magazines before returning to academic life and taking a M.A. and Ph.D. at Columbia University. She has taught at Trinity College (Connecticut) and Yale University, and teaches now in the English Department of the University of Pennsylvania. She is married, has two children, and lives in Connecticut. (Taken from the inside jacket material of the First Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Edition, 1978.) 

Fear makes me a writer, fear and a lack of confidence. A major new biography on an increasingly important American literary icon, by the most acclaimed writer on the Beat Generation, Barry Miles. Miles knew all the key players in the Beat era, including William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, and also recorded with Bukowski. Having spoken with people close to Bukowski, and with a full examination of Bukowski's extensive writings, Miles has written the definitive story of the laureate of American low-life.

"ای کاش پیرمردی کوچک بودم بی مویی برسر, نشسته پشت میز تحریری بزرگ در کتابخانه ای دلکش".و برخلاف آرزویش چخوف مردی بود جوان, بزرگ و زیبا درست همانگونه که به چشم ها می آمد.... آلکساندر کوپرین نویسنده جوان وقت روسیه که اولین بار چخوف را ملاقات کرد در این باره نوشت: "من زیباترین, دلپذیرترین و الهام انگیزترین صورتی را می دیدم که تا آن زمان اقبال دیدنش را یافته بودم." و این زیباترین صورت جهان مزین شده بود به قلبی مهربان و نبوغی بی مثال.....آنتون چخوف زاده 1860 در شهر تاگروناگ روسیه سومین فرزند از شش فرزند خانواده ای متوسط با پدری به شدت مذهبی و سختگیر و مادری سنتی و بدون قدرت بود....دوران کودکی چخوف با کتک های روزمره پدر و تعلیمات سخت مذهبی اش در میان فقر و سختی گذشته و دوران نوجوانی به زحمت و تلاش برای امرار معاش برای خرج تحصیلات و گذران زندگی خانواده ای پرجمعیت بود....چخوف که شاگردی متوسط در مدرسه بود بعد از ورشکستگی پدر و مهاجرت ناگهانی خانواده به مسکو در شهر کوچک تاگروناگ محکوم به ماندن شد و بعد از تلاش زیاد برای بدست آوردن پول با کارهای کوچک به فکر ارتقا تحصیلی خودش به پزشکی افتاد به این امید که دارای منصب و پول بیشتری شود و بعد از دو سال رنج فراوان به مدرسه پزشکی مسکو پذیرفته شد و در آنجا بود که با وضعیت نابسامان خانواده روبرو شد...برای کمک به خانواده و با کشف استعدادش در نوشتن و علاقه ای که به ساختن داستان از موضوعات روزمره و حتی هیچ داشت با قلمی طنز در زیر اسمهای مستعار شروع به نوشتن برای یکی دو مجله و روزنامه فکاهی آن زمان کرد....و این بود آغاز نوشتن هایش که گاه حتی به چندین و چند تا در روز میرسید..."همچنان که از این داستان به آن داستان می پرداخت, پرده نقاشی زندگی در روسیه آن روزگار را نقش میزد- پرده ای عریض, اما ناچیز, حقیر اما مومنانه. آنان که در این پرده ها پهلو به پهلو دیده می شدند همان مردم عادی بودند که وی آنان را به ناگاه, هم در شهر و هم در بیرون شهر, یافته بود: روستاییان جاهل و جانور خوی, اعیان عاطل, دانشجویان مِی زده, دکان داران اسیر دخل و خرج, مقامات فاسد....هریک از ایشان دچار مصیبتی رقت انگیز و همخوان با شخصیت رقت انگیز خود. با این همه چخوف با رشته کنایاتی روشن و کوتاه, میتوانست به رازی اشاره کند که در پس ظاهر خاکسترین آنها نهفته بود. پوچی زندگی هرروزین را بی اشتباه عریان میکرد, نه سخنی از تعقیب بود, نه از دفاع, حقیقت خام, عکاسی. افزون بر این, جعبه جادوی او نافرسودنی می نمود: در سراسر این نگارخانه عظیم هیچ تکچهره تکراری وجود نداشت."با وجود طرفداران بسیار و اصرار مجله ها چخوف هرگز حاضر نمیشد در زیر نام واقعی خود بنویسد تا وقتی که یکی از نویسندگان بنام آن زمان به نام گریگاروویچ به نبوغ او پی برده و در نامه ای با صراحت کلام برایش نوشت که چگونه چخوف استعدادش را با قلم زدنهای با سرعت و گاه بی عمق در حال از بین بردن است...."من همه آنچه را با امضای چخونته بوده است خوانده ام, اگرچه آزرده بوده ام از مردی که خود را چندان دست کم می پندارد که کاربرد نامی مستعار را لازم میداند...شما استعدادی راستین دارید, استعدادی که شما را به سطحی ارتقا می دهد بسی فراتر از نسل تازه نویسندگان....بس کنید تلاش را برای نگاه داشتن مهلت ها. نمیدانم درآمدتان چه مقدار است, اگر کم است, گرسنگی بکشید, اما مشاهدات خود را برای آثاری بگذارید که به آن ها می اندیشید...کاری از این دست خواهد ارزید به بیش از صد داستان سراسر پاک و پاکیزه ای که میان صفحات روزنامه ها پراکنده است."بعد از آن و به تدریج چخوف شروع به آهسته نوشتن ولی بهتر نوشتن کرد و در طول زمان کوتاه زندگی اش بیشتر از صدها داستان و نمایش کوتاه بیاد ماندنی از خودش برجای گذاشت....چخوف به عنوان یکی از بهترن داستان کوتاه نویسان دنیا شناخته شده و بعد از شکسپیر یکی از پربیننده ترین نمایش های دنیا را خلق کرده است....چخوف که از دنیای سیاست و دین و فلسفه دوری میگزید به سادگی به خویشتن خویش, مردی معتدل وابسته بود و بس..."بیایید آدمی عادی باشیم, با همه یکسان رفتار کنیم تا به همبستگی ساختگی نیاز پیدا نکنیم" و در این عادی بودن خودش را به هیچ جرگه و فرقه ای متعلق نمیدانست و بین دو علاقه زندگی اش ادبیات و پزشکی تنها به خانواده اش وفادار بود و ملتش...."من نه آزادیخواهم نه محافظه کار, نه پیرو پیشرفت گام به گامم نه راهب و لاقید, دوست می دارم هنرمندی باشم آزاد و دیگر هیچ, از دروغ بیزارم و از خشونت در همه جلوه هایش...."با وجود علاقه اش به نوشتن و محبوبیتی که در طول زندگی اش از نویسندگی به دست آورد, چخوف هرگز حرفه پزشکی را رها نکرد و تا آخر عمرش بیماران مستمند را در هرکجایی که بود به رایگان و با طبع خاطر درمان میکرد و بسته به نیازش گاه به پزشکی و گاه به ادبیات روی خوش تری نشان میداد.... چخوف نمیتوانست تشخیص دهد که آیا پزشک است یا نویسنده. با ارجاع به قیاسی که دوست می داشت میان همسر قانونی اش پزشکی و معشوقه اش ادبیات به دست دهد, نوشت: "وقتی یکی خشمگینم می کند, شب را با دیگری میگذرانم. چنین روشی ممکن است اندکی نابسامانی فراهم کند, اما ملال کمتری خواهد آورد."نویسنده کتاب هانری تروایا روسی زاده ای فرانسوی است که زندگینامه شخصیت های بسیاری از جمله داستایوسکی, تولستوی, پوشکین و گوگول را به تصویر کشیده است که برای نوشتن زندگی چخوف دچار تردید بوده است با چاپ این کتاب صاحب جایزه نقد ادبی سال 1984 شد. چخوف در عین ژرف بینی و راز آمیز بودن عاری از زندگی پرجنجال و سرنوشت های گونا گونی چون دیگران بوده است...مردی عاری از پیچیده گی ها و مزین به لبخندی زیبا و روحی بزرگ انسانی همچون انسان های دیگر فقط بری از دشمنی با همنوعان, مردی از جنس تواضع و فروتنی با انضباطی زاهدانه و عشق به طبیعت با نبوغی غیر قابل قیاس و قلمی که از هیچ زندگی می آفریده است....چخوف بعد از سالها ابتلا به بیماری سل و رنج و عذابی که متحمل بود در سال 1904 درست دوسال بعد از ازدواجش با هنرپیشه تئاتری در مسکو از زندگی به مرگ گذر کرد بدان سادگی که خصلت او بود....از شاهکارهای به یاد ماندنی اش میتوان از نمایش مرغ دریایی, دایی وانیا, و سه خواهر و داستانهای کوتاهش چون ماتم, فراری و وانکا نام برد..پی نوشت: ترجمه آقای علی بهبهانی در عین روان بودن گاه و بیگاه به سکسه دچار میشدند...به نظر میرسید در جاهایی ماجرا یکباره قطع میشود و به جایی پرت ربط داده میشود....توصیفاتی که چخوف در نامه های عاشقانه اش به اولگا همسرش نوشته بود بسیار عجیب بودند مثل: سگ, هاپو, جوجه بوقلمون و غیره که به نظرم میتوانستند جایگزین های بهتری داشته باشند....

Dead Souls is eloquent on some occasions, lyrical on others, and pious and reverent elsewhere. Nicolai Gogol was a master of the spoof. The American students of today are not the only readers who have been confused by him. Russian literary history records more divergent interpretations of Gogol than perhaps of any other classic.In a new translation of the comic classic of Russian literature, Chichikov, an enigmatic stranger and conniving schemer, buys deceased serfs' names from their landlords' poll tax lists hoping to mortgage them for profit and to reinvent himself as a likeable gentleman.

Leo Tolstoy embodies the most extraordinary contradictions. He was a wealthy aristocrat who preached the virtues of poverty and the peasant life, a misogynist who wrote Anna Karenina, and a supreme writer who declared, "Literature is rubbish." From Tolstoy's famously bad marriage to his enormously successful career, Troyat presents a brilliant portrait that reads like an epic novel written by Tolstoy himself.

Anton Chekhov's life was short, intense, and dominated by battles, both with his dependents and with the tuberculosis that killed him at age forty-four. The traditional image of Chekhov is that of the restrained artist torn between medicine and literature. But Donald Rayfield's biography reveals the life long hidden behind the noble facade. Here is a man capable of both great generosity toward needy peasants and harsh callousness toward lovers and family, a man who craved with equal passion the company of others and the solitude necessary to create his art. Based on information from Chekhov archives throughout Russia, Rayfield's work has been hailed as a groundbreaking examination of the life of a literary master.A new biography of the great author and playwright.

Emil Sinclair is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a play on words that means "world of light" as well as "world of illusion". Emil's entire existence can be summarized as a struggle between two worlds: the show world of illusion (related to the Hindu concept of maya) and the real world, the world of spiritual truth. In the course of the novel, accompanied and prompted by his mysterious classmate 'Max Demian', he detaches from and revolts against the superficial ideals of the world of appearances and eventually awakens into a realization of self.

Steppenwolf is a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. This Faust-like and magical story is evidence of Hesse's searching philosophy and extraordinary sense of humanity as he tells of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope. Yet his novel can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination and an indictment of the intellectual hypocrisy of the period. As Hesse himself remarked, "Of all my books Steppenwolf is the one that was more often and more violently misunderstood than any of the others".

Renowned Kafka scholar Jeremy Adler examines the life of the writer who probed the hostile side of modernity in darkly terrifying masterpieces that mirrored the turmoil of his own inner world. The illustrations in this volume include rarely seen drawings from Kafka's workbooks, images of the Prague environment that inspired his nightmarish works, photos of Kafka with friends and colleagues, and reproductions of letters, manuscripts, and first edition book jackets.

Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology. and horoscope. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet, an astonishing work that, in George Steiner's words, "gives to Lisbon the haunting spell of Joyce's Dublin or Kafka's Prague."Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the "autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa's alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, captivatingly translated by Richard Zenith, The Book of Disquiet is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.

In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish waiter named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.

After his death sometime in his 43rd year, suburbanite Lester Burnham tells of the last few weeks of his life, during which he had no idea of his imminent passing. He is a husband to real estate agent Carolyn Burnham and father to high school student Jane Burnham. Although Lester and Carolyn once loved each other, they now merely tolerate each other. Typical wallflower Jane also hates both her parents; the three suffer individually in silence in their home life. Jane tries to steer clear of both her parents. Carolyn, relatively new to the real estate business, wants to create the persona of success to further her career, aspiring to the professional life of Buddy Kane, the king of the real estate business in their neighborhood. Lester merely walks mindlessly through life, including at his job in advertising. His company is downsizing, and he, like all the other employees, has to justify his position to the newly hired efficiency expert to keep his job. Things change for Lester when he falls in love at first sight with Jane's more experienced classmate, Angela Hayes. Both Janie and Angela can see Lester's sexual infatuation with Angela, who courts such attention from any man as a sign that she is model material, she having once appeared in Seventeen and is a career to which she aspires. Lester's infatuation with Angela gives him a reenergized view on life, where he openly doesn't care anymore what anyone thinks about what he does, anyone except Angela. This infatuation coincides with the Fittses moving in next door: homophobic disciplinarian US Marine Colonel Frank Fitts who rules the house with a military fist (that fist being both figurative and literal), his semi-comatose wife Barbara Fitts, and their bright and quietly subversive 18-year-old son Ricky Fitts, who openly abides by his father's rules while behind the scenes lives by his own quite different perspective. Much like Lester's infatuation, Ricky immediately becomes infatuated with Jane; he considers girls like Angela as ordinary. The entry of Angela and the Fittses into the Burnhams' lives ultimately leads to each of the players confronting what is truly in his or her heart.

PREDESTINATION chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to ensure the continuation of his law enforcement career for all eternity. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time.

2014 film directed by Michael and Peter Spierig

Precocious Oliver struggles with being popular in school but when a dark-haired beauty takes interest in him, he's determined to become the best boyfriend in the world. Meanwhile, his parents' already rocky relationship is threatened when his mother's ex-boyfriend moves in next door. Oliver makes some unorthodox plans to ensure that his parents stay together and that Jordana still likes him.

THE READER opens in post-war Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate secret affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn," and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life--this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives. THE READER is a story about truth and reconciliation, about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another.

In this adaptation of the autobiography "The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945,"

This action drama follows a mysterious man who has multiple jobs as a garage mechanic, a Hollywood stuntman and a getaway driver seems to be trying to escape his shady past as he falls for his neighbor - whose husband is in prison and who's looking after her child alone. Meanwhile, his garage mechanic boss is trying to set up a race team using gangland money, which implicates our driver as he is to be used as the race team's main driver. Our hero gets more than he bargained for when he meets the man who is married to the woman he loves.

2011 film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn

After his wife, Alice, tells him about her sexual fantasies, William Harford sets out for a night of sexual adventure. After several less than successful encounters, he meets an old friend, Nick Nightingale--now a musician--who tells him of strange sex parties where he is required to play the piano blindfolded. All the men at the party are costumed and wear masks while the women are all young and beautiful. Harford manages to find an appropriate costume and heads out to the party. Once there, however, he is warned by someone who recognizes him, despite the mask, that he is in great danger. He manages to extricate himself, but the threats prove to be quite real and sinister.

A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.

Actor Riggan Thomson is most famous for his movie role from over twenty years ago of the comic book superhero Birdman in the blockbuster movie of the same name and its two equally popular sequels. His association with the role took over his life, where Birdman is more renowned than "Riggan Thomson" the actor. Now past middle age, Riggan is trying to establish himself as a true artist by writing, directing, starring in and co-producing with his best friend Jake what is his Broadway debut, an adaptation of

This movie recounts the adventures of M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes), a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori), the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune - all against the backdrop of a suddenly and dramatically changing continent.

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down - which might not be such a bad thing.

Max Fischer is a precocious 15-year-old whose reason for living is his attendance at Rushmore, a private school where he's not doing well in any of his classes, but where he's the king of extracurricular activities - from being in the beekeeping society to writing and producing plays, there's very little after school he doesn't do. His life begins to change, however, when he finds out he's on academic probation, and when he stumbles into love with Miss Cross, a pretty teacher of the elementary school at Rushmore. Added to the mix is his friendship with Herman Blume, wealthy industrialist and father to boys who attend the school, and who also finds himself attracted to Miss Cross. Max's fate becomes inextricably tied to this odd love triangle, and how he sets about resolving it is the story in the film.

This is the story of Mr. Fox (George Clooney) and his wild ways of hen heckling, turkey taking, and cider sipping, nocturnal, instinctive adventures. He has to put his wild days behind him and do what fathers do best: be responsible. He is too rebellious. He is too wild. He is going to try "just one more raid" on the three nastiest, meanest farmers that are Walter Boggis (Robin Hurlstone), Nathan Bunce (Hugo Guinness), and Franklin Bean (Sir Michael Gambon). It is a tale of crossing the line of family responsibilities and midnight adventure and the friendships and awakenings of this country life that is inhabited by Fantastic Mr. Fox and his friends.

2009 stop-motion animated film directed by Wes Anderson

When his partner is killed by the mysterious and possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark, Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his Team Zissou crew set off for an expedition to hunt down the creature. Along with his estranged wife, a beautiful journalist and a co-pilot who could possibly be Zissou's son, the crew set off for one wild expedition.

Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) is a retired widow, living in a small apartment. She spends most of her time watching TV, especially a particular self-help show. She has delusions of rising above her current dull existence by being a guest on that show. Her son, Harry (Jared Leto) is a junkie but along with his friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) has visions of making it big by becoming a drug dealer. Harry's girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) could be fashion designer or artist but is swept along in Harry's drug-centric world. Meanwhile Sara has developed an addiction of her own. She desperately wants to lose weight and so goes on a crash course involving popping pills, pills which turn out to be very addictive and harmful to her mental state.

Linguistics professor Louise Banks leads an elite team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touchdown in 12 locations around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must race against time to find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial visitors. Hoping to unravel the mystery, she takes a chance that could threaten her life and quite possibly all of mankind.

Aspiring actress serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and jazz musician Sebastian scrapes by playing cocktail-party gigs in dingy bars. But as success mounts, they are faced with decisions that fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

Antonio Ricci, an unemployed man in the depressed post-WWII economy of Italy, finally gets a job hanging up posters, but he needs a bicycle. But when his bicycle is stolen,, he and son walk the streets of Rome looking for it. Antonio finally manages to locate the thief, but with no proof he must abandon his cause. But he and his son know perfectly well that without a bike, Antonio won't be able to keep his job.

Riding through a children's wonderland of ice cream parlors and amusement parks, a Little Girl's innocent adventure is interrupted when her beloved bicycle is stolen. Forced to choose between giving it up, or giving chase, she sets off on a new and daring adventure in pursuit of the Big Man who has taken it.

Norwegian composer and pianist (1843-1907)

English singer-songwriter, and record producer from London

Italian composer and violinist (1678-1741)

German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist

The series follows the life of anti-social, pain killer addict, witty and arrogant medical doctor Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) with only half a muscle in his right leg. He and his team of medical doctors try to cure complex and rare diseases from very ill ordinary people in the United States of America.

The body of a young girl (Laura Palmer) is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.

American drama television series from 1990–1991

This is a series of ten shorts created for Polish Television, with plots loosely based upon the Ten Commandments, directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski. Two of these, Dekalog 5 and 6, are shorter cuts from the feature-length films--Krotki film o zabijaniu (A Short Film About Killing) and Krotki film o milosci (A Short Film About Love), respectively. They deal with the emotional turmoil suffered by humanity, when instinctual acts and societal morality conflict.

General Hammond summons Colonel Jack O'Neill out of retirement to embark on a secret rescue mission. O'Neill confesses that he disobeyed orders to destroy the Stargate on Planet Abydos, and that scientist Daniel Jackson may still be alive. Arriving on Abydos with his team, O'Neill meets up once again with the scientist, who has discovered a giant elaborate cartouche in hieroglyphics. All signs point to the fact that this is a map of many Stargates that exist throughout the galaxy - a development that makes the dream of the SG-1 team to travel throughout the universe in time a reality.

American–Canadian science fiction television series from 1997–2007

David Letterman's comedic talk-show after moving to a new television network. He retains largely the same format as the previous 'Late Night with David Letterman.'

Jack and Triumph are reunited after years apart.

Two hundred years from now, the solar system's been colonized, and police detective, Josephus Miller's given the assignment of finding a missing woman. Meanwhile, an officer of an ice freighter sees what appears to be an unprovoked attack upon the ship, by a craft from Mars. As news of the attack spreads, the incident's repercussions threaten to destabilize an already tenuous relations between Earth, Mars and the asteroid belt.

American science fiction television series

Dr. Cal Lightman teaches a course in body language and makes an honest fortune exploiting it. He's employed by various public authorities in various investigations, doing more when the police etc. fail to go the extra mile. So he can afford to constitute a team of his own, which like clients and others has to put up with his mind-games.

The "normal" suburban life for a group of close-knit housewives takes a dark turn when one of their closest friends mysteriously commits suicide. Now while trying to deal with their own hectic problems and romantic lives, each year brings on a new mystery and more dark and twisted events to come. Life behind closed doors is about to be revealed as suburban life takes a funny and dark turn.

The unlikely partnership between charming con artist Neal Caffrey and straight-man FBI agent Peter Burke. Caffrey provides his expertise to help Burke catch other elusive criminals in exchange for his freedom, and together they prove that to solve the hardest crimes, you must hire the smartest criminal.

This is an animated sitcom about the antics of a dysfunctional family. Homer is the oafish unhealthy beer loving father, Marge is the hardworking homemaker wife, Bart is the perpetual ten-year-old underachiever (and proud of it), Lisa is the unappreciated eight-year-old genius, and Maggie is the cute, pacifier loving silent infant.

American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening

A weekly documentary series, each episode providing an in-depth look at a different subject of scientific research. Subjects examined by this show have included the cutting edge of theoretical physics, a return to the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, the long-term effects of Amazon deforestation, and the development of life-saving medical techniques.

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