Books
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عراقى فى باريسEGP 100.00
رواية مؤثرة تقدم تأويلًا مباشرًا يقوم على كبسة زر للمذاق المرير للحياة اليومية، مطعمة بروح السخرية والمفارقة بصورة لا تضاهى، إنها قصة جيل كامل من العرب الذين دمرت حياتهم الإيديولوجيات التي هيمنت على السياسة العربية. تتضمن الرواية أيضًا حسًا فكاهيًا وروح دعابة متميزين ومقدرة غير عادية للكاتب على خلق عالم داخلي، فهي تروي قصة حكواتي لا مقدسات لديه، ينتهي به الأمر في باريس، مواصلًا حياته بين البارات ومحطات المترو، حالمًا بكتابة سيناريو عن والده الفران الأصم الأبكم، ولكنه بدلًا من ذلك يكتب نصًا ساحرًا عن طفولته الفقيرة، كصبي عاشق للسينما. نصّ مكتوب، على خلفية سير ذاتية سابقة لأدباء عرب أقاموا في باريس لفترات مختلفة منذ بداية القرن التاسع عشر، ولكنه يتجاوز معظم هذه النصوص من حيث الصدق والصراحة،لا يرحم أحدًا، ذو عين سينمائية حادة النظرة، وذو موقف حيادي من تقلبات الحياة في الشوارع الباريسية.
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The Adolescent: New TranslationEGP 665.00
Among Dostoevsky's later novels, The Adolescent occupies a very special place: published three years after The Devils and five years before his final masterpiece, The Karamazov Brothers, the novel charts the story of nineteen-year-old Arkady – the illegitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the maid Sofia Andreyevna – as he struggles to find his place in society and “become a Rothschild” against the background of 1870s Russia, a nation still tethered to its old systems and values but shaken up by the new ideological currents of socialism and nihilism.
Both a Bildungsroman and a novel of ideas, dealing with themes such as the relationship between fathers and sons and the role of money in modern society, The Adolescent – here presented in a brand-new translation by Dora O'Brien – shows Dostoevsky at his finest as a social commentator and observer of the workings of a young man's mind. -
The Portrait of a LadyEGP 665.00Having travelled from her native New York to London to meet her relatives, Isabel Archer, a young, independently minded young woman, rejects the marriage proposals of two suitors in her determination to stay in control of her destiny. When she suddenly comes into a large legacy, Isabel believes that this windfall will finally ensure the freedom that she yearns for and embarks on an exhilarating journey through France and Italy, only to find her endeavours thwarted by the sinister plotting of some of her acquaintances. Considered by many to be Henry James's finest novel, The Portrait of a Lady is a subtle examination of Victorian society and power relations, providing a groundbreaking psychological study of its protagonist. This volume is based on the authoritative New York Edition, and includes the author's seminal preface.
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Tarzan of the ApesEGP 515.00In 1888 Lord and Lady Clayton sail from England but to West Africa and perish on a remote island. When their infant son is adopted by fanged, great anthropoid apes, he is Tarzan of the Apes. His intelligence and caring mother raise him to be king. Self-educated by his parents’ library, Tarzan rescues genteel Jane Porter from the perils of his jungle.
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The GamblerEGP 590.00In this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral of betting and loss. His intense and inescapable addiction is accentuated by his affair with the General’s cruel yet seductively adept niece, Polina. In The Gambler, Dostoevsky reaches the heights of drama with this stunning psychological portrait.
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The Great GatsbyyEGP 590.00"The year is 1922, and young Nick Carraway moves to the village of West Egg, where he discovers that his neighbor is the eclectic millionaire Jay Gatsby. As he and Gatsby become acquainted, Nick is thrown into a world full of dazzling parties, unrequited love, and unchecked idealism. Gatsby, surrounded by riches, yearns for the love of a woman who chose another man. He waits for her every night, using a green light at the end of his dock to call out to her from across the water. Daisy, stuck in a loveless marriage, dreams of what could have been—and gets a taste for it after she is re-acquainted with Gatsby through Nick. Considered by critics to be one of the greatest novels ever written, this 1925 masterpiece is a portrait of the Roaring Twenties that’s full of literary intrigue, resounding metaphors, and decadent glimpses into the glitz and glam of early twentieth-century America. As relevant today as ever, it offers a cautionary tale of the American Dream, warning against the temptation to believe that enough money paired with equal desire can achieve anything—even reverse the deepest regrets."
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Crime and PunishmentEGP 740.00Rodion Raskolnikov is a handsome, yet impoverished student. Morally conflicted, he believes that extraordinary men who contribute much to society by their thinking are above the law, and in order to prove his theory, he decides to murder a grasping old money lender and, through unforeseen circumstances, her sister. Unexpectedly filled with remorse, Raskolnikov is caught in a moral dilemma: while he believes he can get away with the perfect murder, he also finds his conscience challenged by his developing relationship with the beautiful, but deeply religious Sonia. Crime and Punishment was first published in 1866 and has become one of Russian literature's most famous and influential works.