The Guardian's Text on the Beach: 50 Best Summer Reads Ever

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Choosing holiday reading doesn't have to be about stuffing the latest blockbuster into your suitcase. From Renaissance Florence to the shores of Madagascar, we select the timeless novels that will

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Anno di conferimento:
2009
Opera
Il grande Meaulnes (1959) di Alain-Fournier
La casa degli spiriti (1982) di Isabel Allende
I Like It Here (1958) di Kingsley Amis
Parliamone (1991) di Julian Barnes
Il tè nel deserto (1949) di Paul Bowles
The Lady in the Lake (1943) di Raymond Chandler
Poirot sul Nilo (1937) di Agatha Christie
Amours de Voyage (1858) di Arthur Hugh Clough
Imogen (1978) di Jilly Cooper
Il quartetto di Alessandria (1957) di Lawrence Durrell
Romola (1862) di George Eliot
Tenera è la notte (1934) di F. Scott Fitzgerald
Monteriano (1905) di E. M. Forster
La donna del tenente francese (1969) di John Fowles
Chosen by Grayson Perry, artist
Il mago (1965) di John Fowles
Flashman's Lady (1977) di George MacDonald Fraser
Cronaca di una morte annunciata (1981) di Gabriel Garcia Marquez
L' ultima spiaggia (1996) di Alex Garland
The Greengage Summer (1958) di Rumer Godden
Chosen by Sophie Dahl, writer and ex-model
Il nostro agente all'Avana (1958) di Graham Greene
Chocolat (1999) di Joanne Harris
Ricostruzioni (2001) di Josephine Hart
L'età incerta (1953) di L. P. Hartley
Fiesta (1926) di Ernest Hemingway
Il talento di Mr. Ripley (1955) di Patricia Highsmith
The Line of Beauty (2004) di Alan Hollinghurst
Uomini che odiano le donne (2005) di Stieg Larsson
Chosen by Richard Eyre, director
Un delitto di classe (1962) di John le Carré
Cider with Rosie (1959) di Laurie Lee
Le nonne (2003) di Doris Lessing
Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) di Paule Marshall
Chosen by Jackie Kay, poet and novelist
In villa (1941) di W. Somerset Maugham
Espiazione (2001) di Ian McEwan
Summer's Lease (1988) di John Mortimer
Il mare, il mare (1978) di Iris Murdoch
Una casa per Mr. Biswas (1961) di V. S. Naipaul
Il paziente inglese (1992) di Michael Ondaatje
L'acqua delle colline (1963) di Marcel Pagnol
All'ombra delle fanciulle in fiore (1918) di Marcel Proust
Chosen by Andrew Marr, presenter and journalist
Dalla parte di Swann (1913) di Marcel Proust
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) di Jean Rhys
Bonjour tristesse (1954) di Françoise Sagan
Alzate l'architrave, carpentieri e Seymour: introduzione (1955) di J. D. Salinger
Body Surfing (2007) di Anita Shreve
I Melrose (2006) di Edward St. Aubyn
La morte di Ivan Il'ic (1852) di Leo Tolstoy
Chosen by Alain de Botton, author and philosopher
Il Gattopardo (1958) di Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Chosen by Simon Schama, historian and TV presenter
La prova di Gilbert Pinfold (1957) di Evelyn Waugh
E chi s'è visto s'è visto (1956) di P. G. Wodehouse
Something is Going to Fall Like Rain (2009) di Ros Wynne-Jones
Chosen by Rosie Boycott, chair of Food London

Descrizioni

Choosing holiday reading doesn't have to be about stuffing the latest blockbuster into your suitcase. From Renaissance Florence to the shores of Madagascar, we select the timeless novels that will turn the most restful holiday into an exotic adventure.

(English, Award granter)
URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jul/05/summer-reading-books-recommendations
A list from The Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009... (English, Scritto da un membro)

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