Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (4403)
4101.
The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill EN
EnglandDescription:
When an elderly doctor takes over as state coroner of newly formed Communist Laos in the late 1970s, he unexpectedly stirs the bureaucratic pot and unravels three complicated and intertwined murder plots his superiors want to sweep under the carpet.
4103.
The Red Room by H. G. Wells EN
Description:
"It's your own choosing," said the man with the withered arm once more. I heard the faint sound of a stick and a shambling step on the flags in the passage outside. The door creaked on its hinges as a second old man entered, more bent, more wrinkled, more aged even than the first. He supported himself by the help of a crutch, his eyes were covered by a shade, and his lower lip, half averted, hung pale and pink from his decaying yellow teeth. He made straight for an armchair on the opposite side of the table, sat down clumsily, and began to cough.
4104.
The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie EN
Description:
On Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple's house and the conversations turns to unsolved crimes: the case of the disappearing bloodstains; the thief who committed his crime twice over; the strange case of the invisible will; and the death-bed message about a "heap of fish".
4105.
Alan Garner's Book of British Fairy Tales by Alan Garner EN
Description:
A collection of twenty-one traditional tales from the British Isles.
4106.
Watership Down by Richard Adams EN
Description:
An allegorical tale of survival in which a band of wild rabbits leave their ancestral home to build a more humane society
4107.
The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes EN
Description:
Alfred Noyes's famous poem still has the power to thrill us as we read the story of the highwayman and his doomed love for Bess, the landlord's black-eyed daughter. Charles Keeping's stunning illustrations won this book the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1982.
4108.
Morte na Praia by Agatha Christie PT
Description:
Arlena Stuart adorava o sol, e era freqüente ver seu lindo corpo bronzeado estendido na praia, o rosto pousado na areia. Só que desta vez não havia sol... ela tinha sido estrangulada. Desde a chegada de Arlena, Poirot tinha percebido algo diferente entre os veranistas, uma tensão sexual pairando no ar. Poderia um crime aparentemente passional ter sido ao mesmo tempo uma ação premeditada, muito mais perversa? Os álibis parecem perfeitos neste empolgante mistério à beira-mar.
4109.
The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot EN
Description:
THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION provides the most lucid and readable account of what has been termed the "Golden Age" of the nineteenth century constitution, before the advent of universal male suffrage and the rise of party as the overriding force in the British policy. Many of Bagehot's insights remain either true, as a statement of basic principle, or even if no longer strictly accurate, fascinating in their partial applicability today. they convey a sharp sense of how the constitution has radically changed since the Victorian era, and yet paradoxically at a more basic level, remained the same.
4110.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman EN
Description:
A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse where she once lived, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy... continue