Its story of passion and despair is based on Dostoevsky's own experience as a compulsive gambler but Dostoevsky was able to break away, whereas Alexei vows to quit as soon as he breaks even an event, it is clear, that will never happen. Like so many other characters in Dostoeveky's novels, Alexei is trying to break through the wall of the established order and the human conditi...(展开全部)

Its story of passion and despair is based on Dostoevsky's own experience as a compulsive gambler but Dostoevsky was able to break away, whereas Alexei vows to quit as soon as he breaks even an event, it is clear, that will never happen. Like so many other characters in Dostoeveky's novels, Alexei is trying to break through the wall of the established order and the human conditi...(展开全部)

Written by Kim Kiyosaki - -the wife of bestselling author Robert Kiyosaki - RICH WOMAN is for women who insist on being financially independent – without depending on a man, family, company, or government to take care of them. In her book, Kiyosaki applies the same moneymaking strategies that have made RICH DAD POOR DAD one of the great publishing success stories of all time –...(展开全部)

a rhetorically powerful argument about how the myths and ideals of femininity are harmful.

Master coach and former International Coach Federation President Marcia Reynolds helps high-achieving women who may feel frustrated and restless embrace their 'wandering' impulses and come to peace with their desire for something more.

a rhetorically powerful argument about how the myths and ideals of femininity are harmful.

For a book that sent shock waves through the European literary establishment and, since its original publication in 1906 has gone through seven editions along with highly cclaimed translations into all th principal languages of Europe, "A Woman" (Una Donna) by Sibilla Aleramo (1876-1960) has remained curiously obscure in America. Aleramo's lightly fictionalized memoir presented...(展开全部)

'A groundbreaking, earthquaking vision, a story and a manifesto, and a literary performance so energetic it almost demands to be read aloud' Guardian 'To love, to sacrifice oneself, and to submit! Was this what all women were destined for?' When her carefree, aspirational childhood in a seaside town is brought brutally to an end, the nameless narrator of Sibilla Aleramo's blazi...(展开全部)