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Nora : A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce by Nuala O'Connor EN
IrelandDescription:
Acclaimed Irish novelist Nuala O'Connor's bold reimagining of the life of James Joyce's wife, muse, and the model for Molly Bloom in Ulysses is a "lively and loving paean to the indomitable Nora Barnacle" (Edna O'Brien). Dublin, 1904. Nora Joseph Barnacle is a twenty-year-old from Galway who left school at twelve, is a chambermaid at Finn's Hotel, and has all but given up on a happy ending. But on June 16--Bloomsday--her life is changed when she meets James Joyce, a fateful encounter that turns into a lifelong love. Despite his hesitation to marry, Nora follows him in pursuit of a life beyond ... continue
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ItalyDescription:
From the best-selling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, a novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder
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O deserto dos tártaros by Dino Buzzati PT
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Giovanni Drogo, un sottotenente, viene mandato in una lontana fortezza. A nord della fortezza c'è il deserto da cui si attende un'invasione dei tartari. Ma l'invasione, sempre annunciata, non avviene e l'addestramento, i turni di guardia, l'organizzazione militare, appaiono cerimoniali senza senso. Quando Drogo torna in città per una promozione, si accorge di aver perso ogni contatto con il mondo e che ormai la sua unica ragione di vita è l'inutile attesa del nemico. Tornato alla fortezza, si ammala e proprio allora accade l'evento tanto i tartari avanzano dal deserto. Nell'emozione e nella co... continue
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On the Nature of Things by Lucretius, Martin Ferguson Smith (translator) EN
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Martin Ferguson Smith's work on Lucretius is both well known and highly regarded. However, his 1969 translation of De Rerum Natura -- long out of print -- is virtually unknown. Readers will share our excitement in the discovery of this accurate and fluent prose rendering. For this edition, Professor Smith provides a revised translation, new Introduction, headnotes and bibliography. Martin Ferguson Smith is Professor of Classics Emeritus, Univ. of Durham, United Kingdom. Among his scholarly achievements are his revisions of the Rouse translation of De Rerum Natura for the Loeb Classical Library... continue
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On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge EN
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Book I in The Story of the World series, by M. B. Synge, "On the Shores of the Great Sea" focuses on the civilizations surrounding the Mediterranean Sea from the time of Abraham to the birth of Christ. Brief histories of the Ancient Israelites, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Scythians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans are given, concluding with the conquest of the entire Mediterranean area by Rome. Important myths and legends that preceded recorded history are also related. Suitable for children ages 9 and up to read to themselves and for children as young as 6 as a read-aloud. The Story of the World ser... continue
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One, None and a Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello EN
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2017 Reprint of 1933 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Pirandello began writing it in 1909. In an autobiographical letter, published in 1924, the author refers to this work as the ..".bitterest of all, profoundly humoristic, about the decomposition of life...." Vitangelo, the protagonist, discovers by way of a completely irrelevant question that his wife poses to him that everyone he knows, and everyone he has ever met, has constructed a Vitangelo persona in their own imagination and that none of these personas corresponds to the... continue
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Othello by William Shakespeare EN
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"With detailed notes from the world's leading center for Shakespeare studies"--Cover.
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Papel con marca de agua by Goran Petrović ES
SerbiaDescription:
A finales del siglo XIV, la excéntrica e impredecible Giovanna II, reina de Nápoles, quiere escribir a su amante una carta de amor que le resulte irresistible. Para ello recluta a los diez poetas más célebres del reino, a cien soldados y a una comitiva de sirvientes, y emprende una expedición a Amalfi, donde la Congrega dei Cartari produce el papel más selecto de Europa. No obstante, dicha congregación también es famosa por el estricto proceso de selección de sus clientes, al considerar que su papel está destinado a acoger l... continue