7 best-selling history books like Cicerone by Pierre and Guarnelli Del Corno L. Cicerone Grimal

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Cicerone

By: Pierre and Guarnelli Del Corno L. Cicerone Grimal

3.86

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Après tant de livres et d'études consacrés à Cicéron, est-il possible de dire sur lui quelque chose…

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1. La Regenta I

By: Leopoldo Alas , None , Juan Oleza , Josep Lluís Sirera , None , None

4.12

Format: 672 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Decir que "La Regenta" es la historia de cómo unos personajes, inconformes con su mundo, anhelan tr… read more

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2. White Nights

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersbur… read more

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"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

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3. Opera

By: Virgil , R.A.B. Mynors , R.B.A. Mynors

4.00

Format: 4 pages, Hardcover

The Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, are renowned for thei… read more

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4. Sostiene Pereira

By: Antonio Tabucchi

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista… read more

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5. Survival in Auschwitz

By: Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf

4.33

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Ausch… read more

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  • history
"... infin che un giorno senso non avrà più dire : domani" (...jusqu'à ce qu'un jour dire "demain" n'ait plus de sens)"

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"…in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"Qualcuno, molto tempo fa, ha scritto che anche i libri, come gli esseri umani, hanno un loro destino, imprevedibile, diverso da quello che per loro si desiderava e si attendeva."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

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6. Demons

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Format: 733 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more

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"God is the pain of the fear of death"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

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7. Obras y fragmentos

By: Hesiod , Aurelio Pérez Jiménez , A. Martínez Díaz

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Hardcover

Teogonia; Trabajos y Dias; Escudo; Fragmentos. read more

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8. The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more

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  • history
"Is it better to be loved or feared?"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

9. Itaca: Eroi, donne, potere tra vendetta e diritto

By: Eva Cantarella

3.79

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Ai racconti confluiti nei poemi omerici era affidato il compito di trasmettere di generazione in ge… read more

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  • history
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10. The Name of the Rose

By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver

4.14

Format: 552 pages, Paperback

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more

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"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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11. Memoirs of Hadrian

By: Marguerite Yourcenar , Grace Frick

4.23

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has… read more

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"And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

Cover of Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, None, James Scully, C. John Herington

12. Prometheus Bound

By: Aeschylus , None , James Scully , C. John Herington

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Featuring an insightful introduction, comprehensive commentary on plot, characters, structure, and … read more

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13. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

By: Milan Kundera , Aaron Asher

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgettingis the n… read more

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14. The Joke

By: Milan Kundera

3.93

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its p… read more

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15. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • history
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

16. Alcestis

By: William Arrowsmith , Euripides

3.84

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

"The Alcestis would hardly confirm its author's right to be acclaimed 'the most tragic of the poets… read more

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17. Ficciones

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more

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18. Perceval, or, The Story of the Grail

By: Chrétien de Troyes , Ruth Harwood Cline

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this verse translation of Perceval; or, The Story of the Grail, Ruth Harwood Cline restores to l… read more

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19. La Regenta, II

By: None , Juan Oleza , None

3.96

Format: 289 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Decir que "La Regenta" es la historia de como unos personajes, inconformes con su mundo, anhelan tr… read more

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20. The Complete Poems

By: Catullus , Guy Lee

3.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

Of all Greek and Latin poets Catullus is perhaps the most accessible to the modern reader. Dealing … read more

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21. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

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22. The House of the Spirits

By: Isabel Allende , Magda Bogin

4.28

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Alle… read more

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"You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found."

-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

"...no se fue con Pedro Tercero simplemente porque no le alcanzaba el amor"

-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

"Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. "

-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

"[Der] ziellose Blick eines Menschen, der sich ausschließlich von Gemüse ernährt."

-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

23. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)

By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

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24. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

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25. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.89

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more

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"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

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26. Giulio Cesare: Il dittatore democratico

By: Luciano Canfora

3.88

Format: 505 pages, Paperback

Cesare è morto: è il più celebre assassinio della storia. Come ogni omicidio anche questo suscita … read more

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  • history
Cover of On a Life Well Spent: Cicero's De Senectute with preface by Benjamin Franklin by Marcus Tullius Cicero

27. On a Life Well Spent: Cicero's De Senectute with preface by Benjamin Franklin

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

Does every birthday find you a year older? Cicero’s De Senectute wisdom is for youLet’s face it—eve… read more

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  • history
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28. Cicerone

By: Pierre and Guarnelli Del Corno L. Cicerone Grimal

3.86

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Après tant de livres et d'études consacrés à Cicéron, est-il possible de dire sur lui quelque chose… read more

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  • history
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29. El islam

By: Jesús Mosterín

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

La «Historia del pensamiento» de Jesús Mosterín está integrada por libros monográficos autónomos qu… read more

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30. Obra completa

By: Juan Boscán

4.25

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

El libro de las "Obras", mandado imprimir por Boscán en 1543, que incluía también textos de Garcila… read more

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13 best-selling history books like The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli, Adolph Caso, Rufus Goodwin, Benjamin Martinez

Transform Your Habits

The Art of War

Sun Tzu , Thomas Cleary

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Second Treatise of Government

John Locke , Crawford Brough Macpherson , C.B. MacPherson

3.87

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