Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language
By: Nicola Gardini
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A lively exploration of the joys of a not-so-dead languageFrom the acclaimed novelist and Oxford pr…
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1. Le tigri di Mompracem
By: Emilio Salgari , None , Pixabay
3.77
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Sandokan, principe di un sultanato del Borneo, spodestato dal trono dagli inglesi che gli hanno ste… read more
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"Quest'uomo, meglio conosciuto sotto il nome di Tigre della Malesia, che da dieci anni insanguinava le coste del mar malese, poteva avere trentadue o trentaquattro anni. Era alto di statura, ben fatto…"-Emilio Salgari, Le tigri di Mompracem
2. Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
By: Michael Erard
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of the bestsellers Word Freakand The Language Instinctcomes a fascinating explorat… read more
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3. La scomparsa di Majorana
By: Leonardo Sciascia , Lea Ritter Santini
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
Dal 26 marzo 1938 si perdono le tracce, fra la partenza e l'arrivo in un viaggio per mare da Palerm… read more
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4. 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
5. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra
By: Toby Wilkinson
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
Toby Wilkinson combines grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconog… read more
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6. Daphnis and Chloe
By: Paul Turner , Longus
3.68
Format: 593 pages, Paperback
A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby b… read more
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7. La chimera
By: Sebastiano Vassalli
3.51
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
In un villaggio padano del Seicento, cancellato dalla storia, si consuma la tragica vita di Antonia… read more
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"Il mondo è un gomitolo di strade e seguendole trovi tutto: vita e morte, miseria e felicità, lacrime e consolazione, avventura e amore."-Sebastiano Vassalli, La chimera
8. In Other Words
By: Jhumpa Lahiri , Ann Goldstein
4.50
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize winner, a surprising, powerful, and eloquent nonfiction debut In Other Word… read more
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9. The Castle of Crossed Destinies
By: Italo Calvino
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are … read more
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10. Q
By: Shaun Whiteside , Wu Ming , Luther Blissett
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1517, Martin Luther nails his ninety-five theses demanding reform of the Catholic Church to the … read more
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11. L'isola di Arturo
By: Elsa Morante
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Il romanzo e un'esplorazione attenta della prima realta verso le sorgenti non inquinate della vita.… read more
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12. Living with a Dead Language: My Romance with Latin
By: None
3.22
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining exploration of the richness and relevance of the Latin language and literature, and… read more
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13. Twenty Years After (The D'Artagnan Romances, #2)
By: Alexandre Dumas , David Coward , Auguste Maquet
4.34
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
'At this game, whoever does not kill is killed.' Twenty Years After(1845), the sequel to The Three … read more
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15. Orlando Furioso di Ludovico Ariosto raccontato da Italo Calvino
By: Italo Calvino , Ludovico Ariosto
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
... il Furioso e un libro unico nel suo genere e puo - quasi direi deve - esser letto senza far rif… read more
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16. Le cose che ci salvano
By: Lorenza Gentile
3.83
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
Gea vive in un condominio sui Navigli di Milano e non oltrepassa mai i confini del suo quartiere. I… read more
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17. Specchio delle mie brame: La prigione della bellezza
By: Maura Gancitano
4.13
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
La bellezza oggi è qualcosa di ben preciso a cui adeguarsi: un certo modo di vestire, di mangiare, … read more
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"Il bello è libero e davvero indipendente, non è una merce, non può essere consumato, non si fa pubblicità, non può essere posseduto, non provoca la noia e l’insoddisfazione che proviamo non appena co…"-Maura Gancitano, Specchio delle mie brame: La prigione della bellezza
18. The Magical Language of Others
By: E.J. Koh
3.87
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
The Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daugh… read more
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19. How Dead Languages Work
By: Coulter H. George
4.08
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be lost in translat… read more
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20. L'innominabile attuale
By: Roberto Calasso
3.84
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Turisti, terroristi, secolaristi, hacker, fondamentalisti, transumanisti, algoritmici: sono tutte t… read more
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21. Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language
By: Nicola Gardini
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A lively exploration of the joys of a not-so-dead languageFrom the acclaimed novelist and Oxford pr… read more
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