Lo scialo
By: Vasco Pratolini
4.00
Format: 1343 pages, Hardcover
Della trilogia "Una storia italiana", iniziata con Metello e conclusa con Allegoria e derisione, ch…
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1. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
By: Oliver Sacks
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century" (The N… read more
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2. El baile
By: Irène Némirovsky , Gemma Moral Bartolomé
3.67
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Autora de la recién descubierta Suite francesa, publicada póstumamente y aclamada por la crítica y … read more
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3. Follia
By: Patrick McGrath , Matteo Codignola
3.96
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
«Le storie d’amore contraddistinte da ossessione sessuale sono un mio interesse professionale ormai… read more
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"Gli uomini gelosi sono intrinsecamente deboli. Hanno il terrore di essere abbandonati."-Patrick McGrath, Follia
"these are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity."-Patrick McGrath, Follia
"Stella mi disse di aver capito in quel momento che in ciascuno di noi c'è come l'anelito a gridare al mondo la verità, a qualsiasi costo. O a distruggersi."-Patrick McGrath, Follia
"For despite his confidence, and his apparent maturity, I suspected that there was in him a deep and childish need to elevate, and idealize, the love object. This is not uncommon in artists. The very …"-Patrick McGrath, Follia
4. The Idiot
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky
4.21
Format: 667 pages, Paperback
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more
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"I'm drunk but truthful."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"Beauty will save the world."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"The Russian soul is a dark place."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
5. Gli occhiali d'oro: Il romanzo di Ferrara
By: Giorgio Bassani
4.05
Format: None pages, Paperback
In una Ferrara ricca, affascinante ma oppressa dal fascismo, un giovane studente ebreo, voce narran… read more
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6. Gone with the Wind
By: Margaret Mitchell
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Gone with the Windis a novel written by Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is se… read more
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7. My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
By: Gerald Durrell , Helma Lapiņa
4.17
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do… read more
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"Larry was always full of ideas about things of which he had no experience."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
"'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
"I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
"Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
8. The Train
By: Georges Simenon , Robert Baldick
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Against all expectations Marcel Feron has made a "normal" life in a bucolic French suburb in the Ar… read more
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9. This Side of Paradise
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.64
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the a… read more
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"A squalid phantasmagoria of breath"-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
10. White Teeth
By: Zadie Smith
4.53
Format: 288 pages,
On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaus… read more
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11. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
12. Great Expectations
By: Charles Dickens
3.79
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to a… read more
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"We need never be ashamed of our tears."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"You are in every line I have ever read."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
13. Io non mi chiamo Miriam
By: Björn Larsson , Laura Cangemi , Majgull Axelsson
4.11
Format: 14 pages,
<>, dice di colpo un'elegante signora svedese il giorno del suo ottantacinquesimo compleanno, di fr… read more
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14. The Master and Margarita
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , None , Katherine Tiernan O'Connor , None
4.29
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An au… read more
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"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)"-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!"-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые."-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
15. L'arte della gioia
By: Goliarda Sapienza
4.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
L'arte della gioiae un libro postumo: giaceva da vent'anni abbandonato in una cassapanca e, dopo es… read more
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16. Inseparable
By: Simone de Beauvoir
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood fr… read more
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"How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?"-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable
"She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares."-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable
"I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?"-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable
"to fight against time, against forgetting, against death, to do justice to this absolute presence of the instant, to this eternity of the instant, which will have been forever"-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable
17. Lo scialo
By: Vasco Pratolini
4.00
Format: 1343 pages, Hardcover
Della trilogia "Una storia italiana", iniziata con Metello e conclusa con Allegoria e derisione, ch… read more
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