Quando c'era l'URSS. 70 anni di storia culturale sovietica
By: Gian Piero Piretto
4.43
Format: 621 pages, Hardcover
L’universo sovietico ha suscitato per circa settant’anni entusiasmi e avversioni. Attraverso una pe…
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1. Doctor Zhivago
By: Boris Pasternak , John Bayley , Manya Harari , Max Hayward
4.01
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family … read more
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"Only the superfluous is sordid"-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
2. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
3. The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
By: Dan Brown
3.75
Format: 509 pages, Hardcover
What was lost will be found... In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci … read more
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"Tempus Fugit"-Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
"Darkness feeds on apathy."-Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
"Google' is not a synonym for 'research'."-Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
"Death is usually an all-or-nothing thing!"-Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
4. Dance Dance Dance
By: Haruki Murakami
4.05
Format: 393 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition here. High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old … read more
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"I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel."-Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with."-Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more."-Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear."-Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
5. The Kreutzer Sonata
By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more
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"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
6. La famiglia Karnowski
By: Anna Linda Callow , Israel J. Singer
3.74
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
Bastano a volte poche pagine per accorgersi di avere fra le mani un grande romanzo, e per cogliere … read more
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7. Oblomov
By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment
4.12
Format: 586 pages, Paperback
Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more
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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"Love was life's hardest school of all."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
8. Les Misérables
By: Victor Hugo , Lee Fahnestock , Norman MacAfee
4.20
Format: 1463 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped … read more
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"Be happy without picking flaws."-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
"Those who do not weep, do not see."-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
"Sleep comes more easily than it returns."-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
"Not being heard is no reason for silence."-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
9. Storia del conflitto israelo-palestinese
By: Claudio Vercelli
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Il conflitto tra israeliani e palestinesi in questi ultimi anni e di nuovo andato avvitandosi su di… read more
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10. Death Comes as the End
By: Agatha Christie , Steven Saylor
5.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In this startling historical mystery, unique in the author's canon, Agatha Christie investigates a … read more
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11. Storia di una capinera
By: Giovanni Verga
4.12
Format: 543 pages,
Storia di una capinera, scritto nell'estate del 1869, e il primo romanzo di Giovanni Verga. Ambient… read more
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12. Treasure Island
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , N.C. Wyeth
3.85
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From … read more
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"Doctors is all swabs."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
"Thems that die'll be the lucky ones."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
"... Bear up until you see you're gaining."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
"We must go on, because we can't turn back."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
13. Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
By: Dan Brown
3.50
Format: 185 pages, Hardcover
In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brow… read more
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14. 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
15. La luna e i falò
By: Cesare Pavese , Gian Luigi Beccaria
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Pubblicato nell'aprile del 1950 e considerato dalla critica il libro piu bello di Pavese, "La luna … read more
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16. The Leopard
By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more
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"While there’s death there’s hope"-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
17. Le otto montagne
By: Paolo Cognetti
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Pietro e un ragazzino di citta, solitario e un po' scontroso. La madre lavora in un consultorio di … read more
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18. The Gambler
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Gary Saul Morson
3.91
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young t… read more
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"Quien teme al lobo no se mete en el bosque."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"يجب ان يظل المال دون الأستقراطي، حتى لكأن الأستقراطي لا يكاد يحفل به أو يقلق له"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"En toda situación es posible comportarse con dignidad. Si hay lucha, que sea noble y no humillante."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
19. The Suitcase
By: Antonina W. Bouis , Sergei Dovlatov
3.99
Format: 240 pages,
Nella "Valigia" Dovlatov raccoglie tutti gli oggetti che, esule, porta via da Leningrado: a ogni og… read more
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20. Stoner
By: John Williams , John McGahern
4.34
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more
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"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."-John Williams, Stoner
"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."-John Williams, Stoner
"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."-John Williams, Stoner
"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."-John Williams, Stoner
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
22. The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
By: Dan Brown
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
A fascinating and absorbing thriller -- perfect for history buffs, conspiracy nuts, puzzle lovers o… read more
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23. Anna Karenina
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude
4.09
Format: 964 pages, Paperback
Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contempo… read more
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"Love those you hate you."-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
"And where love ends, hate begins"-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
"Everything intelligent is so boring."-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
"Anything is better than lies and deceit!"-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
24. 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
25. M. L'uomo della provvidenza
By: Antonio Scurati
3.98
Format: 645 pages, Paperback
Dalle "leggi fascistissime" del 1926, che sanciscono il definitivo smantellamento dello Stato liber… read more
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- nonfiction
26. M. Gli ultimi giorni dell'Europa
By: Antonio Scurati
4.28
Format: 848 pages, Kindle Edition
Il 3 maggio 1938, nella nuova stazione Ostiense, Mussolini insieme a Vittorio Emanuele III e al min… read more
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27. Il profilo dell'altra
By: Irene Graziosi
3.11
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A brilliant and darkly funny story of a friendship and its unraveling, and a powerful examination o… read more
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"Del resto questo è il gioco: essere famosi non per qualcosa che si fa ma per l'insistenza con cui s'impone la propria identità smussata da ogni spigolo sugli schermi altrui. I brand pagano chi si con…"-Irene Graziosi, Il profilo dell'altra
28. Quando c'era l'URSS. 70 anni di storia culturale sovietica
By: Gian Piero Piretto
4.43
Format: 621 pages, Hardcover
L’universo sovietico ha suscitato per circa settant’anni entusiasmi e avversioni. Attraverso una pe… read more
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29. L'Unione Sovietica 1914-1991
By: Andrea Graziosi
3.50
Format: 687 pages, Paperback
I lettori troveranno qui una sintesi, compatta, maneggevole e arricchita da un'approfondita discuss… read more
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30. Sabato champagne
By: Alice Valeria Oliveri
3.67
Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition
Anita è stata una bambina solitaria, affidata alla televisione per lunghe giornate mentre i suoi gi… read more
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