8 Top nonfiction books like Le 10 parole latine che raccontano il nostro mondo by Nicola Gardini

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Le 10 parole latine che raccontano il nostro mondo

By: Nicola Gardini

3.42

Format: 180 pages, ebook

Il latino – quello dei grandi autori, della letteratura ma anche quello quotidiano che spesso usiam…

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1. 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

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2. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

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3. Vita Nuova

By: Dante Alighieri , Mark Musa

3.89

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Vita Nuova(1292-94) is regarded as one of Dante's most profound creations. The thirty-one poems in … read more

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4. The Professor

By: Charlotte Brontë

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Professor is Charlotte Brontes first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and con… read more

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5. The Art of Happiness

By: Epicurus , George K. Strodach

4.19

Format: 294 pages, ebook

New to Penguin Classics and the perfect companion volume to bestselling author Daniel Klein's new b… read more

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6. Dammi mille baci. Veri uomini e vere donne nell'antica Roma

By: Eva Cantarella

3.79

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Dopo la ricognizione sull'eros greco, Eva Cantarella, parla dell'amore al tempo dei romani. Per un … read more

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7. Un roman russe

By: Emmanuel Carrère

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

La folie et l'horreur ont obsédé ma vie. Les livres que j'ai écrits ne parlent de rien d'autre. Apr… read more

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8. Galileo

By: Bertolt Brecht , Eric Bentley , Charles Laughton

4.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be one of Brecht's masterpieces, Galileoexplores the question of a scientist'… read more

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9. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

By: Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven bri… read more

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10. Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

3.87

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more

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"I was quiet, but I was not blind."

-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

11. Qualcuno con cui correre

By: David Grossman , Alessandra Shomroni

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Assaf e un sedicenne timido e impacciato cui viene affidato un compito singolare: ritrovare il prop… read more

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12. Un amore

By: Dino Buzzati

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Antonio, uomo di mezz'eta appartenente alla Milano bene, si innamora di qualcuno che non potra mai … read more

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13. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

By: Lewis Carroll , John Tenniel , Martin Gardner

4.06

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "Because I'm not myself, you see." When A… read more

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"Curiouser and curiouser."

-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

"Go on till you come to the end; then stop."

-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

"You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

"I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it."

-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

14. 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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15. Clouds

By: Aristophanes , None

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

This new paperback edition of Aristophanes' popular play includes the complete Greek text and exten… read more

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16. The Lady In The Van

By: Alan Bennett

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Life imitates art in The Lady in the Van, the story of the itinerant Miss Shepherd, who lived in a … read more

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17. Una storia semplice

By: Leonardo Sciascia

3.99

Format: 32 pages,

Una storia semplicee una storia complicatissima, un giallo siciliano, con sfondo di mafia e droga. … read more

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18. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

By: Susanna Clarke

1.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic i… read more

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19. The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire

By: Alessandro Barbero

4.23

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

On August 9, 378 AD, at Adrianople in the Roman province of Thrace (now western Turkey), the Roman … read more

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20. Letter to His Father

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser , Willem van Toorn , Gerda Meijerink

3.53

Format: 349 pages,

This is the bilingual edition with German verso, English recto. read more

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21. Medea

By: Euripides , Rex Warner

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more

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22. 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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23. 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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24. Blindness

By: José Saramago

4.17

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss A city… read more

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"الناس يتعودون إي شيء ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

"هناك أوقات لايفيد معها الكلام ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

"* البطون الفارغة تستيقظ باكراً ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

"* الأحقاد القديمة لاتزول بسهولة ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

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25. La favola di Amore e Psiche

By: Apuleius

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Comincia come ogni favola il racconto di Amore e Psiche, con un re e una regina e le loro tre figli… read more

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"Iam nil officiunt mihi nec ipsae nocturnae tenebrae: teneo te, meum lumen."

-Apuleius, La favola di Amore e Psiche

"I little esteeme to see your visage and figure, little doe I regard the night and darknesse thereof, for you are my only light."

-Apuleius, La favola di Amore e Psiche

"Night fell, and her husband came to bed, and as soon as they had finished kissing and embracing each other, he fell fast asleep. Psyche was not naturally either very strong or very brave, but the cru…"

-Apuleius, La favola di Amore e Psiche

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26. The Betrayals

By: Bridget Collins

3.49

Format: 416 pages, ebook

If everything in your life was based on a lie would you risk it all to tell the truth? At Montv… read more

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27. Dante

By: Alessandro Barbero

3.61

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

Alessandro Barbero ricostruisce in quest'opera la vita di Dante, il poeta creatore di un capolavoro… read more

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28. Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi

By: Cesare Pavese

4.37

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Le poesie di Verrà la morte non attingono alla vena epica di Lavorare stanca. Dall'oggettivazione n… read more

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"Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi- questa morte che ci accompagna dal mattino alla sera, insonne, sorda, come un vecchio rimorso o un vizio assurdo. I tuoi occhi saranno una vana parola, un grido ta…"

-Cesare Pavese, Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi

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29. Benedette guerre: Crociate e jihad

By: Alessandro Barbero

3.94

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

"Le Crociate: e cioè l'avventura di quei cristiani che hanno accettato l'appello del papa, sentendo… read more

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30. Le 10 parole latine che raccontano il nostro mondo

By: Nicola Gardini

3.42

Format: 180 pages, ebook

Il latino – quello dei grandi autori, della letteratura ma anche quello quotidiano che spesso usiam… read more

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5 must-read classics books like Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi by Cesare Pavese

Transform Your Habits

Zeno's Conscience

Italo Svevo , William Weaver

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno

Italo Calvino

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The Gentle Spirit

Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi

Cesare Pavese

4.37

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