Italian Folktales
By: Italo Calvino , George Martin
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
Chosen as one of the New York Times's ten best books in the year of its original publication, this …
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1. The Skin
By: Curzio Malaparte , David Moore
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Una terribile peste dilaga a Napoli dal giorno in cui, nell’ottobre del 1943, gli eserciti alleati … read more
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- italy
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"It falls to the lot of even the most glorious flags to be thrown in the mud. Glory, what men call glory, is often thick with mud."-Curzio Malaparte, The Skin
"La pelle " risposi a voce bassa " la nostra pelle, questa maledetta pelle. Voi non immaginate neppure di che cosa sia capace un uomo, di quali eroismi e di quali infamie sia capace, per salvar la pel…"-Curzio Malaparte, The Skin
2. How to Make Love to a Negro
By: Dany Laferrière , David Homel
3.77
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Racial and sexual politics collide in this cult classic that launched Laferrière as one of North Am… read more
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"Le Nègre selon National Geographic"-Dany Laferrière, How to Make Love to a Negro
3. The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.28
Format: 627 pages, Paperback
Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Lan… read more
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"Most young men and women (...) grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times they live in. This makes historians, whose business it is to remembe…"-Eric J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
4. The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones
By: Jack D. Zipes , Giambattista Basile , None , Nancy L. Canepa , Warwick Goble
3.88
Format: 494 pages, Paperback
The Tale of Tales, made up of forty-nine fairy tales within a fiftieth frame story, contains the ea… read more
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- fairy tales
- italy
- short stories
- folklore
- fiction
- italian literature
- fantasy
"Poverty is a tick that feeds on virtue."-Jack D. Zipes, The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones
5. The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok
By: Ben Waggoner
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Although based on historical persons from the 9th century, Ragnar Lodbrok and his sons are the subj… read more
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6. Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Short Stories
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Helen Oyeyemi , Silvina Ocampo , Daniel Balderston
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An NYRB Classics Original Silvina Ocampo is undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's great master… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
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7. The Italians
By: John Hooper
4.19
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Washington Post bestseller Los Angeles Times bestseller A vivid and surprising portrait of the Ital… read more
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- italy
- italian literature
8. Rain and Other South Sea Stories
By: W. Somerset Maugham
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
W. Somerset Maugham led many lives, including that of a doctor in London's slums, a successful play… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
9. Black Kiss
By: Howard Chaykin
4.00
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
Howard Chaykin's groundbreaking series opened the floodgate for x-rated comics by respected cartoon… read more
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10. Il viaggiatore notturno
By: Maurizio Maggiani
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Il centro dell'Universo e rigurgito della Terra rappreso in purissimo cristallo. L'Hoggar. Semplic… read more
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11. Italian Folktales
By: Italo Calvino , George Martin
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
Chosen as one of the New York Times's ten best books in the year of its original publication, this … read more
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- fairy tales
- italy
- short stories
- folklore
- fiction
- italian literature
- fantasy
12. Psicomagia
By: Alejandro Jodorowsky
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
A healing path using the power of dreams, theater, poetry, and shamanism * Shows how psychological … read more
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13. Malone Dies
By: Samuel Beckett
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written and published in French in 1951, and in Samuel Beckett's English translation in 1956, Malon… read more
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14. The Discourses
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Bernard Crick , None
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. … read more
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15. Todo modo
By: Leonardo Sciascia
3.54
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Se dovessimo indicare una forma romanzesca capace di rivelare come si compone e come si manifesta q… read more
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16. Loitering with Intent
By: Muriel Spark
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
"How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century," Fleur Talbot rejoices. Happil… read more
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17. 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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18. Favole al telefono
By: Gianni Rodari
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"C'era una volta il ragionier Bianchi, di Varese. Era rappresentante di commercio e sei giorni su s… read more
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19. The Little World of Don Camillo
By: Giovannino Guareschi
4.13
Format: None pages,
This tragicomical stories, often politically or socially charged, mostly situated in a fictional vi… read more
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20. Che significa diventare adulti?
By: Banana Yoshimoto
3.32
Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition
Che significa diventare adulti? Si deve studiare per forza? Che cos’è la normalità? Che succede qua… read more
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21. Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began
By: Guido Tonelli
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breakout bestseller in Italy, now available for American readers for the first time, The Story o… read more
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"La aparición del pensamiento simbólico marca una de las etapas fundamentales de la evolución humana."-Guido Tonelli, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began
"Durante millones de años, la humanidad ha tenido que lidiar cotidianamente con la dureza de la existencia."-Guido Tonelli, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began
"La sensación de asombro frente a un cielo estrellado supone, todavía hoy, una emoción intensa, en la que se escucha el eco del antiguo estupor que marcó a las miles de generaciones que nos han preced…"-Guido Tonelli, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began
