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Alien Contact: Top-Secret Ufo Files Revealedby Timothy GoodISBN 0688135102 (0-688-13510-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Artists of the Renaissance: An Illustrated Selectionby Giorgio Vasari, George Anthony BullISBN 0713910658 (0-7139-1065-8)
Hardcover, A. Lane
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Bajo El Sol Jaguarby Italo CalvinoISBN 8472239578 (84-7223-957-8)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Cassell's Italian Dictionary: Italian-English, English-Italianby Piero Rebora, Francis Michael Guercio, Arthur Lawrence Hayward, Arthur L. HaywoodISBN 0025225405 (0-02-522540-5)
Hardcover, Cassell
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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Millerby Carlo Ginzburg, John Tedeschi, Anne TedeschiISBN 0801843871 (0-8018-4387-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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- Cheese and the Worms: Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller: ISBN 0880294485 (0-88029-448-5)
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The Classic Pasta Cookbookby Giuliano HazanISBN 1564582922 (1-56458-292-2)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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Collected Poems 1920-1954by Eugenio Montale, Jonathan GalassiISBN 0374125546 (0-374-12554-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Collected Poems, 1920-1954: Bilingual Editionby Eugenio Montale, Jonathan GalassiISBN 0374526257 (0-374-52625-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Poems, 1920-1954: Bilingual Edition'Book summary:A white dove has landed me
among headstones, under spires where the sky nests.
Dawns and lights in air; I've loved the sun,
colors of honey, now I crave the dark,
I want the smoldering fire, this tomb
that doesn't soar, your stare that dares it to. --Eugenio Montale
Opera's loss was poetry's gain. Eugenio Montale, the 1975 Nobel Prize winner in literature and one of Italy's greatest poets, originally aspired to be an opera singer. Born in Genoa in 1896, Montale was a delicate child, his health precluding him from getting a formal education; instead, he spent his youth reading philosophy, literature, and Italian classics, and training as a baritone. World War I found him serving as an infantry officer on the Austrian front. Upon his return to civilian life, Montale took up singing again, but after the death of his voice teacher in 1923, he abandoned his operatic hopes. Just two years later, he published his first collection of poetry, Cuttlefish Bones. Over the next 50 years, Montale would produce many poems in between his work as a journalist; Jonathan Galassi's Collected Poems 1920-1954, however, concentrates on three collections that are, arguably, his masterpieces: Cuttlefish Bones (1925); The Occasions (1948); and The Storm, Etc. (1956).
In addition to Galassi's excellent translations, two other things stand out about this book: one is that both Italian and English versions can be read side by side; the other is that Galassi has thoroughly annotated these poems, placing Montale's challenging work in its historical, cultural, and personal context. We are told, for example, that "Leaving a Dove" is, in part, about the poet's abandonment of an old lover for a new one. Such information adds piquancy to the imagery and depth to the reader's appreciation. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Complete Idiot's Guide To Learning Italianby Gabrielle EuvinoISBN 1592572766 (1-59257-276-6)
Softcover, Alpha Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Idiot's Guide To Learning Italian'Book summary:[via]Learn the language of la dolce vita!
For anyone who wants to learn and enjoy the most expressive and romantic of languages, the third edition of The Complete Idiots Guide® to Learning Italian is the first choice for a whole new generation of enthusiastic students of Italian. This updated edition includes two new quick references on verbs, grammar, and sentence structure; two new appendixes on Italian synonyms and popular idiomatic phrases; and updated business and money sections.
"First two editions have sold extraordinarily well
"Italian is the fourth most popular language in the United States
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The Concise Cambridge Italian Dictionaryby Barbara ReynoldsISBN 0521072735 (0-521-07273-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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The Day of the Owlby Archibald Colquhoun, Leonardo Sciascia, Arthur Oliver, George ScialabbaISBN 159017061X (1-59017-061-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Day of the Owl'Book summary:A man is shot dead as he runs to catch the bus in the piazza of a small Sicilian town. Captain Bellodi, the detective on the case, is new to his job and determined to prove himself. Bellodi suspects the Mafia, and his suspicions grow when he finds himself up against an apparently unbreachable wall of silence. A surprise turn puts him on the track of a series of nasty crimes. But all the while Bellodi's investigation is being carefully monitored by a host of observers, near and far. They share a single concern: to keep the truth from coming out.
This short, beautifully paced novel is a mesmerizing description of the Mafia at work. [via]More editions of The Day of the Owl:
The Discourses of Niccolo Machiavelliby Niccolo Machiavelli, Leslie J. Walker, Cecil H. CloughISBN 071008076X (0-7100-8076-X)
Hardcover, Routledge and Paul
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The Drowned and the Savedby Primo LeviISBN 067972186X (0-679-72186-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Drowned and the Saved'Book summary:This book, published months after Italian writer Primo Levi's suicide in 1987, is a small but powerful look at Auschwitz, the hell where Levi was imprisoned during World War II. The book was his third on the subject, following Survival in Auschwitz (1947) and The Reawakening (1963). Removed from the experience by time and age, Levi chose to serve more as an observer of the camp than the passionate young man of his previous work. He writes of "useless violence" inflicted by the guards on prisoners and then concludes the book with a discussion of the Germans who have written to him about their complicity in the event. In all, he tries to make sense of something that--as he knew--made no sense at all. [via]
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El Padrino / The Godfatherby Mario PuzoISBN 8466617434 (84-666-1743-4)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Padrino / The Godfather'Book summary:A searing evocation of the Mafia underworld and an instant classic, this novel introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and the powerful legacy of tradition, blood, and honor that would be passed from father to son. With its exquisitely detailed characters who, despite leading unconventional lifestyles within a notorious crime family, experience the triumphs and failures of the human condition, and its themes of the seduction of power, the pitfalls of greed, and family allegiance, this is the definitive gangster novel.[via]More editions of El Padrino / The Godfather:
Fine Art of Italian Cookingby Giuliano BugialliISBN 0812906403 (0-8129-0640-3)
Hardcover, Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co
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The Fine Art Of Italian Cooking: The Classic Cookbookby Giuliano BugialliISBN 0517224321 (0-517-22432-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fine Art Of Italian Cooking: The Classic Cookbook'Book summary:This is the definitive cookbook on Italian cuisine. The author is one of the foremost teachers of Italy's revered cooking techniques with more than 20 years of teaching and cooking experience. Giuliano Bugialli's incomparable cookbook has been updated, expanded and beautifully redesigned, including:
" Over 300 recipes from Tuscany and other regions of Italy
" Suggested dinner menus and wine recommendations
" Chapters on pasta, breads, sauces, antipasti, meat and fish, poultry, risotto, vegetables, and desserts
" Improved ingredient lists, revised wine lists, updated notes on olive oil, Italian herbs, and cheeses
" 75 detailed, easy-to-follow line drawings [via]More editions of The Fine Art Of Italian Cooking: The Classic Cookbook:
Follow Your Heartby Susanna Tamaro, John CullenISBN 1568953100 (1-56895-310-0)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Fontamaraby Ignazio SiloneISBN 0451515250 (0-451-51525-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fontamara'Book summary:Fontamara is one of the Italian classics of the twentieth century. It was written in 1933 and was well-known in translation before it could be published in Italy. In England it was very popular in its Pengiun edition. Its author, Ignazio Silone, was a controversial figure throughout his life. He was a communist until 1931, later referring to himself as a 'Socialist without a party and a Christian without a church.' He wrote Fontamara first and foremost as an antifascist, setting it in his own region of Abruzzo, east of Rome. He describes the sufferings of the peasants, the cafoni, still living under feudalism and further burdened under the new fascist regime of Mussolini. The story itself is a good read, told with humour and suspense. The themes embrace politics and religion, revolution and mysticism. They raise such Italian problems as regionalism, the clash of ideologies and the ways of portraying them in literary form. The form of the narrative itself is an experiment in getting across a vital message in a fraught time. This edition includes an introduction and notes which help to set the novel in its historical and political context, both in Italy and the rest of Europe in the decade before the Second World War. The vocabulary section is exhaustive, making the text suitable for those just coming to grips with the language. [via]
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The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Italian: Recipes from the New and Old Worlds Simplified for the American Kitchenby Jeff SmithISBN 0380723913 (0-380-72391-3)
Softcover, Avon Books
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continisby Giorgio Bassani, William WeaverISBN 0156345706 (0-15-634570-6)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Garden of the Finzi-Continis'Book summary:Giorgio Bassani's masterwork has Vittorio de Sica's 1971 film adaptation to thank for its dual success and obscurity. Not enough people know that this tale of a middle-class Jewish youth's obsession with the far more aristocratic Micol Finzi-Contini stems from a novel, not a novelization. Bassani's doom- and tomb-ridden examination of one-sided love is far more complex--about individuals' inability to contend with personal and political annihilation. Events call for heroism, yet it seems "downright absurd that now, all of a sudden, exceptional behavior was demanded of us." The narrator writes in retrospect, 13 years after World War II's end, and reveals the Finzi-Continis' 1943 deportation to Germany right from the start: "Who could say if they found any sort of burial at all?"
As Fascist racial laws go from strength to strength, the family, which had long isolated itself from the other inhabitants of Ferrara, opens its walled grounds and tennis court to other young Jews and even returns to the local temple. Unfortunately, the situation encourages the narrator's dream that Micol will return his love, and she is forced into cruel honesty. "She looked into my eyes, and her gaze entered me, straight, sure, hard: with the limpid inexorability of a sword."
The author has re-created a tragic era in which even nobility could not outrun events, let alone admit they needed to. (For a nonfiction account of the fates of five Italian Jewish families under fascism, see Alexander Stille's Benevolence and Betrayal.) Bassani's elision of historical and personal agony is furthermore superbly translated by William Weaver. All is foretold in the novel's Manzonian epigraph, "The heart, to be sure, always has something to say about what is to come, to him who heeds it. But what does the heart know? Only a little of what has already happened." [via]
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Giada's Family Dinnersby Giada De LaurentiisISBN 030723827X (0-307-23827-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Godfatherby Mario PuzoISBN 0451167716 (0-451-16771-6)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Godfather'Book summary:The story of Don Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia family, inspired some of the most successful movies ever. It is in Mario Puzo's The Godfather that Corleone first appears. As Corleone's desperate struggle to control the Mafia underworld unfolds, so does the story of his family. The novel is full of exquisitely detailed characters who, despite leading unconventional lifestyles within a notorious crime family, experience the triumphs and failures of the human condition. Filled with the requisite valor, love, and rancor of a great epic, The Godfather is the definitive gangster novel. [via]
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- The Godfather: ISBN 0451205766 (0-451-20576-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library - The Godfather: ISBN 0451217403 (0-451-21740-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library - The Godfather: ISBN 0399103422 (0-399-10342-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group - The Godfather: ISBN 0449234088 (0-449-23408-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Godfather: ISBN 0451208447 (0-451-20844-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library - The Godfather: ISBN 0816138753 (0-8161-3875-3)
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- The Godfather: ISBN 0451205766 (0-451-20576-6)
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History Of Beautyby Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwenISBN 0847826465 (0-8478-2646-5)
Hardcover, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History Of Beauty'Book summary:Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but it also has a lot to do with the beholder's cultural standards. In History of Beauty, renowned author Umberto Eco sets out to demonstrate how every historical era has had its own ideas about eye-appeal. Pages of charts that track archetypes of beauty through the ages ("nude Venus," "nude Adonis," and so forth) may suggest that this book is a historical survey of beautiful people portrayed in art. But History of Beauty is really about the history of philosophical and perceptual notions of perfection and how they have been applied to ideas and objects, as well as to the human body. This survey ranges over such themes as the mathematics of ideal proportions, the problem of representing ugliness, the fascination of the exotic and art for art's sake. Along the way, the text examines the intersection of standards of beauty with Christian belief, notions of the Sublime, the philosophies of Kant and Hegel, and bourgeois culture. More than 300 illustrations trace the history of Western art as it relates, in the broadest sense, to the topic of beauty.
Yet despite its wealth of information, History of Beauty is an odd and unsatisfying book. Beginning with ancient Greece and ending with a too-brief chapter on "The Beauty of the Media," the text focuses exclusively (and unapologetically) on the Western world. Ultimately, it seems that "beauty" serves simply as a sexy peg on which to hang an abbreviated history of Western culture. Readers expecting a sophisticated treatment of the subject will be surprised at the textbook-like design, with numbered sections and boldfaced words keyed to small-type excerpts from writings by thinkers ranging from Boethius to Barthes. The main narrative (or perhaps the translation from the Italian?) can be ponderous and awkward. Only nine of the 17 chapters were written by Eco; the remainder are by lesser-known Italian novelist Girolamo de Michele. All in all, it looks as though someone had the bright idea of translating a textbook for Italian students into English, hoping to coast on the fame of Eco's name. --Cathy Curtis [via]More editions of History Of Beauty:
The House by the Medlar Treeby Giovanni VergaISBN 0520048504 (0-520-04850-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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If Not Now, When?by Primo LeviISBN 0140188932 (0-14-018893-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If Not Now, When?'Book summary:Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Wracked by fear, hunger and fierce rivalries, they link up, fall apart, struggle to stay alive and to sabotage the efforts of the all-powerful German army. A compelling tale of action, resistance and epic adventure, it also reveals Levi's characteristic compassion and deep insight into the moral dilemmas of total war. It ranks alongside "The Period Table" and "If This is a Man" as one of the rare authentic masterpieces of our times. [via]
Introduction to Italian Poetryby Luciano RebayISBN 0486267156 (0-486-26715-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Italian Cook Bookby Sunset EditorsISBN 0376024658 (0-376-02465-8)
Softcover, Leisure Arts
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Italian for Dummiesby Franesca Romana Onofri, Karen MollerISBN 0764551965 (0-7645-5196-5)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Italian Regional Cookingby Ada BoniISBN 0517693496 (0-517-69349-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Italyby Julia Della CroceISBN 0811830349 (0-8118-3034-9)
Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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Italy: The Beautiful Cookbook Authentic Recipes from the Regions of Italyby Lorenza De'Medici, Patrizia PassigliISBN 0002154463 (0-00-215446-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Jerusalem Delivered: Gerusalemme Liberataby Torquato Tasso, Anthony M. EsolenISBN 0801863236 (0-8018-6323-6)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jerusalem Delivered: Gerusalemme Liberata'Book summary:Late in the eleventh century the First Crusade culminated in the conquest of Jerusalem by Christian armies. Five centuries later, when Torquato Tasso began to search for a subject worthy of an epic, Jerusalem was governed by a sultan, Europe was in the crisis of religious division, and the Crusades were a nostalgic memory. Tasso turned to the First Crusade both as a subject that would test his poetic ambition and as a reflection on the quandaries of his own time. He sought to create a masterpiece that would deserve comparison with the great epics of the past.
Gerusalemme liberata became one of the most widely read and cherished books of the Renaissance. First published in 1581, it was translated into English by Edward Fairfax in 1600. That translation has been the standard, even though Fairfax was only a good, not a great, poet. Fairfax tried to fit Tasso's verse into Spenserian stanzas, adding to and subtracting from the original and often changing Tasso's meaning.
Anthony Esolen's new translation captures the delight of Tasso's descriptions, the different voices of its cast of characters, the shadings between glory and tragedyand it does all this in an English as powerful and clear as Tasso's Italian. Tasso's masterpiece finally emerges as an English masterpiece.
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Lidia's Italian Tableby Lidia Bastianich, Christopher StylerISBN 0688154107 (0-688-15410-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Lives of the Artistsby Giorgio VasariISBN 0140444602 (0-14-044460-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lives of the Artists'Book summary:Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his first drawings on stone; Donatello gazing at Brunelleschi's crucifix; and, Michelangelo's painstaking work on the Sistine Chapel, harassed by the impatient Pope Julius II. The Lives also convey much about Vasari himself and his outstanding abilities as a critic inspired by his passion for art. [via]
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Misreadingsby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 0156607522 (0-15-660752-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Misreadings'Book summary:This is a collection of parodies by the author of "The Name of the Rose" and "Foucault's Pendulum". Professor Anouk Ooma of Prince Joseph's Land University addresses his colleagues on recent archaeological findings that shed light on the poetry of Italy before the Explosion, Columbus' landing in the New World is covered by TV reporters and structural analysis of the art of striptease as performed by Lilly Niagara of the Crazy Horse. [via]
The Monkey's Wrenchby Primo LeviISBN 0671622145 (0-671-62214-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinciby Leonardo Da Vinci, Irma A. RichterISBN 0192838970 (0-19-283897-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci'Book summary:[via]Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Total of 1,566 extracts reveal full range of Leonardo's versatile genius: his writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, mining, inventions, music. Dual Italian-English texts, with 186 plates and faithful reproductions of more than 500 additional drawings.More editions of The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci:
- The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: ISBN 0486225720 (0-486-22572-0)
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Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: ISBN 0192815385 (0-19-281538-5)
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Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinciby Pamela TaylorISBN 0452258464 (0-452-25846-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Ocean Seaby Alessandro Baricco, Alastair McEwenISBN 0375703950 (0-375-70395-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ocean Sea'Book summary:In Alessandro Baricco's celebrated debut, it was silk that exerted a fatal attraction. This time it's the ocean, whose watery charms cause an entire cast of characters to convene at the isolated Almayer Inn. The guests include a seductress, an eccentric professor, and a painter with a pronounced penchant for metaphysics. They're soon joined by the beautiful young daughter of a local aristocrat, who's been stricken with a mysterious illness. In a sense, however, all these characters are suffering from maladies--psychological, existential, erotic--which makes the Almayer Inn a kind of Magic Mountain with beachfront footage.
The author is a renowned opera critic in his native Italy. Perhaps this accounts for his love of linguistic arias, which can overpower the plot of Ocean Sea. When Baricco gets rolling, of course, his intricately worked prose is a delight. Even the inn itself, situated alone on a promontory, gets the red carpet treatment: "So alone it was there, it seemed a thing forgotten. It was almost as if a procession of inns, of every kind and vintage, had passed by there one day, skirting the coast, when, out of tiredness, one had detached itself from the rest, and, as its travelling companions filed past, it decided to stop on that slight rise, yielding to its own weakness, bowing its head and waiting for the end." At his best, Baricco recalls Italo Calvino--there's the same pleasure in elegant riddles and rococo storytelling. Here and there the narrative of Ocean Sea vanishes down a dead end, and the author's weakness for typographical trickery doesn't help. Still, Baricco's novel remains a refreshing dunk in what Christina Stead called "the ocean of story"--and a brainy exploration of the littoral truth. --Bob Brandeis [via]
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One, No One, and One Hundred Thousandby Luigi Pirandello, William WeaverISBN 0941419746 (0-941419-74-6)
Softcover, Marsilio Pub
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One, None and a Hundred-Thousandby Luigi Pirandello, Samuel PutnamISBN 1417997036 (1-4179-9703-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Orlando Furiosoby Ludvico Aristo, Barbara ReynoldsISBN 0140443118 (0-14-044311-8)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orlando Furioso'Book summary:The only unabridged prose translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso--a witty parody of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France--this version faithfully recaptures the entire narrative and the subtle meanings behind it. [via]
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Softcover, Oxford University Press - Orlando Furioso: ISBN 0192816365 (0-19-281636-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Orlando Furioso: ISBN 0140443118 (0-14-044311-8)
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Panini, Bruschetta, Crostini : The Sandwich, Italian Styleby Viana La PlaceISBN 0688113257 (0-688-11325-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Prince and the Discoursesby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 0075535777 (0-07-553577-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Risottoby Judith Barrett, Norma Wasserman-MillerISBN 0684186918 (0-684-18691-8)
Hardcover, Scribner
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The River Cafeby Ruth Rogers, Rose GrayISBN 009180731X (0-09-180731-X)
Hardcover, Ebury Press
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Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. Ed by Irma Richter. a Galaxy Book.by Leonardo Da VinciISBN 0192812149 (0-19-281214-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Serendipities: Language & Lunacyby Umberto EcoISBN 0156007517 (0-15-600751-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Serendipities: Language & Lunacy'Book summary:The multitalented Umberto Eco--novelist, critic, and literary theorist--turns his attention to the history of linguistics. In linguistics, as in the other sciences, Eco explains, there are serendipities: "Even the most lunatic experiments can produce strange side effects, stimulating research that proves perhaps less amusing but scientifically more serious." In his earlier book The Search for the Perfect Language, for example, he discussed the project of discovering the language spoken before the collapse of the Tower of Babel. Although misconceived, the project by chance led to advances in mathematical logic, artificial intelligence, and even world peace--the goal of artificial languages like Esperanto and the unfortunately named Volapük. In the five essays in Serendipities, Eco explores some related serendipitous episodes in the history of linguistics; as always, his characteristic blend of playfulness and erudition is bound to be irresistible to any lover of language.
The first essay, "The Force of Falsity," discusses false documents with momentous repercussions, such as the letter of Prester John, which encouraged European explorers and conquerors to seek its supposed author, the Christian ruler of a distant and fantastically wealthy land. In the second essay, Eco considers Dante's relation to the idea of the perfect language. The third essay discusses early misinterpretations of Egyptian, Chinese, and Mexican ideograms. The Jesuit savant Athanasius Kircher, for example, devoted page upon page to mystical interpretations of a hieroglyph that later turned out to represent nothing more profound than the Greek letter lambda. The remaining two essays are devoted to single authors: "The Language of the Austral Land" concerns Gabriel de Foigny's instructive parody of contemporary attempts to devise the perfect language, while "The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre" endeavors, with indifferent success, to make sense of the counterrevolutionary Savoyard's musings on the nature of language. --Glenn Branch [via]
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Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Playsby Mark Musa, Luigi PirandelloISBN 014018922X (0-14-018922-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woodsby Umberto EcoISBN 0674810511 (0-674-81051-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Walks in the Fictional Woods'Book summary:In this exhilarating book, we accompany Umberto Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Using examples ranging from fairy tales and Flaubert, Poe and Mickey Spillane, Eco draws us in by means of a novelist's techniques, making us his collaborators in the creation of his text and in the investigation of some of fiction's most basic mechanisms.
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TBC Italyby HarperISBN 0067575870 (0-06-757587-0)
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The Terra-Cotta Dogby Stephen Sartarelli, Andrea CamilleriISBN 0670031380 (0-670-03138-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Terra-Cotta Dog'Book summary:Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Salvo Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic, engaging take on Sicilian life and his genius for deciphering the most enigmatic of crimes.
The Terra-cotta Dog opens with the inspector's mysterious tête-à-tête with a mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and dying words that lead him to an illegal arms cache in a mountain cave. There, in a secret grotto, he finds a harrowing scene: two young lovers, dead fifty years and still embracing, watched over by a life-size terra-cotta dog. Montalbano's passion to solve this old crime takes him, heedless of personal danger, on a journey through the island's past and into a family's dark heart amid the horrors of World War II bombardment.
From sly comedy at the expense of his fellow policemen to personal soul searching that helps him enter the minds of those he must investigate, Montalbano is a detective whose earthiness and imagination coalesce into a unique, unfailing appeal. AUTHORBIO: Andrea Camilleri is the author of many books, including his Montalbano series, which has been adapted for Italian television and translated into German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Japanese, Dutch, and Swedish.
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Donde El Corazon De Lleveby Susanna TamaroISBN 8432216070 (84-322-1607-0)
Softcover, Editorial Seix Barral
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Historia de la Belleza / The History of Beautyby Umberto EcoISBN 8426414680 (84-264-1468-0)
Hardcover, Random House Mondadori
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El Padrinoby Mario PuzoISBN 8466604359 (84-666-0435-9)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Padrino'Book summary:More than thirty years ago, a classic was born. A searing evocation of the Mafia underworld, this novel introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and the powerful legacy of tradition, blood, and honor that would be passed on from father to son. The novel stands out due to its exquisitely detailed characters who, despite leading unconventional lifestyles within a notorious crime family, experience the triumphs and failures of the human condition. With its themes of the seduction of power, the pitfalls of greed, and family allegiance, this is the definitive gangster novel.[via]More editions of El Padrino:
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El Padrino / The Godfatherby Mario Puzo, Angel ArnauISBN 8466304479 (84-663-0447-9)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Padrino / The Godfather'Book summary:Vito Corleone is the most respected Don of New York. He is merciless with his rivals, but also intelligent, astute and faithful to honor and friendship. His life and businesses, as well as those of his son and heir, make up the storyline of this masterpiece. With the publication of The Godfather, for the first time the Mafia was portrayed from the inside. Later, Puzo himself would write the scripts for the famous trilogy of Francis Ford Coppola.
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Vito Corleone es el Don más respetado de Nueva York, ciudad a la que llegó como emigrante desde su Sicilia natal a los doce años. Don Corleone es implacable con sus rivales, pero es también un hombre inteligente, astuto y fiel a los principios del honor y la amistad. La vida y negocios de Don Corleone, así como los de su hijo y heredero, conforman el eje de esta obra maestra.
La publicación de El Padrino en 1969 supuso una convulsión en el mundo literario, pues por primera vez la Mafia aparecía novelada desde su interior; presentada como una compleja contrasociedad con una cultura, unas interrelaciones y unas jerarquías comúnmente aceptadas. Posteriormente, el propio Puzo escribiría los guiones de la famosa trilogía de películas de Francis Ford Coppola. [via]
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El Queso Y Los Gusanosby Carlo GinzburgISBN 9706512071 (970-651-207-1)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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Il Cane Di Terracottaby Andrea CamilleriISBN 8838912262 (88-389-1226-2)
Hardcover, Sellerio
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Il Giorno Della Civettaby Leonardo Sciascia, Gerard SloweyISBN 0719045509 (0-7190-4550-9)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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Storia Della Bellezzaby Umberto EcoISBN 8845232492 (88-452-3249-2)
Hardcover, Bompiani
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Uno, Nessuno E Centomilaby Luigi Pirandello, Nino Borsellino, Pietro MiloneISBN 8811365155 (88-11-36515-5)
Hardcover, Garzanti
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Va' Dove Ti Porta Il Cuoreby Susanna TamaroISBN 8885989403 (88-85989-40-3)
Hardcover, Baldini & Castoldi
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