A Modern Reader's Guide to Dante's the Divine Comedy
 Arguably the finest intro to Dante in English: For the reader tackling Dante for the very first time, this might be the best book currently available. Though targeted at first time readers, this can also be helpful for those who need to review all the [... more]
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The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript
suspenseful and intelligent: I am not much of a suspense/thriller fan, but this book captivated me completely, probably because it is not our contemporary "suspense" fiction. Obviously, it is extremely well written with vivid and lively scenes [... more]
$15.00
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The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The ...
Solid translation for a schizophrenic work!: This translation was easy enough to understand although the work itself suffers from a major problem and that is a sharp contrast that exists between exciting moments to ones where the lack of action is [... more]
$18.00
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Foucault's Pendulum
Read "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" First: If I had not read the above first, I think F's P would have harder to follow. This reads a lot like a novelized version of the Baigent/Leigh/Lincoln book. I wish the novel had started with the visit by Col [... more]
$7.99
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Eleven Short Stories/Undici Novelle (A Dual-Language ...
Neat: Yeah, its fun to study this way, and you will not even realize how much italian you have learned until you go back to read the book again or go read another book in italian and you will be like "Holy cow I can understand some of this"...I [... more]
$12.95
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The Adventures of Pinocchio: Story of a Puppet/Le ...
Excellent format and translation: This edition stands perfectly well on its own in either language for simple enjoyment of the story and prose. It is also a useful learning resource for the intermediate to advanced student of the language. I suggest that [... more]
$19.95
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Voice of the Violin (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries)
The Fourth Montalbano Mystery by Andrea Camilleri - La Voce Del Violino - The Voice of the Violin.: Braking and entering was the least of Inspector Montalbano worries the discovery was much more gruesome. A young female completely naked, at touch she was [... more]
$21.95
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The Path to the Spiders' Nests: Revised Edition
Nice First Try: Experimental, historical, cynical, considerably meditative, innocently gloomy, and yet, as the author indicated, exaggerated, distorted. It is a hightly sophisticated first try, but as most first novels do, its narrative style lacks the [... more]
$13.95
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The Force of the Past: A Novel
The Force of the Narrative: Veronesi's book is two stories in one. First is a novel about coming to grips with the possibility that the people you think you know best -- your father, your mother, your siblings, your spouse, your child, and most [... more]
$23.95
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The Music of Silence: A Memoir
Andrea angelic voice childish memoir: Andrea Boccelli's memoir is a must for those who want to enter the world of the blind, and learn firsthand the hardships of being blind. Andrea's book is written in a childlike manner, with the passion for the [... more]
$25.00
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The Island of the Day Before
The worst novel of one of my favorite authors: I have simply loved every other novel by Umberto Eco I've read. I started with Foucault's Pendulum which I read in college and is still one of my all-time favorite books. Of course, I then went on to read [... more]
$16.00
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Racconti Del Novecento: Realta regionali
Author: Ilene T. Olken Author: Claudio Mazzola Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 458 EAN: 9780137500017 Edition: Facsimile Format: Facsimile ISBN: 0137500017 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: 1990-11-18 [... more]
$56.80
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