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Livret accompagné d'un texte qui relate la genèse de l'unique opéra de Beethoven, de commentaires de Berlioz et de Furtwängler,…
d'un essai sur la mise en scène, de textes qui font écho au message de l'oeuvre et d'un synopsis
Tells the story of Lao Zi, the founder of Taoism who wrote the guiding principles of his philosophy while on…
his way to lead the life of a recluse. For grades K-3
An old Cuban fisherman hooks a giant marlin after eighty-five days without a single catch. He then fights a losing…
battle with sharks who try to deprive him of his triumph. Pulitzer Prize. Italian language
Four murders in Milan--a taxi driver, a businessman, a photographer, and an unemployed man--all have two things in common. All…
were killed with the same caliber pistol, and all were the same age. Commissioner Ambrosio is called in to investigate. Italian language
An Italian journalist presents the stories, experiences, and confessions of men and women who suffer from AIDS, at the same…
time pointing out the effects that the fear of AIDS has had on society as a whole. Italian language
The Italian journalist looks at the phenomenon of love and presents case histories of famous love stories, including those of…
Boris Pasternak, Marilyn Monroe, Svetlana Stalin, and Benito Mussolini. He also profiles "Latin lover" Marcello Mastroianni and diva Francesca Bertini, describes the love bouts of Woody Allen, and discusses the three loves of millionaire Armand Hammer. Italian language
The story of a friendship between two cousins growing up in rural Lichtenstein is narrated by Georg, the younger of…
two, who idolizes the older, rough-hewn Edgar. Georg describes their lives from their Boy Scout beginnings up to maturity, when the gradual loss of innocence sends the two in different directions. German language
The fear of death and the alienation that dying causes influences the people in these nineteen short stories by the…
German author. In a variety of everyday situations, people suddenly find themselves having to come to terms with human mortality. In the title story, it is the shortest day of the year, and a man keeps asking his wife over and over again what day it is. German language
Short stories about the animals of India and the life of Mowgli the jungle boy, who was adopted by a…
wolf pack and taught the laws of the jungle by a panther and a bear. Includes both Il Libro della Giungla and Il Secondo Libro della Giungla. For grades 5-8. Italian language
A British novel. Charles Wychwood, an aspiring poet, discovers an old manuscript that he believes was written by Thomas Chatterton,…
the eighteenth-century English poet who commmitted suicide at eighteen. Or did he? The story explores the themes of reality and illusion, mortality and immortality, and the ways in which past, present, and future are entwined. Italian language
Short profiles on ninety-nine contemporary men, mostly Italians. Includes writers such as Umberto Eco, actors such as Vittorio Gassman, and…
movie directors such as Federico Fellini. Woody Allen, Boy George, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, Bruce Springsteen, and Pope John Paul II are also profiled. Italian language
Historical novel chronicles the lives of an Italian farm family of Monferrato in birth, love, war, and death from the…
end of the Napoleonic Era to the inception of a united Italy. Italian language