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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
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
Casaubon, a student of philology in the 1970s, is writing a thesis on the Templars, a monastic order of knights…
officially disbanded in the 1300s, though some say it only went underground and is still active. Casaubon discusses the order with his friends, Belbo and Diotallevi, and they decide to construct a bogus "Plan for the Templars." Before long the plan they invented has become real, and what started as a joke has become a nightmare. Bestseller. Italian language
Romance novel set in Calabria and written in the form of letters between Angelica and Matteo--letters that evoke an echo…
of the sensuality and violence characteristic of southern Italy in the past. Italian language
The famous theoretical physicist, affected by Lou Gehrig's disease since graduate school, is best known for his inquiries into the…
nature of black holes. This work recaps modern physicists' attempts to understand how and why the universe exists. Hawking claims that these attempts reach ever closer to a single theory that, if complete and convincing, would enable us to "know the mind of God." Italian language
The collected essays, speeches, letters, and commentaries of the celebrated post-war German author. The writings, covering a thirty-year period from…
1956 to 1986, include Grass's political speeches in support of social democracy, his essays on art and artists, and other writings on various topics of contemporary interest. German language