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  • Venice: Pure City

  • Venice: Pure City 

  • Peter Ackroyd 
  • Random House UK (NF) 
  • Paperback
    403 pages
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780307473790 
  • Peter Ackroyd at his most magical and magisterial a glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice, the ultimate city. The Venetians language and way of thinking set them aside from the rest of Italy. They are an island people, linked to the sea and to the tides rather than the... 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 14.00 
  • Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

  • Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi 

  • Geoff Dyer 
  • Paperback
    296 pages
    Vintage Books
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780307390301 
  • In Venice, at the Biennale, a jaded, bellini-swigging journalist named Jeff Atman meets a beautiful woman and they embark on a passionate affair. In Varanasi, an unnamed journalist (who may or may not be Jeff) joins thousands of pilgrims on the banks of the holy Ganges. He intends to stay for a... 
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  • € 9.50 
  • The Book of Unholy Mischief

  • The Book of Unholy Mischief 

  • Elle Newmark 
  • Paperback
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780552775212 
  • It is 1498, and the whole of Venice is abuzz. Hidden somewhere in the labyrinthine city is an ancient book, rumoured to contain thorny heresies and secrets of immeasurable power. Luciano, an orphan, is taken on as apprentice to the chef at the doge's palace. He finds himself entangled in the search... 
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  • € 8.00 
  • Venice: Poems

  • Venice: Poems 

  • Ange Mlinko 
  • Farrar Staus and Giroux 
  • English
    Paerback
    144 pages
    136 x 201 mm 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780374607821 
  • Ange Mlinko alchemizes art and life into a dazzling collection of poetry in Venice In Venice, Ange Mlinko dissolves the boundaries between the sublime and the ordinary, the mythic and the rational, the past and the present. She sees a Roman tablet, scratched with Greek script, in the waxen wings... 
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  • € 8.00 
  • Noire lagune

  • Noire lagune 

  • Charlotte Bousquet 
  • Gulf Stream Editeur 
  • French
    Hardcover
    318 pages
    110 x 180 mm 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9782354883041 
  • Dans les brumes de décembre, les cloches de San Zanipolo chassent les âmes en peine. A l'aube du carnaval, la cité des Doges s'éveille sur des cris : tordu dans une affreuse posture, une salive noirâtre aux commissures des lèvres, le corps dans vie d'un... 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 5.00 
  • Adventurer

  • Adventurer 

  • Damrosch Leo 
  • Yale University Press 
  • Language ‏
    English
    Hardcover
    432 pages 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780300248289 
  • A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch “Fully succeeds in communicating that ‘vivid presentness,’ that ‘joyful eagerness’ for life, which is what keeps us reading Casanova—and reading... 
  • STATO: OS - Ordinabile
  • € 16.00 
  • Masquerade

  • Masquerade 

  • Melissa De La Cruz 
  • Hyperion 
  • Paperback 336 pages
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9781423101277 
  • Schuyler Van Alen wants an explanation for the mysterious deaths of young vampires. With her best friend, Oliver, Schuyler travels to Italy in the hope of finding the one man who can help—her grandfather. Meanwhile, back in New York, preparations are feverishly underway for the Four Hundred... 
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  • € 8.00 
  • The Merchant of Venice (R)

  • The Merchant of Venice (R) 

  • William Shakespeare 
  • Arcturus Pub.* 
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
    Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9781398813533 
  • The Merchant of Venice tells of a Venetian merchant called Antonio who defaults on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender. The man, Shylock, then takes the opportunity to hit back at the racism and general discrimination that he has encountered by demanding a pound of flesh from... 
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  • € 9.50 
  • Amarcord: Marcella Remembers

  • Amarcord: Marcella Remembers 

  • Marcella Hazan 
  • Penguin Classics UK (NF) 
  • Paperback
    320 pages
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9781592404896 
  • Starred Review. In 1969 Hazan gave the private cooking class that launched her career as the Italian Julia Child. In an evocative memoir, she recounts her life from childhood to Florida Gulf Coast retirement. Hazan spent her earliest years on another coast, in Cesenatico, a village on the Adriatic;... 
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  • € 8.00 
  • Iago

  • Iago 

  • David Snodin 
  • Hardcover: 480 pages
    Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780805093704 
  • An unforgettable adventure beginning where Shakespeare's "Othello" leaves off. Wounded in love, tormented by his past, Shakespeare's most complex villain is brought magnificently to life in this tale of two adversaries--one an accused killer; the other, one of the most powerful men in... 
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  • € 9.50 

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