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  • The Spy of Venice

  • The Spy of Venice 

  • Brandreth Benet 
  • Pegasus Books 
  • English
    448 pages 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9781681777986 
  • CJ Sansom meets Shakespeare in Love - a historical thriller with a swashbuckling twist and a hero like you've never seen him before When he's caught out by one ill-advised seduction too many, young William Shakespeare flees Stratford to seek his fortune. Cast adrift in London, Will falls in with a... 
  • STATO: Out Of Print
  • € 12.00 
  • Against Venice

  • Against Venice 

  • Debray Régis 
  • North Light Books 
  • 80 pages
    English
    Hardcover 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9781556433054 
  • Numerous writers have made declarations of love to cities, but Against Venice speaks not of love, but of dislike. It is a counterblast to intellectuals who regard Venice as the city where existentialism should be experienced, at parties in the palazzi of friends. Debray criticises this world in a... 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 7.50 
  • Autumn in Venice

  • Autumn in Venice 

  • di Robilant Andrea 
  • Knopf 
  • English
    Hardcover
    348 pagine 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9781101946657 
  • In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife traveled for the first time to Venice, which Hemingway called &;absolutely god-damned wonderful.&; A year shy of his fiftieth birthday, Hemingway hadn&;t published a novel in nearly a decade when he met and fell in love with... 
  • STATO: OS - Ordinabile
  • € 14.00 
  • Venice: A New History

  • Venice: A New History 

  • Madden Professor Thomas 
  • Penguin Classics UK (NF) 
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
    Paperback ‏ : ‎ 480 pages 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780147509802 
  • La Serenissima. Its breathtaking architecture, art, and opera ensure that Venice remains a perennially popular destination for tourists and armchair travelers alike. Yet most of the available books about this magical city are either facile travel guides or fusty academic tomes. In Venice, renowned... 
  • STATO: OS - Ordinabile
  • € 10.00 
  • Earthly Remains

  • Earthly Remains 

  • Leon Donna 
  • Grove Press 
  • Paperback
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780802127723 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 9.50 
  • Donna Leon - Doctored Evidence

  • Donna Leon - Doctored Evidence 

  • Leon Donna 
  • Rem Books (R) 
  • Hardback: 245 pages
    Language English
    130x210 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9781100425849 
  • Doctored Evidence is every bit as impressive as any previous outing for the urbane Commissario Brunetti we've encountered--and reading a Donna Leon novel is almost as good as a trip to Italy, so evocative is the ex-pat of her adoptive country. Not that Signor Berlusconi would necessarily approve of... 
  • STATO: OS - Ordinabile
  • € 8.50 
  • Venetian Masters

  • Venetian Masters 

  • Bidisha 
  • Summersdale 
  • Paperback: 320 pages
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9781840246346 
  • The sinking city has been mythologised in history, art, literature and music for centuries, but few people experience the real Venice. During one long, humid summer, Bidisha explores the truth of the revered City of Love. Guided through its intricate social conventions by her best friend's family,... 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 6.50 
  • The Unfinished Palazzo*

  • The Unfinished Palazzo* 

  • Mackrell Judith 
  • Thames UK 
  • Paperback
    408 pages
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780500294437 
  • Abandoned unfinished and left to rot on Venice's Grand Canal, `il palazzo non finito' was once an unloved guest among the aristocrats of Venetian architecture. Yet in the 20th century it played host to three passionate and unconventional women who would take the city by storm. The staggeringly... 
  • STATO: Out Of Print
  • € 15.50 
  • Donna Leon, The Waters of Eternal Youth

  • Donna Leon, The Waters of Eternal Youth 

  • Leon Donna 
  • Atlantic Books*** 
  • Hardcoveк
    256 pages
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780802124807 
  • In Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti series, the Venetian inspector has been called on to investigate many things, from shocking to petty crimes. But in The Waters of Eternal Youth, the 25th novel in this celebrated series, Brunetti finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a case at... 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 12.50 
  • The Merchant of Venice

  • The Merchant of Venice 

  • Simon and Shuster UK 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9781439191163 
  • In The Merchant of Venice, the path to marriage is hazardous. To win Portia, Bassanio must pass a test prescribed by her father's will, choosing correctly among three caskets or chests. If he fails, he may never marry at all. Bassanio and Portia also face a magnificent villain, the moneylender... 
  • STATO: OS - Ordinabile
  • € 7.50 

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