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Bio: an eclectic physician Avatar: Burt Lancaster as the Prince of Salina, a.k.a. The Leopard. Loves: philosophy, poetry, novels, neorealism, postmodernism, existentialism.
“Mi casa tendrá dos piernas y mis sueños no tendrán fronteras„ — Ernesto Guevara
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Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci by Antonio Gramsci
Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks of history and analysis during his imprisonment. These writings, known as the Prison Notebooks, …
Dɪɢɪᴛᴀʟɪs Pᴜʀᴘᴜʀᴇᴀ rated La casa in collina: 4 stars
La casa in collina by Cesare Pavese (Letteratura -- 34)
Dɪɢɪᴛᴀʟɪs Pᴜʀᴘᴜʀᴇᴀ rated Ocean Sea: 3 stars
Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco, Alastair McEwen
Ocean Sea (Italian: Oceano mare) is a 1993 novel by the Italian writer Alessandro Baricco. Its narrative revolves around the …
Dɪɢɪᴛᴀʟɪs Pᴜʀᴘᴜʀᴇᴀ rated Heart of Darkness: 3 stars
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad about a narrated voyage up the Congo River …
Dɪɢɪᴛᴀʟɪs Pᴜʀᴘᴜʀᴇᴀ rated The last of the Mohicans: 5 stars
The last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, James Fenimore Cooper
"James Fenimore Cooper's romantic adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French-Indian War vividly …
Dɪɢɪᴛᴀʟɪs Pᴜʀᴘᴜʀᴇᴀ rated Albert Camus, The stranger: 5 stars
Albert Camus, The stranger by McCarthy, Patrick (Landmarks of world literature)
Dɪɢɪᴛᴀʟɪs Pᴜʀᴘᴜʀᴇᴀ rated The fall: 4 stars
The fall by Albert Camus (Vintage international)
Mordant, brilliant, elegantly styled, The Fall is a novel Of the conscience Of modern man in the face of evil. …
Dɪɢɪᴛᴀʟɪs Pᴜʀᴘᴜʀᴇᴀ rated Ulysses - A Reader's Edition: 5 stars
Ulysses - A Reader's Edition by Richard Ellmann
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal …
Dɪɢɪᴛᴀʟɪs Pᴜʀᴘᴜʀᴇᴀ rated Walden: 4 stars
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau is considered, along with Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and Nathaniel Hawthorne, as one …
Dɪɢɪᴛᴀʟɪs Pᴜʀᴘᴜʀᴇᴀ rated Il cavaliere inesistente: 4 stars
Il cavaliere inesistente by Italo Calvino (Oscar Mondadori)
Dɪɢɪᴛᴀʟɪs Pᴜʀᴘᴜʀᴇᴀ rated The Scarlet Letter: 4 stars
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter (2012, Simon & Brown)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a …
Dɪɢɪᴛᴀʟɪs Pᴜʀᴘᴜʀᴇᴀ rated Dubliners: 4 stars
Dubliners by Richard Ellmann
Dubliners is a collection of vignettes of Dublin life at the end of the 19th Century written, by Joyce’s own …
Dɪɢɪᴛᴀʟɪs Pᴜʀᴘᴜʀᴇᴀ rated Pamela, or, Virtue Rewarded: 4 stars
Pamela, or, Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson (Oxford world's classics)
Dɪɢɪᴛᴀʟɪs Pᴜʀᴘᴜʀᴇᴀ rated A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 3 stars
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Richard Ellmann
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman …