Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow -- Death …
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Sono Americano e il mio Italiano é molto fuori di pratica. Studiavo per un anno al'Universitá di Bologna più di venti cinque anni fa. Italo Calvino é il mio autore Italiano favorito. Oh, wait, seems like a fairly international crowd here.
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Alex rated Twice-told tales: 5 stars
Twice-told tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Modern Library classics)
Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection first published in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The stories had all been …
Alex rated Invisible Cities: 5 stars
Alex rated The Castle of Crossed Destinies: 3 stars
The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
The Castle of Crossed Destinies (Italian: Il castello dei destini incrociati) is a 1973 novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. …
Alex rated Of Mice and Men: 3 stars
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a …
Alex rated Neuromancer: 4 stars
Neuromancer by William Gibson (Sprawl Trilogy, #1)
The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in …
Arthur Conan Doyle: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (Mystery, Crime and Detective Fiction) Complete Unabridged and Annotated Volume (2020, Independently Published)
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (Mystery, Crime and Detective Fiction) Complete Unabridged and Annotated Volume by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 …
Alex rated Dreams from My Father: 4 stars
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995) is a memoir by Barack Obama that explores the …
Alex rated Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: 4 stars
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter, #1)
Harry Potter has never played a sport while flying on a broomstick. He's never worn a cloak of invisibility, befriended …
Alex rated Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1): 3 stars
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1) by Iain M. Banks
Consider Phlebas, first published in 1987, is a space opera novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks. It is the …
Alex rated Never cry wolf: 3 stars
Never cry wolf by Farley Mowat
True story of a biologist's life among wolves for approximately a year. (Subjective Non-fiction)
Alex rated The Prince: 3 stars
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe [il ˈprintʃipe]; Latin: De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and …
Alex rated The Brothers Karamazov: 4 stars
The Brothers Karamazov by Thomas M. Cipolla (Barnes & Noble book notes, 860)
Alex rated All Quiet on the Western Front: 3 stars
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
This edition is in Hebrew. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces …
Alex rated Nine Stories: 4 stars
Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
First published short story volume by the author of Catcher In The Rye.