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The Story of a New Name
Neapolitan Novels #2.In The Story of a New Name, Lila has recently married and made her entrée into the family business; Elena, meanwhile, continues her studies and her exploration of the world beyond the neighborhood that she so often finds stifling. Love, jealousy, family,...- $ 450.00
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Perfection
Anna and Tom, an expat couple in Berlin, seem to have built the perfect life. Young, creative, and proudly freelance, they transform taste into a career and their lifestyle into a brand. For a time, it feels effortless—work and love aligned, the city itself...- $ 400.00
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The Baron In The Trees
Cosimo di Rondó, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the trees and remaining there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an existence in the forest canopy—he hunts, sows crops, plays games...- $ 450.00
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Lost on Me
Born into a household dominated by an omnipresent mother obsessed with her own anxieties, a father consumed by hygiene and architectural quirks, and a precocious genius brother who commands the family’s attention, Vero drifts through childhood in a haze of boredom and confinement. Trapped...- $ 350.00
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A Girl Returned
A powerful coming-of-age story about identity, loss, and resilience. When a 13-year-old girl is abruptly sent from the only family she’s ever known to live with her biological relatives—strangers to her in every way—she’s thrust into a world of confusion, emotional distance, and instability....- $ 350.00
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Everything Calls for Salvation
June 1994. Twenty-year-old Daniele wakes up in a hospital room, confused and surrounded by strangers. Slowly, memories of the previous night return to a spiral of anxiety and anger, an explosion of violence so intense that it almost inflicted irreparable damage to him and...- $ 450.00
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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Neapolitan Novels #3.In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her abusive husband and now works as a...- $ 450.00
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The Days of Abandonment
Gripping story of an Italian woman’s experiences after being suddenly left by her husband after fifteen years of marriage. With two young children to care for, Olga finds it more and more difficult to do the things she used to: keep a spotless house,...- $ 400.00
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Design as Art
One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari's Design as Art is an illustrated journey into the artistic possibilities of modern design translated by Patrick Creagh published as part of the 'Penguin on Design' series in Penguin Modern Classics.'The designer...- $ 300.00
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The House of Gazes
Daniele is a young poet plagued by an unknown darkness, “an invisible disease of the heart, or of the mind.” He refuses to conform to society’s expectations―finding a job, starting a family―yet he struggles to define a path of his own and find a...- $ 450.00
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Prophecies
Found in the Codex Atlanticus of Leonardo da Vinci's writings and drawings, 'The Prophecies' are a collection of enigmatic divinatory pronouncements, some punning and playful, others dire and ominous. While the author's intentions behind these utterances are unclear, they clearly attest to the artist's...- $ 300.00
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The Story of a Lost Child
Neapolitan Novels #4.The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women — the brilliant, bookish Elena, and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults, with husbands, lovers, aging parents, and children. Their friendship has been...- $ 450.00
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My Brilliant Friend
Neapolitan Novels #1.A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, "My Brilliant Friend" is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante's inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is...- $ 350.00
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Inferno
Dante’s dramatic journey through the circles of hell in search of redemption – and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of some of the greatest sinners who ever walked on earth – is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the summit...- $ 245.00
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The Lying Life of Adults
In this powerful novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, fourteen-year-old Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: Naples of the heights, which wears a mask of refinement, and Naples of the depths,...- $ 450.00
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The Divine Comedy: Anniversary Edition
Dante's dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of redemption – and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of sinners and saints – is one of the cornerstones of...- $ 400.00
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Difficult Loves
In Difficult Loves, Italy’s master storyteller weaves tales in which cherished deceptions and illusions of love—including self-love—are swept away in magical instants of recognition. A soldier is reduced to quivering fear by the presence of a full-figured woman in his train compartment; a young...- $ 450.00
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The Other Profile
Once an ambitious and promising student at an elite university in Paris, Maia is now 26, living in Milan, and stuck in a dead-end job at a cafe and a dysfunctional relationship with an older man. Until one day her life seems to change:...- $ 550.00
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Fantastic Tales
Visionary and Everyday. Vampires, ghosts, and other uncanny beings haunt the pages of this rich anthology of 19th-century fantastic literature, selected and introduced by Italo Calvino—one of the 20th century’s great literary visionaries. Published posthumously, Fantastic Tales gathers a captivating range of eerie, enchanting,...- $ 400.00
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If On A Winter's Night A Traveler
Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler is less a novel and more a literary spell—a dazzling exploration of what it means to read, to write, and to lose yourself between the lines. First published in 1979, this postmodern masterpiece doesn’t offer...- $ 400.00
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Pinocchio
New York Review Children's Collection: Illustrated. Though Pinocchio is among the most famous books in the world, it remains curiously misunderstood—its image shaped in many minds by the Walt Disney film, which bears little resemblance to Carlo Collodi’s brilliant original. The tale, of course,...- $ 500.00
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
A Penguin Classic Carved from wood by the kindly carpenter Geppetto, Pinocchio comes to life—and immediately begins to misbehave. While generations have adored the mischievous puppet, the novel’s deeper message is often overlooked. Pinocchio’s trouble isn’t simply his tendency to lie; it’s his refusal...- $ 350.00
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My Brilliant Friend Deluxe Edition: The Four Volumes
A deluxe cloth hardcover with sprayed edges and colored end papers illustrating the Bay of Naples. When Elena Ferrante set out to write the story of Elena and Lila, she conceived it as one single work of fiction, one expansive novel that would capture...- $ 1,100.00
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Silk
The year is 1861. Hervé Joncour, a French silkworm merchant, scours the world for rare, gleaming eggs. When disease devastates Europe’s supply, he is driven beyond the known world to Japan—a land famed for its exquisite silk and fierce suspicion of outsiders. There, he...- $ 300.00
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The Little Virtues: Essay
In this collection of her most celebrated essays, Natalia Ginzburg examines the everyday and the catastrophic with the wit and grace that have secured her place among mid-century literary greats. Whether reflecting on the loss of a friend like Cesare Pavese, the indelible impact...- $ 350.00
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Family Lexicon
Giuseppe Levi, the father, is a scientist obsessed with his work and long hikes, quick to anger at missteps or misbehavior. Jewish and married to the Catholic Lidia, the family is secular yet bound by love and lively debate, raising children who carve their...- $ 350.00
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Sweet Days of Discipline
Set in a Swiss boarding school after the war, the novel begins simply: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But innocence quickly gives way to obsession. With chilling calm, the young narrator recounts her consuming fixation on Frédérique—the...- $ 300.00
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The Name of the Rose
Now available in a deluxe 40th-anniversary paperback edition, this celebrated historical mystery returns with exclusive illustrations by its author. Set in 1347, it follows Brother William of Baskerville, a brilliant monk investigating heresy at a wealthy Italian abbey—until a series of mysterious deaths shifts...- $ 450.00
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Foucault's Pendulum
Blending history with gripping suspense, this international bestseller by Umberto Eco explores how a playful idea can spiral into deadly consequences. What begins as a literary joke soon turns into a chilling confrontation with belief, obsession, and power. When a man claiming to have...- $ 450.00
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The Prague Cemetery
Nineteenth-century Europe—stretching from Turin to Prague to Paris—is a landscape of intrigue, violence, and shadowy secrets. Rival factions clash as political upheaval and paranoia give rise to plots, forgeries, and hidden agendas across the continent. Amid events like the Unification of Italy, the Paris...- $ 350.00
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Lies and Sorcery
A monumental work by one of Italy’s greatest writers, Lies and Sorcery unfolds as a sweeping tale of three generations of women, now presented in its first complete English translation. Elsa Morante, long revered as a towering figure of twentieth-century literature, crafted this debut...- $ 450.00
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Tangerinn
A luminous debut about migration, memory, and the fragile search for belonging, Tangerinn moves between London and the windswept coast of southern Italy to explore what it means to inherit a life shaped by displacement. Mina is thirty, living in London, and increasingly unmoored....- $ 400.00
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Forbidden Notebook
Featuring a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri and translated by acclaimed translator Ann Goldstein, Forbidden Notebook is a celebrated novel by Italian-Cuban writer Alba de Céspedes, whose work has influenced generations of authors, including Elena Ferrante. Set in postwar Rome, the novel follows Valeria Cossati,...- $ 400.00
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The Days of Abandonment
Gripping story of an Italian woman’s experiences after being suddenly left by her husband after fifteen years of marriage. With two young children to care for, Olga finds it more and more difficult to do the things she used to: keep a spotless house,...- $ 400.00
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