Genre :: Italy (13 books)

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  #116

  The Name of the Rose

  by Umberto Eco

  (12 Reviews)

  166 Points

  "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

  

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  #123

  A Room with a View

  by E. M. Forster

  (7 Reviews)

  156 Points

  "The Signora had no business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no business at all. She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead of which here are north rooms, looking into a...

  

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  #129

  I, Claudius

  by Robert Graves

  (6 Reviews)

  151 Points

  "I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives..."

  

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  #151

  If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

  by Italo Calvino

  (5 Reviews)

  130 Points

  "You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.Stai per cominciare a leggere il nuovo romanzo Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore di Italo Calvino."

  

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  #185

  The Wings of the Dove

  by Henry James

  (2 Reviews)

  107 Points

  "She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face postiively pale with the..."

  

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  #198

  Six Characters in Search of an Author

  by Luigi Pirandello

  (4 Reviews)

  98 Points

  "When the audience arrives in the theater, the curtain is raised; and the stage, as normally in the daytime, is without wings or scenery and almost completely dark and empty."

  

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  #237

  The Charterhouse of Parma

  by Stendhal

  (2 Reviews)

  88 Points

  "Le 15 mai 1796, le général Bonaparte fit son entrée dans Milan à la tête de cette jeune armée qui venait de passer le pont de Lodi, et d'apprendre au monde qu'après tant de siècles César et..."

  

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  #295

  The Tartar Steppe

  by Dino Buzzati

  (1 Review)

  72 Points

  "One September morning, Giovanni Drogo, being newly commissioned, set out from the city for Fort Bastiani; it was his first posting."

  

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  #384

  Contempt

  by Alberto Moravia

  (1 Review)

  53 Points

  "During the first two years of our married life my relations with my wife were, I can now assert, perfect."

  

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  #444

  The Leopard

  by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

  (3 Reviews)

  39 Points

  "'Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.'"

  

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