Οι γάμοι του Κάδμου και της Αρμονίας
10 best books like Οι γάμοι του Κάδμου και της Αρμονίας (Roberto Calasso): Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis, Theogony / Works and Days, Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, Miau, The Gods of the Greeks, Written Lives, Un amore, The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City, Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas, La morte della Pizia
Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis
| Author | Ugo Foscolo |
| ISBN | 1843910020 |
Written as an epistolary monologue, Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis is a compelling portrayal of a troubled mind. Published here for the first time in the English language, it is presented with Foscolo's highly acclaimed poem, Of Tombs. Banished from his homeland and from the woman he loves, Jacopo Ortis...
Theogony / Works and Days
| Author | Hesiod |
| ISBN | 0192839411 |
Hesiod, one of the oldest known Greek poets, stands out as the first personality in European literature. The Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the beginning of the world and an account of their violent struggles before the present order was established. The Works and Days, a...
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
| Author | Lafcadio Hearn |
| ISBN | 0804836620 |
A blind musician with amazing talent is called upon to perform for the dead. Faceless creatures haunt an unwary traveler. A beautiful woman — the personification of winter at its cruelest — ruthlessly kills unsuspecting mortals. These and 17 other chilling supernatural tales — based on legends,...
| Author | Benito Pérez Galdós |
| ISBN | 8420633275 |
Sátira implacable del Madrid burocrático de la época, Miau -publicada en 1888- es una de las grandes novelas de Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920). Precedida de una penetrante introducción de Ricardo Gullón, en ella, los diversos hilos argumentales del complejo relato que narra la progresiva...
| Author | Karl Kerényi |
| ISBN | 0500270481 |
After a brief introduction, the complex genealogies of the gods lead him from the begettings of the Titans and from Aphrodite under all her titles and aspects, to Apollo, Hermes and the reign of Zeus, touching upon the Affairs of Pan, nymphs, satyrs, cosmogonies and the birth of mankind, until he reaches...
| Author | Javier Marías |
| ISBN | 0811216896 |
In addition to his own busy career as "one of Europe's most intriguing contemporary writers" (TLS), Javier Marías is also the translator into Spanish of works by Hardy, Stevenson, Conrad, Faulkner, Nabokov, and Laurence Sterne. His love for these authors is the touchstone of Written Lives. Collected...
| Author | Dino Buzzati |
| ISBN | 8804555149 |
L'ossessione della partecipazione
"Chi era? dove andava? Con quali speranze? Perché faceva quella vita? Una ragazzina così fresca, viva, autentica. Che sbagliata infanzia c'era alle sue spalle? Oppure era soltanto smania di libertà e di ribellione, desiderio di vestiti, gusto rabbioso...
| Author | Iris Origo |
| ISBN | 0140172181 |
Francesco di Marco Datini, the 14th-century Tuscan merchant who forms the subject of the Marchesa Origo's study, has now probably become the most intimately accessible figure of the later-Middle Ages. In 1870 the whole astonishing cache, containing some 150,000 letters and great numbers of business...
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas is the hilarious, poignant and entertaining story of the life of a junior doctor at the most challenging time of the year. With twenty-five tales of intriguing, shocking and incredible Christmas incidents, the British public will finally appreciate the sacrifices...
| Author | Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
«Stizzita per la scemenza dei suoi stessi oracoli e per l’ingenua credulità dei Greci, la sacerdotessa di Delfi Pannychis XI, lunga e secca come quasi tutte le Pizie che l’avevano preceduta, ascoltò le domande del giovane Edipo, un altro che voleva sapere se i suoi genitori erano davvero i suoi...
