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6 best books like Epoch (Timothy Carter): Invisible Cities, The Path to the Spiders' Nests, Walden, The Thief Lord, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, Arm of the Sphinx

Invisible Cities
AuthorItalo Calvino
ISBN0156453800
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his." So...
The Path to the Spiders' Nests
AuthorItalo Calvino
ISBN0060956585
Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much time as he can at a seedy bar where he amuses the adult...
Walden
AuthorHenry David Thoreau
ISBN0691096120
Originally published in 1854, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of the time that Henry D. Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. It is one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. This new paperback edition-introduced by noted American writer...
The Thief Lord
AuthorCornelia Funke
ISBN1903434777
Two orphaned children are on the run, hiding among the crumbling canals and misty alleyways of the city of Venice.

Befriended by a gang of street children and their mysterious leader, the Thief Lord, they shelter in an old, disused cinema. On their trail is a bungling detective, obsessed with...
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
AuthorCarlo Ginzburg
ISBN0801843871
The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, a miller brought to trial during the Inquisition. Carlo Ginzburg uses the trial records of Domenico Scandella, a miller also known as Menocchio, to show how one person responded to the...
Arm of the Sphinx
AuthorJosiah Bancroft
The second book in the word-of-mouth phenomenon fantasy series about one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world.

The Tower of Babel is proving to be as difficult to reenter as it was to break out of. Forced into a life of piracy, Senlin and his eclectic crew are struggling to survive...
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