I miti nordici. Storie, figure, simboli
10 best books like I miti nordici. Storie, figure, simboli (Gianna Chiesa Isnardi): I Malavoglia, Survival in Auschwitz, The Little Mermaid, Memoirs of Hadrian, The Greek Myths, The Prose Edda, The Poetic Edda, 世界から猫が消えたなら, Nature's Nether Regions: What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds, and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity, and Ourselves, Statism and Anarchy (Texts in the History of Political Thought)
| Author | Giovanni Verga |
| ISBN | 8811582962 |
Nei Malavoglia (1881) Verga si immerge nella realtà locale di un paese siciliano, Aci Trezza, e racconta la semplice e rissosa quotidianità in cui vivono i Toscano, detti appunto i Malavoglia. Avvertendo come poco espressive le realtà borghesi, Verga cerca di rompere l'impianto romanzesco classico,...
| Author | Primo Levi |
| ISBN | 0684826801 |
The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Auschwitz and his miraculous survival; hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a “true work of art, this edition includes an exclusive conversation between the author and Philip Roth.
In...
| Author | Hans Christian Andersen |
| ISBN | 0698400011 |
Once there was a little mermaid who fell in love with a human boy . . . The story may be familiar, but Lisbeth Zwerger's art makes this fairytale seem brand-new. This Jubilee edition, celebrating 200 years of Hans Christian Andersen, is superbly illustrated in Zwerger's signature style. Known for her...
| Author | Marguerite Yourcenar |
| ISBN | 0374529264 |
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally,...
| Author | Robert Graves |
| ISBN | 0140171991 |
Combines in a single volume the complete text of the definitive two-volume classic, citing all the ancient myths. For a full appreciation of literature or visual art, knowledge of the Greek myths is crucial. In this much-loved collection, poet and scholar Robert Graves retells the immortal stories...
| Author | Snorri Sturluson |
| ISBN | 0140447555 |
'What was the beginning, or how did things start? What was there before?'
The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells ancient stories...
| Author | Snorri Sturluson |
| ISBN | 0292764995 |
The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology and heroic lore, embodying both the ethical views and the cultural life...
| Author | Genki Kawamura |
| ISBN | 4838725027 |
‘Like love,life is beautiful
because it has to end ‘
A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love,of one man’s journey to discover what really matters in modern life.
Our narrator’s days are numbered.
Estranged from his family,living alone with...
| Author | Menno Schilthuizen |
| ISBN | 0670785911 |
The story of evolution as you’ve never heard it before
What’s the easiest way to tell species apart? Check their genitals. Researching private parts was long considered taboo, but scientists are now beginning to understand that the wild diversity of sex organs across species can tell...
| Author | Mikhail Bakunin |
| ISBN | 0521369738 |
I'm going to start by being brutally honest: this book is almost no fun at all, but then it isn't supposed to be. It's one of the founding texts of an almost lost political movement, namely anarchism. Anarchism has a bad name now and is usually equated to chaos and social breakdown, but this was never the...
| Author | Amélie Nothomb |
| ISBN | 2253152846 |
"Il existe des êtres qui ne subissent pas la loi de l'évolution. Ce sont les légumes cliniques", ou des tubes par où circule seule la nourriture. Ces tubes ne sont pas pour autant sans cervelle puisqu'il arrive que celle-ci, suite à un "accident fatal", se réveille soudain, et déclenche la vie....
