Télécharger le livre :  Faith In Fakes
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Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco, celebrated author...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2014-09-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Island Of The Day Before
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The year is 1643. Roberto, a young nobleman, survives war, the Bastille, exile and shipwreck as he voyages to a Pacific island straddling the date meridian. There he waits now, alone on the mysteriously deserted Daphne, separated by treacherous reefs from the island...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2014-08-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Foucault's Pendulum
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Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2014-08-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Under the Jaguar Sun
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A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able only to listen to the sounds around him - sure that any deviation from...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-09-26

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Télécharger le livre :  The Complete Cosmicomics
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Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks and William Weaver in Penguin Modern...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-09-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Difficult Loves and Other Stories
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A spectacular display of this key European writer's early workThis dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates Calvino's unique perspective and narrative gifts. As well as the thirteen tales...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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Télécharger le livre :  The Castle Of Crossed Destinies
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A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and instead they have only tarot cards with which to tell their stories. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, and a...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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Télécharger le livre :  If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
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A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Marcovaldo
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Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Invisible Cities
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Fifty-five fictional cities, each described in beautiful detail - each with a woman's name... In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Mr Palomar
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Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek what is underneath'. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-14

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