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Edoardo Ballerini
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Italo Calvino
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"Just like every collection, this one is a diary as well: a diary of travels, of course, but also of feelings, states of mind, moods.... The fascination of a collection lies just as much in what it reveals as in what it conceals of the secret urge that led to its creation." (Collection of Sand)
Italo Calvino's unbounded curiosity and masterly imagination are displayed in peak form in Collection of Sand, the last of his works published during his lifetime. Here he applies his graceful intellect to the delights of the visual world in essays on subjects ranging from cuneiform and antique maps to Mexican temples and Japanese gardens.
Never before translated into English, Collection of Sand is an incisive and often surprising meditation on observation and knowledge, the difference between the world as we perceive it and the world as it is.
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Every year, Caroline Reed takes a trip with her best friend, Esme Lamont. They’re usually accompanied by their spouses - but this year, everything’s changed. Esme has just gone through a bitter divorce, and Caroline's wondering if her own marriage is reaching its breaking point as she and her husband, John, cope with the discovery that their son has been abusing drugs. Still, the inseparable duo books a weeklong stay at a beach-front home in Shoreham, Florida, inviting Esme’s brother, Nick, and his new husband. After a blissful first night in the vacation home, tragedy strikes.
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Wonderful Story
- De David M. Wilcox en 12-04-20
De: Margot Hunt
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He Who Fights with Monsters 2
- A LitRPG Adventure (He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 2)
- De: Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell
- Narrado por: Heath Miller
- Duración: 22 h y 1 m
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But Jason Asano is settling into his new life. Now, a contest draws young elites to the city of Greenstone to compete for a grand prize. Jason must gather a band of companions if he is to stand a chance against the best the world has to offer. While the young adventurers are caught up in competition, the city leaders deal with revelations of betrayal as a vast and terrible enemy is revealed. Although Jason seems uninvolved, he has unknowingly crossed the enemy’s path before.
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Contrary to common reviews
- De Karen en 05-21-21
De: Shirtaloon, y otros
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Brain Damage
- De: Freida McFadden
- Narrado por: Megan Tusing
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.
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Who Else Laughed, Cried, and Shuddered?
- De Jennifer Chichester en 09-16-22
De: Freida McFadden
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Mary Jane
- De: Amy Herzog
- Narrado por: Rachel McAdams, April Matthis, Brenda Wehle, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 16 m
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Academy Award nominee Rachel McAdams stars in Mary Jane, a poignant and intimate drama following a single mother’s journey caring for her chronically ill young son. Set in New York City, the play unfolds in two parts—Mary Jane's small Queens apartment and a pediatric hospital. With unflinching honesty and unexpected humor, we witness Mary Jane's tireless devotion, her interactions with medical professionals, and her struggle to maintain her sense of self.
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Amazing performance
- De Andrew Reynolds en 12-28-24
De: Amy Herzog
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The Grandmother
- De: Jane E. James
- Narrado por: Anna Cordell, Max Dinnen
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.
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Not too outlandish
- De Jackie H en 12-14-24
De: Jane E. James
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Last Comes the Raven
- De: Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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Blending reality and illusion with elegance and precision, the stories in this collection - one of Calvino’s earliest - take place in a World War II era and postwar Italy tinged with the visionary and fablelike qualities that would come to define this master storyteller’s later style. A trio of gluttonous burglars invade a pastry shop; two children trespass upon a forbidden garden; a wealthy family invites a rustic goatherd to lunch, only to mock him.
De: Italo Calvino
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The Path to the Spider's Nests
- De: Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 5 h y 53 m
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Italo Calvino was only 23 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 patrons. After a mishap with a Nazi soldier, Pin becomes involved with a band of partisans. Calvino's portrayal of these characters, seen through the eyes of a child, is not only a revealing commentary on the Italian resistance but an insightful coming-of-age story.
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How unique to use a child’s viewpoint of war.
- De BBWrighter en 07-17-24
De: Italo Calvino, y otros
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Hermit in Paris
- Autobiographical Writings
- De: Martin McLaughlin translator, Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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This posthumously published collection offers a unique, puzzle-like portrait of one of the postwar era's most inventive and mercurial writers. In letters and journals, occasional pieces and interviews, Italo Calvino recalls growing up in seaside Italy and fighting in the antifascist resistance during World War II, traces the course of his literary career, and reflects on his many travels, including a journey through the United States in 1959 and 1960.
De: Martin McLaughlin translator, y otros
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Why Read the Classics?
- De: Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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Italo Calvino was not only a prolific master of fiction, he was also an uncanny reader of literature, a keen critic of astonishing range. Why Read the Classics? is the most comprehensive collection of Calvino's literary criticism available in English, accounting for the enduring importance to our lives of crucial writers of the Western canon. Here - spanning more than two millennia, from antiquity to postmodernism - are 36 immediately relevant, accessible ruminations on the writers, poets, and scientists who meant most to Calvino at different stages of his life.
De: Italo Calvino, y otros
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Difficult Loves
- De: Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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In Difficult Loves, Italy's master storyteller weaves tales in which cherished deceptions and illusions of love-including self-love-are swept away in magical instants of recognition. A soldier is reduced to quivering fear by the presence of a full-figured woman in his train compartment; a young clerk leaves a lady's bed at dawn; a young woman is isolated from bathers on a beach by the loss of her bikini bottom. Each of them discovers hidden truths beneath the surface of everyday life.
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classic
- De JBeirens en 10-10-24
De: Italo Calvino
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Marcovaldo
- or The Seasons in the City (Translated by William Weaver)
- De: Italo Calvino, William Weaver - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 3 h y 51 m
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Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressible dreamer and an inveterate schemer. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams - but the results are never the expected ones.
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Perfect narrator and wonderful story
- De Drew en 12-17-17
De: Italo Calvino, y otros
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Last Comes the Raven
- De: Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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Blending reality and illusion with elegance and precision, the stories in this collection - one of Calvino’s earliest - take place in a World War II era and postwar Italy tinged with the visionary and fablelike qualities that would come to define this master storyteller’s later style. A trio of gluttonous burglars invade a pastry shop; two children trespass upon a forbidden garden; a wealthy family invites a rustic goatherd to lunch, only to mock him.
De: Italo Calvino
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The Path to the Spider's Nests
- De: Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 5 h y 53 m
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Italo Calvino was only 23 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 patrons. After a mishap with a Nazi soldier, Pin becomes involved with a band of partisans. Calvino's portrayal of these characters, seen through the eyes of a child, is not only a revealing commentary on the Italian resistance but an insightful coming-of-age story.
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How unique to use a child’s viewpoint of war.
- De BBWrighter en 07-17-24
De: Italo Calvino, y otros
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Hermit in Paris
- Autobiographical Writings
- De: Martin McLaughlin translator, Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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This posthumously published collection offers a unique, puzzle-like portrait of one of the postwar era's most inventive and mercurial writers. In letters and journals, occasional pieces and interviews, Italo Calvino recalls growing up in seaside Italy and fighting in the antifascist resistance during World War II, traces the course of his literary career, and reflects on his many travels, including a journey through the United States in 1959 and 1960.
De: Martin McLaughlin translator, y otros
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Why Read the Classics?
- De: Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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Italo Calvino was not only a prolific master of fiction, he was also an uncanny reader of literature, a keen critic of astonishing range. Why Read the Classics? is the most comprehensive collection of Calvino's literary criticism available in English, accounting for the enduring importance to our lives of crucial writers of the Western canon. Here - spanning more than two millennia, from antiquity to postmodernism - are 36 immediately relevant, accessible ruminations on the writers, poets, and scientists who meant most to Calvino at different stages of his life.
De: Italo Calvino, y otros
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Difficult Loves
- De: Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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In Difficult Loves, Italy's master storyteller weaves tales in which cherished deceptions and illusions of love-including self-love-are swept away in magical instants of recognition. A soldier is reduced to quivering fear by the presence of a full-figured woman in his train compartment; a young clerk leaves a lady's bed at dawn; a young woman is isolated from bathers on a beach by the loss of her bikini bottom. Each of them discovers hidden truths beneath the surface of everyday life.
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- De JBeirens en 10-10-24
De: Italo Calvino
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Marcovaldo
- or The Seasons in the City (Translated by William Weaver)
- De: Italo Calvino, William Weaver - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 3 h y 51 m
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Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressible dreamer and an inveterate schemer. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams - but the results are never the expected ones.
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Perfect narrator and wonderful story
- De Drew en 12-17-17
De: Italo Calvino, y otros
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Under the Jaguar Sun
- De: Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 2 h y 25 m
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These intoxicating stories delve down to the core of our senses of taste, hearing, and smell. Amid the flavors of Mexico's fiery chiles and spices, a couple on holiday discovers dark truths about the maturing of desire in the title story, "Under the Jaguar Sun". In "A King Listens", a gripping portrait of a frenzied mind, the menacing echoes in a huge palace spur a tyrant's thoughts to the heights of paranoid intensity. "The Name, the Nose" drives to a startling conclusion as men across time and space pursue the women whose aromas have enchanted them.
De: Italo Calvino
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The Road to San Giovanni
- De: Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 3 h y 11 m
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In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema, and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists. He also muses on the social contracts, language, and sensations associated with emptying the kitchen rubbish and the shape he would, if asked, consider the world. These reflections on the nature of memory itself are engaging, witty, and lit through with Calvino's alchemical brilliance.
De: Italo Calvino
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Into the War
- De: Martin McLaughlin, Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 2 h y 23 m
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These three stories, set during the summer of 1940, draw on Italo Calvino's memories of his own adolescence during the Second World War, too young to be forced to fight in Mussolini's army but old enough to be conscripted into the Italian youth brigades. The callow narrator of these tales observes the mounting unease of a city girding itself for war, the looting of an occupied French town, and nighttime revels during a blackout. Appearing here in its first English translation, Into the War is one of Calvino's only works of autobiographical fiction.
De: Martin McLaughlin, y otros
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Numbers in the Dark
- And Other Stories
- De: Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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Written between 1943 and 1984 and masterfully translated by Tim Parks, the fictions in Numbers in the Dark display all of Calvino's dazzling gifts: whimsy and horror, exuberance of style, and a cheerful grasp of the absurdities of the human condition. Here are speculative stories on life in the digital age, genre-bending wonders, and “impossible interviews” with the likes of Montezuma and a Neanderthal.
De: Italo Calvino
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The Cloven Viscount
- Translated by Archibald Colquhoun
- De: Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 2 h y 34 m
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In this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball go on to pursue their own independent adventures. In a battle against the Turks, Viscount Medardo of Terralba is bissected lengthwise by a cannonball. One half of him returns to his feudal estate and takes up a lavishly evil life. Soon the other, virtuous half appears. The two halves become rivals for the love of the same woman, fight a bloody duel, and achieve a miraculous resolution.
De: Italo Calvino
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The Complete Cosmicomics
- Translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks, & William Weaver
- De: Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin - translator, Tim Parks - translator, y otros
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
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Italo Calvino's beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of an ageless guide named Qfwfq, Calvino explores natural phenomena and tells the story of the origins of the universe. Poignant, fantastical, and wise, these 34 dazzling stories - collected here in one definitive anthology - relate complex scientific and mathematical concepts to our everyday world.
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Moments of Greatness = Worth the Read
- De Amazon Customer en 08-06-18
De: Italo Calvino, y otros
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Italian Folktales
- De: Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 28 h y 59 m
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Chosen as one of the New York Times's 10 best books in the year of its original publication, this collection immediately won a cherished place among lovers of the tale and vaulted Calvino into the ranks of the great folklorists.
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At Last: Unbridled Delight
- De John en 06-12-20
De: Italo Calvino
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
- De: Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but 10, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another.
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The position of the feet during reading...
- De literate rose en 02-09-18
De: Italo Calvino
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Mythologies
- The Complete Edition, in a New Translation
- De: Roland Barthes, Annette Lavers - translator, Richard Howard - translator
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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When Roland Barthes's groundbreaking Mythologies first appeared in English in 1972, it was immediately recognized as one of the most significant works in French theory - yet nearly half of the essays from the original work were missing. This new edition of Mythologies is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic. It includes the brilliant "Astrology", never published in English before.
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Fun and engaging
- De Chris Hall en 01-08-19
De: Roland Barthes, y otros
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The Best of Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- De: Walter M. Miller Jr.
- Narrado por: David Bendena
- Duración: 22 h y 4 m
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Walter M. Miller, Jr., is best remembered as the author of A Canticle for Leibowitz, which has been universally recognized as one of the greatest novels of modern science fiction. But he also produced many shorter works of fiction of stunning originality and power. His profound interest in religion and his innate literary gifts combined perfectly in the production of such works as The Darfstellar, for which he won a Hugo in 1955, Conditionally Human, "I, Dreamer", and "The Big Hunger", all of which are included in this brilliant and essential collection.
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big disappointment
- De Sandy A. en 05-21-21
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
- De: Italo Calvino, Geoffrey Brock - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 3 h y 34 m
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At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on six lectures setting forth the qualities in writing he most valued and which he believed would define literature in the century to come. Here, in Six Memos for the Next Millennium, are the five lectures he completed, forming not only a stirring defense of literature but also an indispensable guide to the writings of Calvino himself. He devotes one "memo" each to the concepts of lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity.
De: Italo Calvino, y otros
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Essays on Hellenic Theology
- De: Edward Butler
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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A collection of devotional essays on the Gods of Olympus.
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Compelling Theology
- De David en 03-01-25
De: Edward Butler
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Beautiful prose, topics, and narration
Beautifully composed and interesting essays on history, objects, and ideas. Wonderful narration too, which perfectly fits the essays: straightforward reading, but subtly evocative.
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