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As the novel opens, a doctor arrives at the apartment of Maria Grazia Battestini, an elderly shut-in who is hated by everyone around her (including her only surviving relative, her neice) for her miserly, spiteful ways. The doctor dreads his task of visiting her once a week, since she is always complaining...

In Death and Judgment, a truck crashes and spills its dangerous cargo on a treacherous road in the Italian Dolomite mountains. Meanwhile, in Santa Lucia, a prominent international lawyer is found dead aboard an intercity train. Suspecting a connection between the two tragedies, Brunetti digs deep...

Learn How to Draw Animal Cartoons For the Beginner TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Materials First Lesson the Basic Shapes --For the Circles --For the Square --For the Triangle The Second Lesson: Dimension and Depth with Colors Application of Shapes Inking --Samples --The Penguin vs. Fish --The...

This book is a narrative study of four main discourses of national identity in Spain, with a special focus on Catalonia as disseminated in the Spanish press in the period between 1993-1996. The narrative analysis of the discourses of national identity is contained within two sections. The first deals...

Enjoy stories? Enjoy history? You’ll love this book! How well do you know your history? Pit your wits against this collection of 30 cultural riddles featuring popular historical stories and legends. Engage with these riddles out of sheer fun and curiosity as a reader, or use them when facilitating...

This 1906 collection of essays by a noted American educator and lecturer covers the lives, works, and character of nineteen authors—including Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Francis...

Quand vous recevrez cette lettre, mon cher ami, j'aurai achevé de tuer mon père. Le pauvre homme agonise, et mourra, dit-on, avant le jour. Il est deux heures du matin. Je suis seul dans une chambre voisine, la vieille femme qui le garde m'ayant fait entendre qu'il valait mieux que les...

This bittersweet chronicle about how a working horse finally gains his freedom was inspired by a real animal and true events, yet it's underlying theme is about the universal value of friendship. The hero is a sturdy draft horse: old, eccentric and irritable. His name, suitably enough, is Groucho....

Com um número quase sem fim de personagens e mais de mil páginas em sua versão original, Guerra e paz é um dos mais significativos e importantes romances da história. O enredo deste clássico da literatura russa (e mundial) se desenrola durante a campanha de Napoleão Bonaparte na Áustria, e...

This early work on taxidermy is a fascinating read for the amateur or professional taxidermist and also contains much information that is still useful today. Extensively illustrated with full page diagrams and drawings. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before,...

Mientras se enfrenta a un problema de posibles filtraciones dentro de la Questura, Brunetti recibe por sorpresa a una amiga de Paola, su mujer, muy preocupada por la extraña actitud de su hijo adolescente. Cuando a medianoche el marido de la amiga aparece inconsciente y con graves daños cerebrales...

First Published in 1926, Where is Britain Going? focuses on the historical factors and circumstances which were to define Britain’s development in the midst of social unrest at that time. The book considers the future of Britain in an age when the working classes were being driven into confrontation...

En 1808, l’Empereur Alexandre se rendit à Erfurth pour avoir avec Napoléon une nouvelle entrevue, dont la pompe solennelle défraya longtemps les conversations des cercles aristocratiques de Pétersbourg. En 1809, l’alliance des « deux arbitres du monde »,...

Serge Ivanitch Kosnichef, au lieu d’aller comme d’habitude à l’étranger pour se reposer de ses travaux intellectuels, arriva vers la fin de mai à Pakrofsky. Rien ne valait, selon lui, la vie des champs, et il venait en jouir auprès de son frère. Celui-ci l’accueillit...