18 books like L' altrui mestiere

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Pentamerone Giovanni Battista Basile · 1850 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Con secoli di letteratura, è inevitabile che alcuni cadano nelle fessure. Diamo la caccia a opere di pubblico dominio e le ripristiniamo in modo che non vadano perse per il mondo. Chi siamo noi? Siamo Cairn Press. Il nostro background è nel design, nell'editoria, nella tipografia e nella tecnologia. Queste competenze alimentano la nostra missione di creare eBook di pubblico dominio della massima… Shares: Literatura Italiana, Italian literature

Die kleinen Tugenden. Erzählungen Natalia Ginzburg · 1962 · ★ 4.1 · 139p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Shares: Literatura Italiana, Essays

Comment voyager avec un saumon Umberto Eco · 1992 · ★ 3.9 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate How to Travel with a Salmon is a highly engaging collection of what Umberto Eco calls his diario minimo - minimal diaries - after the magazine column in which he began "pursuing the pathways of parody.". These essays, written in the late eighties and early nineties, are his playful but unfailingly accurate takes on militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, art criticism, librarians, bureaucrats,… Shares: Italian literature, Essays

Yet again Sir Max Beerbohm · 1909 · 86p · ≈ 2h · Challenging This book is perfectly adapted and layout for a pleasant reading on a tablet, smartphone or computer. To improve your reading experience, this digital version has been edited and formatted according to the requirements of this platform. Shares: Essays

And Even Now Sir Max Beerbohm · 1920 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Challenging This book is perfectly adapted and layout for a pleasant reading on a tablet, smartphone or computer. To improve your reading experience, this digital version has been edited and formatted according to the requirements of this platform. Shares: Essays

Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion George Bernard Shaw · 1900 · 58p · ≈ 1h · Challenging The French Revolution overthrew one set of rulers and substituted another with different interests and different views. That is what a general election enables the people to do in England every seven years if they choose. Revolution is therefore a national institution in England; and its advocacy by an Englishman needs no apology. Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands.… Shares: Essays

Hausblätter F. W. Hackländer · 1855 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Shares: Essays

Escape, and other essays Arthur Christopher Benson · 1915 · ★ 5.0 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Challenging This book is romantic story, I walked to-day down by the river side. The Cam is a stream much slighted by the lover of wild and romantic scenery; and its chief merit, in the eyes of our boys, is that it approaches more nearly to a canal in its straightness and the deliberation of its slow lapse than many more famous floods--and is therefore more adapted for the maneuvres of eight-oared boats! But… Shares: Essays

The thread of gold Arthur Christopher Benson · 1905 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Challenging This is biographical book. I have for a great part of my life desired, perhaps more than I have desired anything else, to make a beautiful book; and I have tried, perhaps too hard and too often, to do this, without ever quite succeeding; by that I mean that my little books, when finished, were not worthy to be compared with the hope that I had had of them. I think now that I tried to do too many… Shares: Essays

Andersonville; a story of rebel military prisons John McElroy · 1879 · 624p · ≈ 20h · Demanding "McElroy, with a detachment of his regiment, was guarding a supply route to Cumberland Gap when his entire company was captured in a surprise attack one morning during the winter of 1862-63. He and his comrades were taken to Lippy Prison, and from there they were sent to Andersonville. McElroy spent the rest of the war as a prisoner. His story of attempts at escape, of comrades tracked through… Shares: Prisoners of war, Biography & Memoir

Goethe's Werke Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1800 · ★ 4.1 · 14p · ≈ 28m · Challenging Diese Sammlung der Werke von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, bedeutender deutscher Dichter und Naturforscher, enthält u. a.:Die Leiden des jungen WertherWilhelm Meisters theatralische SendungUnterhaltungen deutscher AusgewandertenBassompierres Geschichte von der schönen KrämerinDer ProkuratorFerdinands Schuld und WandlungDas MärchenUnterhaltungen Deutscher AusgewandertenDie Sängerin AntonelliWilhelm… Shares: English Translations, Biography & Memoir

Sämtliche Werke Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1800 · 30p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ist einer der größten Dramatiker und Dichter aller Zeiten. Jetzt genießen Sie die kompletten Werke von Goethe auf Ihrem E-Reader. Diese enorme Sammlung umfasst auch spezielle Bonustexte. (Version 1) die Dramen, jeweils mit einem Inhaltsverzeichnis kurze Einführungen in die Dramen und anderen Texte zahlreiche Bilder mit Bezug zu Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, seinem Leben… Shares: English Translations, Biography & Memoir

Three came home Agnes Newton Keith · 1948 · ★ 4.2 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Challenging "Three Came Home" tells of the author's time in Japanese POW and civilian internee camps in North Borneo and Sarawak, and was made into a film of the same name in 1950. It describes Keith's life in North Borneo in the period immediately before the Japanese invasion in 1942, and her subsequent internment and suffering, separated from her husband Harry, and with a young son to care for. Keith was… Shares: Prisoners of war, Biography & Memoir

Works (La tregua / Se questo è un uomo) Primo Levi · 1963 · ★ 4.4 · 397p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The author's survival in Auschwitz and his travels through Eastern Europe and Russia are the subjects of this memoir. Shares: Prisoners of war, Biography & Memoir

Vita nuova Dante Alighieri · 1829 · ★ 3.9 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Frontispiece of the English version (''The New Life'', [[D. G. Rossetti, 1899)]] Shares: Italian literature, Biography & Memoir

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill · 1896 · ★ 3.6 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Prejudice is a legal term with different meanings, which depend on whether it is used in criminal, civil, or common law. In legal context, prejudice differs from the more common use of the word and so the term has specific technical meanings. Shares: Essays

Kant; a collection of critical essays Robert Paul Wolff · 1967 · ★ 3.5 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Moderate This book analyses and explains the central passage of Kant's philosophy, the "Transcendental Analytic" of the Critique of Pure Reason. It proceeds in the manner of a textual commentary, discussing and explaining each section of the Analytic in turn. The purpose, however, is not merely to comment chapter by chapter on what Kant has written, but rather to reorganise and interpret his argument so… Shares: Essays

Se questo è un uomo Primo Levi · 1947 · ★ 4.5 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Challenging This book describes Primo Levi's experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in Auschwitz before the camp was liberated by the Red Army. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his shipment, Levi was one of only twenty who left the camp alive. The average life expectancy of a new entry was three months. This truly amazing… Shares: Prisoners of war, Biography & Memoir

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