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Valentino
Although his parents are convinced that Valentino will become a great man, his sisters believe that he is nothing more than a vain, selfish and frivolous young man, more concerned with his conquests than with his medical studies. Valentino's sudden engagement to a rich but unattractive woman ten yea..
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EAN: 9788419036100
Selected Letters (1888-1922)
Marcel Proust was, from his earliest youth until his death in 1922, a meticulous and prolific correspondent: he wrote to relatives, family, friends, defenders of his work and even his biggest detractors. In the thousands of letters he sent, in which the register and style are masterfully adapted to ..
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EAN: 9788419036513
Yarme & Keyle
The year is 1911 when Keyle, a Jewish prostitute, meets the love of her life, Yarme, an ex-convict. The young couple dreams of escaping the misery of the Warsaw ghetto, where they live under the constant threat of pogroms, so when Max, an old acquaintance, offers them to participate in his lucrative..
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EAN: 9788419036438
Jewish Comedy
In a major work of scholarship that explores the funny side of some very serious business (and vice versa), Jeremy Dauber examines the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing Jewish comedy into “seven strands”―including the satirical, the wi..
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EAN: 9788418370830
The Seducer
Hertz Minsker, a Jewish immigrant, self-proclaimed intellectual and outright charlatan, lives at the expense of real estate magnate Morris Kálisher, a childhood friend. Inveterate seducer, he is married for the fourth time to the charming Bronie and has an affair with Minne, Morris's wife, in the sa..
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EAN: 9788492649563
Auntie Mame
A ten-year-old boy is orphaned in the unedifying America of the 1920s and is placed under the control of an eccentric lady, obsessed with being à la page, vital, capricious, seductive and adorable. Together with her, he will spend the next thirty years in an incessant spiral of parties, love affairs..
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EAN: 9788495359667
The Little Virtues
In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured her rightful place in the pantheon of classic mid-century authors. Whether she writes of the loss of..
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EAN: 9788419036360
Three Poets, of Their Lives
Stefan Zweig, recognized as one of the greatest biographers of all time, examines with his usual insight and subtlety the lives and works of three great writers, fascinated by Tolstoy's lucidity, Casanova's impartiality, and Stendhal's ambiguity. He considers all three "poets of their lives" since a..
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EAN: 9788416011544
The Karnowsky family
Through the story of three generations of a Jewish family, the Karnowskys, this novel, originally published in 1943, offers us an extraordinary fresh of the first half of the 20th century. David, the patriarch, who at the dawn of the century leaves the Polish shtetl where he was born to settle in Be..
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EAN: 9788415277712
Hare with Amber Eyes
More than two hundred wooden and ivory figurines, none larger than a matchbox, are the origin of this fascinating book in which Edmund de Waal describes the journey they have taken over the years. A journey full of adventures, war, love and loss, which summarizes, in the story of a family, the histo..
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EAN: 9788419036728
Early Jazz
Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller explores the music of the great jazz soloists of the twenties--Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, B..
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EAN: 9788495359452
Chess Story
With no capacity for any other intellectual activity, Mirko Czentovicz revealed himself as a world champion chess genius. But, on a boat trip from New York to Buenos Aires, he is presented with an enigmatic opponent: Mr. B., a Viennese nobleman fleeing from the Nazis. One of the steam passengers app..
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