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“edoardo albinati”

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  • The Catholic School

    A Novel

    by Edoardo Albinati ...
    A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacreEdoardo Albinati's The Catholic School, the winner of Italy's most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy.Three well-off young men—former students at Rome's prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Catholic School

    A Novel

    by Edoardo Albinati ...
    Narrated by Edoardo Camponeschi ...

    Unabridged

    52 hours 16 min

    A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacreEdoardo Albinati’s The Catholic School, the winner of Italy’s most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy.Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Devil's Notebook

    by Anton Szandor LaVey ...
    Anton LaVey’s sharpest essays on culture, psychology, and the occult—an underground classic of modern Satanic thought. The Devil’s Notebook gathers Anton Szandor LaVey’s essays on nonconformity, culture, and the psychology of modern life into one of the most accessible and frequently cited books in the Satanic canon. Best known as the founder of the Church of Satan and author of The Satanic Bible, ... Read more

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  • Breakfast with Socrates

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    What is the philosophy of sweat? Reality TV? Domestic warfare? Making up and having sex? Take a sparkling ride through an ordinary day with hilarious philosophical gadfly Robert Rowland Smith in Breakfast with Socrates.Ever want to have a bagel with Hegel? Eggs with Bacon? Or spend a day with Socrates, Mill, Herodotus, or Kant, able to pick their brains about the most mundane moments of your life? ... Read more

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  • The Twenty Days of Turin

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    by Giorgio De Maria ...
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  • Chronicles of a Liquid Society

    by Umberto Eco ...
    The acclaimed author examines our contemporary world—from technology to politics and pop culture—in this collection of essays written for L'Espresso.Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and philosophical insight. He illuminates the contemporary ... Read more

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  • Henry Miller on Writing

    by Henry Miller ...
    “A brilliant selection . . . it is in short a voyage of discovery, an adventure and this the log of that voyage in the life of a probing and powerful writer.” —Robert R. Kirsch, Los Angeles TimesSome of the most rewarding pages in Henry Miller's books concern his self-education as a writer. He tells, as few great writers ever have, how he set his goals, how he discovered the excitement of using ... Read more

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