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Written on a scale of Homeric proportions, Herodotus' The Histories is the first and greatest work of prose that Greek Antiquity has bequeathed to us. In it, the traveler from Halicarnassus explores an entire era and a universe with an inquiring and deeply humanistic...

Algeria, 1956. Fernand Iveton, a young thirty-year-old communist worker, decides to show his support for the FNL's independence cause against France by planting a bomb. Iveton's peculiarity is that he is a pied noir, that is, a white Frenchman born in Algeria. The bomb...

The works that elevated Theodor Kallifatides as one of the great European writers of the second half of the 20th century were his three novels Peasants and Gentlemen (1973), The Plow and the Sword (1975) and A Cruel Peace (1977). They are translated for...

Mileva Einstein was not only Albert Einstein's first love, wife and mother of children, but also one of the first European women to study physics. As a scientist she collaborated in her husband's discoveries mainly in the field of mathematics, where her knowledge surpassed...

July 1346. Ten men land on the beaches of Normandy. They call themselves the Essex Dogs: an unruly platoon of archers and men-at-arms led by a battle-scarred captain whose best days are behind him. The fight for the throne of the largest kingdom in...

Vasili Grossman wanted to record everything he had experienced during the second World War, the death of his mother and his stepson, and his experience as a war correspondent, in an ambitious two-part novel cycle. The first, started in 1943 and published in 1952...

Benjamin has received a mission that seems disproportionate: stop the Civil War. Though he doesn't think it's possible, to avoid a likely execution squad he will tour a country that has seemingly enthusiastically set out on its own destruction. Along the way he will...

Seville, 1579. The lawyer Pacheco and the twenty-fourth Medina once again face an unprecedented challenge. On this occasion, their mission is riskier than ever: to recover a valuable shipment of smuggled silver that could alter the destiny of the Netherlands and endanger the balance...

1936. In the midst of the Great Depression, in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky, nineteen-year-old Cussy Mary Carter, nicknamed Damsel and with a rare peculiarity in her skin, is one of the traveling booksellers of the Equestrian Library Project sponsored by Roosevelt as part...

In ancient Carthage, where the waves of the Mediterranean caress the African coast, an empire of trade and power was born. But when Rome rose on the horizon, the First Punic War unleashed a fierce struggle that left Carthage in ruins. At the heart...

Born in 1126 in Cordoba, Abu-l-Walid Muhammad would be elevated by the new lords of the Peninsula, the Almohads, as one of their great sages and courtiers, but the audacity of his thinking would eventually cost him everything he had achieved. Centuries later, his...

A novel about the epic founding and heyday of one of the most mythical bookstores in the world. An exciting hymn to the bookseller's trade and to universal literature. A novel about the epic of the founding and heyday of one of the most...

This is the great classic of Chinese literature, "the most famous novel of a literature almost three thousand years old", and, as Borges stated, an imperishable book. The beautiful and tragic story of the love affairs of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu in eighteenth-century...

Myth meets history in a blockbuster retelling of the Persian Wars from multi-award-winning author of Rubicon and Persian Fire Tom Holland, lavishly illustrated by Jason Cockcroft. “The Persians are coming…” Hearing these words, Gorgo of Sparta is plunged into a dangerous world of vengeful...

In 1749, the French botanist Michel Adanson landed in Senegal to study the flora as part of his research to create a great encyclopedia. He will remain there until 1753, the year in which he returns to Europe. So far the strictly historical facts....

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...

Until now it had been included in the volume Years of War. Vasili Grossman wrote three novels about World War II, each of which offers a different vision of what a war novel can be, and all of them extraordinary. Stalingrad and Life and...

These pages explain the reasons for the Armenian genocide of 1915. Although Turkey denies it, in 2000, the French Parliament recognized it, and in 2016 made its denial a fined crime. Emmanuel Macron declared April 24 as Armenian Genocide Commemoration Day in France. Also...

Brothers Benjamin and Edgar have so far led a quiet life, but change is afoot as they enter a world of glorious sights and People of Quality on their Grand Tour of Europe. But a trunk full of powdered silver wigs and matching suits...

At the beginning of the 17th century, Cartagena de Indias is the most fascinating city in the new world, All the land and sea routes of the Spanish Empire flow into it, as its formidable fortifications store the gold and silver reserves destined to...