Books written by Tim Parks
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婚外情與其他娛樂
婚外情與其他娛樂
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Stop What You're Doing And Read This!
In the ten essays in this book some of our finest authors and passionate advocates from the worlds of science, publishing, technology and social enterprise tell us about the experience of reading, why access to books should never be taken ...
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The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna
In The Hero's Way he delivers a superb travelogue that combines a memorable portrait of Garibaldi and the country before unification with Parks's own fine observations of contemporary Italian people, politics, customs, food, and landscape"- ...
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Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-century Florence
Evoking the richness of the Florentine Renaissance and the Medicis' glittering circle, replete with artists, popes, and kings, Medici Money is a look into the origins of modern banking and its troubled relationship with art and religion.
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Translating Style: A Literary Approach to Translation - A Translation Approach to Literature
'You're telling me alot about this Rose Phillips, old man,' Mr Middlewitch complained, 'but I've never had the honour, have I?' He was continually looking round the luncheon room for acquaintances. 'It's Nance Whitmore.
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På sporet af Italien: Med tog fra Milano til Palermo
Hvis det koster 6,82 € at køre med Interregionale til Milano, så koster det hurtigere Intercity 11,05 €, eller rettere, grundbilletten til 6,82 € plus et tillæg på 4,23 €; og det (lige akkurat) endnu hurtigere Eurostar koster 50 cent ...
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Lonely Planet Experience Italy
Still, for 20 years the Gruppo Storico Romano has been hosting gladiator training classes on the Appian Way: your next stop after visiting the Colosseum. 'Senator Marcus Valerius Messala Barbatus' (real name Pietro Giusto), ...
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Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-century Florence
An account of the Renaissance era's preeminent financiers describes how the Medicis built their fortune as money lenders in spite of the Catholic church's prohibition against usury, documenting the family's mastery of political, diplomatic, ...
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Cara Massimina
Bored and broke, Morris Duckworth, an English teacher in Verona, stumbles on a plan for financial salvation - to marry Massimina, a seventeen-year-old student.
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Italian Neighbors
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year: A deliciously entertaining account of expatriate life in a small village just outside Verona, Italy. Tim Parks is anything but a gentleman in Verona.
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An Italian Education: The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona
Tim Parks offers another lively firsthand account of Italian society and culture—this time focusing on all the little things that turn an ordinary newborn infant into a true Italian.
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Out of My Head: On the Trail of Consciousness
Out of My Head tells the gripping, highly personal, often surprisingly funny, story of Tim Parks' quest to discover more about this fascinating topic.
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A Season with Verona: A Soccer Fan Follows His Team Around Italy in Search of Dreams, National Character and ....
After twenty years in the bel paese, Tim Parks goes on the road to follow the fortunes of his hometown soccer club, Hellas Verona, to pay a different kind of visit to some of the world’s most beautiful cities, and to get a fresh take on ...
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Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books
In the end Parks wonders whether writers—and readers--can escape the twin pressures of the new global system and the novel that has become its emblematic genre.
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Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
An Italian travelogue describes the trains that traverse the country, from the architecture of old train stations to the new high-speed railways, and portrays the author's memorable encounters along the way.
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Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing
He is drawn to consider the effects of illness on the work of other writers, the role of religion in shaping our sense of self, and the influence of sports and art on our attitudes toward health and well-being.
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Medici Money: Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence
To read this book is to understand how much the Renaissance has to tell us about our own world. Medici Money is one of the launch titles in a new series, Atlas Books, edited by James Atlas.
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Cara Massimina: A Novel
The first novel in what has become the Duckworth in Verona trilogy, Cara Massimina is a comic thriller that will leave readers laughing out loud in mortified delight.
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Stille
Und plötzlich ist ihm klar, dass er weg muss. Weg von der medialen Öffentlichkeit, weg von seiner langjährigen Lebensgefährtin und den gemeinsamen Kindern. Das Bedürfnis nach Stille ist übermächtig.
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Goodness
George Crawley has finally got his life running along satisfyingly straight lines.