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Blood and Oil in the Orient is the story of Lev Nussimbaum, a young Azerbaijani nobleman, and his mad flight across Asia to escape the Bolshevik terror sparked by the Russian Revolution. Full of picturesque descriptions of the different people he met and the stories he heard, Blood and Oil in the Orient is a…
Written in 1889 at Francavilla al Mare, and published the following year by Fratelli Treves, The Child of Pleasure is Gabriele d’Annunzio’s first novel. It tells the story of a young nobleman, Andrea Sperelli, who is in love with Elena Muti, a married woman. When a duel lands him in the hospital, he meets another…
Best known in the English speaking world for his book Le Feu Follet, which has been adopted into several films, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle considered the semi-autobiographical Gilles to be his greatest work. The literary critic Gaëtan Picon wrote that Gilles “is, without any doubt, one of the greatest novels of the century—and one of…
Harukichi Shimoi was a Japanese poet, translator and writer. Shimoi lived in Italy for many years and was an important promoter of cultural exchange between Japan and Italy. The Italian War is comprised of a collection of letters written by Harukichi Shimoi from the front lines of the First World War, as the Italian army…
“Suppose that the Emperor of China, landing in France at the head of an armed power, should make himself master of our largest cities and of our capital. That after having burned all the public registers before suffering to read them, and having destroyed or dispersed all of the civil service without inquiring into their…