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Blood and Oil in the Orient
Read more: Blood and Oil in the OrientBlood 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…
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Child of Pleasure
Read more: Child of PleasureWritten 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…
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The Italian War
Read more: The Italian WarThe Italian War was a work of transition also in Shimoi’s poetic taste. While bearing the hallmark of romantic lyricism, it also displays elements of futurist origin. Shimoi effusively wrote about his perception that order, self-sacrifice, and camaraderie helped soldiers to set aside regional identities and class conflict and embrace each other as Italians. In…
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Travels in Algeria
Read more: Travels in Algeria“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…
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Travels in Algeria
Read more: Travels in AlgeriaTwo narratives describing the effects of colonialism and revolution when imposed on an unwilling people. The twin impulses to stay and fight, or to flee and preserve, and how it seizes suddenly whole populations of people and subjects them at once to violence and anarchy. Together, both are intended to provide a holistic view of…
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