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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $64, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXITL486)		  
After the Divorce  •  Grazia Deledda  •  Susan Ashe
LITERATURE •  1995 •  PAPER  • 174 PAGES
In 1926 Grazia Deledda won the Nobel Prize for literature, making her, at the time, only the second woman to receive such an honor. This powerful and tragic tale of murder and infidelity is set, like many of her novels, on her native Sardinia. Evocative of the pre-Christian era in the Mediterranean, it tells of what happens when a suspected murderer learns from prison that his wife is remarrying. (ITL196, $17.00)		   After the Divorce
Sea and Sardinia  •  D.H. Lawrence
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1999 •  PAPER  • 211 PAGES
A marvelous, wry account of a trip to Sardinia, evoking both the charms and travails of the then-remote island, and the personality of the author. It's a pleasingly exaggerated, accessible portrait of life on the island, circa 1921. (ITL349, $16.00)		   Sea and Sardinia
Eyewitness Guide Sardinia  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES
A comprehensive guide to the island of Sardinia, featuring color photography, dozens of excellent maps and a synopsis of the island's attractions. (ITL183, $20.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Sardinia
Sardinia Map  •  Touring Club Italiano
MAP
A colorful map of the island of Sardinia, at a scale of 1:200,000. Two Sides. 54x37 inches. (ITL259, $14.95)		   Sardinia Map



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Rough Guide Sardinia  •  Robert Andrews   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive edgy guide to Sardinia in the British series with an equal focus on culture, history and travel information. (ITL564, $21.99)
 		  
The Foods of Sicily and Sardinia and the Smaller Islands  •  John Dominis  •  Giuliano Bugialli   • FOOD  •  Bugialli presents a truly authentic and comprehensive cuisine in these illustrated pages, including not just recipes but also wonderful photography and cultural notes. (ITL297, $37.50)
 		  
Italy and Its Invaders  •  Girolamo Arnaldi   • HISTORY  •  A wide-ranging history of the many empires and world powers that have invaded Italy, and their lasting influences, both positive and negative, on Italian art, architecture and culture up to the present day. (ITL661, $19.95)
 		  
La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind  •  Beppe Severgnini   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • BEST SELLER  •  Italians themselves love this guide to the Italian character, which addresses their never-ending passion for beauty, disorder and high emotion. Severgnini opens the book with a snapshot of the hubbub at Malpensa Airport, then moves on to Tuscany, Rome, Naples and Sardinia. (ITL718, $14.00)
 		  
The Ancient Mediterranean  •  Michael Grant   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Grant explores the realms of archaeology, geography, art and economics to sketch this classic portrait of the ancient world, from prehistory through the Roman Imperium, and the influence on western civilization. (MED10, $20.00)
 		  
D.H. Lawrence and Italy  •  D.H. Lawrence   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  This omnibus Penguin Classics edition includes Lawrence's three travel tales, each very different in tone and all wonderful: Sea and Sardinia is a nostalgic look at traditional ways of life; Twilight in Italy, an evocation of Lawrence's memorable stay on Lake Garda; and Etruscan Places his musings on ancient sites, including the painted tombs of Tarquinia. (ITL62, $18.00)
 		  
Pillars of Hercules  •  Paul Theroux   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Theroux seems to have had an exceptionally good time on his tour of the Mediterranean, circling the celebrated sea on foot, horseback, train and boat from Gibraltar to North Africa. (MED20, $17.00)
 		  
The Lead Goat Veered Off  •  Neil Anderson   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Anderson and his wife Sharon leave their home and daily life behind to tour the west coast of Corsica and Sardinia by bicycle. (ITA233, $22.95)
 		  
Casa Rossa  •  Francesca Marciano   • LITERATURE  •  A vivid novel following the lives of a mother, daughter, and granddaughter from Puglia over the course of the 20th century, opening as the narrator prepares to sell Casa Rossa, the family farm. (ITL534, $14.95)
 		  
Cosima  •  Grazia Deledda   • LITERATURE  •  The tale of one woman's struggle to become a writer in late 19th-century Sardinia, this beautiful, fable-like novel from the Nobel Prize-winner draws on Deledda's own experiences. (ITA252, $17.50)
 		  
Italian Folktales  •  Italo Calvino   • LITERATURE  •  A treasured collection of 200 lively folk tales presented by none other than the great Italo Calvino, a modern master with great affection for the folkloric traditions of his childhood. (ITL314, $25.00)
 		  
Master and Commander  •  Patrick O'Brian   • LITERATURE  •  The very first of O'Brian's wildly successful seafaring novels about Captain Aubrey and sidekick Maturin sets the duo against a well-researched Napoleonic wars backdrop in the Western Mediterranean. (MED27, $13.95)
 		  
Reeds in the Wind  •  Grazia Deledda   • LITERATURE  •  A tale of penitence and salvation about three nobel sisters sinking into poverty in Sardinia. First published in Italy in 1913 by the second woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. (ITA232, $17.50)
 		  
The Day of Judgment  •  Salvatorre Satta  •  Patrick Creagh   • LITERATURE  •  Satta's birthplace, Nuoro, Sardinia, features powerfully in this tale of Don Sebastiano and his family at the turn of the last century. (ITL997, $14.00)
 		  
Vendetta  •  Michael Dibdin   • MYSTERY  •  An eccentric billionaire, his wife and guests are gunned down Mob-style in his Sardinian villa in this second book in the Aurelio Zen series. (ITL621, $13.95)
 		  
 
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