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Silk

Alessandro Barrico

In 1860s France, silkworm merchant Hervé Joncour travels repeatedly to secret, closed Japan to buy healthy eggs. On these journeys he becomes obsessed with a mysterious, silent woman who belongs to a local warlord. Though they never speak, a single glance and a hidden note bind him to an...

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Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court: Eight Works by Theodore II Laskaris

Dimiter Angelov

This volume offers the first English translation of eight diverse texts by the 13th-century Byzantine emperor Theodore II Laskaris, ruler of the Empire of Nicaea. Angelov's introduction and annotations contextualize these works—ranging from satirical jabs at his tutor, orations on friendship,...

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Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell

This memoir recounts Orwell's frontline experiences fighting fascism in the Spanish Civil War with the POUM militia in 1936-1937, exposing the Republican side's internal betrayals, Stalinist purges, and disillusionment. It offers a raw, eyewitness critique of revolutionary idealism clashing with...

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