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Book of Questions

Book of Questions

Some books don’t give answers – instead, they offer endless questions, like a corridor of doors leading to the unknown. The Book of Questions, the last great work of Chilean poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, was written just a few months before his death in 1973. It is full […]

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The River

«The River» of Alessandro Sanna

In Alessandro Sanna’s nearly wordless book, the reader follows the four seasons along the Po River, witnessing the flow of time and the lives of characters who become part of the current. Soft watercolor transitions capture the first rays of dawn, twilight in the reeds, and storm-darkened skies. The horizontal […]

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Advice to little girls

Advice to little girls

Mark Twain’s Advice to Little Girls, written in 1865, takes the familiar form of moral instruction and turns it upside down with sly humor. His playful tone makes ordinary lessons sound both absurd and oddly practical, giving young readers a glimpse of mischief hiding behind polite words. The edition illustrated […]

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