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	A Summer of the Forest Folk by Maria Rodziewiczówna, Tom Pinch (Goodreads Author) (Translation) 3.59 avg rating — 306 ratings — published 1920 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ships of Minos 1: A Bronze Age Saga Classic by Joe Alex, Tom Pinch (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Adam Czasak (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 188 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Jaguar 1: A Tale of the Spanish Main by Arkady Fiedler, Tom Pinch (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.04 avg rating — 134 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Jaguar 2: A Tale of the Spanish Main by Arkady Fiedler, Tom Pinch (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.52 avg rating — 93 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ships of Minos 5: A Bronze Age Saga Classic by Joe Alex, Adam Czasak (Translator), Tom Pinch (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.30 avg rating — 74 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Expendable Soul 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1893	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bocheński's Notorious Roman Trilogy: A Great Literary Classic: History, Essays, Fragments (The Notorious Roman Trilogy Book 4) by Tom Pinch (Goodreads Author), Katarzyna Marciniak, Theodore Ziolkowski it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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There are three things to bear in mind as you set out to read the Tiberius Caesar.

1. The whole Trilogy is a politically entangled work

On its literary merits alone, Jacek Bocheński’s Roman Trilogy remains even today (I am writing this in 2023) one of the greatest literary works to have come out of Eastern Europe since World War II. But to most minds, it remains entangled with the history

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Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth (Princeton Science Library)

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A Woman, a Man, and Two Kingdoms: The Story of Madame d'Épinay and Abbé Galiani

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The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Discovery

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“Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse

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