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A "novel that spans the past and the present--and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria, a beautiful and haunted country. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi--and realizes too late that she has accidentally kept one of their...
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Umbriel Editores
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Español
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Alexandra Boyd, una joven estadounidense, viaja a Sofia con la esperanza de que una nueva vida en el extranjero apacigue el dolor que siente por la perdida de su hermano. Poco despues de llegar a esta hermosa ciudad del este de Europa, Alexandra ayuda a una pareja de ancianos a subir a un taxi y se queda accidentalmente con una de sus bolsas. Dentro, hay una caja de madera con un nombre: Stoyan Lazarov. Se trata de una urna con cenizas humanas. Alexandra...
5) Hydriotaphia urne-buriall, or, A brief discourse of the sepulchrall urnes lately found in Norfolk
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Naval doctrine publication volume 1188
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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"Hydriotaphia, or Urn Burial, is one of the pinnacles of Renaissance scholarship and without doubt one of the great essays in English literature. Beginning with observations on the recent discovery of Roman antiquities in the form of burial urns, Browne's associative mind wanders to elephant graveyards, to pre-Christian cremation ceremonies, and finally to the idea of Christian burial. Browne then explores, with a more melancholic meditation, man's...
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Anchor seventeenth-century volume ACO-9
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Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1967
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English
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