In August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-thirties arrives by train in Venice, on a journey overshadowed by the coming war and charged with intense personal nostalgia. Aware that he might never again visit this land whose sites and scenes had...
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Автор: Witt L A
Серия: Warriors of Rome #1
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
Статус: Закончена
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