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A Historic Day Giulio Caprin Trieste, March 6, 1914 I had asked my dear colleague Simplicius, with whom I frequently collaborated, for a portrait—even an imaginary one—of the newly appointed ruler, Prince Wied, the Mbret of Albania. My colleague replied: “An interestin…
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La Domenica del Corriere, February 1–8, 1914 In the distant future, Albanian history will need many pages to recount the long and arduous negotiations required to realize the project of the European Powers—though it would be more accurate to say Italy and Austria, …
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From the Albanian Chronicles Series
Albanian history, cultural memory and decisive figures.
A complete monograph of George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, reconstructing the life, campaigns and political world of Albania’s national hero.
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A chronicle of the decisive events that shaped twentieth-century Albania, from independence through dictatorship and the difficult return to democracy.
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Mystery, investigation and the uncanny.
The first Ernest Devon mystery: an investigation in which a portrait, a vanished truth and the gaze of Margaret Houg draw the investigator into a disturbing past.
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A dark investigative novel in which competing explanations, hidden motives and a brutal truth force every certainty to be tested against Occam’s razor.
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Nine stories, nine doors opening onto the unknown: mystery, the uncanny and the bizarre meet in a collection of unsettling possibilities.
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