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By Mark Helprin

From acclaimed novelist Mark Helprin, a lush, literary epic approximately love, good looks, and the realm at war

Alessandro Giuliani, the younger son of a wealthy Roman legal professional, enjoys an idyllic existence choked with privilege: he races horses around the nation to the ocean, he climbs mountains within the Alps, and, whereas a scholar of portray on the historic collage in Bologna, he falls in love. Then the nice conflict intervenes. part a century later, in August of 1964, Alessandro, a white-haired professor, tall and proud, meets an illiterate younger manufacturing facility employee at the highway. As they stroll towards Monte Prato, a village seventy kilometers away, the previous man—a soldier and a hero who grew to become a prisoner after which a deserter, wandering within the hell that claimed Europe—tells him how he tragically misplaced one kin and won one other. The boy, envying the richness and drama of Alessandro's reports, realizes that this extraordinary story isn't really simply a narrative: it's a recapitulation of his lifestyles, his reckoning with mortality, and principally, a love tune for his kin.

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Why? Thomasina: Everything is turned to love with her. New love, absent love, lost love I never knew a heroine that makes such noodles of our sex. It only needs a Roman general to drop anchor outside the window and away goes the empire like a christening mug into a pawn shop. If Queen Elizabeth had been a Ptolemy history would have been quite different -we would be admiring the pyramids of Rome and the great Sphinx of Verona. Septimus: God save us. Thomasina: But instead, the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue.

You got them backwards, darling. Caroline was Romantic waffle on wheels with no talent, and Byron was an eighteenth-century Rationalist touched by genius. And he killed Chater. Hannah: (Pause) If it's not too late to change my mind, I'd like you to go ahead. Bernard: I intend to. Look to the mote in your own eye! - you even had the wrong bloke on the dust-jacket! Hannah: Dust-jacket? Valentine: What about my computer model? Aren't you going to mention it? Bernard: It's inconclusive. Valentine: (To Hannah) The Piccadilly reviews aren't a very good fit with Byron's other reviews, you see.

It's no fun when it's not among pros, is it? Hannah: No. Bernard: Oh, well. . (he begins to put his lecture sheets away in his briefcase, and is thus reminded. ) do you want to know about your book jacket? 'Lord Byron and Caroline Lamb at the Royal Academy'? Ink study by Henry Fuseli? Hannah: What about it? Bernard: It's not them. Hannah: (She explodes) Who says!? ) Bernard: This Fuseli expert in the Byron Society Journal. They sent me the latest... as a distinguished guest speaker. Hannah: But of course it's them!

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