Don't hope to get rid of books (Umberto Eco)
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The Shadow of the Guillotine, or Good Men.

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The Shadow of the Guillotine, or Good Men.
9.99 €
In the novel, the literary father of the famous Captain Alatriste plunges us into the troubled pre-revolutionary times of French history in the late 18th century. The old world is crumbling, the prisons of France are overcrowded, books are being burned, terror is increasing. And against this alarming background, Don Hermohenes Molina, an academic, translator of Virgil, and his comrade, retired commander of a brigade of marines Don Pedro Sarate, on assignment of the Spanish Royal Academy are sent to Paris in search of the first edition of the disgraced "Encyclopedia" Diderot and D'Alambera, which the Holy Inquisition included in its "Index of forbidden books". The expedition of the two Spaniards at any moment could turn into their death, because they are not the only ones hunting for the book rarity. And also - over them invisibly hangs the shadow of the guillotine ...
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