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Silk (novel) - Wikipedia
Silk (Italian: Seta) is a 1996 novel by the Italian writer Alessandro Baricco. It was translated into English in 1997 by Guido Waldman.
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Silk by Alessandro Baricco - Goodreads
When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, the young merchant Herve Joncour leaves his doting wife and his comfortable home in the small ...
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Silk: Baricco, Alessandro, Goldstein, Ann - Amazon.com
The year is 1861. Hervé Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel ...
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sillibouk
sillibouk dial. Forms: 6 sillibucke, 8 -buck; 7 sillibouke, 9 sylibewk; 8 silli-, 9 sillybauk. [var. of sillabub; for the ending cf. merribowk.] A sillabub. Also attrib.1573 Baret Alvearie, A Sillibucke, Lac in ceruisia suffocatum vel ingulatum. 1632 Sherwood, Sillibouke, or sillibub, laict aigre. 1...
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Silk - HarperCollins Publishers
Rich with the complex connections between human and nonhuman worlds, Silk not only peers into the past but also reveals the fiber's impact today, inspiring new ...
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Revisiting Alessandro Baricco's "Silk" - Reading in Translation
Silk is a novel that dwells in silences and negative spaces, an examination of unfulfilled desire and all that remains unspoken.
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sylde
sylde sylden, -on, syler, sylf, sylibewk, sylie, syll(e: see seld, seldom, silour, self, sillibouk, silly, sell, sill.
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The Story of Silk by Sara Ware Bassett | Living Book Press
In The Story of Silk, follow Pierre and Marie Bretton, two French siblings determined to carry on their family's silk-making legacy during the hardships of war.
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'Silk' Luxuriates In The Bittersweet Pain Of Love And Longing - NPR
Author Ru Freeman first turned to Alessandro Baricco's tale of a French silkworm merchant and his impossible love because it made her ...
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Silk: A World History by Aarathi Prasad, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble®
The first book to comprehensively explore the science, culture and history of silk, from its origins to its modern-day impact.
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The Double Life of Alessandro Baricco's "Silk" - Reading in Translation
Alessandro Baricco's Silk is a story about the tension between the Self and the Other. Hervé Joncour, its principal protagonist, is instantly unlikeable.
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merribowk
† merribowk Obs. Also meribauk, merry bauks. [f. merry a. + bowk. Cf. sillibouk.] A sillibub or posset.1611 Cotgr., Laict aigre, whay; also, a sillibub, or merribowke. 1613 Beaum. & Fl. Coxcomb iii. iii. (1647) 108/2 And can you milke a Cow? and make a merrybush [? read-buck or -bouk]? 1664 O. Heywo...
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sillabub
sillabub, syllabub (ˈsɪləbʌb) Forms: α. 6 solybubbe, 7 sullabub, sullibib, 7–8 sullibub. β. 6 selybube, 6–7 seli-, 7 sellibub, sallibube. γ. 6 sillye-, 6–7 syllibub, 7 sillie bube, cilli-, 7–8 sillibub, 9 Sc. sillybob. δ. 6 sillabubbe, 6– silla-, 7– syllabub. [Of obscure origin: cf. sillibouk and si...
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