In 1981 Federico, a 36-year old Italian tour escort of a group of Italian students in Ireland, meets Blanche, a 21-year old au-pair girl from France. He is a radio disc jockey and also a teacher of English. They decide to meet again two months later and make love. In the meantime he accompanies his group to London and then he goes to New Jersey for one month with another group. He meets Blanche in France and then in Italy. The title comes from the car number plates of Ireland, Italy and France. The original book is written in English and Italian, with some parts also in French, and is a good opportunity for those who want to study Italian and English.

Pursued across the galaxy by bounty hunters Modaine, an accomplished thief, hides out on the planet Polla Rebsta staying with the native population. On hearing that the bounty hunters have arrived on the planet, Modaine flees the native village to the vast unexplored interior of the planet. Searching for a life extending plant he runs into hostile smugglers and strange aliens who all try to stop him in his quest.

He found her...! Ellie, the "ponytailed psychologist," has her own TV show where she gives counseling advice. When she returns to the locker room, Nikolai is waiting for her! He's a Russian millionaire who has been chasing her persistently since the accident from five years ago. Because of him Ellie had to change her name and escape from her hometown. If only she could remember what happened during the accident, maybe she could prove her innocence… But as Nikolai draws near and stares at her with cold blue eyes, he says this: "In atonement for killing my brother...you shall marry me!"

A prevailing belief among Russia’s cultural elite in the early twentieth century was that the music of composers such as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Aleksandr Scriabin, and Nikolai Medtner could forge a shared identity for the Russian people across social and economic divides. In this illuminating study of competing artistic and ideological visions at the close of Russia’s “Silver Age,” author Rebecca Mitchell interweaves cultural history, music, and philosophy to explore how “Nietzsche’s orphans” strove to find in music a means to overcome the disunity of modern life in the final tumultuous years before World War I and the Communist Revolution.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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