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        Invisible Cities


        setting

        Italy

        time

        13th century

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1972

        page count

        165

        difficulty

        Intermediate

        main characters

        Marco Polo, Kublai Khan

        Rip's impressions

        first line

        Leaving there and proceeding for three days toward the east, you reach Diomira, a city with sixty silver domes, bronze statues of all the gods, streets paved with lead, a crystal theatre, a golden cock that crows each morning on a tower.

        last lines

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