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2) Odile
Author
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub. Date
c1988.
Language
English
Description
The devastating psychological effects of war, about falling in love, about politics subverting human relationships, and about life in Paris during the early 1930's amid intellectuals and artists whose activities range from writing for radical magazines to conjuring the ghost of Lenin in séances.
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The sequel to The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, The Committed follows the "man of two minds" as he comes to Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, and struggling...
Author
Publisher
Rue Morgue Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Nigel Strangeways is off to a Christmas houseparty hosted by Fergus OBrien, a legendary World War I flying ace now retired from private life, who has received a series of mocking letters predicting that he will be murdered on Boxing Day. His guest list includes everyone who could even remotely be suspected of making the threats, including several people who stand to profit from OBriens death, as well as Nigel, who is invited...
5) Howards End
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Language
English
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Description
A chance acquaintance brings together the prosperous bourgeois Wilcox family and the clever, cultured, and idealistic Schlegel sisters. As clear-eyed Margaret develops a friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, the impetuous Helen brings into their midst a young bank clerk named Leonard Bast, who lives at the edge of poverty and ruin. When Mrs. Wilcox dies, her family discovers that she wants to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret. Thus as Forster...
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English
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Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated Sage of Concord, to meet his coterie of enlightened friends. There she becomes "the radiant genius and fiery heart" of the Transcendentalists, a role model to a young Louisa May Alcott, an inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hester Prynne and the scandalous Scarlet Letter, a friend to Henry David Thoreau as he...
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