By Oral Roberts
This scarce antiquarian publication is a facsimile reprint of the unique. because of its age, it could actually include imperfections corresponding to marks, notations, marginalia and incorrect pages. simply because we think this paintings is culturally vital, now we have made it to be had as a part of our dedication for shielding, keeping, and selling the world's literature in reasonable, top of the range, glossy versions which are actual to the unique paintings.
By Minette Walters
ISBN-10: 0312951426
ISBN-13: 9780312951429
With this lovely debut--a terrific marriage of vintage conference and modern sophistication--Minette Walters units a brand new regular of excellence for the secret novel.The 3 girls dwelling in seclusion at a sublime Hampshire state residence have lengthy been fodder for village gossip...even whispers of a witches' coven. So whilst a faceless corpse of doubtful classic is located within the Streech Grange ice condominium, leader Inspector Walsh cannot wait to make a case of it.Lady of the manor Phoebe Maybury, nonetheless haunted by means of Walsh's relentless research of her husband's unusual disappearance ten years in the past, is calm. She and her housemates--sensitive, fascinating artist Diana Goode and beautiful, earthy Anne Cattrell--seem as wondered because the police. yet have they got anything to hide?While Walsh strives to nail Phoebe for homicide, horny younger Detective Sergeant McLoughlin turns his consciousness to the exasperating and magnetic Anne. quickly his inquiry and his impulses will draw him right into a tangled thicket of affection, loyalty, and lethal intrigue.
By John Ashbery
ISBN-10: 0670137804
ISBN-13: 9780670137800
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By Anshuman A. Mondal
ISBN-10: 071907004X
ISBN-13: 9780719070044
By Patricia Demers
ISBN-10: 0813119782
ISBN-13: 9780813119786
Heritage has now not been sort to Hannah extra. This as soon as lionized author and activist―the so much influential lady philanthropist of her day―is now thought of via many to be the embodiment of pious morality and reactionary anti-feminism. principally as a result of her trust in separate spheres for women and men, extra has been vilified by way of modern day feminists. the 1st biography to check the full diversity of her existence and paintings, The international of Hannah More depicts the writer as a forceful voice in her personal day and person who, from the viewpoint of undeniable justice, this present day merits a extra nuanced therapy. with out denying the issues extra provides for contemporary readers, Patricia Demers has produced a balanced revisionist research of a lady greatly influential in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century England. by way of reading the occupation of this cultural warrior, situating her significant texts with regards to contemporaries, and addressing her released writing, philanthropic actions, and voluminous correspondence, Demers anchors The global of Hannah More within the paintings itself―an applicable and simply reaction to a lady who took delight in dwelling to a couple goal. attempting to deal justly with extra and her lady ethical imperialism calls for admitting either the expansiveness and the constraints of her charity, method and imaginative and prescient. with out venerating or trivializing, Demers pursues the doubleness and contradictions of More's mostly overlooked or superficially mined works, from the made up our minds experiments of the earliest performs to the poignantly revealing essays on useful piety, Christian morals, and Saint Paul.
By Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
ISBN-10: 2070140628
ISBN-13: 9782070140626
«À l. a. tombée de los angeles nuit, je marche vers l'océan, longeant les murs parmi les ombres dans un grand silence. Je respire un effluve tenace, une essence aux notes d'abattis, de fleur pourrissante, un remugle charnel et végétal, mais je ne peux déterminer s'il émane de mon haleine ou de l. a. ville, puisque je marche à cette heure où les murs suent et exhalent un lengthy soupir.» Après Une éducation libertine (2008) et Le sel (2010), on retrouve avec Pornographia, récit d'une errance hallucinée dans l. a. nuit d'une ville tropicale, l'univers sensuel et violent de Jean-Baptiste Del Amo.
By Francoise Sagan
Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cécile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. free of the stifling constraints of boarding institution, she joins her father—a good-looking, still-young widower with a wandering eye—for a carefree, two-month summer season holiday in a gorgeous villa outdoor of Paris together with his most modern mistress, Elsa. Cécile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her father percentage, whereas plotting her personal sexual adventures with a "tall and nearly appealing" legislation scholar. however the arrival of her past due mother's ally, Anne, intrudes upon a tender girl's pleasures. And while a courting starts off to strengthen among the adults, Cécile and her lover set in movement a plan to maintain them apart...with tragic, unforeseen consequences.
The across the world loved tale of a precocious teenager's makes an attempt to appreciate and keep an eye on the realm round her, Françoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse is a superbly composed, splendidly ambiguous social gathering of sexual liberation, immediately sympathetic and powerfully unsparing.
By Mark Busby
ISBN-10: 0929398343
ISBN-13: 9780929398341
this is often the 1st significant single-authored ebook in nearly two decades to check the existence and paintings of Texas' most well known novelist and to boost coherent styles of subject, constitution, image, imagery, and impression in Larry McMurtry's work.
The research specializes in the novelist's dating to the Southwest, theorizing that his writing indicates a deep ambivalence towards his domestic territory. The process his occupation demonstrates moving attitudes that experience led him towards, clear of, after which again back to his domestic position and the "cowboy god" that dominates its mythology.
The publication makes use of unique fabrics from 5 library detailed collections, in addition to interviews with McMurtry, his family members, and his neighbors, reminiscent of Ken Kesey.
