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Seventeen-year-old Ginny Blackstone precipitously travels from her home in New Jersey to London when she receives a message from an unknown man telling her he has the letters that were stolen just before she completed a series of mysterious tasks assigned by her now dead aunt, an artist.
82) Charging Around
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In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is, from the charming, erudite and deep-pocketed to the eccentric, flatulent and possibly larcenous.
In “Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops” he distils the essence of his experience into a warm, witty and quirky taxonomy of the book-loving public. So, step inside to meet the crafty Antiquarian, the shy and retiring...
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Rav Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag (Rabash), a student of his father, Rav Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag, author of the Sulam (Ladder) commentary on The Book of Zohar, played a remarkable role in the history of Kabbalah. His writings provide us with the necessary link connecting the wisdom of Kabbalah to our human experience. If not for these essays, his father's efforts to disclose the wisdom of Kabbalah would be in vain.
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Nicholas Hagger's literary, philosophical, historical and political writings are innovatory. He has set out a new approach to literature that combines Romantic and Classical outlooks in a substantial literary oeuvre of 2,000 poems including over 300 classical odes, two poetic epics, five verse plays, three masques, two travelogues and 1,200 stories. He has created a new philosophy of Universalism that focuses on the unity of the universe and humankind...
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The product of a lifetime immersed in the literary, performing arts, and entertainment worlds, Lives and Letters spotlights the work, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of a vast array of celebrated writers and performers in film, theater, and dance, and some of the more curious iconic public figures of our times.
From the world of literature, Charles Dickens, James Thurber, Judith Krantz, John Steinbeck, and Rudyard Kipling; the controversies...
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The writings of Rav Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag (RABASH), the firstborn son and successor of Rav Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam), author of the Sulam (Ladder) commentary on The Book of Zohar, provide us with insights that connect the wisdom of Kabbalah to our human experience. These books disclose the profound knowledge of human nature that the RABASH possessed, and take us on a journey to our own souls. As we absorb the texts, we find that...
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Aimititau ! Parlons nous ! réunit pour la première fois des auteurs du Québec et des Premières Nations, à travers des correspondances inédites qui prennent la forme de lettres, de récits, de courriels, de poèmes et de contes. Vingt-neuf auteurs, confirmés et jeunes, sont rassemblés ici par le désir de mieux se connaître. Ils initient le dialogue et rompent les solitudes.
Les écrivains jumelés s'écrivent des mois durant jusqu'à faire...
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Robert N. Hudspeth is Research Professor of English at the Claremont Graduate University and professor emeritus of English at the University of Redlands. He is the editor of The Letters of Margaret Fuller and the author of Ellery Channing. Elizabeth Hall Witherell is Editor-in-Chief of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. Lihong Xie is Associate Textual Editor of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau.
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The writings of Rav Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag (RABASH), the firstborn son and successor of Rav Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam), author of the Sulam (Ladder) commentary on The Book of Zohar, provide us with insights that connect the wisdom of Kabbalah to our human experience. These books disclose the profound knowledge of human nature that the RABASH possessed, and take us on a journey to our own souls. As we absorb the texts, we find that...
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José María de Pereda es uno de los grandes novelistas españoles de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Manuel Marañón fue no solo su amigo «más querido», sino también su alter ego según nos dice en una carta del 5 de febrero de 1895. Este intenso epistolario, que se daba por perdido, se compone de más de 260 cartas que Pereda escribió a Marañón y que fueron conservadas por la familia del destinatario en el archivo de la Fundación Cigarral...
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La vie est si vaste... vaste comme un océan.
Et nos vies, des bulles dans cet océan, inconcevables sans amour.
Dans ce recueil de nouvelles, vous trouverez des histoires d'amour vécues par des personnages de tout âge et dans diverses couches de la société. Ce sont des rencontres fortuites devenues des expériences marquantes, des retrouvailles inespérées au prolongement inattendu, des jonctions improbables au dénouement étonnant ou encore...
92) Citas de lectura
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La lectura es un acto de placer y posesión. Aunque en la vida de una persona los libros también pueden convertirse en el lugar de lo prohibido, en el fascinante objeto que despierta las obsesiones de una chica que, años después, llegaría a convertirse en una de las escritoras más singulares de la literatura argentina contemporánea. En esta sucesión de escenas íntimas, Sylvia Molloy recorre una vida entre libros y lenguas donde se cruzan tanto...
93) On Love
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A companion to On Writing and On Cats: A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a "passionate madman." In On Love, we see Bukowski reckoning with the complications and exaltations of love, lust, and desire. Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive...
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Sérieusement, Georges, il faut nous démerder pour puiser en nous cet élan qui nous fera rebondir d'un bloc et sortir du marasme.
Sinon, dans quelques années, c'est le chef Tourbillon et son marassa, Avril L'Intelligent, ou même le président Tèt Kale et peut-être les Duvalier, père et fils, échappés de leur sépulture, qui viendront nous poser la même question: qu'est-ce que nous avons fait de leur pays ?
Hommage à l'écrivain Georges...
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The Danger of a Single Rejection (The Anthologies of Hope) has become the byword for every writer whose work has been rejected more than ten times by the mainstream publishers. Even the lucky writers with uplifting connections are not callous to the pangs of rejections. The Danger of a Single Rejection is the brainchild of these Anthologies of Hope.
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James published this work of collected literary criticism in 1914, with the individual pieces drawn from the preceding two decades. James discusses Robert Louis Stevenson, Gustave Flaubert, George Sand, and others. It is on these essays, as well as the introductions to his own collected works, that James's reputation as one of the most acute literary critics of his era rests.
98) De Profundis
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Oscar Wilde's autobiographical work on suffering, self-realization, and the artistic process De Profundis (Latin for "from the depths") is Oscar Wilde's reconciliation from a life full of pleasure. In 1891 the author began an intimate relationship with the young aristocrat Lord Alfred Douglas, known to his friends as Bosie. This affair led to speculations about Wilde's sexuality just as his career was reaching its apex. Ultimately, Bosie's father,...
99) Italian Hours
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Italian Hours ends with the phrase, "the luxury of loving Italy," and everything in the book indicates that James enjoyed this luxury to the fullest. But he was by no means a blind lover. His opening essay on Venice, for instance, doesn't gloss over the sad conditions of life for the city's people: "Their habitations are decayed; their taxes heavy; their pockets light; their opportunities few."
100) Between friends
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Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski. Two girls from very different backgrounds. Jillian is the only child of wealthy parents, while Lesley's from a working-class family. They become best friends in the turbulent '60s, but their circumstances, their choices--and their mistakes--take them in virtually opposite directions. Lesley stays in their Washington State hometown. She gets pregnant and marries young, living a life defined by the demands...
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