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“ann schlee”

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  • Rhine Journey

    by Ann Schlee ...
    On a Victorian pleasure cruise, a chance encounter opens the floodgates to regret, desire, and possibility in this “little period gem of feeling and clarity” (The Guardian).It is 1851, only three years since Europe was convulsed by workers’ revolutions, but already English tourists are returning to the Continent, taking the waters at Baden Baden, then traveling by paddle steamer down the Rhine ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    by Arnold Bennett ...
    Arnold Bennett was a prolific British writer who penned dozens of works across all genres, from adventurous fiction to propaganda and nonfiction. He wrote plays like Judith and historical novels like Tales of the Five Towns. ... Read more

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  • Arrival And Departure

    by Arthur Koestler ...
    This was the third novel of Arthur Koestler's trilogy on ends and means - the other two are THE GLADIATORS and DARKNESS AT NOON - and the first he wrote in English. The central theme is the conflict between morality and expediency, and in this novel Koestler worked it out in terms of individual psychology. Peter Slavek starts out as a brave young revolutionary, but suffers a breakdown. On the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Amy Foster

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    »Amy Foster« is a short story by Joseph Conrad, originally published in 1901.JOSEPH CONRAD [1857–1924] was born in Ukraine to Polish parents, went to sea at the age of seventeen, and ended his career as a captain in the English merchant navy. His most famous work is the novella Heart of Darkness [1899], adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola in 1979 as Apocalypse Now. ... Read more

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  • Paul's Case

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    by Willa Cather ...
    Uprooted from a well-ordered life in Virginia when she was nine, Willa Cather came of age in the West during the last years of the American frontier. She developed a love for the beauty of the open grassland and an abiding interest in the Old World customs of her neighbors, the dreamers and builders who inhabit her fiction. This collection includes work from the early part of Cather's career and ... Read more

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  • Araby

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    by James Joyce ...
    A young boy in love with his friend’s sister promises to bring her back a gift from the Araby bazaar when he learns she cannot go. It is only later that night that the boy is able to make it to the bazaar and by the time he arrives, most of the stalls are closed and only late night activities are taking place between young women and men.Critically acclaimed author James Joyce’s Dubliners is a ... Read more

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  • The Last Of Cheri

    by Colette ...
    At the end of Ch�ri the young Ch�ri left his aging mistress L�a on the eve of his marriage. Having served in the army during the war Ch�ri returns to Paris haunted by memories of his carefree youth and the bounty of his benevolent mistress. In the post-war 1920's he finds it impossible to settle down to a new life with his efficient and entrepreneurial wife and friends.As his looks and his ... Read more

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  • The Diamond As Big As The Ritz

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    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    John T. Unger makes a fair number of friends at boarding school, but Percy Washington is by far the strangest boy he has met. Percy invites John to stay at his house for the summer, and when John accepts, Percy boasts about his family’s wealth, claiming that his father has a diamond bigger than the Ritz Carlton Hotel. But Percy’s strange behaviour and outlandish claims are just the first in a ... Read more

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  • The Sensible Thing

    by Francis Scott Fitzgerald ...
    This 1924 short story borrows from the common plot and themes of Fitzgerald's work. In this story, George O'Kelly, an aspiring engineer turned insurance salesman, fights to recapture the love of Jonquil Cary. When George receives a letter from Jonquil that sounds "nervous" George quits his insurance job and heads down to Tennessee to convince Jonquil of his love for her. Upon arriving, George ... Read more

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  • To-morrow

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    Joseph Conrad was a British author who is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers in English literature. Conrad’s style influenced many of the great authors that followed him. This edition of To-morrow includes a table of contents. ... Read more

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  • Boston Adventure

    by Jean Stafford ...
    A provocative story of class struggle, privilege, and poverty that put American author Jean Stafford on the map.Growing up in a fishing village north of Boston between the wars, Sonie, the child of immigrants, is so poor that she must “sleep on a pallet made of old coats and comforters.” She can only dream of the feather beds and perfumed soap to be found in the great city across the bay. In the ... Read more

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  • A Prisoner of War

    by Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse ...
    Mrs. Lora Delane Porter, that great woman, was condescending to argue with Herbert Nixon, a mere menial. The points under discussion were three:— (a) Why had Herbert been absent from duty between the hours of 3 p.m. and midnight on the previous day? (b) Why had he returned singing? (c) Why had he divested himself of his upper garments and stood for twenty minutes before the front door, daring the ... Read more

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