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After My Fashion
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After My Fashion

Автор: Powys John Cowper
Язык: английский
Год: 2008
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After My Fashion has an unusual publishing history. Although it was John Cowper Powys third novel written in 1920, it wasn't published until 1980. It seems that when his US publisher turned it down Powys made no effort to place it elsewhere. Indeed,...
The Polyglots
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The Polyglots

Автор: Gerhardie William
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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The Polyglots is the story of an eccentric Belgian family living in the Far East in the uncertain years after World War I and the Russian Revolution. The tale is recounted by their dryly conceited young English relative, Captain Georges Hamlet...
The Silent Prophet
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The Silent Prophet

Автор: Рот Йозеф
Язык: английский
Год: 2003
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Because he is born illegitimate, Friederich Kargan lacks even a social identity. Moving to Vienna, he becomes involved both in revolutionary agitation and a love affair before he is caught by the authorities on his first trip to Russia, enduring a...
Ducdame
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Ducdame

Автор: Powys John Cowper
Язык: английский
Год: 2008
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Ducdame was John Cowper Powys' fourth novel published in 1925. It is set in Dorset. The protagonist, Rook Ashover (a wonderfully Powysian name) is an introverted young squire with a dilemma: to go on loving his mistress, Netta Page, or, make a...
The Promise
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The Promise

Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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A compelling historical novel about the tragic alliance between Chinese and English forces in Burma during World War II. Burma is under attack from the Japanese army, and a unit of Chinese soldiers is sent to aid endangered British...