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The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a...
Передбачалося, що це буде сімейна подорож, щоб відвідати старіючого родича. Згодом машина застрягла в брудній колії, і, ну, ці речі...
It is the late spring of 1978 in a world in which the American Revolution failed in 1776 after George Washington was killed and the Continental Army was destroyed at the Battle of Long Island.
The rumbling aftershocks of the Empire Day atrocities...
Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion — by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating. These ten powerful stories portray men and women in their most intimate moments. A lover of poetry...
Eva Ibbotson’s magical novel; set in that most poignant of all times and places, Vienna before the First World War. Susanna’s dress shop stands in the delightful Madensky Square and is the very hub and heart of life. Susanna sympathizes with her...
A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the early twentieth century — by an award-winning writer chosen as one of “5 Under 35” by the National Book Foundation.
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In these stories we meet the kinds of American Indians we rarely see in literature--the upper and middle class, the professionals and white-collar workers, the bureaucrats and poets, falling in and out of love and wondering if they will make...
From one of our most celebrated masters, a touching, comic, deeply humane collection of linked stories about surprising developments in a gated community.
“I find myself inclined to set down for whomever, before my memory goes kaput...
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Jill had money, Jill was engaged to be married to Sir Derek Underhill. Suddenly Jill becomes penniless, and she is no longer engaged. With a smile, in which there is just a tinge of recklessness, she refuses to...