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The Argonauts
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The Argonauts

Автор: Nelson Maggie
Язык: английский
Год: 2015
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An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family. Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity,...
Uncle Tungsten
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Uncle Tungsten

Автор: Сакс Оливер
Язык: английский
Год: 2001
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Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals – also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells,...
Half a Life
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Half a Life

Автор: Strauss Darin
Язык: английский
Год: 2010
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“Half my life ago, I killed a girl.” So begins Darin Strauss’ Half a Life, the true story of how one outing in his father’s Oldsmobile resulted in the death of a classmate and the beginning of a different, darker life for the author. We...
Julia Ward Howe
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Julia Ward Howe

Автор: Richards Laura E.
Серия: Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography #1917
Язык: английский
Год: 1915
Статус: Закончена
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson said of Julia Ward Howe’s Reminiscences, published in 1899, that the work might have been “spread out into three or four interesting octavos; but in her hurried grasp it is squeezed into one volume, where groups of...
Esprit de Corps: Sketches from Diplomatic Life
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Esprit de Corps: Sketches from Diplomatic Life

Автор: Даррелл Лоренс Джордж
Серия: Antrobus stories #1
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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Eleven charming, delicate sketches of diplomatic life in service of the crown. After decades spent representing Britain around the globe, Antrobus has earned a shirtful of medals and the right to pass afternoons in his London club, musing over...