Télécharger le livre :  People In Glass Houses
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The 'People in Glass Houses' work for an American-based concern devoted to 'inflicting improvement' the world over. Amongst them are sloppy but erudite Algie Wyatt, Swoboda, a Slav DP, who finally rebels against a daily inflow of documentation; modest Ashmole-Brown,...

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Parution : 2021-01-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Cliffs Of Fall
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Shirley Hazzard's stories are sharp, sensitive portrayals of moments of crisis. Whether they are set in the Italian countryside or suburban Connecticut, the stories deal with real people and real problems. In the title piece, a young widow is surprised and ashamed by...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Bay Of Noon
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The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place. Among the protagonists is Jenny, young and pretty, who has come to Naples in flight from a sombre drama, unaware that a larger drama waits her there. She has an...

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Collection : Virago Modern Classics
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Télécharger le livre :  The Evening Of The Holiday
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Passionate undercurrents sweep in and out of this eloquent novel about a love affair in the summer countryside in Italy and its inevitable end. It takes place in a setting of pastoral beauty during a time of celebration -- a festival. Sophie, half English, half Italian,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Greene On Capri
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When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers, one of whom has served him mightily. Yet I hope that there is room for the remembrance of a friend who knew him - not wisely, perhaps, but fairly well - ...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Transit Of Venus
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'A wonderfully mysterious book . . . unforgettably rich' ANNE TYLER Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice, she is to find that...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2020-12-10
Collection : Virago Modern Classics
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Télécharger le livre :  The Great Fire
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The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel sinceThe Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981.The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard
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Collected Stories includes both volumes of National Book Award-winning author Shirley Hazzard's short story collections - Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses - alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories. Twenty-eight works of short fiction...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2020-11-26

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