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A novel of the friendships and woes of two couples, which tells the story of their lives in lyrical, evocative prose by one of the finest American writers of the late 20th century.When two young couples meet for the first time during the Great Depression, they quickly...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-10-03
ePub
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Nabokov described this novella, written in Paris in 1939 but only published twenty years later, as 'the first little throb of Lolita'. The plot is similar: a middle-aged man wedding an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her daughter....
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-10-03
ePub
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Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules. But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an aspiring...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-09-26
ePub
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'A Wunderkind - a Wunderkind a Wunderkind. The syllables would come out rolling in the deep German way, roar against her ears and then fall to a murmur...'Writing about outcasts, dreamers and misfits in the Deep South, Carson McCullers was acclaimed for her sympathetic...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-09-26
ePub
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Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules.But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an aspiring...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-09-26
ePub
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Mozart is creative, brilliant and charming. But is he also a thief?Making his way to Prague for the opening of Don Giovanni, the great composer playfully tries to steal an orange from a Bohemian family's garden. But no sooner has he taken the fruit than he is caught by...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-09-26
ePub
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The Iliad is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, for which Barry Powell, one of the twenty-first century's leading Homeric scholars, has given us a magnificent new translation. Graceful, lucid, and energetic, Powell's translation renders the Homeric Greek...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-09-17
PDF, ePub
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This carefully crafted ebook: “Arabian Nights or One Thousand and One Nights (Andrew Lang) + New Arabian Nights (Robert Louis Stevenson)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
A medieval Middle-Eastern literary epic which tells...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-09-15
epub sans DRM
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This carefully crafted ebook: “Youth: a Narrative, and Two Other Stories - Includes the Original Publication of Heart of Darkness + the Author's Note” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
"Youth" is an autobiographical short...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-09-15
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This carefully crafted ebook: “Heart of Darkness: The Original Edition as published in 'Youth: a Narrative, and Two Other Stories' (Includes the Author's Note + Youth: a Narrative + Heart of Darkness + The End of the Tether)” is formatted for your eReader with a...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-09-15
epub sans DRM
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This carefully crafted ebook: " Les Miserables (Fully Illustrated Unabridged Hapgood Translation)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Les Miserables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-09-15
epub sans DRM
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This carefully crafted ebook: “Treasure Island + The Mysterious Island (2 Unabridged Classics)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-09-14
epub sans DRM
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This carefully crafted ebook: “Dracula + Dracula's Guest and 3 Other Horror Stories” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-09-14
epub sans DRM
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This carefully crafted ebook: “Jane Eyre + Wuthering Heights (2 Unabridged Classics)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-09-14
epub sans DRM
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Sea Wolf (Unabridged)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-09-14
epub sans DRM
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Three Musketeers + Twenty Years After + The Vicomte of Bragelonne + Ten Years Later + Louise de la Valliere + The Man in the Iron Mask (The Complete d'Artagnan Romances)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-09-14
epub sans DRM
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'He's spoilt my life,- he's spoilt it for as long as iver I live on this earth'
The compelling story of an ordinary girl's tragic passion for a man who disappears, Sylvia's Lovers (1863) is Elizabeth Gaskell's last completed novel. Set in a fictional Whitby at the end...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-09-12
PDF
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'He's spoilt my life,- he's spoilt it for as long as iver I live on this earth'
The compelling story of an ordinary girl's tragic passion for a man who disappears, Sylvia's Lovers (1863) is Elizabeth Gaskell's last completed novel. Set in a fictional Whitby at the end...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-09-12
ePub
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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Best of Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities + Great Expectations + David Copperfield + Oliver Twist + A Christmas Carol (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
A Tale of Two...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-08-27
epub sans DRM
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This carefully crafted ebook: "A Story of Ravenna (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader.A tragic and short love story taking place in the city of Ravenna, told by Giovanni Boccaccio.Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-08-27
epub sans DRM
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