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For readers of A Little Life, Room and Shuggie Bain as well as The Silence of the Girls and I, Claudius, the deeply moving story of a young Roman slave boy growing up in a brothel.

»Niemand weiß, wer ich bin, am allerwenigsten ich selbst.« Ein alter Mann blickt zurück auf seine oft unmenschliche Kindheit: Als namenloser Waise wächst er in einem Bordell inmitten der sogenannten "Wölfinnen" im spanischen Carthago Nova im 4. Jahrhundert n. Chr. auf. Eine von ihnen, Euterpe, wird seine Ziehmutter: "Sperling" nennt sie ihn liebevoll. Sperling weiß nicht viel von der Welt: Anfangs hilft er Euterpes geheimer Geliebten in der...

Ein alter Mann blickt zurück auf seine Kindheit: Als namenlose Waise wächst er in einem Bordell im Carthago Nova des 4. Jahrhunderts auf. Euterpe, eine der Prostituierten, wird seine Ziehmutter, »Sperling« nennt sie ihn liebevoll. Anfangs hilft er in der Küche, später schuftet er in der Taverne, bis er schließlich in das geheimnisvolle Obergeschoss geführt wird, wo ihn ein furchtbares Schicksal erwartet. Doch wie ein kleiner Sperling entfliegt...

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?James Hynes's unnerving, exhilarating, unflinching portrayal of sex, slavery and sisterhood takes the reader to one of the most pitiless backstreets of the Roman Empire in its final years only to discover there - between the violence and the suffering, amid the Decline and the Fall - enduring tenderness and love. This is a novel of ancient times for our times. And it is splendid, a work of scorching distinction.' Jim CraceFor readers who have...

Meet Jacob - aka Sparrow - a boy slave in a brothel in the Spanish city of New Carthage in the last years of pagan Rome, and one of the most powerfully affecting characters of recent fiction. His story is as much for readers who were moved by A Little Life, Room and Shuggie Bain as those fascinated by The Silence of the Girls and I, Claudius.

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Excerpt from Talks With Shorthand Students: A Series of Chatty Explanations of the Principles of Pitman's ShorthandWe propose, therefore, to explain and illustrate the rules of the system as simply and as clearly as possible to anticipate the questions that may be expected to arise in the learner's mind and, in a word, to do everything that can be done to smooth his path and render easy and pleasant his acquisition of the system of shorthand w...

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Hydrogen transfer processes occur in a wide variety of reactions, ranging from biochemistry to polymers, making this a very important chemical element in synthesis, biochemistry and industrial applications. This multivolume work is a comprehensive reference on the theory, occurrence and application of hydrogen transfer processes. Adopting an integrated approach, it includes essential information on the theoretical basis, the fundamental types,...

NEXT is a funny, moving, sexy and surprising novel about a day that begins unusually and will end even more dramatically. 'Hynes writes like Joyce on Quaaludes, in spiky, gorgeous language, with an eye for detail that is occasionally shocking in its apt particularity..."-Kate Christensen, author of The Great Man. Available in Trade Paperback.

Immensely witty...thoroughly entertaining."--"The Washington Post Book World" Paul Trilby is having a bad day. If he were to be honest with himself, Paul Trilby would have to admit that he's having a bad life. His wife left him. Three subsequent girlfriends left him. He's fallen from a top-notch university teaching job, to a textbook publisher, to, eventually, working as a temp writer for the Texas Department of General Services. And even here...

Excerpt from Talks With Shorthand Students: A Series of Chatty Explanations of the Principles of Pitman's Shorthand As the result of enquiries and suggestions from various quarters, the Publishers have decided to issue this series of "Talks" in book form. They are intended to supply the student with an explanation of the principles of Pitman's Shorthand presented in an easy, familiar style, and designed to help him to a mastery of the Art. Th...

The author of "Publish and Perish" returns with a Faustian tale of the horrors of academe. The perfect-pitch blend of satire and horror, it is the story of an English lecturer who gets the axe at his job, loses his finger in a freak accident, and then finds that he has acquired a strange power: he can force his will onto others with the touch of his reattached finger.

X Flight was designated the task of giving close air support to the desert army commanded by Lawrence of Arabia. It flew from advanced desert landing grounds on reconnaissance, liaison, bombing, and ground attack missions. The diary is supported with the Flight's weekly records, perspectives of the battle scenarios, and other information.