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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This ...

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Let there be no more of this clucking and wheedling. Oh Pa, are you sure? Or: Oh Francis, is this really a good idea? Let me be clear. I am always sure, and it is always a good idea.'An old man is sleeping fitfully. It's too hot. The air is thick with Spanish jasmine floating in from the garden. And he's not sure whether he'll be woken by General Franco sitting on the end of his bed.It's 1975 and Francis McNulty is nearing the end of his life,...

Eine junge Frau entdeckt sich selbst Eine rätselhafte Aura umgibt die schmale junge Frau, der Sidney bei einer Buchpräsentation in New York begegnet. Constance zieht ihn erotisch an und weckt seinen Beschützerinstinkt. Dass sie unter einem Trauma leidet, lässt ihn nicht unberührt. Wo bleiben echte Nähe und Liebe in ihrer Ehe, frei von Verdächtigung und Rollenzwang? In zarten Momenten deutet sich so etwas an. Virtuos lässt Patrick McGrath im We...

It is 1975 and an old man, Francis McNulty, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, is beset with sightings in his garden of his old nemesis, General Franco. The general is in fact in Spain, on his deathbed, but Francis is deeply troubled, as is his daughter Gillian, who lives with him in Cleaver Square. Francis' account of his haunting is by turns witty, cantankerous and nostalgic. At times he drifts back to his days in Madrid, when he rescued a ...

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Challenging contemporary perceptions of the ascetic in the early modern period, this book explores asceticism as a vital site of religious conflict and literary creativity, rather than merely a vestige of a medieval past.

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Es wird wieder Theater gespielt in London in diesem eisigen Winter 1947. Doch der beliebte Schauspieler Charlie Grice ist nun tot. Seine Witwe Joan, die Gewandmeisterin, und ihre Tochter Vera sehen mit gemischten Gefühlen, wie ein anderer seine Glanzrolle übernimmt. Allzu nahtlos? Magisch lebensnah? Ein prickelnder Roman um Liebe, Tod und Trauer, tröstliche Kleider und schreckliche Uniformen.

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Excerpt from Newfoundland's New Industry: A Souvenir and a Record Issued to Commemorate the Opening of the Pulp and Paper Mills at Grand Falls, River of Exploits, Newfoundland, by Lord Northcliffe, October 9, 1909Facture of paper and the surplus into the pulp-making machines, where it will be pressed and prepared for export. As it takes two tons of wet pulp to make one ton of dry there will be about three.About the PublisherForgotten Books pub...

Excerpt from Newfoundland's New Industry: A Souvenir and a Record Issued to Commemorate the Opening of the Pulp and Paper Mills at Grand Falls, River of Exploits, Newfoundland, by Lord Northcliffe, October 9, 1909Facture of paper and the surplus into the pulp-making machines, where it will be pressed and prepared for export. As it takes two tons of wet pulp to make one ton of dry there will be about three.About the PublisherForgotten Books pub...

Londra, gennaio 1947. La guerra è finita da due anni e la città è in macerie. In uno degli inverni più freddi da che se ne ha memoria, anche trovare qualcosa da mettere in tavola è molto difficile. Ad abbattere ancor di più gli animi, arriva la perdita inaspettata e scioccante di uno dei più amati attori teatrali del momento: Charlie Grice muore in circostanze poco chiare, gettando la moglie Joan, donna bellissima e innamorata, che lavora come...

Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, this story set in the cold winter of 1947 follows the revelatory aftermath of a prominent stage actor's abrupt demise, and explores the theme of fascism's secretive survival into the post-war world.

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