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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Tasked with teaching a denim-loving nobody to fit in with New York City’s elite at the behest of her grandmother, Manhattan socialite Violet Townsend learns that blindly following society’s rules doesn’t lead to happiness—and that sometimes the best things in life come from the most unexpected places.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais ton ("bad taste" loses something in the translation). One should not ask servants to wait on one during Ramadan: they must have paid leave while one spends the holy month abroad. One must play the piano; if staying at Claridge's, one must regrettably install a Clavinova in the suite, so that the necessary hours of practice will not...
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War at home volume 3
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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It is 1916 and the Hunters, their friends and their servants are settling down to the business of war. As conscription reaches into every household, Britain turns out men and shells in industrial numbers from army camps and munitions factories up and down the land. Bobby, the second Hunter son, gains his wings and joins his brother in France. Ethel, the under housemaid, embarks on a quest and Laura Hunter sets out on her biggest adventure yet. Diana,...
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
[1978?]
Language
English
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"These thirty short stories show an acknowledged master of the genre at the peak of his power. Most are set in the colonies at a time when the Empire was still assured, in a world in which men and women were caught between their unfamiliar surroundings. In this languid life, Maugham shows how a tiny spark of stray emotion acts as the catalyst to human tragedy. In subtle contrast, the stories set in an English landscape provide more familiar territory...
16) Candide
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English
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In this sharp and witty tale, Candide and his tutor Pangloss journey the earth, following the philosophy: All is for the best of all possible worlds. This adage, however, is disproved at many turns, with the characters encountering opposition to their outlook. The initially naïve Candide realises some of the dark truths of the eighteenth-century world, but could there be any light at the end of the tunnel?
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Everyman's library volume no. 199
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
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Contains a selection of Kipling's short stories.
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Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
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Stories feature men and women without education, insight, or prospects, who, ironically, are too unimaginative to ever give up.
"The most celebrated story collection from “one of the true American masters” (The New York Review of Books)—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark that includes the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman. ...
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