epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Jablonka, Ivan [Jablonka, Ivan]

6 THE PROVIDENTIAL DENTIST Gitla Leszcz is in the last stages of life. Her spindly arm, nothing left but veins and tendons, emerges from her yellow “Hospitals of Paris” bedsheet. ...

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* * * Shortly after the publication of L’ancien régime et la révolution in 1856 Tocqueville sent a letter to Charles de Grandmaison. “Without you and your archives,” he wrote, ...

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Biggles scrubs up This week I face the task of dragging young Biggles into the land of respectability. This is a full-service job; he is a disgrace from nose to ...

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epub |eng | 2013-05-04 | Author:Nathan Tidridge [Tidridge, Nathan]

The Lodge, the country retreat owned by the Wentworths, 1817–18, as depicted in an oil painting by John Elliott Woolford (1778–1866). Although Edward and Julie had not visited The Lodge ...

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epub |eng | 2021-02-24 | Author:Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) Rémusat [Rémusat, Madame de]

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30. Ferdinand VII by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, c. 1814. Oil on canvas. Prado Museum, Madrid. Scala/Art Resource, NY. But indulgent and affectionate a father as he was, Joseph ...

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epub |eng | 2016-11-03 | Author:Walter Scott [Scott, Walter]

"'Supposing the British government should be induced to grant a passport for Buonaparte's going to America, what pledge could he give that he would not return, and put England, as ...

epub |eng | 2021-02-24 | Author:Walter Scott [Scott, Walter]

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epub |eng | 2023-02-07 | Author:Carmela Ciuraru

In Elaine’s autobiography, her recollections of motherhood conjure a close relationship with her daughter (“Tracy was, daily, a most profound illumination and revelation”). She portrays herself as an imperfect but ...

epub |eng | 2022-02-15 | Author:Sarah Horowitz

At 4:00 a.m., Meg, Marthe, and M. Chabrier set out in the darkness for the police headquarters. It’s not clear why they decided that this was the appropriate hour for ...