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The Merry Monarch's Wife by Jean Plaidy
epub, mobi |eng | 1990-12-31 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

IT WAS AFTERNOON before I saw Frances. She had not appeared, so I sent for her. I was alone when I received her. She looked frightened. I said: “Come and ...
( Category: Renaissance March 26,2014 )
Merry Monarch's Wife by Jean Plaidy
epub |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

IT WAS AFTERNOON before I saw Frances. She had not appeared, so I sent for her. I was alone when I received her. She looked frightened. I said: “Come and ...
( Category: Renaissance March 26,2014 )
King's Confidante by Jean Plaidy
epub, mobi |eng | 1954-01-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

FOLLOWING THAT, there were disputes and arguments between Thomas and Will. In these Will waxed hot, and Thomas was always calm, which meant that Will must come out the worse ...
( Category: Renaissance March 26,2014 )
Loyal in Love by Jean Plaidy
epub |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

THE SPY When I went to see my mother she was in a state of panic. She had faced the fury of the people of her own country so was ...
( Category: Renaissance March 26,2014 )
Light on Lucrezia by Jean Plaidy
epub |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

The tiring day was over. Lucrezia’s women clustered about her to help her undress. They removed the mulberry and gold gown and the jeweled headdress; they combed the long golden ...
( Category: Renaissance March 26,2014 )
Innocent Traitor by Weir Alison
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

Later, when the rest have gone, Dorset and I share a flask of hippocras before the dying fire. “I know what people say about me,” I muse. “That I am ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
Success Secrets of Sherlock Holmes by David Acord
epub |eng | 2011-09-15 | Author:David Acord

Success is never a one-person job. Regardless of how independent you are (or think you are), you’ll still need help along the way. Finding the right partners to help you ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 26,2014 )
Letters of William Gaddis by William Gaddis
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:William Gaddis [Gaddis, William]

Wisconsin quarterly: see note to 21 August 1964. Koenig: Peter William Koenig, “‘Splinters from the Yew Tree’: A Critical Study of William Gaddis’ The Recognitions,” PhD diss., New York University ...
( Category: Letters March 26,2014 )
Consider the Lobster by Wallace David Foster
epub |eng | 2005-07-02 | Author:Wallace, David Foster [Wallace, David Foster]

MONKEY: If, say, you win here in South Carolina, what do you do then? MURPHY: Fly to Michigan that night. MONKEY: And what if hypothetically you, say, lose here in ...
( Category: Postmodernism March 26,2014 )
Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith
epub |eng | | Author:Zadie Smith

2. NATURE’S WORK OF ART September 18, 2005, marks the centenary of the birth of Greta Garbo, an icon both resonant and remote to us. It feels a perilous centenary. ...
( Category: British & Irish March 26,2014 )
The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays by James Wood
epub |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:James Wood [Wood, James]

CONTAINMENT: TRAUMA AND MANIPULATION IN IAN MCEWAN In different ways, most of Ian McEwan’s novels and stories are about trauma and contingency, and he is now best known as the ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )
More Matter: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
epub |zho | 1999-01-02 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

These elements are all here, in this recently published novel, but present in a desiccated, rather cursory form, as though carried in the author’s head too long. Lituma, equipped with ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
Due Considerations by John Updike
epub |zho | 2007-01-02 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

Fraser returns in his endnotes to worry at the issues: “Should Britain have stayed, and pacified the country, assuming the white man's burden? There are those who think so…. Of ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
epub, azw3 |eng | 1993-08-25 | Author:Italo Calvino

vives? cette géométrie de ma souffrance? Il y a de ces éclairs qui ressemblent tout à fait à des idées. Ils font comprendre—d'ici, jusque-là … Et pourtant ils me laissent ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
Kick Ass by Carl Hiaasen
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-13 | Author:Carl Hiaasen [Hiaasen, Carl]

Wayne Huizenga says he's moving or selling the Florida Panthers if somebody doesn't build him a new arena. Gonna get the puck out, he says. The announcement came at a ...
( Category: State & Local March 26,2014 )

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