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Writers & Lovers

Author : Lily King
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443460392

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An extraordinary new novel of art, love and ambition from Lily King, the New York Times–bestselling author of Euphoria, which sold over 400,000 copies in North America. Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily King returns with an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman. Blindsided by her mother’s sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, mouldy room at the side of a garage, where she works on the novel she’s been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still clutching on to something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life. When she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures even more. Casey’s fight to fulfill her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and life is challenged in ways that push her to the brink. Writers & Lovers follows Casey—a smart and achingly vulnerable protagonist—in the last days of a long youth, a time when every element of her life comes to a crisis.Written with King’s trademark humour, heart and intelligence, Writers & Lovers is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another.

Great Writers, Great Loves

Author : Ann-Marie Priest
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Authors
ISBN : 9781863951982

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In Great Writers, Great Loves, Ann-Marie Priest delves deep into the love lives of eight twentieth-century writers and shows how, in the tumult and novelty of their intimate relationships, they radically transformed our ideas of romantic love. From D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf to Charmian Clift, Sylvia Plath and Frank O'Hara, these writers seized the freedom to experiment. In exploring new ideas of sexuality, marriage, same-sex relationships and passionate friendships, they forged a darker, richer, more complex mythology of romantic love than the one that preceded it. Bringing to life some of the most compelling personalities of the last century, their private passions and obsessions, Great Writers, Great Lovessheds new light on passion, intimacy and the way we think about love today.

Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love

Author : Andrew Shaffer
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062036612

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Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love by Andrew Shaffer Pdf

Few people have failed at love as spectacularly as the great philosophers. Although we admire their wisdom, history is littered with the romantic failures of the most sensible men and women of every age, including: Friedrich Nietzsche: "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent." (Rejected by everyone he proposed to, even when he kept asking and asking.) Jean-Paul Sartre: "There are of course ugly women, but I prefer those who are pretty." (Adopted his mistress as his daughter.) Louis Althusser: "The trouble is there are bodies and, worse still, sexual organs." (Accidentally strangled his wife to death.) And dozens of other great thinkers whose words we revere—but whose romantic decisions we should avoid at all costs. Includes an excerpt from Andrew Shaffer's new book Literary Rogues.

More Miracle Than Bird

Author : Alice Miller
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781947793767

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More Miracle Than Bird by Alice Miller Pdf

“Marvelous.” —Paula McLain A New York Times Book Review Summer Reading Selection On the eve of World War I, twenty-one-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees meets the acclaimed poet W. B. Yeats at a soirée in London. Although Yeats is famously eccentric and many years her senior, Georgie is drawn to him, and when he extends a cryptic invitation to a secret society, her life is forever changed. As zeppelins stalk overhead and bombs bloom against the skyline, Georgie finds purpose tending to injured soldiers in a makeshift hospital. She befriends the wounded and heartbroken Lieutenant Pike, who might need more from her than she is able to give. At night, she escapes with Yeats into a darker world, becoming immersed in the Order, a clandestine society of ritual and magic. As forces—both of this world and the next—pull Yeats and Georgie closer together and then apart, Georgie uncovers a secret that threatens to undo it all. In bright, commanding prose, author Alice Miller illuminates the fascinating and unforgettable courtship of Georgie Hyde-Lees and W. B. Yeats. A sweeping tale of faith and love, lost and found and fought for, More Miracle than Bird ingeniously captures the moments—both large and small—on which the fates of whole lives and countries hinge.

If He Had Been with Me

Author : Laura Nowlin
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781402277849

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If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin Pdf

If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...

Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket

Author : Hilma Wolitzer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635577631

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Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer Pdf

An NPR Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * An Electric Literature Best Short Story Collection of the Year * Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize The "often hilarious and always compassionate" (New York Times Book Review) collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning “American literary treasure” (Boston Globe), now in paperback-with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout. From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer-now ninety-one years old and at the top of her game-has gained a reputation as one of our best fiction writers, who “raises ordinary people and everyday occurrences to a new height.” (Washington Post) These collected short stories-most of them originally published in magazines including Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post, in the 1960s and 1970s, along with a new story that brings her early characters into the present-are evocative of an era that still resonates deeply today. In the title story, a bystander tries to soothe a woman who seems to have cracked under the pressures of her life. And in several linked stories throughout, the relationship between the narrator and her husband unfolds in telling and often hilarious vignettes. Of their time and yet timeless, Wolitzer's stories zero in on the domestic sphere with wit, candor, grace, and an acutely observant eye. Brilliantly capturing the tensions and contradictions of daily life, Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is full of heart and insight, providing a lens into a world that was often unseen at the time, and often overlooked now-reintroducing a beloved writer to be embraced by a whole new generation of readers.

The Invited

Author : Jennifer McMahon
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385687072

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The Invited by Jennifer McMahon Pdf

A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house, they start building one from scratch, without knowing it, until it's too late . . . In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate abandon the comforts of suburbia and their teaching jobs to take up residence on forty-four acres of rural land where they will begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams. When they discover that this charming property has a dark and violent past, Helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by the legend of Hattie Breckenridge, a woman who lived and died there a century ago. As Helen starts carefully sourcing decorative building materials for her home--wooden beams, mantles, historic bricks--she starts to unearth, and literally conjure, the tragic lives of Hattie's descendants, three generations of "Breckenridge women," each of whom died amidst suspicion, and who seem to still be seeking something precious and elusive in the present day.

Reading Like a Writer

Author : Francine Prose
Publisher : Union Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781908526144

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Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose Pdf

DIV In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humour and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart – to take pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; to look to John le Carré for a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue and to Flannery O’Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail; to be inspired by Emily Brontë’s structural nuance and Charles Dickens’s deceptively simple narrative techniques. Most importantly, Prose cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which all literature is crafted, and reminds us that good writing comes out of good reading. /div

London, Jack: The Complete Novels (Oregan Classics) (The Greatest Writers of All Time)

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Oregan Publishing
Page : 8814 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9791097338480

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London, Jack: The Complete Novels (Oregan Classics) (The Greatest Writers of All Time) by Jack London Pdf

This book contains all the novels of Jack London in the chronological order of their original publication The Son of the Wolf The God of his Fathers & Other Stories A Daughter of the Snows The Call of the Wild The Sea Wolf The Faith of Men & Other Stories The Game Tales of the Fish Patrol Moon-Face & Other Stories White Fang Before Adam Love of Life & Other Stories The Road The Iron Heel Martin Eden Burning Daylight Lost Face Adventure The Abysmal Brute South Sea Tales When God Laughs & Other Stories The Scarlet Plague The House of Pride A Son of the Sun The Valley of the Moon The Night-Born The Mutiny of the Elsinore The Strength of the Strong The Star Rover The Little Lady of the Big House The Turtles of Tasman Jerry of the Islands Michael, Brother of Jerry Hearts of Three The Red One On the Makaloa Mat Children of the Frost Dutch Courage and Other Stories

Hardy, Thomas: The Complete Novels (Oregan Classics) (The Greatest Writers of All Time)

Author : Thomas Hardy,Oregan Classics
Publisher : Oregan Publishing
Page : 8042 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791097338855

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Hardy, Thomas: The Complete Novels (Oregan Classics) (The Greatest Writers of All Time) by Thomas Hardy,Oregan Classics Pdf

Here you will find the complete novels of Thomas Hardy in the chronological order of their original publication. - Desperate Remedies - Under the Greenwood Tree - A Pair of Blue Eyes - Far from the Madding Crowd - The Hand of Ethelberta - The Return of the Native - The Trumpet-Major - A Laodicean: a Story of To-day - Two on a Tower - The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid - The Mayor of Casterbridge - The Woodlanders - Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Life's Little Ironies - Jude the Obscure Includes Bonus two short stories - The Great English Short-Story Writers, Vol. 1 - The Three Strangers

Book Lovers

Author : Emily Henry
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593334843

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“One of my favorite authors.”—Colleen Hoover An insightful, delightful, instant #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Oprah Daily ∙ Today ∙ Parade ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Bustle ∙ PopSugar ∙ Katie Couric Media ∙ Book Bub ∙ SheReads ∙ Medium ∙ The Washington Post ∙ and more! One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming... Nora Stephens' life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.

100 Years: Wisdom From Famous Writers on Every Year of Your Life

Author : Joshua Prager,Milton Glaser
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780393285710

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100 Years: Wisdom From Famous Writers on Every Year of Your Life by Joshua Prager,Milton Glaser Pdf

An extraordinary literary journey, 100 Years celebrates every age from birth to 100 with quotations from the world’s greatest writers. This literary tapestry of the human experience will delight readers of all backgrounds. Moving year by year through the words of our most beloved authors, the great sequence of life reveals itself—the wonders and confinements of childhood, the emancipations and frustrations of adolescence, the empowerments and millstones of adulthood, the recognitions and resignations of old age. This trove of wisdom—featuring immortal passages from Arthur Rimbaud, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, David Foster Wallace, William Shakespeare, Herman Melville, Jane Austen, and Maya Angelou, among many others—reminds us that the patterns of life transcend continents, cultures, and generations. As Thomas Mann wrote of our most shared human experience: "It will happen to me as to them." Designed by the legendary Milton Glaser, who created the I ♥ NY logo, 100 Years brings together color, type, and text to illuminate the ebb and flow of an entire life.

The History of Love: A Novel

Author : Nicole Krauss
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393342840

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The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss Pdf

ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE. A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But it wasn’t always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book…Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of "extraordinary depth and beauty" (Newsday).

Our Greatest Writers

Author : John Carrington
Publisher : How To Books Ltd
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1857039025

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Our Greatest Writers by John Carrington Pdf

Carrington takes the reader on an exploration of English literary heritage by reading small, digestible sections which form an ordered programme. Meet all the major English writers - who they were, what they wrote, their finest work and its significance.

Lovers

Author : John Miller,Aaron Kenedi
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0821226126

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Lovers by John Miller,Aaron Kenedi Pdf

Photographs and essays celebrate fifty notable romances of the twentieth century