Last Vanities

Author : Fleur Jaeggy
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811213749

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Last Vanities by Fleur Jaeggy Pdf

A dementedly prim wife spies on her husband and is hammered to death by his paramour of the moment; a seemingly kind maid who mothers a wealthy orphan sets the house on fire; a retired couple are about to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary when the husband throws himself out the window, or does his wife give him a little help? Set in mundane, repressed middle-class environments, these tales pivot on terrible slips off the leash.

Author : John Whitson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600011766

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The aged Christian's final farewell to the world and its vanities. To which is prefixed, some account of the author, by G.S. Catcott. [Entitled.] A pious meditation. With additional memoirs collected by J. Eden by John Whitson Pdf

Author : Arlene Corwin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781465306128

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Circling Around Vanities by Arlene Corwin Pdf

For me, each poem to suggest a universal, despite each poem coming out of personal limited experience. I've always believed that someone out there will identify with the subject matter-the more broad-minded the reader the broader the identification.

Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086838216

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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Pdf

Author : Frederic Marshall
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385226548

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International Vanities by Frederic Marshall Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author : T.G. Bowles,O.A. Fry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : English periodicals
ISBN : NYPL:33433096096221

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Vanity Fair by T.G. Bowles,O.A. Fry Pdf

A periodical in part famous for the cartoon portraits of politicians and public figures. These were mainly by "Spy" (i.e. Sir Leslie Ward) and "Ape" (i.e. Carlo Pellegrini).

Author : Tamasailau M. Suaalii-Sauni,Maualaivao Albert Wendt,Naomi Fuamatu,Upolu Luma Va’ai,Reina Whaitiri,Stephen L. Filipo
Publisher : Huia Publishers
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781775501831

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Whispers and Vanities by Tamasailau M. Suaalii-Sauni,Maualaivao Albert Wendt,Naomi Fuamatu,Upolu Luma Va’ai,Reina Whaitiri,Stephen L. Filipo Pdf

This collection of essays and selected poetry responds to an address on Samoan religious culture given by Samoa’s Head of State, His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta’isi Tupuola Tufuga Efi, to the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions. The address challenges some fundamental aspects of and assumptions in modern Samoan indigenous religious culture. The essays and poetry form a carefully woven critique, from within and outside Samoa, of aspects of Samoa’s religious and cultural values.

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429960564

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The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe Pdf

Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" (The National Review) “A page-turner . . . Brilliant high comedy.” (The New Republic) Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him, licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of the human comedy, of New York in the 1980s, a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and burning with the itch to Grab It Now. Wolfe's novel is a big, panoramic story of the metropolis that reinforces the author's reputation as the foremost chronicler of the way we live in America. Adapted to film in 1990 by director Brian De Palma, the movie stars Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Morgan Freeman.

Author : Tim Albritton,Paul McCusker
Publisher : Baker's Plays
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Sacred musicals
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Meaning of Life and Other Vanities by Tim Albritton,Paul McCusker Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Fashion
ISBN : MSU:31293018576706

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Vanity Fair by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fleur Jaeggy
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811229043

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Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy Pdf

On the heels of I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives, here is Jaeggy's fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund cover A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Fréderique, the apparently perfect new girl. In Tim Parks’ consummate translation (with its “spare, haunting quality of a prose poem,” TLS), Sweet Days of Discipline is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.

Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1429922966

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At Large and At Small by Anne Fadiman Pdf

In At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay—a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniaturist focus on everyday experiences. With the combination of humor and erudition that has distinguished her as one of our finest essayists, Fadiman draws us into twelve of her personal obsessions: from her slightly sinister childhood enthusiasm for catching butterflies to her monumental crush on Charles Lamb, from her wistfulness for the days of letter-writing to the challenges and rewards of moving from the city to the country. Many of these essays were composed "under the influence" of the subject at hand. Fadiman ingests a shocking amount of ice cream and divulges her passion for Häagen-Dazs Chocolate Chocolate Chip and her brother's homemade Liquid Nitrogen Kahlúa Coffee (recipe included); she sustains a terrific caffeine buzz while recounting Balzac's coffee addiction; and she stays up till dawn to write about being a night owl, examining the rhythms of our circadian clocks and sharing such insomnia cures as her father's nocturnal word games and Lewis Carroll's mathematical puzzles. At Large and At Small is a brilliant and delightful collection of essays that harkens a revival of a long-cherished genre.

Author : Mrs. Gilchrist
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752397598

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Mary Lamb by Mrs. Gilchrist Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Mary Lamb by Mrs. Gilchrist

Author : Henry Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Christian biography
ISBN : UOM:39015022648425

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The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher, Consort and Relict of the Rev. John Fletcher, Vicar of Madely, Salop by Henry Moore Pdf

Author : Henry Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Methodist Church
ISBN : BL:A0021687860

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The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher by Henry Moore Pdf