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Howard Overing Sturgis' "All That Was
Possible" is a successful psychologic
study about a certain "Mrs." Sibyl Crofts,
who discreetly retires to a Welsh
countryside after her London "past."
There, she meets Robert Henshaw, a rigidly |
In his remarkably interesting novel, Howard Overing Sturgis, with a skilful touch, describes life in the rich and self-indulgent aristocratic society. It traces the career of a young man, Sainty, brought up in the midst of great luxury. ... |
"Tim" (1891; sometimes subtitled "A Story of a School Life") is a delicate portrayal of a sensitive boy's devoted affection for an older boy - a very touching story of a tender and self-forgetful character. ... |
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Mature love story explores the power of memory, music and enduring love: Approaching old age, Silas Harmon closes his San Francisco bookshop to retire to the summer cottage in Kentucky where he spent his youth. There he encounters - for the first time in fifty-five years - the lonely Polish refugee with whom he had a love affair when he was sixteen and she was thirty-two. Together they must now confront how that forbidden alliance influenced both their lives and how it will influence the few years ahead of them... More... |
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The long-unprinted novel is considered an authentic portrait of the 1920s and explores the eternal search for happiness First published in 1925, the novel centers around a wide cast of characters whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mysterious Gunnar O'Grady in 1920s New York. Though, like most Van Vechten novels, there is more than actually meets the eye."Of the four (out of seven) novels that deal directly with what he called 'the splendid drunken twenties' in New York, Firecrackers was published at the heart of the period and comes closest to depicting the Jazz Age in all its variety." More... |
Tribal and social affiliations and the student
riots at the University of Zambia, in a captivating and intelligent story
about love, political involvement and individual responsibilities. ---
This is one of the most realistic and passionate contemporary novels about
the life of young people in today's Africa, written by Malama Katulwende,
a Zambian poet and intellectual. Based on real events, this novel provides
an insight into African history, daily life, and culture, at the example
of an oppressive society. Imagine Europe's revolts of 1968 in Austral
Africa... |
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LINGUISTICS: SOCIETY–SATIRE:
Malama Katulwende: Bitterness (An African Novel from Zambia)
Oscar
Wilde (et al.): Teleny
or The Reverse of the Medal (Gay
Erotic Classic)
Emile
Zola: Honoré
de Balzac:
(last names in alphabetical order): Adelbert
von Chamisso:
Theodor Fontane: Wilhelm Hauff (Austrian): Bernhard Kellermann: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing:
Martin
Andersen Nexø (Nexö):
Gabriele
D'Annunzio:
Adam Mickiewicz:
(last names in alphabetical order):
Sinclair
Lewis:
(last names in alphabetical order): Jane
Austen: Rudyard Kipling: Tim - A Story of School Life (Gay Classic Series) Belchamber All That Was Possible Herbert George (H.G.) Wells: |
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