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The Little Bookroom: Eleanor Farjeon's Short Stories for Children Chosen by Herself
Little
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Eleanor Farjeon
Farjeon
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"Eleanor Farjeon is a master at presenting the world as romance. Yet there is bite in it. Her worlds of imagination are no simpering constructions, all syrup and sugar, with fairies uprooted from their antique and awesome lineage. They are shadowed with weeping now and then, but the strongest note is affirmation, an exuberance of joy." —The Horn Book
Contributors: Rumer Godden , Edward Ardizzone |
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Troubles
Troubles
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J.G. Farrell
Farrell
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Troubles is a hilarious and heartbreaking work by a modern master of the historical novel.
Contributors: John Banville |
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The Singapore Grip
Singapore Grip
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J.G. Farrell
Farrell
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A sweeping historical novel as well as a stinging satire of corporate power, imperial greed, and military arrogance.
Contributors: Derek Mahon |
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Novels in Three Lines
Novels in Three Lines
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Félix Fénéon
Feneon
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Luc Sante has selected the best of anarchist and art critic Fénéon's vignettes of the darker side of life—adultery, murder, revenge, labor unrest, and suicide—in early-20th-century France. —Illustrated
Contributors: Luc Sante |
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Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Middle Danube to the Iron Gates
Between the Woods and the Water
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
Fermor
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Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in A Time of Gifts.
Contributors: Jan Morris |
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Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
Mani
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
Fermor
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Patrick Leigh Fermor carries the reader with him on his journeys amongst the peoples of the southernmost parts of Greece, exploring their history and time-honored lore.
Contributors: Michael Gorra |
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Roumeli: Travels In Northern Greece
Roumeli
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
Fermor
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Travel writing's very own "cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond, and Graham Greene" explores northern Greece.
Contributors: Patricia Storace |
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A Time to Keep Silence
Time to Keep Silence
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
Fermor
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Patrick Leigh Fermor, considered by many to be the greatest living travel writer, chronicles his sojourns at some of Europe's oldest and most celebrated monasteries in this meditation on the meaning of silence and solitude in modern life.
Contributors: Karen Armstrong |
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The Year of the French
Year of the French
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Thomas Flanagan
Flanagan
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The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Thomas Flanagan's best-selling novel of the Irish rebellion of 1798. "Thomas Flanagan grants this historic period a new and panoramic life." ? Time
Contributors: Seamus Deane |
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The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming
One-Straw Revolution
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Masanobu Fukuoka
Fukuoka
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Call it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book," Fukuoka's short volume about gardening, eating, and the limits of human knowledge is as startling today as it was 30 years ago. "...one of the founding documents of the alternative food movement, and indispensable to anyone hoping to understand the future of food and agriculture." —Michael Pollan
Contributors: Frances Moore Lappé |
