The Sex Girl: A Novel
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When she arrived in Los Angeles in 1994, one month after the Northridge quake and two years after...
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THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE BOLLINGER SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF ENGLAND'S LANE. 'Connolly unfolds a rich and...
Utopian Visions and Revisions: Or the Uses of Ideal Worlds
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The book focuses on different uses of the concepts of utopia, dystopia, and anti-utopia. The author...
Hesiod: v. 2: Shield Catalogue of Women, Other Fragments
Glenn W. Most and Hesiod
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This volume, which completes the new "Loeb Classical Library" edition of Hesiod, contains "The...
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes and Tom Lathrop
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When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself "Don Quixote" and embarks upon a...
Best Man, Worst Friend (2006)
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When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering (Stuart Townsend), he has to move...
Romance Comedy Seth Green Stuart Townsend
Goethe
Peter Boerner and Nancy Boerner
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is recognised as a giant of world literature; an exceptionally prolific...
A Cultural History of Gardens in Antiquity
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The history of gardens in antiquity is characterized by a rich mix of cultures interacting...
Tom Turner (388 KP) rated The Spy Who Came in from the Cold in Books
Apr 30, 2021
I will admit I struggled mid way through, and without knowing why it's all happening it you could find your mind wandering due to lack of action, - there a lot of chapters that are just two people, and often the same two people, talking. However once you get to the final third all of that makes sense and it becomes a masterpiece. I'm going to take a brief break from Le Carre, but be assured - I'm going to return!!
The Outsider
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THE OUTSIDER was an instant literary sensation when it was first published in 1956, thrusting its...