A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche: Life and Works
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Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing
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Dead Souls: A Poem
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'Rus! Russ!...Everything within you is open, desolate, and flat; your squat towns barely protrude...
Pleasures of the Table: A Literary Anthology
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This beautifully illustrated collection of food writing includes delectable scenes of cooking and...
Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture
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This lively, accessible book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume,...
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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If it is true that great art comes from great suffering, then the art of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 -...
Energy Security in Asia and Eurasia
Mike M. Mochizuki and Deepa M. Ollapally
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Many states appear to have strong sentiment on energy security and energy transit vulnerability....
Zoe Nock (13 KP) rated The Confessions of Frannie Langton in Books
Jun 26, 2019
Sometimes a book just grabs you from the beginning, something tells you that treasure lies here. I felt that within a few paragraphs of The Confessions of Frannie Langton. Sara Collins prefaced the novel with an explanation of her enjoyment of stories from Georgian/Victorian era but also her disappoint that she didn’t feel represented in the literature from that time. Her love of literature and that lack of inclusion drove her to write a novel that filled a gap, filled a need for women like Frances Langton to have a voice.
And what a voice! The author embodies Frannie so well. The first thing that struck me was that Frannie’s voice shone through immediately. She sounds so authentic, within a few lines you are engaged and intrigued. So much of the prose is beautiful and evocative, truly poetic. Sara Collins describes the people and places so deftly, you sense the weight of a sultry Jamaican plantation and the drabness of a grey London suburb. You can almost taste the boiling sugar cane and fall under the sway of the delicious, devilish ‘Black Drop’. It’s difficult to read this book without imagining a BBC period drama, it really would make a good screen adaptation. There is no doubt that Collins is a gifted and accomplished writer, a weaver of words both seductive and threatening. I really enjoyed this novel and would like to read anything new from Sara Collins.
Community Engagement in Post-Disaster Recovery
Iftekhar Ahmed, Martin Mulligan, Graham L. J. Marsh and Jenny Donovan
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Community Engagement in Post-Disaster Recovery reflects a wide array of practical experiences in...
Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller
Lytton Smith and Guðbergur Bergsson
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“Guðbergur Bergsson achieved success with his novel Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller, which shocked...
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