Elizabeth and Her German Garden was the first book published by author Elizabeth Von Arnim. Originally published in 1898, the semi-autobiographical novel written about a rural idyll became a highly successful book which was subsequently reprinted twenty-one times within its first year. This witty and sarcastic novel has kept the attention of readers for over a century, and once you read this title for the first time, you will be unable to stop rereading it for many years to come.
Stride's photographs, taken year in year out from a similar position out at the tip of Shingle Spit, are of the west shore, its curvature barely worth the description of bay, looking north up the island's edge. The clues rest in viewing ...
One girl with a dream. The true tale of adventurer Laura Bingham's epic cycle ride across South America.
After all their travelling, from the Big Woods and the Prairie, the Ingalls family have found a place to settle - Plum Creek. Now Mary and Laura can go to school as there's a town close by.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is an instant classic that will be read in paperback for decades to come. The Vintage edition includes a new appendix by the author.
This semi-autobiographical novel is preceded by "The Fall of the Pagoda," both originally written in English, and concludes in "A Small Reunion," originally in Chinese. In Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
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The character David Foster Wallace is introduced to the banal world of the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, and the host of strange people who work there, in a novel that was unfinished at the time of the author's death.
And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has.
The author ties together themes and characters from his previous stories as he traces the life and loves of Maureen Johnson, the mother of Lazarus Long
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