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The Idiot
(Paperback, Reissue)
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Translated by Constance Garnett; Introduction by Agnes Cardinal; Notes by Agnes Cardinal; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction and Notes by
Agnes Cardinal, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature
at the University of Kent. Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an
asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic
amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of
brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to
tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal
of perfection and Dostoevsky's own views, afflictions and manners.
His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of
every other character in the novel. Dostoevsky supplies a harsh
indictment of the Russian ruling class of his day who have created
a world which cannot accomodate the goodness of this idiot.
An intriguing and complex family story. I was hooked from the first sentence.’ – Nozizwe Cynthia Jele, author of The Ones with Purpose
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it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim -
that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In
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wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine,
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Greenland, about the great forces of nature, the meeting of
cultures and fathers and sons. 1728: The doomed Danish King Fredrik
IV sends a governor to Greenland to establish a colony, in the
hopes of exploiting the country's allegedly vast natural resources.
A few merchants, a barber-surgeon, two trainee priests, a
blacksmith, some carpenters and soldiers and a dozen hastily
married couples go with him. The missionary priest Hans Egede has
already been in Greenland for several years when the new colonists
arrive. He has established a mission there, but the converts are
few. Among those most hostile Egede is the shaman Aappaluttoq,
whose own son was taken by the priest and raised in the Christian
faith as his own. Thus the great rift between two men, and two ways
of life, is born. The newly arrived couples - composed of men and
women plucked from prison - quickly sink into a life of almost
complete dissolution, and soon unsanitary conditions, illness and
death bring the colony to its knees. Through the starvation and the
epidemics that beset the colony, Egede remains steadfast in his
determination - willing to sacrifice even those he loves for the
sake of his mission. Translated from Danish by Martin Aitken, Kim
Leine's The Colony of Good Hope explores what happens when two
cultures confront one another. In a distant colony, under the
harshest conditions, the overwhelming forces of nature meet the
vices of man.
Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous
sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In
it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim -
that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In
this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its
wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine,
Pride and Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular
novels in the English language.
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From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Sierra
Simone comes her steamy, TikTok-famous Priest series, in which
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lust. He's a priest, and here is his confession. There are many
rules a priest can't break. A priest cannot marry. A priest cannot
abandon his flock. A priest cannot forsake his God. Tyler Bell has
had no problem playing by the rules for the last three years after
a family tragedy set him on the path to priesthood. That all
changes when the delicious, sultry voice of Poppy Danforth sinks
its claws in him through the screen of his confessional booth, and
he can't get her sins out of his head. It should be easy to put his
impure thoughts of her to rest, considering the vows Tyler has
taken. It should be nothing to overcome what the sight and sound of
her does to him, when his life with the Church means everything.
But once he has his first forbidden taste of those red lips, Tyler
can't help but break all his rules for Poppy-no matter what it
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ambition of a life time. He had known it from childhood, when as a
poor boy in the Middle-East, he'd been taught by a priest reading
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and Mary Magdalene. But many other characters are new, created by
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through all our arrows. You smile down upon us, And though you are
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of her mobile lab.She scours the country’s forests and valleys, trying
and failing to breed rare snails, while her relatives urge her to
settle down and finally start a family of her own. What they don’t
know: Yeva already dates plenty of men—not for love, but to fund her
work—entertaining Westerners who come to Ukraine on guided romance
tours believing they’ll find docile brides untainted by feminism and
modernity.
Nastia and her sister, Solomiya, are also entangled in the booming
marriage industry, posing as a hopeful bride and her translator while
secretly searching for their missing mother, who vanished after years
of fierce activism against the romance tours.
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truckful of kidnapped bachelors, and Lefty, a last-of-his-kind snail
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memory, from the author of Trust Exercise.
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Her father is carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later, Louisa is
found on the beach, soaked to the skin, barely alive. Her father is
gone. She is ten years old.
Louisa is an only child of parents who have severed themselves from the
past. Her father, Serk, is Korean, but was born and raised in Japan; he
lost touch with his family when they bought into the promises of
postwar Pyongyang and relocated to North Korea. Her American mother,
Anne, is estranged from her Midwestern family after a reckless
adventure in her youth. And then there is Tobias, Anne’s illegitimate
son, whose reappearance in their lives will have astonishing
consequences.
But now it is just Anne and Louisa, Louisa and Anne, adrift and facing
the challenges of ordinary life in the wake of great loss. United,
separated, and also repelled by their mutual grief, they attempt to
move on. But they cannot escape the echoes of that night. What really
happened to Louisa’s father?
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and again to that night by the sea, Flashlight chases the shock waves
of one family’s catastrophe, even as they are swept up in the invisible
currents of history.
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heartgripping investigation of family, loss, memory, and the ways in
which we are shaped by what we cannot see.
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of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never
Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her
childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the
fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the
wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me
Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.
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again, and one that keeps me thinking even after finishing it. 5/5
stars' 'I loved it, every single word of it.' 'It took me wholly by
surprise.' 'Utterly beautiful.' 'Essentially perfect.'
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a devastating expose of the 'Jazz Age'. Through the narration of
Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially
glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore
in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but
wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that
surrounds him. The Great Gatsby is an undisputed classic of
American literature from the period following the First World War
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