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Swallowing Geography

Swallowing Geography

Deborah Levy

Swallowing Geography is a stunning early novel by the Man Booker-shortlisted Deborah Levy. Embedded in this beautifully written novel is Deborah Levy's gift for blending fairytale with biting satire.
Swimming Home

Swimming Home

Deborah Levy

Both profound and thrilling, Deborah Levy explores what it means to be alive and how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves.
The Early Novels: Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography, ...

The Early Novels: Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography, ...

Deborah Levy

Beautiful Mutants, Deborah Levy's feverish allegory of a first novel, introduces a manipulative and magical Russian exile who summons forth a series of grotesques--among them the Poet, the Banker, and the Anorexic Anarchist.
Black Vodka: Ten Stories

Black Vodka: Ten Stories

Deborah Levy

The stories in Black Vodka, by acclaimed author Deborah Levy, are perfectly formed worlds unto themselves, written in elegant yet economical prose.
Beautiful Mutants

Beautiful Mutants

Deborah Levy

Beautiful Mutants is a stunning early novel by the Man Booker-shortlisted Deborah Levy.
Things I Don't Want to Know

Things I Don't Want to Know

Deborah Levy

Taking Orwell's famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a sequence of thrilling reflections on the writing life, this is a perfect companion not just to Orwell's essay, but also to Levy's own, essential oeuvre.
Shoemaker by Levy - The Man Who Made an Impact

Shoemaker by Levy - The Man Who Made an Impact

David H. Levy

No one is better suited to tell the story of Gene and Carolyn than David Levy, in this remarkable book.
Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914

Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914

Kostas Boyiopoulos

Levy's most recent biographer, Christine Pullen, challenges these conclusions, arguing that Karl Pearson was a central figure in Levy's intellectual and emotional life; see The Woman Who Dared: A Biography of Amy Levy (Kingston upon ...
Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

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This book is the first of its kind to be devoted to Levy's work. Combining historical, theoretical and textual perspectives, the volume hosts a wide range of current critical approaches to Levy's fiction.
The Complete Novels and Selected Writings of Amy Levy, 1861-1889

The Complete Novels and Selected Writings of Amy Levy, 1861-1889

Amy Levy

Amy Levy was a talented Anglo-Jewish writer who committed suicide at the age of 28 in 1889.
The American music handbook

The American music handbook

Christopher Pavlakis

Nathalie, 245 Levinson, Herbert, 196 Levy, Frank, 110, 138 Levy, F. Roy, 670 Levy, Jesse, 409 Levy, Marvin David, 231 Levy, Michael E., 250 Levy, Ralph C, 675 Lewando, Ralph, 697 Lewenthal. Raymond. 264, 378, 409 Lewis, Brenda, 393 Lewis, Daniel, 8, 365 Lewis, Eugene S., 709 Lewis, Gerald, 103, 138 Lewis, Henry, 110, 132, 288, 389, 391, 416 Lewis, John, 638 Lewis, John M., 193 Lewis, Edward C, Jr., 538 Lewis, Judd, 545 Lewis, L. Rhodes, 552 Lewis, Lucy, 12 Lewis, ...
The Unloved

The Unloved

Deborah Levy

The Unloved offers a bold and revealing look at some of the events that shaped European and African history, and the perils of a future founded on concealed truth.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, ...

The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, ...

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(J. F. St.) LEVY, AMY (1861-1889), English poetess and novelist, second daughter of Lewis Levy, was born at ... She committed suicide on the 10th of September 1889. LEVY, AUGUSTE MICHEL (1844- ), French geologist, was born in Paris ...
Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism: Passengers of Modernity

Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism: Passengers of Modernity

A. Vadillo

Christine Pullen's speculation that Levy substituted 'Prince' for 'Grant' [Allen] is therefore correct. See Christine Pullen, Amy Levy, 204. Levy began writing ballades in 1888, most of which were compiled in her last volume of verse, A London ...
Reuben Sachs: A Sketch

Reuben Sachs: A Sketch

Amy Levy

A Sketch Amy Levy Susan David Bernstein. Esther represents an updated, converted version of Levy's Xantippe. As a liminal, caustic presence, Esther provides the reader with acute commentary on Judith's intellectual, social, and emotional ...
T. S. Eliot: homage from India: A commemoration volume of 55 ...

T. S. Eliot: homage from India: A commemoration volume of 55 ...

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WILLIAM TURNER LEVY ^ William turner levy is Associate Professor of English and chaplain W to Episcopal students at City ... New York. f Eusebio L. Rodrigues Beyond the Frontier [ A Review ] 212 William turner levy : A Letter to the Editor.
Billy and Girl

Billy and Girl

Deborah Levy

Billy England and his sister Girl are clever, stylish and damaged.
Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring ...

Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring ...

Margaret Wheatley

i, Aeron Miller xii, Meg Wheatley xviii, DanielSeguin.ca 3, Deborah Frieze 6, Paul Winder 9, Deborah Frieze 1617, Illustration by Todd Stewart 18, Deborah Frieze 21, Deborah Frieze 23, Alex Lewin 23, Deborah Frieze 26, Aerin Dunford 26, ...
David Levy's Guide to Eclipses, Transits, and Occultations

David Levy's Guide to Eclipses, Transits, and Occultations

David H. Levy

In this simple guide, David Levy inspires readers to experience the wonder of eclipses and other transient astronomical events for themselves.
Laws of Maryland Made and Passed at a Session of Assembly

Laws of Maryland Made and Passed at a Session of Assembly

Maryland

27, An act for the relief of Douglass Green, of Frederick 1841. County. - Levy of $40 Be it enacted by the General .1ssembly of JMaryland, authorised That the levy court of Frederick county are hereby authorised and required to levy annually, ...
Laws of the State of Maryland

Laws of the State of Maryland

Maryland

27, An act for the relief of Douglass Green, of Frederick 184J- County. Levy of $40 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, authorised That the levy court of Frederick county are hereby authorised and required to levy annually, ...
Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow

Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow

Ralph Schoolcraft

Pierre Calmann—Lévy to Romain Gary, October 11, 1945, Calmann-Lévy Publishers' Archives; emphasis added. 22. Romain Gary to Pierre Calmann-Lévy, October 27, 1945, Calmann-Lévy Publishers' Archives. 23. Blanch would maintain ...
Amy Levy: her life and letters

Amy Levy: her life and letters

Linda Hunt Beckman

Unwilling to cut herself off from her Jewish background, she had the additional burden of attempting to bridge the gap between communities.In Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters Linda Hunt Beckman examines Levy's writings and other cultural ...
Lévy Processes

Lévy Processes

Jean Bertoin

This 1996 book is a comprehensive account of the theory of Lévy processes; aimed at probability theorists.
David Levy's Guide to Variable Stars

David Levy's Guide to Variable Stars

David H. Levy

This book will serve to motivate anyone with even a basic interest in astronomy to begin observing these fascinating objects.
Amy Levy: her life and letters

Amy Levy: her life and letters

Linda Hunt Beckman

After a century of critical neglect, poet and writer Amy Levy is gaining recognition as a literary figure of stature.
When I Met the Wolf Girls

When I Met the Wolf Girls

Deborah Noyes

Deborah Noyes. Text copyright © 2007 by Deborah Noyes Illustrations copyright © 2007 by August Hall All rights reserved. ... Book design by Carol Goldenberg Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Noyes, Deborah. When I met  ...
David Levy's Guide to the Night Sky

David Levy's Guide to the Night Sky

David H. Levy

Inroduces beginners to amateur astronomy, describes what to look for and when--beginning with the solar system and moving on to the stars--and offers suggestions for better observations.

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