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A Taste for Intrigue: The Multiple Lives of François Mitterrand

A Taste for Intrigue: The Multiple Lives of François Mitterrand

Philip Short

Philip Short's A Taste for Intrigue will fill the gap and become the standard against which all other Mitterrand biographies are set.
Crossroads in Literature and Culture

Crossroads in Literature and Culture

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Dick, Philip Kindred. 1995b. ''The short happy life or a science fiction writer.'' In: The shifting realities of Philip K. Dick. Selected literary and philosophical writings, ed. Lawrence Sutin, 44-53, London: Vintage Books. Dick, Philip Kindred. 1995c.
Osbert Sitwell

Osbert Sitwell

Philip Ziegler

Osbert Sitwell often behaved outrageously but he was also a gifted author of short stories, travel writing and essays. This biography by Philip Ziegler is a colourful evocation of a rich and unusual life.
Philip K. Dick: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern

Philip K. Dick: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern

Christopher Palmer

Philip K. Dick: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern examines a wide range of Dick's work, including his short stories and posthumously published realist novels.
The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian ...

The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian ...

John Fea

The Way of Improvement Leads Home traces the short but fascinating life of Philip Vickers Fithian, one of the most prolific diarists in early America.
Short-Short Story

Short-Short Story

José Flávio Nogueira Guimarães

This book proposes a study of a new postmodern prose fiction genre, the short-short story.
Philip A. Fisher Collected Works, Foreword by Ken Fisher: ...

Philip A. Fisher Collected Works, Foreword by Ken Fisher: ...

Philip A. Fisher

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, Paths to Wealth through Common Stocks, Conservative Investors Sleep Well, and Developing an Investment Philosophy Philip A. Fisher. Copyright © 1996, 2003 by Philip A. Fisher. All rights reserved.
The BBC International Short Story Award 2012

The BBC International Short Story Award 2012

Lucy Caldwell

Short Stories. Includes all the short-listed stories in the world's biggest prize for the short story form.
The BBC International Short Story Award 2012

The BBC International Short Story Award 2012

Clive Anderson

Short Stories. Includes all the short-listed stories in the world's biggest prize for the short story form.
The Short-Short Story: A New Literary Genre

The Short-Short Story: A New Literary Genre

José Flávio Nogueira Guimarães

This book proposes a study of a new postmodern prose fiction genre, the short-short story.
A Political Companion to Philip Roth

A Political Companion to Philip Roth

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Aimee Pozorski, “On Philip Roth: Ethics and Elegy after the Holocaust,” Philip Roth, ed. Pozorski (Ipswich, MA: Salem, 2013), 6. 2. “Politics,” in Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). 3. Ibid. 4. Philip Roth, I Married a ...
The Cody family in America, 1698: descendants of Philip and ...

The Cody family in America, 1698: descendants of Philip and ...

Lydia Sarah Cody

descendants of Philip and Martha, Massachusetts, biographical and genealogical Lydia Sarah Cody, International Cody Association. 293 Sylvester, b. ... 123 NANCY CODY 5 (John 4, Philip 3, Joseph 3, Philip 1), b. Oct. 6, 1786 at Dudley, ...
Critical Mass

Critical Mass

Philip Ball

Philip Ball ... l have been encouraged as ever by the good judgement of my agent Peter Robinson and the support of my wife Julia. Philip Ball London, October 2003 1.1 1.2 2.1 3.1 5.1 Picture credits Thomas Hobbes by Acknowledgements.
The Best Spiritual Writing 2012

The Best Spiritual Writing 2012

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Philip Zaleski. Tfie 'Best Spiritual 'Writing 2012 4%~ llildly PHILIP ZALESKI 'Tfie ' Best Spirituaf Wrifing 2012 .%~ Ediredfiy PHILIP ZALESKI Introduction. Ixtradurtian PHILIP WDJIC ELY rlrliifl noon Front Cover.
Willa Cather

Willa Cather

Hermione Lee

The author has written books on Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf and Philip Roth and The Short Stories of Willa Cather .
Try to Control Yourself: The Regulation of Public Drinking ...

Try to Control Yourself: The Regulation of Public Drinking ...

Dan Malleck

On normalization, I draw on the work of Philip Corrigan, notably Philip Corrigan and Derek Sayer, The GreatArch: English State Formation as Cultural Revolution (London: Blackwell, 1985), but also Philip Corrigan, “Viewpoint: ...
Walking Dead Omnibus

Walking Dead Omnibus

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Bruce Cooper is just one man—a single cog in the Woodbury machine—but he secretly meant the world to Philip. Other than Gabe, Bruce was the closest thing to a friend Philip had in this world. Philip confided in Bruce, let him see the ...
Steve Reinke: the hundred videos

Steve Reinke: the hundred videos

Philip Monk

Between 1990-96 Steve Reinke juxtaposed short videotapes -- often made with footage from old films and television programs -- with imaginative narrative.
The Exegesis of Philip K Dick

The Exegesis of Philip K Dick

Philip K. Dick

Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the ...
One Day, the End: Short, Very Short, Shorter-than-ever Stories

One Day, the End: Short, Very Short, Shorter-than-ever Stories

Rebecca Kai Dotlich

Very short stories, averaging three pages each, told by a little girl.
Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity

Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity

Philip Short

And all the while he managed to find time for an extraordinarily complicated private life. This is a human as much as a political biography, and a captivating portrait of a life that mirrored Mitterrand’s times.
Materijali za istorijata na Makedonija

Materijali za istorijata na Makedonija

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Ward, Philip, The Small Publisher: A Manual and Case Histories (sec Ward, Audrey Joan) Ward, Philip, Television Plays, The Oleander Press, 1976. 8ViXl I; I6pp; pa/$3.25 (ISBN 0-902675-45-1); Important new British TV drama. Ward, Philip ...
Everett Ruess: His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and ...

Everett Ruess: His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and ...

Philip L. Fradkin

Follows the story of Everett Ruess, a naturalist and artist of the early twentieth century whose disappearance sparked a myth of a romantic desert wanderer.
Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

Jerry Speir

Examines each of Chandler's seven novels--including The Big Sleep and Farewell My Lovely--and his more than twenty short stories to reveal how Chandler's most prized creation--the character of Philip Marlowe--was introduced and developed
Literary life of Charles Philip Brown [by himself].

Literary life of Charles Philip Brown [by himself].

Charles Philip Brown

Charles Philip Brown. Kanadi manuscripts stored up in the India House library, of which I framed a Catalogue, at the request of Professor Wilson. The Honourable Court of Directors in March 1837 bestowed upon me their thanks.
Narrative of the literary life of Charles Philip Brown, etc

Narrative of the literary life of Charles Philip Brown, etc

Charles Philip BROWN

Charles Philip BROWN. that the art will prosper. I hope that it's effects ... Let them only begin with £ endeavours and full determination ; and God will open e way for their progress and final success. As I £ : had to make my own tools : to write my ...

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