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A comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96. The play consists of multiple subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot revolves around a conflict between four Athenian lovers, one about a group of six amateur actors who have to act out their interpretation of the play 'Pyramus and Thisbe' at the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. These subplots take place in a forest, inhabited by fairies who control the characters...
786) The boy in the bush
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English
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It is 1882 and handsome, blue-eyed Jack Grant, not quite 18 and "a little sinner" has arrived in Australia from England in search of a new life. He quickly rejects the staid conventions of Perth society for the challenges of the Australian bush. Toughened by his experiences, he emerges a new man.
789) The rainbow: a novel
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters--born to the same father but different mothers--struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become obsessed with locating a third sibling, while also experiencing love for the first time. Momoko, their father's first child--haunted by the loss of her kamikaze boyfriend and their final,...
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Penguin Modern Canadian Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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This final book consists of Montgomery's final sequel to her internationally bestselling Anne of Green Gables. In an unusual twist to her writing style, Montgomery employs a mix of stories, poems, and vignettes, not telling one particular narrative but instead presenting snapshots of new and familiar residents of Glen St. Mary, of Anne and her family, and of their discussions around the poems composed by Anne and later by her son Walter. In these...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1995.
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English
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"Taking place over a short, turbulent period in 1905, Petersburg is a colourful evocation of Russia's capital - a kaleidoscope of images and impressions, an eastern window on the west, a symbol of the ambiguities and paradoxes of the Russian character. History, culture and politics are blended and juxtaposed; weather reports, current news, fashions and psychology jostle together with people from Petersburg society in an exhilarating search for the...
797) Juan in America
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Penguin Books in association with Jonathan Cape
Pub. Date
1987.
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English
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"A satire on American civilization in the form of a picaresque travel account." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation
798) The lonely Londoners
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Penguin Classics, an imprint of Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The Lonely Londoners, an unforgettable account of immigrant experience and one of the great twentieth-century London novels, now in in a stunning Clothbound Classics edition. At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. There, homesick Moses Aloetta, who has already lived in the city for years, meets Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver and shows him the ropes. In this strange,...
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