London and Middlesex Illustrated
Author : John Warburton
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 39,93 MB
Release : 1749
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Author : John Warburton
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 39,93 MB
Release : 1749
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Author : Jeffrey Eugenides
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 39,1 MB
Release : 2011-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307401944
Spanning eight decades and chronicling the wild ride of a Greek-American family through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, Jeffrey Eugenides’ witty, exuberant novel on one level tells a traditional story about three generations of a fantastic, absurd, lovable immigrant family -- blessed and cursed with generous doses of tragedy and high comedy. But there’s a provocative twist. Cal, the narrator -- also Callie -- is a hermaphrodite. And the explanation for this takes us spooling back in time, through a breathtaking review of the twentieth century, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie’s grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set our narrator’s life in motion. Middlesex is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. It’s a brilliant exploration of divided people, divided families, divided cities and nations -- the connected halves that make up ourselves and our world.
Author : Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff
Publisher : ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK SOHO SQUARE
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 41,11 MB
Release : 2015-01-26
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Middlesex, squeezed up as it is among more expansive beauties, and too much overshadowed by the chimneys of Greater London, may not be thought of as a show county. But no shire need hang its head that contains such scenery, still hardly spoiled, as can be found about Hampstead Heath, Enfield Chase, Harrow Weald, and the leafy heights of Pinner, with many islets of pleasant greenery not yet drowned in the brick-and-mortar deluge. Its very misfortune of being so near a rich city contributes one feature of ornament in notably frequent parks, pleasure grounds, and gardens. Then its hills, vales, and woods can boast a special interest in having perhaps inspired more of our great poets than has any larger English county. The writer has explored it in every corner, marking out charms often neglected by those who hurry over its dusty or muddy high roads to reach neighbouring bounds that have not always a better right to give themselves airs of rurality.
Author : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 1908
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Author : William Collins Sons and Co
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 10,14 MB
Release : 1875
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,89 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Middlesex County (N.J.)
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Author : Nevins memorial library, Methuen, Mass
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Page : 522 pages
File Size : 25,33 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Dictionary catalogs
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Author : Thomas Thorpe
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Page : 98 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 1834
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
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Author : Chester Guild
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Page : pages
File Size : 23,42 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Middlesex County (Mass.)
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Author : Duane Hamilton Hurd
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Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Middlesex Co. (Mass.)
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