The Southern Review
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Page : 518 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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Page : 518 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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Author : San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
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Page : 758 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Concerts
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Author : Janos Szekely
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1681374374
A Dickensian coming-of-age tale about poverty, sex, World War I, and the darker side of human nature as seen through the eyes of a lobby boy in a Budapest hotel. Temptation is a rediscovered masterwork of twentieth-century fiction, a Dickensian tale of a young man coming of age in Budapest between the wars. Illegitimate and unwanted, Béla is packed off to the country to be looked after by a peasant woman the moment he is born. She starves and bullies him, and keeps him out of school. He does his best to hold his own, and eventually his mother brings him back to live with her in the city. In thrall to his feckless father, Mishka, and living in a crowded tenement, she works her fingers to the bone, while Béla shares a room with a hardworking prostitute. Finally, Béla secures a job in a fancy hotel. Though exhausted by endless work, he is fascinated by the upper-crust world that his new job exposes him to; soon he is embroiled with a rich, damaged, and dangerous woman. The atmosphere of Budapest is increasingly poisoned by the appeal of fascism, while Béla grows ever more aware of how power and money keep down the working classes. In the end, with all the odds still against him, he musters the resolve to set sail for a new future.
Author : Mrs. Henry Wood
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Page : 494 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 1885
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Author : Raphael Semmes
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Page : 878 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Confederate States of America
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Author : Edgar Wallace
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Page : 360 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Detective and mystery stories
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A Foreign Office investigator must catch a cold-blooded killer who beheads his victims.
Author : Charles Alden Seltzer
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Page : 388 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Cattle trade
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Author : Charles Seltzer
Publisher : Litres
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 504048030X
Author : George Jean Nathan
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Page : 770 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Literature, Modern
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Author : Bayard Taylor
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Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 1892
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