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33 Days: A Memoir by Léon Werth; Austin D. Johnston (Translator)
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Neversink Ser.
The first ever English publication of important French author Leon Werth. Restored here with the original introduction, long thought to be lost, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of The Little Prince. Story Locale-The road from Paris to the line just beyond Occupied France Series Overview-The Nevers ...Show more
Gilgi by Irmgard Keun
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Gilgi is a secretary in a hosiery firm, but she's not going to stay there for long: she's disciplined and ambitious. But then she falls in love with Martin, a wealthy businessman, and leaves her job for domestic bliss - which turns out to be not that blissful, and Gilgi finds herself a single mother. Re ...Show more
I Await the Devil's Coming by Mary MacLane; Jessa Crispin (Introduction by)
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Neversink Ser.
Mary MacLane's I Await the Devil's Coming is a shocking, brave and intellectually challenging diary of a 19-year-old girl living in Butte, Montana in 1902. Written in potent, raw prose that propelled the author to celebrity upon publication, the book has become almost completely forgotten. In the ea ...Show more
La Femme de Gilles by Madeleine Bourdouxhe
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Category: Fiction | Series: Neversink
"A haunting, slim novel which has the mesmeric inevitability of a classical tragedy." --Independent on Sunday La Femme de Gilles tells the story of a fatal love triangle written on the eve of World War II. Set among the dusty lanes and rolling valleys of rural 1930s Belgium, La Femme de Gilles is the ta ...Show more
THE TRAVELS AND SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF Baron Munchausen by ERICH RASPE RUDOLF
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Category: Fiction | Series: Neversink Ser.
The restored, unbowdlerized text of Raspe's slapstick travel epic featuring the classic illustrations from Strang & Clark (1895) No one has journeyed to as many foreign lands as Baron von Munchausen. Nor, when it comes time to fire a cannon, will you find anyone more accurate. The comfort of courtl ...Show more
The Difficulty of Being by Elizabeth Sprigge
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Neversink Ser.
By the time he had published The Difficulty of Being in 1947, Jean Cocteau had produced some of the most respected films and literature of the 20th century. This memoir tells the inside account of those achievements and of his glittering social circle. Cocteau writes about his childhood, about his devel ...Show more
The Graveyard by Marek Hlasko
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Category: Fiction | Series: Neversink
This is a gritty tale about Communist Poland from one of the original 'Angry Young Men' Marek Hlasko. When Party member Franciszek Kowalski drunkenly insults a police man, his outburst is taken as criticism of the government, and he is both arrested and expelled from the Party. Kowalski, a true believer ...Show more
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