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The black geese
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Alison Lurie |
When her little brother is taken away by the black geese belonging to the terrible witch, Baba Yaga, Elena searches for him in the great dark forest. |
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Des amis imaginaires
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Alison Lurie |
Sous prétexte d'une enquête sociologique, deux professeurs américains en conflit, viennent en contact avec une secte fanatique. Occasion d'une satire assez gratinée. |
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The heavenly zoo
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Alison Lurie |
Sixteen legends of the constellations and how they got their names, taken from such varied sources as ancient Greece, Babylon, Egypt, Sumeria, the Bible, Norway, the Balkans, Indonesia, and the Ameri… |
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Don't Tell the Grown-Ups
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Alison Lurie |
A collection of essays on great children's literature that relates the lives of the authors to the works themselves. |
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The Last Resort
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Alison Lurie |
Like a loyal Victorian wife, Jenny has devoted her life to her much older husband, the famous writer and naturalist Wilkie Walker, bringing up their children and researching and editing his best-sell… |
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Clever Gretchen and other forgotten folktales
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Alison Lurie |
Folktales about heroines, "fair maidens [who] can fight and hunt as well as any man, defeat giants, answer riddles, outwit the Devil, and rescue friends and relatives from all sorts of dangers and ev… |
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The nowhere city
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Alison Lurie |
Caustic condemnation of Los Angeles as seen through the experiences of a young writer and his wife from Massachusetts. |
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The language of clothes
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Alison Lurie |
In this exhaustive and entertaining study, Alison Lurie shows what the clothes we choose to wear say about us. Approaching clothing from four perspectives -- historical, social logical, psychological… |
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Foreign Affairs
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Alison Lurie |
Virginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in London to work on her new book about children’s folk rhymes. Despite carrying a U.S. passport, Vinnie feels essentially English a… |
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Un été à Key West
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Alison Lurie |
Jenny a consacré sa vie à son mari Wilkie. Mais cette année-là, il lui paraît distant et déprimé. Au désespoir, elle le persuade de faire un séjour à Key West, mais rien n'y fait. Plus son mari se re… |
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