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Sobranie sochinenii v dvadtsati dvukh tomakh Sobranie sochinenii v dvadtsati dvukh tomakh Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoy Translation from various works on Idealism. OL10413840W
The letters of Sigmund Freud to Eduard Silberstein, 1871-1881 The letters of Sigmund Freud to Eduard Silberstein, 1871-1881 Sigmund Freud This collection of nearly 80 letters, written by Freud to his boyhood chum Eduard Silberstein over a ten-year period, attests to an early, whimsical life and to the existense of a deeply sensitive, o… OL1069575W
Jane Eyre Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where s… OL1095427W
Letters and recollections of Alexander Agassiz Letters and recollections of Alexander Agassiz Alexander Agassiz Biography of an American naturalist who visited several Pacific Islands during five exhibitions between 1891-1905. OL1116484W
A noble combat A noble combat Shiela Grant Duff Adam von Trott, 24, a German Rhodes scholar, and Shiela Duff, 18, intellectually precocious daughter of the British aristocracy, met at Oxford in 1931, became platonic comrades and shared a dream of … OL11284617W
Anne Thackeray Ritchie Anne Thackeray Ritchie Anne Thackeray Ritchie Peopled with such literary figures as Tennyson, Trollope, Browning, George Eliot, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, this book provides Anne Thackeray Ritchie's complete journals written in 1864–65 and… OL1147067W
Homage to Catalonia Homage to Catalonia George Orwell [Homage to Catalonia][1] is [George Orwell][2]'s account of his experiences fighting in the 'Spanish Civil War'. Alongside many British workers, trades unionists, and socialists keen to help the Span… OL1168169W
Lettres à Germaine Lucas-Championnière Lettres à Germaine Lucas-Championnière John Dos Passos Mademoiselle, S'il vous plait, qui est Darius Milhaud? Les jeunes gens se sont rencontrés en juin 1919 à un concert Koubitzky salle Gaveau. L'armistice conclu, Dos Passos est à Paris en attendant… OL1217919W
W. A. Unkrig W. A. Unkrig Sven Hedin,Franke, Herbert,Hartmut Walravens,W. A. Unkrig Die Korrespondenz des Mongolisten und russisch-orthodoxen Theologen Unkrig gibt ein anschauliches Bild seiner wissenschaftlichen Arbeit und seiner Unterstutzung des Volkerkundlers und Nordsibirienspe… OL12708101W
Eine revolutionäre Ehe in Briefen Eine revolutionäre Ehe in Briefen Karin Huser Es gibt Menschen, die bereit sind, für eine Idee alles zu geben. Dies trifft auch auf die russische Sozialrevolutionärin Lidija Petrowna Kotschetkowa und den Schweizer Anarchisten Fritz Brupbacher zu… OL12770142W
The Hammonds of Redcliffe The Hammonds of Redcliffe Hammond family. James Henry Hammond (1807-1864) was born at Stoney Battery, South Carolina to Elisha (1774-1829) and Catherine Fox Spann Hammond (1785-1864). In 1831 he married Catherine Elizabeth Fitzsimons (1814-1… OL13317696W
The Crying Tree The Crying Tree Naseem Rakha Irene and Nate Stanley are living a quiet and contented life with their two children, Bliss and Shep, on their family farm in southern Illinois when Nate suddenly announces he's been offered a job as… OL13614503W
The poet and the diplomat The poet and the diplomat Saint-John Perse "Alexis Leger - later known as the poet Saint-John Perse - and Dag Hammarskjold were important figures in diplomatic and literary spheres, and their lives shared a number of uncanny parallels that ev… OL1412803W
Selected letters of John Keats Selected letters of John Keats John Keats "The letters of John Keats are, T. S. Eliot remarked, "what letters ought to be; the fine things come in unexpectedly, neither introduced nor shown out, but between trifle and trifle." This new editi… OL1455219W
Poems by John Keats Poems by John Keats John Keats Twenty-five poems by one of the English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century. OL1455259W
Cartas Cartas Severo Sarduy "Estas cartas, documentos, poemas - en la tipografía de aquellas viejas Olivettis - y fotos amarillosas por los años y la nostalgia, no sólo dan una visión de la amistad entre Sarduy y su destina… OL14951997W
Screams from the Balcony Screams from the Balcony Charles Bukowski Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised … OL14955428W
The letters of Machiavelli The letters of Machiavelli Niccolò Machiavelli "This collection of the most brilliant and characteristic familiar letters of Machiavelli is the first such collection available in English."--Back cover. OL15021784W
The Girls' life awesome advice guide to everything The Girls' life awesome advice guide to everything Carol Weston Compiles the best advice from "Girls' Life Magazine" about family, friends, and growing up. OL15140759W
Lady sings the blues Lady sings the blues Billie Holiday The autobiography of the famous jazz singer, describing her life from her childhood in the Baltimore slums to the drug addiction that tarnished her success. OL15144433W
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