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The Rise of Silas Lapham
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William Dean Howells |
The Rise of Silas Lapham is a novel written by William Dean Howells in 1885 about the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. Silas earns a fortu… |
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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
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Michael Chabon |
Im magischen Sommer nach dem Collegeabschluß will Art Bechstein Pittsburgh auf den Kopf stellen. Und wird selbst auf den Kopf gestellt. Er versinkt völlig in den glitzernd bunten Geheimnissen der gra… |
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Last night in Montreal
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Emily St. John Mandel |
Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. She spends her childhood and adolescence traveling constantly and changing identities. In adulthood, she finds it impossible to stop. … |
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Pigeon English
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Stephen Kelman |
Lying in front of Harrison Opuku is a body, the body of one of his classmates, a boy known for his crazy basketball skills, who seems to have been murdered for his dinner. Armed with a pair of camouf… |
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Der Kuß der Russalka
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Nina Blazon |
Russland, 1706. Unter unmenschlichen Bedingungen errichtet ein Heer von Leibeigenen, Handwerkern und Architekten Zar Peters neue Stadt: Sankt Petersburg! Als eine geheimnisvolle Tote aus der Newa geb… |
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The Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at… |
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Nova Atlantis
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Francis Bacon |
**New Atlantis** is an incomplete utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon, published posthumously in 1626. It appeared unheralded and tucked into the back of a longer work of natural history, *Sylva sylva… |
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Old New York (False Dawn / New Year's Day / Old Maid / Spark)
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Edith Wharton |
Contains:
False dawn --
The old maid --
The spark --
New Year's Day. |
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