Commonplace, and Other Short Stories

Commonplace, and Other Short Stories PDF Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
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Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Commonplace, and Other Short Stories

Commonplace, and Other Short Stories PDF Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
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Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Garner's Quotations

Garner's Quotations PDF Author: Dwight Garner
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374722145
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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A selection of favorite quotes that the celebrated literary critic has collected over the decades. From Dwight Garner, the New York Times book critic, comes a rollicking, irreverent, scabrous, amazingly alive selection of unforgettable moments from forty years of wide and deep reading. Garner’s Quotations is like no commonplace book you’ll ever read. If you’ve ever wondered what’s really going on in the world of letters today, this book will make you sit up and take notice. Unputdownable!

Commonplace, a Tale of Today

Commonplace, a Tale of Today PDF Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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The Raconteur's Commonplace Book

The Raconteur's Commonplace Book PDF Author: Kate Milford
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 035841122X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405

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In this standalone mystery set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Greenglass House by an Edgar Award–winning author, a group of strangers trapped in an otherworldly inn slowly reveal their secrets, proving that nothing is what it seems and there's always more than one side to the story. The rain hasn't stopped for a week, and the twelve guests of the Blue Vein Tavern are trapped by flooded roads and the rising Skidwrack River. Among them are a ship’s captain, tattooed twins, a musician, and a young girl traveling on her own. To pass the time, they begin to tell stories—each a different type of folklore—that eventually reveal more about their own secrets than they intended. As the rain continues to pour down—an uncanny, unnatural amount of rain—the guests begin to realize that the entire city is in danger, and not just from the flood. But they have only their stories, and one another, to save them. Will it be enough? "Will dazzle seasoned Milford fans and kindle new ones." (Publishers Weekly starred review)

Commonplace

Commonplace PDF Author: Christina G. Rossetti
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ISBN: 9783348074087
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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A Certain World

A Certain World PDF Author: Wystan Hugh Auden
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ISBN: 9780571119400
Category : Commonplace-books
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Poesi og prosa - og meget andet - i udvalg

Commonplace, a Tale of To-day

Commonplace, a Tale of To-day PDF Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
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Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Mary Cannon's Commonplace Book

Mary Cannon's Commonplace Book PDF Author: Marjorie Quarton
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ISBN: 9781843511854
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 157

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'Mary Cannon's Commonplace Book' is centred round 100 recipes written by the author's ancestor, Mary Cannon, between 1700 and 1707. They include some intriguing comments from contemporary sources concerning the use of herbs and spices for medicinal purposes and for protection from witchcraft and the plague.

The Common Place of Law

The Common Place of Law PDF Author: Patricia Ewick
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022621270X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Why do some people not hesitate to call the police to quiet a barking dog in the middle of the night, while others accept the pain and losses associated with defective products, unsuccesful surgery, and discrimination? Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey collected accounts of the law from more than four hundred people of diverse backgrounds in order to explore the different ways that people use and experience it. Their fascinating and original study identifies three common narratives of law that are captured in the stories people tell. One narrative is based on an idea of the law as magisterial and remote. Another views the law as a game with rules that can be manipulated to one's advantage. A third narrative describes the law as an arbitrary power that is actively resisted. Drawing on these extensive case studies, Ewick and Silbey present individual experiences interwoven with an analysis that charts a coherent and compelling theory of legality. A groundbreaking study of law and narrative, The Common Place of Law depicts the institution as it is lived: strange and familiar, imperfect and ordinary, and at the center of daily life.

Dreamers of the Day

Dreamers of the Day PDF Author: Mary Doria Russell
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588366758
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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A schoolteacher still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic travels to the Middle East in this memorable and passionate novel “Marvelous . . . a stirring story of personal awakening set against the background of a crucial moment in modern history.”—The Washington Post Agnes Shanklin, a forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio, has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference convenes, she is freed for the first time from her mother’s withering influence and finds herself being wooed by a handsome, mysterious German. At the same time, Agnes—with her plainspoken American opinions—is drawn into the company of Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell, who will, in the space of a few days, redraw the world map to create the modern Middle East. As they change history, Agnes too will find her own life transformed forever. With prose as graceful and effortless as a seductive float down the Nile, Mary Doria Russell illuminates the long, rich history of the Middle East with a story that brilliantly elucidates today’s headlines.