Author: Paul Charles François Adrien Henri Dieudonné baron Thiébault
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Author: Thomas Hammond
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ISBN: 9780813939674
Category : Circus performers
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"The memoirs of an eighteenth century stable boy, jockey, and trick rider, this book offers a rare first person account of the lower classes of Europe in the time period"--Provided by publisher.

Author: Benjamin Franklin French
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Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Author: Olga Tokarczuk
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 059308750X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 993

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A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ” “Just as awe-inspiring as the Nobel judges claimed.” – The Washington Post “Olga Tokarczuk is one of our greatest living fiction writers. . . This could well be a decade-defining book akin to Bolaño’s 2666.” –AV Club “Sophisticated and ribald and brimming with folk wit. . . The comedy in this novel blends, as it does in life, with genuine tragedy.” –Dwight Garner, The New York Times LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, TIME, THE NEW YORKER, AND NPR The Nobel Prize–winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike, with scandalous rumors of his sect’s secret rituals and the spread of his increasingly iconoclastic beliefs. The story of Frank—a real historical figure around whom mystery and controversy swirl to this day—is the perfect canvas for the genius and unparalleled reach of Olga Tokarczuk. Narrated through the perspectives of his contemporaries—those who revere him, those who revile him, the friend who betrays him, the lone woman who sees him for what he is—The Books of Jacob captures a world on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence. In a nod to books written in Hebrew, The Books of Jacob is paginated in reverse, beginning on p. 955 and ending on p. 1 – but read traditionally, front cover to back.

Author: B F French
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789354503429
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Historical Collections Of Louisiana: Embracing Translations Of Many Rare And Valuable Documents Relating To The Natural, Civil And Political History Of The State (Part V) has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Author: Society of Writers to H.M. Signet. Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 634

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Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 844

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Author: Tatiana de Rosnay
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312370830
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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An American journalist researches the notorious roundup of Parisian Jews and uncovers her French family's war-era secrets.

Author: Detroit Public Library
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 960

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