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Includes four stories that illuminate the author's love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape.
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Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, but was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. This book is a collection of documents from the history of wome ...
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The Empress Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, made the historic pilgrimage to Palestine, found pieces of wood from the true Cross, and built churches at Bethlehem and Olivet. This book covers the enormous conflicting forces of the age, and the corruption, treachery, and ma ...
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Sounds a clarion warning to the world.
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Presents the record of the author's struggle to 'fashion his inner life for himself'.
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Coloured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky's childhood equipped him to understand - in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev - the life of the ordinary Russian. This volume of an autobiographical trilogy, was in part an act of exorcism. It describes a life begun in the ...
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Waugh writes of the eccentric men and women who contributed to his genius. His childhood was mostly warm and bright, his days at school mainly unagreeable, but his life at Oxford was hedonistic. He remembers his generation there, and closes with his experiences as a schoolmaster.
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Originally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette , this book presents stories that were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. It is about the barriers between the races, the classes and the sexes; and about in ...
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Features characters that highlight London's concern with social issues.
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Bakha is a young man, proud and even attractive, yet none the less he is an outcast in India's caste system: an Untouchable. This novel describes a day in the life of Bakha, sweeper and toilet-cleaner, as he searches for a meaning to the tragic existence he has been born into - a ...
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