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After a rough year at NYU, aspiring writer Lora Ricci is thrilled to land a summer internship at ELLE magazine where she meets Cat Wolff, contributing editor and enigmatic daughter of a clean-energy mogul. Cat takes Lora under her wing, soliciting her help with side projects and encouraging her writing. As a friendship emerges between the two women, Lora opens up to Cat about her desperate struggles and lost scholarship. Cat's solution: Drop out of...
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“Like Richard Russo’s Straight Man this book has a lot to say about the humanities in American colleges and universities…. Very funny and also moving.” —Tom Perrotta, New York Post
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR and Boston Globe
Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary."
Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne...
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR and Boston Globe
Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary."
Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne...
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The Lady of the Shroud (1909) is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Written just before the outbreak of the Balkan Wars, The Lady of the Shroud is a prophetic and politically informed work of fiction that helped to establish the Irish master of Gothic horror's reputation as a leading writer of the early-twentieth century.
When Rupert Saint Leger is unexpectedly named heir to his uncle's fortune, he is even more surprised to learn the details of...
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This pioneering work constitutes a classic modern study of the mystical experience. Author Richard Maurice Bucke, a distinguished progressive psychiatrist, explores the phenomenon of transcendent realization, or illumination. Bucke draws upon his firsthand experience of a life-altering insight to explore the theory of cosmic consciousness, an advance in mental evolution with the potential to raise existence to a higher plane. As valuable today as...
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The Black Robe (1881) is a novel by Wilkie Collins. Written toward the end of Collins' career, The Black Robe shows brilliant flashes of the author's trademark sense of mystery and psychological unease, which made him a household name around the world. Recognized as an important Victorian novelist and pioneer of detective fiction, Wilkie Collins was a writer with a gift for thoughtful entertainment, stories written for a popular audience that continue...
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A 30-something-year-old man, unhappy with his lot in life, once again, enters an old trail to meet a young attractive drifter. The two men, over time, developed a unique relationship. After receiving some life-changing news from his fiancée, the man plans to give his friend a new lease on life. This changes, however, when he stumbles upon a mysterious killer in the woods. Will the man attack, run or experience the fate that befell his friend and...
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Grace Porter is reeling from grief after her partner of seven years unexpectedly leaves. Amidst her heartache, the 30 year-old library tech is tasked with reading newly discovered letters that Amelia Earhart wrote to her lover, Gene Vidal. She becomes captivated by the famous pilot who disappeared in 1937. Letter by letter, she understands more about the aviation hero while piecing her own life back together.
When Grace discovers she is pregnant,...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" by T. Smollett. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature....
10) Amado Señor
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Al escribiente de cartas de Amado Señor la cosa se le desvió. Allí donde planeaba, le confiesa a su destinatario, "armar un universo de ficción" a partir de la primera epístola, "abandonar esta conversación e iniciar otra más indirecta", descubre que no puede dejar de escribir cartas: está cansado de narrar, prefiere el coloquio directo. El escribiente no cree en su interlocutor y se lo advierte, pero su falta de fe lo empuja a un panteísmo...
11) The Sylph
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"The Sylph" by Duchess of Devonshire Georgiana Spencer Cavendish. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our...
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Somewhere around 1969, I began to grow dissatisfied with the underlying principle of most novels - that a disembodied voice in the first or third person was telling us a story.
I liked the idea of novels passing themselves off as documents and drew inspiration from Mark Harris's Wake Up, Stupid and Sue Kaufman's Diary of a Mad Housewife, the first, ostensibly a collection of letters, the second, duh, a diary. (One could, of course, go back further,...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "There Is Sorrow on the Sea" by Gilbert Parker. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Business As Usual by Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford was first published in 1933. It's a delightful illustrated novel in letters from Hilary Fane, an Edinburgh girl fresh out of university who is determined to support herself by her own earnings in London for a year, despite the mutterings of her surgeon fiancé. After a nervous beginning looking for a job while her savings rapidly diminish, she finds work as a typist in the London department store of...
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Shouldn't life be more than simply showing up? Is it enough to be part of a family, make another family, earn your living, and then exit stage left? Or should you engage and be engaged in a bit of purposeful shaking and shoving along the way? These are questions that Kit Bakke urgently needs answered. Tired of self-proclaimed gurus and self-help books, she turns to her childhood role model -- Louisa May Alcott -- for direction. She sends an e-mail...
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Las apariencias pueden engañar, y en un siglo en el que destacan, la joven María Ana De LaTour, noble de 22 años, lo aprenderá, ¡y a qué costo!. Su curiosidad la llevará a escribir a una reclusa de su misma edad que pondrá frente a una realidad que conoce de mucho tiempo atrás, pero que se niega a enfrentar. Cuando la nobleza conoce al tercer estado a finales del siglo XVII, pueden tener tanto que decirse que un detalle trastornar por completo...
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En un tiempo donde las cartas están ya casi en desuso, a través de ellas, se cuenta cada sentimiento entre la musa y quien escribe. Tomando trazas de lo que se vive, se imagina o ambas. Aunque allí vive una guerra donde la soledad, tras mil batallas, lanza el mayor de los ataques jamás imaginado. Abarcando incluso la realidad. Amenazando una pasión que va deshaciéndose como una vela y se viste por momentos de añoranza, de sentimientos confesados,...
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Fortement inspirée et touchée par la dimension mystique du livre Cette aveuglante absence de lumière de l'écrivain franco-marocain, Tahar Ben Jelloun, cette lettre qui lui est adressée est à la fois un regard sur la beauté du monde et son inhumanité.
La narratrice rompt en quelque sorte avec la conscience grégaire o l'on menace de s'endormir, et se met à écrire. Elle est dans un état d'écoute, d'observation, de questionnement... l'écriture,...
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