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(0)Sylvia Townsend Warner
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"In Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner tells of an aging spinster's struggle to break away from her controlling family--a classic story that she treats with cool feminist intelligence, while adding a dimension of the supernatural and strange. Warner is one of the outstanding and indispensable mavericks of twentieth-century literature, a writer to set beside Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles, with a subversive genius that anticipates the fantastic flights...
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"To become a nun in the fourteenth century was often a business transaction rather than a spiritual calling; it is small wonder, then, that the inhabitants of the Benedictine convent of Oby are prey to worldly ambitions, frustrations, pleasures and jealousies. An outbreak of the Black Death the collapse of the convent spire and a disappearance are the dramas that strike this cloistered community, which is brought vividly to life in Sylvia Townsend...
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"In this early feminist classic, a London spinster breaks free from her controlling family and escapes to the countryside. She soon discovers that her new neighbors are a coven of bohemian witches and eventually encounters Satan himself, who is ready to make a pact"-- Provided by publisher.
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En la Inglaterra victoriana, Sukey Bond, una muchacha recién salida del orfanato, es enviada como sirvienta a una granja de Essex. En la granja trabaja Eric, un muchacho apuesto y huidizo que, en sus escasos encuentros con Sukey, la mira «con una expresión de esplendoroso triunfo». Todos dicen que Eric es un idiota, pero Sukey lo ve con otros ojos, se deja cautivar por su bondad y es consciente de que ella y solo ella podrá hacerlo feliz....
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Once and future king volume 5
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The "last" chapter of The once and Future King," which tells how Arthur, Guenever, and Lancelot come to their ends.
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Sophia Willoughby, a young Englishwoman from an aristocratic family and a person of strong opinions and even stronger will, has packed her cheating husband off to Paris. He can have his tawdry mistress. She intends to devote herself to the serious business of raising her two children in proper Tory fashion. Then tragedy strikes: the children die, and Sophia, in despair, finds her way to Paris, arriving just in time for the revolution of 1848. Before...
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Once and future king volume 5
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University of Texas Press
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"Account of King Arthur's last night on earth, rediscovered in a collection of T. H. White's papers at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin"--Provided by publisher.
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Once and future king volume 5
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The long-lost conclusion to The Once and Future King, in which King Arthur faces his final battle against his son.
This magical account of King Arthur's last night on earth, rediscovered in a collection of T. H. White's papers at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, spent twenty-six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list following its publication in 1977. While preparing for his final, fatal battle with his bastard...
