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  • Justine

    Rediscover One of the Century’s Greatest Romances

    by Lawrence Durrell and 1 more

    Rediscover one of the twentieth century's greatest romances: this seductive tale of four tangled lovers in wartime Egypt, introduced by André Aciman (Call Me By Your Name and Find Me), is 'wonderful' (Elif Shafak)I remembered Justine saying harshly as she lay in bed: 'We use each other like axes to cut down the ones we really love'.Alexandria: the great winepress of love. Trams, palm trees, and wa ... Read more

    € 10,24

  • For The Century's End

    Poems 1990-1999

    by John M. Haines

    series Pacific Northwest Poetry Series
    Poet and essayist John Haines has forged, in his long career, a body of work noted both for its austere lyric beauty, anchored in the solitude and spaciousness of his early years as a homesteader in the Alaskan wilderness, and for its penetrating responsiveness to the human condition. The generous selection of poems in For the Century�s End conveys, in form and substance, the singular and ... Read more

    € 13,29

  • Home school of the century's progress;

    by Boyd and 1 more

    Free

  • Faith and doubt in the century's poets

    by Richard Acland Armstrong

    Free

  • Faith and Doubt in the Century's Poets

    by Richard Acland Armstrong

    Free

  • Faith and Doubt in the Century's Poets

    by Richard Acland Armstrong

    Free

  • Who Killed Tom Thomson?

    The Truth about the Murder of One of the 20th Century's Most Famous Artists

    by John Little

    Tom Thomson was Canada's Vincent van Gogh. He painted for a period of five years before meeting his untimely death in a remote wilderness lake in July 1917. He was buried in an unofficial grave close to the lake where his body was found. About eight hours after he was buried, the coroner arrived but never examined the body and ruled his death accidental due to drowning. A day and a half later, ... Read more

    € 17,66

  • Threads of The War, Volume I: Personal Truth Inspired Flash-Fiction of The 20th Century's War

    Threads of The War, #1

    by Jeremy Strozer

    series Threads of The War #1
    “You are getting to be a budding WEB Griffin. Putting a bit of a face on real events in war.”— PatRaw personal emotions. Human trial, triumph and tragedy. Can we experience War through the eyes of the soldiers and civilians who lived it?See the sites, hear the sounds, and read short stories of war from a unique perspective: behind the eyes and in the mind of its participants. From the seats of a ... Read more

    € 2,99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Keynes

    The Twentieth Century's Most Influential Economist

    by Peter Clarke

    In the midst of our current economic crisis, we peer anxiously into an uncertain future and try to put things in perspective by looking to the past. One name above all keeps on cropping up: John Maynard Keynes, who first came to public attention on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 1920s, when the depression in Britain engaged his attention, with the argument that unemployment needed a ... Read more

    € 9,15

  • I Was Vermeer

    The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger

    by Frank Wynne

    Frank Wynne's remarkable book tells the story of Han van Meegeren, a paranoid, drug-addicted, second-rate painter whose Vermeer forgeries made him a secret superstar of the art world. During van Meegeren's heyday as a forger of Vermeers, he earned the equivalent of fifty million dollars, the acclaim of the world's press, and the satisfaction of swindling Hermann Göring himself, trading the Nazi ... Read more

    € 13,40

  • Smyrna, September 1922

    One American's Mission to Rescue Victims of the 20th Century's First Genocide

    by Lou Ureneck

    The harrowing story of a Methodist Minister and a principled American naval officer who helped rescue more than 250,000 refugees during the genocide of Armenian and Greek Christians—a tale of bravery, morality, and politics, published to coincide with the genocide’s centennial.The year was 1922: World War I had just come to a close, the Ottoman Empire was in decline, and Asa Jennings, a YMCA ... Read more

    € 9,58

  • In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind

    by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

    The extraordinary life and ideas of one of the greatest—and most neglected—minds in history.Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf to Stephen Jay Gould. In an intellectual adventure like Sarah Bakewell's book about Montaigne, How to Live, Hugh Aldersey-Williams ... Read more

    € 30,62