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In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor: Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, and George Eliot--née Marian Evans.

An extraordinary love story of two unlikely figures played out against the backdrop of the Cold War.Best-selling novelist and art historian Iain Pears enchants readers with the real-life romance between Larissa Salmina, a Russian art curator, and Francis Haskell, a British art historian. His fabulous book brings into sharp focus the strange world of the Soviet Union, and the even stranger world of a certain variety of the English elite. It seeks to show how leaving...

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, probably written at the beginning of the second century AD.

A Story of Friendship, War and ResilienceWhen Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Tetyana's life in Lviv changes overnight. Air raid sirens, uncertainty, and concern for loved ones on the frontline become part of everyday reality. In Amsterdam, her friend Marlon reaches out with a simple question: "How are you and your family?" Their exchange marks the beginning of a remarkable conversation that continues through years of upheaval, loss, resilience,...

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving Parallel Lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a source of information about the individuals biographized, but...

Plutarch´s "Parallel Lives" (AKA Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans) is a collection of biographies about great men and leaders from Greece and Rome.The book is structured in pairs of biographies including Themistocles v. Camillus, Pyrrhus v. Marius, Alexander v. Caesar, and Phocion v. Cato the Younger. Plutarch compares the lives of leaders from both the Greeks and the Romans to show how similar they were. He hoped that the comparisons would lead to mutual respect betwee...

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving Parallel Lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a source of information about the individuals biographized, but...

Decisions have a ripple effect, like tossing a rock into a river. All the ever expanding swells are rarely seen until the wave creates tragedy. But what if you could test decisions first without consequences? What if you could know which path to take?Drawn to a mysterious island, people live alongside themselves as they play out their choices. Once a decision is made, they resume normal life.What's behind this? Is it science, magic, or something else? Whatever it is, three ...

"[A] searing melodrama … as characters lose loved ones, wallow in ill feelings, or suffer weighty guilt over their choices. Ferry also offers a gratifying and memorable finale. [A] worthwhile novel about the dangers of rancor and spite." ~Kirkus Reviews In a split-second, Patrick was gone; that moment would haunt Alexander forever. "Parallel Lives" is an enthralling novel that tells the story of Alexander Eastgard and his best friend, Patrick Close. Alexander is an athlete and a scholar wi...

When Harriet Last, a disillusioned insurance adjuster, steps into The Experience, she is skeptical of its promise to show her a better life. The prototype simulation feels out-of-place at the convention, but it’s also an opportunity to hide from her boss. Burnt out from the corporate grind, Harriet hastily signs the terms and conditions and enters a raffle for an all-expenses-paid vacation.Inside, she relives her nostalgic memories with invasive, hyper-realistic accuracy. The unner...

This book explores the articulation between macro-social historical transformations and the opportunities and constraints that the resultant political and property regimes presented for villagers. It builds on ethnographic analyses of rural Eastern Europe by adding an historical analysis of the configurations and reconfigurations of life trajectories across three successive generations. The villagers studied lived a succession of property and political configurations: democratic and author...

Young, beautiful and independent, Amalia refuses to apply traditionalist values to any of her relationships with men. Cynical and highly aware of the realities of an unromanticized modern world devoid of long lasting feelings, Amalia appears to only expect a few moments of fleeting happiness from the men in her life. The opposite sex is often no more than a refuge from mundane problems and deceptions, so the young woman refuses to settle down with any of the men who try to win her affectio...