As Alec Valentine returns home to England to care for his ailing mother, which heightens his feelings of inadequacy, his older brother Larry, whose acting career and marriage is failing, prepares to come home as well, and L?szl= L?zar, whose play Alec is translating, finds that, even though his life ...
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In a dazzling weave of story and character, The Chymical Wedding tells two parallel and interconnected tales--one set in the late 1840's, one in the 1980's, both played out in the same English village.
This prize-winning biography provides the definitive account of the life of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, King Henry VIII's guide through three divorces, and ultimately a martyr for his Protestant faith. 40 illustrations. 40 illustrations.
Piracy and betrayal frame the epic story of solitary endurance that inspired Daniel Defoe's classic novel. Who was the real Robinson Crusoe? And what did he really experience during his solitary stay on a remote island in the Pacific? Diana Souhami's revelatory account of Alexander Selkirk's adve ...
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