Memoirs of Hadrian
Novel by the Belgian-born French writer Marguerite Yourcenar about the life and death of the Roman Emperor Hadrian.
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Swallowing Clouds
The emotional plight of a Chinese exile is the theme of Ng’s second novel (after Silver Sister). Born in a mud hut in a village near Shanghai, Syn endures her first exile, to Inner Mongolia, during the Cultural Revolution.
Within This Wilderness
“Ben was on perfectly safe ground when he asked me to come out to British Columbia to see where he was living. Any kid who had gone to the trouble of putting a whole continent between himself and his family could count on their never showing up at his doorstep…” This is the story of …
Germinal
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Travel book written by Dame Rebecca West, published in 1941 in two volumes by Macmillan in the UK and by The Viking Press in the US.The book is over 1,100 pages in modern editions and gives an account of Balkan history and ethnography during West’s six-week trip to Yugoslavia in 1937. West’s objective was “to show the past side by side with the present it created”. Publication of the book coincided with the Nazi Invasion of Yugoslavia, and West added a foreword highly praising the Yugoslavs for their brave defiance of Germany
The Underground Railroad
Network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early- to mid-19th century
Night
Period of ambient darkness from sunset to sunrise during each 24-hour day, when the Sun is below the horizon