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41) Der kleine Prinz
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Series
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
Deutsch
Description
The little prince discovers the secrets of friendship while traveling throughout the universe.
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Series
Harvest book volume HB244
Language
English
Description
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history.
The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. Arendt explores the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, focusing on the two genuine...
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Harvest book volume HB 260
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
A repackaged edition of the revered author's anthology of satirical yet serious essays on evil. In these spirited essays, C. S. Lewis-the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics-discusses evil in the world. Blending irony, humor, and paradox, he tackles religion's...
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Harvest book volume HB 294
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
A highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of Virginia Woolf's work, mainly on literary, personal, biographical, theatrical, and social subjects.
46) Invisible cities
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English
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Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory.
"Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else." In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has...
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Original Harvest book volume HB293
Pub. Date
[1974]
Edition
[First Harvest edition].
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1977]
Language
English
Description
A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and instead they have only tarot cards with which to tell their stories. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, and a fantastic, surreal and chaotic history of all human consciousness.
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Series
Harvest book volume HB354
Language
English
Description
"A repackaged edition of the revered author's definitive collection of short fiction, which explores enduring spiritual and science fiction themes such as space, time, reality, fantasy, God, and the fate of humankind. From C.S. Lewis--the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics--comes...
53) Poems
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English
Description
A repackaged edition of the revered author's poetry -- a collection of verse that exemplifies and celebrates his breadth of knowledge, his wide-ranging interests, both spiritual and earthly, and his never-ending search to find God and understand the mysteries of the world. Known for his fiction and philosophical nonfiction, C. S. Lewis -- the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of...
55) The pawnbroker
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
For most of us, remembering the Holocaust requires effort; we listen to stories, watch films, read histories. But the people who came to be called 'survivors' could not avoid their memories. Sol Nazerman, protagonist of Edward Lewis Wallant's The Pawnbroker, is one such sufferer. At 45, Nazerman, who survived Bergen-Belsen although his wife and children did not, runs a Harlem pawnshop. But the operation is only a front for a gangster who pays Nazerman...
56) Delta wedding
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English
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A vivid and charming portrait of a large southern family, the Fairchilds, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. The story, set in 1923, is exquisitely woven from the ordinary events of family life, centered around the visit of a young relative, Laura McRaven, and the family's preparations for her cousin Dabney's wedding.
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