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Favorite books of all time, to share our love with you
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Written during the darkest, most repressive period of Stalin's reign, this novel gives substance to the notion of artistic and religious freedom. Despite its devastating satire of Soviet life and its audacious portrayals of Christ and Satan, the manuscript had somehow eluded Russian censors, and the enthusiasm of its readers assured the novel immediate and enduring success. The New York Times Book Review calls this "one of the truly great Russian novels of this century.".
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"In the exquisite imagery of this fairy tale, the poet-writer shares with children something of the mystic's vision and wisdom of life."--New York Public Library.
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Amazon.com
"Oh! In what a wild hour of madness he had killed his friend! How ghastly the mere memory of the scene! He saw it all again. Each hideous detail came back to him with added horror. Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin." In their ideal of an exquisitely sensitive temperament that thrills to fine shadings in sensation, the principles of the aesthetic (or "decadent") movement are well suited to the tale of terror. No story exemplifies this better than Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. The sparkling wit and zest for life of Wilde's characters combine with cold-blooded acts of horror to generate a deliciously twisted sense of elegance and evil, civilization and degradation. Oscar Wilde, like Edgar Allan Poe, shows us that what we find loathsome and frightening can also be beautiful.
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Arch of Triumph
by Erich Maria Remarque
Inside Flap Copy
It is 1939. Despite a law banning him from performing surgery,
Ravic--a German doctor and refugee living in Paris--has been
treating some of the city's most elite citizens for two years
on the behalf of two less-than-skillful French physicians.
Forbidden to return to his own country, and dodging the everyday
dangers of jail and deportation, Ravic manages to hang on--all
the while searching for the Nazi who tortured him back in Germany.
And though he's given up on the possibility of love, life has
a curious way of taking a turn for the romantic, even during
the worst of times. . . . |
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Three Comrades
by Erich Maria Remarque
Book Description
Written with the same overwhelming simplicity and directness
that made All Quiet on the Western Front a classic, Three Comrades
portrays the greatness of the human spirit, manifested through
characters who must find the inner resources to live in a world
they did not make, but must endure. |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Book Description
Probably García Márquez finest and most famous work. One Hundred
Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth
and death of a mythical town of Macondo through the history
of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, alive
with unforgettable men and women, and with a truth and understanding
that strike the soul. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a masterpiece
of the art of fiction. |
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Ingram
During five days in the midst of a hot, steamy Louisiana summer,
the lives of a colorful cast of characters intertwine in a series
of public, private, and personal dramas at the famed St. Gregory
luxury hotel. Book available |
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Reviewer: A reader
Arthur Hailey's novel Airport is surely the book for you, The
story of one night that wouldn't quit. The book immediately
grabs your attention with the lost United food truck somewhere
in the blizzard. Slowly, at first, the reader is introduced
to the problems facing the main characters and one by one they
start to get solved. Not an easy feat, however, with a witty
stowaway, a phsychotic bomber, an arrogant pilot, and even a
suicidal radar operator. The airport manager, Mel Bakersfeld,
certainly has his hands full! The storm continues, the plot
thickens, and the reader can't put the book down. I suggest
you get yourself a copy and enjoy an exciting night at Lincoln
International Airport - |
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