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Madame de Treymes
Edith Wharton - -
"Madame de Treymes exhibits Wharton's subtle realism and is one of her works depicting Americans living in France. It tells of Fanny de Malrive, née Frisbee, a once free-spirited New Yorker now married to a French marquis. Like several of Wharton's female protagonists, she is trapped within an unhappy marriage as well as being constricted by the ...
Altogether in the Shifting World
Mauro Mevlud Martino - -
It has taken me a lifetime to know who I was, who I am, and who I am becoming. Today, I see a sprawling panorama of images full of vibrant characters that helped to orchestrate this life of mine. And today, I can clearly see that the fuel for such a life was an audacious love for the quest that would lead to the ONE TRUE HUMAN ...
Cane (Wisehouse Classics Edition)
Jean Toomer - -
Cane is a 1923 novel by noted Harlem Renaissance author Jean Toomer. The novel is structured as a series of vignettes revolving around the origins and experiences of African Americans in the United States. The vignettes alternate in structure between narrative prose, poetry, and play-like passages of dialogue. As a result, the novel has ...
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
George Orwell - -
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock’s romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results. Orwell wrote the book in 1934 and 1935, when he was living at various locations ...
