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62) Lucky Per
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 390
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Lucky Per is ... the ambitious son of a clergyman who rejects his faith and flees his restricted life in the Danish countryside for the capital city. Per is a gifted young man who ...becomes obsessed with a grand engineering scheme that he believes will reshape both Denmark's landscape and its minor place in the world; eventually, both his personal and his career ambitions come to grief."--
63) Florence stories
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An anthology of stories set in Florence by a wide range of great writers, from Dante to Salman Rushdie"--
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 406
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Narrated by a man whose light skin enables him to "pass" for white, describes a journey through the strata of Black society-- from a cigar factory in Jacksonville to an elite gambling club in New York, from genteel aristocrats to the musicians who hammered out the rhythms of ragtime. A complex and moving look at what it meant to forge an identity in a culture that recognized nothing but color.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 409
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In her inventive novels of ancient Greece, Mary Renault performs the alchemical feats of fashioning from the myth of Theseus a convincingly flawed hero and of weaving a thrillingly plausible account of the events that inspired the fantastical tale of the Labyrinth and the Minotaur. The King Must Die follows young Theseus from his mystery-shrouded birth and youthful insecurity about his small size, through his growing strength and ingenuity to a dawning...
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