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  2. Growth of the Soil - Wikipedia

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    It is an epic of earth; the history of a microcosm. Its dominant note is one of patient strength and simplicity; the mainstay of its working is the tacit, stern, yet loving alliance between Nature and the Man who faces her himself, trusting to himself and her for the physical means of life, and the spiritual contentment with life which she must ...

  3. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth - Wikipedia

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    A man is released from prison after having been incarcerated for 20 years is shocked by how much everything has changed. British society has learned to cope with occasional outbreaks of giant pests (mosquitoes, spiders, republicans etc.), but the coming to maturity of the giant children brings a rabble-rousing politician, Caterham, nicknamed "Jack the Giant Killer", into power.

  4. A Room Called Earth - Wikipedia

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    A Room Called Earth received a mainly positive critical reception [1] and was listed as "New and Noteworthy" in The New York Times and was selected in Bustle's "Top 20 Books of 2020". [2] [3] The Independent praised the novel as "Extraordinary … The dazzling directness of (Ryan's) prose opens thrilling new doors into the female experience of ...

  5. Expanding Earth - Wikipedia

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    The expanding Earth or growing Earth was a hypothesis attempting to explain the position and relative movement of continents by increase in the volume of Earth. With the recognition of plate tectonics in 20th century, the idea has been abandoned.

  6. Ross Raisin - Wikipedia

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    Ross Raisin was born and brought up in Silsden, West Yorkshire, attending Bradford Grammar School.He is the author of four novels: A Hunger (2022), A Natural (2017), Waterline (2011) and God’s Own Country (2008).

  7. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - Wikipedia

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    Borges inherits a packet containing a book, which was left by Ashe in a pub. That book is revealed to be the eleventh volume of an English-language encyclopedia entirely devoted to Tlön, one of the worlds in which Uqbar's legends are set. The book contains two oval blue stamps with the words Orbis Tertius inscribed in blue. From that point, as ...

  8. Raisin (musical) - Wikipedia

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    Raisin is a musical with music by Judd Woldin, lyrics by Robert Brittan, and a book by Robert Nemiroff and Charlotte Zaltzberg. It is an adaptation of the Lorraine Hansberry play A Raisin in the Sun; the musical's book was co-written by Hansberry's husband, Robert Nemiroff. The story concerns an African-American family in Chicago in 1951.

  9. Inverted World - Wikipedia

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    Inverted World (The Inverted World in some editions) is a 1974 science fiction novel by British writer Christopher Priest (1943–2024). The novel's basic premise was first used in the short story "The Inverted World" included in New Writings in SF 22 (1973), which had different characters and plot.