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This is a book to read slowly, to savour its vitality and variety, one to return to and find new pleasures with each reading." [5] Sameer Rahim in The Telegraph does have some misgivings, though: "Reading this collection is like spending an afternoon in a well-stocked library in the company of an erudite and playful companion. Smith delights in ...
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [2]
Tommy Gilhooly in the Literary Review said the collection is "mischievous, often raunchy and always teetering on perversity". [2]Emma Beddington in The Spectator called one story "compellingly gruesome" and wrote: "Bradshaw relishes the grotesque and improbable; his set-ups are outrageously inventive" but that "characters are sympathetically drawn and their longings, insecurities, vanities and ...
Bookleggers has been an active participant in local events throughout South Florida, bringing free books to communities from the Everglades National Park and Key West to Biscayne Bay. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Bookleggers has rescued books from across South Florida, including a significant haul from the Miami Herald's former office building. [ 1 ]
By October 2005, fifty-nine volumes had been printed. Each unabridged volume is book size octodecimo, or 4 x 6-1/2 inches, printed in hardback, on high-quality paper, bound in real cloth, and contains a dust jacket. In 2015, The Collector's Library was acquired by Pan Macmillan. [1]
Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories is a posthumous collection of Hemingway's short fiction, published in 1995. Introduced by James Fenton, it is published in the UK only by Random House as part of the Everyman Library. The collection is split in two parts.
The Soldiers' Free Library grew to hold approximately six thousand books and other monographs. Popular donations were Bibles, Shakespeare, and Uncle Tom's Cabin, but the collection also included stories for young readers, scientific texts, Charles Dickens' novels, poetry collections, hymnals, and histories. [10]