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The consolation that relief from the toil of war shall come to me before I am completely done for amongst men, I do not expect; instead, the products of hammers, the hard-edged blade, bloodily sharp, the handiwork of the smiths, buffet and bite me within the strongholds.
The Razor's Edge is a 1944 novel by W. Somerset Maugham.It tells the story of Larry Darrell, an American pilot traumatized by his experiences in World War I, who sets off in search of some transcendent meaning in his life.
In the 19th century, Paris green and similar arsenic pigments were often used on front and back covers, top, fore and bottom edges, title pages, book decorations, and in printed or manual colorations of illustrations of books. Since February 2024, several German libraries started to block public access to their stock of 19th century books to ...
When the English translation was published in 1946, Kirkus Reviews received it as a true account and called it "a subtly brilliant piece of writing" where Malaparte is "whipping the sensibilities to a sharp awareness of the degradation of Europe, of the utter collapse of morality, integrity, and so on".
Sharp Edges' Eugenia has had significant professional success and is not intimidated by Cyrus, who is a business owner. Unlike in many earlier contemporary romance novels, the central conflict in Sharp Edges is a battle for control of work-related endeavors. Eugenia and Cyrus bicker over who should make the decisions as they attempt to solve ...
Le Ton beau de Marot – Book-length examination of a single translation of a minor French poem; Translating Beowulf "On Translating Beowulf " – Essay by J. R. R. Tolkien; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird – Poem by Wallace Stevens that inspired the title of Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei [23]
Sharp Objects is the 2006 debut novel by American author Gillian Flynn. The book was first published through Shaye Areheart Books on September 26, 2006, and was later reprinted by Broadway Books. [1] The novel follows Camille Preaker, a newspaper journalist who returns to her hometown to report on a series of brutal murders. It garnered ...
Porterhouse Blue is a novel written by Tom Sharpe, first published in 1974.A satirical look at Cambridge life and the struggle between tradition and reform, Porterhouse Blue tells the story of Skullion, the Head Porter of Porterhouse, a fictional college of Cambridge University.