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1) Derby Day
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
Derby day finally arrives, and while Mr. Gresham struggles to understand his aggressive daughter's marriage to Mr. Happerton, Mr. Pardew--suspected of having robbed a mail train--prepares to attend the event at Epsom Downs Racecourse, Captain McTurk tries to stop him, and a group of spectators develop an interest in the performance of champion horse Tiberious.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Who were the Lost Girls? Chic, glamorous, and bohemian, as likely to be found living in a rat-haunted maisonette as dining at the Ritz, Lys Lubbock, Sonia Brownell, Barbara Skelton, and Janetta Parlade cut a swath through English literary and artistic life at the height of World War II."--Amazon.
Three of them had affairs with Lucian Freud. One of them married George Orwell. Another became the mistress of the King of Egypt. All of them were associated...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Since its publication nearly 70 years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about it, TV viewers watch a reality show named for it, and a White House spokesperson tells of "alternative facts." The world we live in is often described as an Orwellian one, awash in inescapable surveillance...