W. A. Dwiggins
2) The fields
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English
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Continues the saga of Sayward Luckett Wheeler, who marries the educated New Englander, Portious, and bears him eight children. As pioneer, wife, and mother, she struggles to create a home in the wilderness for her family.
3) Java Head
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English
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An Englishman returns from a long sea voyage with a Chinese wife. In Bristol, England in the early 1800's, this causes a great scandal.
4) Orley Farm
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English
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Lengthy novel of family life, a drama of guilt and shame based on the forged codicil to a will.
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English
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""Are we to go on until we are old, with just these odd moments here and there and danger always so narrowly evaded? Love draining away our vitality, our hold on life, never adding anything to us." Blindness and betrayal are Elizabeth Taylor's great subjects, and in A View of the Harbour she turns her unsparing gaze on the emotional and sexual politics of a seedy seaside town that's been left behind by modernity. Tory, recently divorced, is having...
10) The lady
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1957.
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English
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Rivalry between sheepmen and cattlemen in early nineteenth-century New Mexico. Ellen the enigmatic lady of the title is the person around whom the story turns.
17) Paraphs
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A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1928.
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English
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Speculative short writings purportedly composed by the erudite Dr. Püterschein and presented by the supposititious Society of Calligraphers.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1955.
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English
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A journey through the New Mexican desert led by Michael, a rug-weaver. Michael shares with his companions his intuitions of the simple, essential relations between the individual and the primitive and natural worlds of which he is a part.--Publisher's description.
