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Reading Like A Writer»rank: 4936par: Francine Prose
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Goldengrove»rank: 39928par: Francine Prose
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Goldengrove»rank: 55435par: Francine Prose
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The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired»rank: 65374par: Francine Prose
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:When Alice Liddell Hargreaves stood before a crowd of scholars at Columbia University in 1932 to accept her honorary Ph.D. for having inspired one of the masterpieces of English literature, she shone a long-dimmed light on the seminal role of the muse in the creation of a work of art. The book she inspired was, of course, Charles Dodgson's (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll's) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a tale that was born one legendarily 'golden afternoon' when Alice was a mere lass, and that would transform the enigmatic 0xford mathematician into ... |
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The Mrs. Dalloway Reader»rank: 71304par: Virginia Woolf, Francine Prose
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:When Alice Liddell Hargreaves stood before a crowd of scholars at Columbia University in 1932 to accept her honorary Ph.D. for having inspired one of the masterpieces of English literature, she shone a long-dimmed light on the seminal role of the muse in the creation of a work of art. The book she inspired was, of course, Charles Dodgson's (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll's) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a tale that was born one legendarily 'golden afternoon' when Alice was a mere lass, and that would transform the enigmatic 0xford mathematician into ... |
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Bullyville»rank: 87970par: Francine Prose
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:When Alice Liddell Hargreaves stood before a crowd of scholars at Columbia University in 1932 to accept her honorary Ph.D. for having inspired one of the masterpieces of English literature, she shone a long-dimmed light on the seminal role of the muse in the creation of a work of art. The book she inspired was, of course, Charles Dodgson's (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll's) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a tale that was born one legendarily 'golden afternoon' when Alice was a mere lass, and that would transform the enigmatic 0xford mathematician into ... |
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A High Wind in Jamaica»rank: 119249par: Richard Hughes
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A High Wind in Jamaica is not so much a book as a curious object, like a piece of driftwood torqued into an alarming shape from years at sea. And like driftwood, it seems not to have been made, exactly, but simply to have come into being, so perfectly is its form married to its content. The five Bas-Thornton children must leave their parents in Jamaica after a terrible hurricane blows down their family home. Accompanied by their Creole friends, the Fernandez children, they board a ship that is ... |
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Gluttony: The Seven Deadly Sins»rank: 141928par: Francine Prose
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A High Wind in Jamaica is not so much a book as a curious object, like a piece of driftwood torqued into an alarming shape from years at sea. And like driftwood, it seems not to have been made, exactly, but simply to have come into being, so perfectly is its form married to its content. The five Bas-Thornton children must leave their parents in Jamaica after a terrible hurricane blows down their family home. Accompanied by their Creole friends, the Fernandez children, they board a ship that is ... |
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Life and Death of Harriett Frean»rank: 161150par: May Sinclair
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A High Wind in Jamaica is not so much a book as a curious object, like a piece of driftwood torqued into an alarming shape from years at sea. And like driftwood, it seems not to have been made, exactly, but simply to have come into being, so perfectly is its form married to its content. The five Bas-Thornton children must leave their parents in Jamaica after a terrible hurricane blows down their family home. Accompanied by their Creole friends, the Fernandez children, they board a ship that is ... |
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them»rank: 58961par: Francine Prose
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A High Wind in Jamaica is not so much a book as a curious object, like a piece of driftwood torqued into an alarming shape from years at sea. And like driftwood, it seems not to have been made, exactly, but simply to have come into being, so perfectly is its form married to its content. The five Bas-Thornton children must leave their parents in Jamaica after a terrible hurricane blows down their family home. Accompanied by their Creole friends, the Fernandez children, they board a ship that is ... |