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Language
English
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Mr. Artur Sammler is, above all, a man who has lasted, from the civilized pleasures of English life in the 1920s and 30s through the war and death camps in Poland. Moving now through the chaotic and dangerous streets of New York's Upper West Side, Mr. Sammler is attentive to everything, and appalled by nothing. He brings the same dispassionate curiosity to the activities of a black pickpocket on an uptown bus, the details of his niece Angela's
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Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
Presents a delicious and cruel X-ray depiction of Mexican intellectuals, as powerful as they are corrupted by their urge for supremacy--an attribute that links these men of letters with politicians and wild beasts.
Ofrece una radiografía deliciosa y cruel de la intelectualidad mexicana, tan poderosa como corrompida por su afán de supremacía, atributo que hermana a los hombres de letras con los políticos y las fieras.
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Language
English
Description
"An epic reimagining of the life of Margaret Fuller--America's first feminist and the pioneering journalist who inspired a generation of writers and activists. Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated Sage of Concord, to meet his coterie of enlightened friends. There she becomes "the radiant genius and fiery heart" of the Transcendentalists, a role model...
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