Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got ...
 From Amazon.co.uk: You've seen them: They sip double-tall, non-fat lattes, and chat on mobile phones while driving their immaculate SUVs to Pottery Barn to shop for £25 titanium spatulas. They tread down speciality cheese aisles in top-of-the-line [... more]
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Daniela Rossell: Ricas y Famosas
new approach to portraiture: Rossell's work is groundbreaking in its unflinching examination of the ultra-wealthy of Mexico. We are oddly attracted and repulsed by the women who inhabit the pictures. The images of excess and extravagance are sometimes [... more]
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La Noche Es Virgen
La extraordinaria narrativa de lo sublimemente ordinario: Estoy seguro que es el mejor libro de Bayly hasta ahora. Su narrativa tan ligera y cargada con el realismo de lo cotidiano nos envuelve y nos transporta junto con la fuidez de sus dialogos. Me [... more]
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Wuthering Heights
Two Thumbs Up!: I have finished Wuthering Heights only a few weeks ago, and today I finished Jane Eyre. Wuthering Heights is a work of masterpiece. Do you think it would be the same without the savage-like Heathcliff and the selfish Catherine? There [... more]
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Mansfield Park
From Amazon.com: Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. [... more]
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The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
Gems of Social Reform: This version comprises all 9 of Wilde's fairy tales, which were originally published as two separate anthologies: THE HAPPY PRINCE (5 tales) and THE HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES (4). At least three of these tales have appeared as [... more]
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Sanctuary
So smooth that the reader is instantly ensnared: Edith Wharton was born in 1986 to an upper class family in New York City. She could trace her ancestry back three centuries, and was expected to live an aristocratic life. She was educated at home, and [... more]
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Evening
From Amazon.com: As Ann Lord lies on her deathbed, her daughter delivers a balsam pillow from the attic. At first the ailing woman is confused, but suddenly the scent reminds her of the "wild tumult" she experienced 40 years earlier: Something [... more]
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Les belles images
Ah, french existentialism...: I liked this book a lot, and it was fun to see how well the literature related back into the title. The book explored a lot of "beautiful images" which when further inspected are rather empty and unexceptional. I [... more]
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Out of Africa (Widescreen)
Additional Features: Sydney Pollack's approach to audio commentary for DVD editions of his films is different from that of most other directors. Instead of detailing each scene of Out of Africa, for example, Pollack paints in broad strokes, talking about [... more]
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When We Were Orphans
From Amazon.com: When 9-year-old Christopher Banks's father--a British businessman involved in the opium trade--disappears from the family home in Shanghai, the boy and his friend Akira play at being detectives: "Until in the end, after the chases, [... more]
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Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
The "Real" Black Elite.....: The title of the book (as one review mentioned) should be "African American Upper Middle Class" not black elite. Elite is Oxford Educated (3 generations), Eton/Harrow (or one of the better boarding Schools [... more]
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