The Rules of Engagement: A Novel
 The "rules" can be harsh and unevenly applied (4.5*s): As seen through the eyes of Elizabeth, a middle-aged Londoner with an upper middle-class upbringing, this book is a most prescient examination of what life can bring in that social milieu: [... more]
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Red Lights (New York Review Books Classics)
It's quarter to three, there's no one in the place: Except you and me So set 'em' up Joe, I got a little story I think you should know We're drinking my friend, to the end Of a brief episode Make it one for my baby And one more for the road Frank Sinatra' [... more]
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The Stories of Edith Wharton
Author: Edith Wharton Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780671655273 ISBN: 0671655272 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: 1988-03 [... more]
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The Next Big Thing
The expectancies of old age: Mrs Brookner portrays the character of Julius Herz, a 73 year old Jewish gentleman whose parents were exiles to London from Germany shortly before the end of the Second World War. His father - and later Julius himself - used [... more]
$14.45
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The Rules of Engagement
The "rules" can be harsh and unevenly applied (4.5*s): As seen through the eyes of Elizabeth, a middle-aged Londoner with an upper middle-class upbringing, this book is a most prescient examination of what life can bring in that social milieu: [... more]
$16.50
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Leaving Home
It is Short, Concise, Well Written, and Clever; Exciting? No.: This is a short and well written story by Brookner, similar in style to some of her other novels. Anita Brookner (born 1928) is an English novelist and art historian. She was born in London [... more]
$13.95
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Visitors: A Novel
One of her Best--and I've Read Them All!: An editor of mine once said to me that he didn't think a wholelot happened in an Anita Brookner novel. "It's like somebody takes a painting off the wall and contemplates the patch of wallpaper that hasn't [... more]
$23.00
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Dolly
stick with it: The beginning of this novel was difficult, dry and slow-paced. It struck me at first as one of Anita Brookner's less successful efforts, a novel that made me understand why she has her detractors. But I kept reading and am glad I did. The [... more]
$15.00
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A Friend from England
A novel full of melancholy: Rachel Kennedy is a solitary and self-sufficient woman who likes to lead a well-ordered life free of commitments and emotional turmoil. She owns a small bookshop in London and one day befriends Heather Livingstone and her [... more]
$13.00
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Leaving Home: A Novel
It is Short, Concise, Well Written, and Clever; Exciting? No.: This is a short and well written story by Brookner, similar in style to some of her other novels. Anita Brookner (born 1928) is an English novelist and art historian. She was born in London [... more]
$23.95
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A Start in Life
Anita Brookner's first novel: In her first novel published in 1981, the author portrays Dr Ruth Weiss who became an authority on women since the publication of her study "Women in Balzac's Novels". The opening sentence in the novel is as [... more]
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Hotel Du Lac (Spanish Edition)
Amazon.com Review: Edith Hope (a.k.a. romance author Veronica Wilde) has been banished by her friends to a stately hotel in Switzerland. During her stay she befriends some of the other guests, each of whom has his or her own tale. Edith struggles to come [... more]
$14.60
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