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Feb 09, 2022 Book of the Week — Random Passions

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“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...

Apr 20, 2020 Book of the Week — Nemesis of Faith

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"I will not, I must not believe that the all-just, all-merciful, all-good God can be such a Being as I find him there described. He! He! to have created mankind liable to fall - to have laid them in the way of temptation under which...

Oct 23, 2018 ДОКТОР ЖИВАГО: РОМАН

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“No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to...

May 24, 2018 The Great American Read

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Rare Books salutes The Great American Read by inviting you to visit the Special Collections Reading Room on level 4 of the J. Willard Marriott Library to hold first editions of some of the classics included on the 100 list....

Sep 28, 2016 Banned! — Лолита

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«Лолита , свет моей жизни , огонь моих чресел . Грех mой , душа моя . Ло -ли –та…” Лолита Владимир Набоков (1899-1977) New York: Phaedra, Inc., Publishers, 1967 First hardcover edition in Russian First published in Paris in 1955, then in New York City in 1958 and...

May 16, 2016 Book of the week — Traitte Des Diuertissemens, Inclinations, & Perfections Royales

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TRAITTE DES DIUERTISSEMENS, INCLINATIONS, &… Potier de Morais (fl. 1644-1670) Paris: Pierre Moreau, 1644 Only edition DC133.32 P64 1644 Set in the exotic Orient, this novel on the education of a prince was written for and dedicated to six-year-old Louis XIV. Potier de Morais added pedagogy on the art of...

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Feb 09, 2022 Book of the Week — Random Passions

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