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Jan.13.2012
Apollinaire – whose writings ranged from plays to experimental poetry, from art criticism to erotica – was at the heart of literary and artistic life in early 20th-century Paris. Both his work and his flamboyant personality had a defining influence on the development of Surrealism, Dadaism and...
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Mar.10.2011
In 1904, en route on the Trans-Siberian Railway with thousands of other conscripts to fight in the Russo-Japanese War, 16-year-old Gregory Sandiuesky becomes the orderly to an officer who he thinks is the father who abandoned him and his mother years earlier. At the front in Manchuria, though...
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Mar.02.2010
It happened slowly at first. Thread by thread, the fabric of privilege and complacency enveloping the Wyndham family began to unravel. A carefree summer at their island house, disrupted by the arrival of long lost kin ended in tragedy, betrayal, and war.
Now, in the compelling sequel to the...
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Mar.02.2010
Muskoka, 1914. It's the Age of Elegance in the summer playground of the affluent and powerful. Amid the pristine, island-dotted lakes and pine-scented forests of the Canadian wilderness, the young and carefree amuse themselves with glittering balls and friendly competitions. This summer promises to...
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