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Dreams Die First
Gareth Brendan, young, power-hungry and ambitious, dreams of expressing his personal vision of liberated sexuality in a magazine that will deal openly and honestly with sex. So Macho is born, to shock and fascinate with its outspoken views. But for Gareth, success also brings threats and obstruction - from the underworld, from the law, from rivals. Violent confrontations follow one after another as Gareth converts his dream into a flamboyant private empire of total pleasure and hedonism, in which money and sex go hand in hand; in a world so rich it becomes almost too enormous for Gareth to control. Dreams Die First is a raw and passionate novel that exposes the behind-the-scenes world of one man's sex empire - a man who sacrifices his dreams to the reality of success.
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Blood Lies
To escape from bad memories and nightmares in London, Dido packs up Ben and goes to stay with Lizzy Waring in a village in Somerset. At first Dido is enchanted by the surroundings, but she quickly realizes the postcard beauty is just a facade. A darker reality looms in the shadows.
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The Death of Ivan Iiyich and Master and Man
A new translation, with an introduction and notes, by Ann Pasternak Slater. This new edition brings together the very best of Tolstoy's great short stories. The death of Ivan Ilyich and equally brilliant master and Man. Both describe the subjective experience of death meticulously and uncompromisingly. In the snowstorm-inevitable death facing a rich landowner and his peasant employee, each tracing in extremity his own spiritual path. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of morality, redemption, and life's meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales. Ann Pasternak Slater, fellow and tutor in English at St. anne's college, oxford, has written and lectured on her uncle Boris Pasternak's translations od Shakespeare, and is the translator of his brother Alexander Pasternak's memoris. A vanished Present. Her grandmother loenoid pasternak was tolstoy's friend and one of his first illustrators, working with him on war and peace,resurrection and the late short story"what men live by". Includes a modern library reading group guide Joinn our modern library newsletter by sending a blank e-mail to:
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Memories of Another day
The epic story of big dan huggins who rose from grinding poverty in the hills of west virginia to lead america's biggest labour union. A childhood scarred by brutality and injusctice, the hungry years and the bitter strikes, wealth and power beyond dreams, all finally threantened by a torrid love affair...gritty and realistic, sensual and moving, here is a biggest, boldest robin's bestseller so far. Memories of another day is the work of a master story teller at the heights of his powers. Its the epic that only a harold robin's could write.