Tony Goldwyn
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of ... [... more]
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David Magarshack
This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move ... [... more]
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Scott Brick
Former naval doctor Peter Crane is urgently summoned to a remote oil platform in the North Atlantic to help diagnose a... Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized ... [... more]
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Timothy Dawson
The Byzantine Army was the closest the Middle Ages came to producing a military superpower. Having been trained to operate in small, highly mobile eight-man units adept at living off the land whilst on campaign, the Byzantine infantryman was a ... [... more]
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Lincoln Hoppe
The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a... Davy Bowman's dad and brother hung the moon. Dad ... [... more]
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Alexandra David-Neel
An indomitable traveler, singer, journalist, and religious adept, (1868-1969) was awarded a Gold Medal by the Geographical Society of Paris and was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor. [... more]
Harper Collins |
