Author: David Nobbs
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473519470
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Alan and Ange are on a train, heading for London. Alan is a philosophy lecturer, still a virgin at fifty-five; Ange a twenty-something, horoscope reading, darts groupie. They certainly don't expect their first casual meeting to lead to anything, but it does. Seizing the day, as they pull into Euston station, Alan asks Ange out to dinner and so begins the unlikeliest of liaisons. As they get to know each other, they are initiated into each other's worlds. From the claustrophobic confines of an Oxford College to the heady excitement of a big dart's match; from Liebfraumilch to Wittgenstein and everything in between. They even travel to Rome seeing many wonderful things as Alan learns to live for the moment and Ange to appreciate the finer things in life. But can they survive their differences in age and background? Are Alan's feelings the stuff of obsession and infatuation or is this true love? And what sort of philosopher is he if he cannot define and understand love? Told through the voice of Alan, this touching and hilarious story is much more than a tale about an unlikely couple. Ultimately, it is a story about the nature of love.
Cupid's Dart
Darts of Cupid and Other Stories
Author: Edith Templeton
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141011882
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
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Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141011882
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
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Select Translations from the Greek Minor Poets, with Notes, Etc
Author: Richard Swainson Fisher
Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Select translations from the Greek Minor Poets ... to which are added a few specimens from the Anthologia Græca
Author: Richard Swainson FISHER
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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English Translations
Author: Alexander Chalmers
Publisher:
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Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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The Darts of Cupid
Author: Edith Templeton
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9781400032365
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
When Edith Templeton’s stories began appearing in The New Yorker in the late 1950s, she quickly became a favorite of the magazine’s discerning readers. Her finely honed writing, honestly drawn heroines, and distinctive themes secured her reputation. The Dart’s of Cupid collects seven of Templeton’s stories for the first time and reintroduces one of the truly great writers of the twentieth century. In settings ranging from a decrepit Bohemian castle between the wars to London during World War II to the Italian Riviera in the 1990s, the heroines of these stories often find themselves confronting unfathomable passsions and perplexing actions by others, but they seldom feel regret.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9781400032365
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
When Edith Templeton’s stories began appearing in The New Yorker in the late 1950s, she quickly became a favorite of the magazine’s discerning readers. Her finely honed writing, honestly drawn heroines, and distinctive themes secured her reputation. The Dart’s of Cupid collects seven of Templeton’s stories for the first time and reintroduces one of the truly great writers of the twentieth century. In settings ranging from a decrepit Bohemian castle between the wars to London during World War II to the Italian Riviera in the 1990s, the heroines of these stories often find themselves confronting unfathomable passsions and perplexing actions by others, but they seldom feel regret.
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper
Author: Alexander Chalmers
Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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