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Excerpt from The South Carolina Jockey Club, Vol. 2 The reader of this work will please observe, that the folios run consecutively to the ivth Part, where, for the convenience of the printer, they recommence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art tech...

Excerpt from Description of the Greatest Literary Curiosity of the AgeGovernor Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio, in a letter to Mr. Townsend. Says: Your wonderful compilation is the greatest work of the kind of which I have ever heard.The manner in which prominent men of all parties have com mended the work, is the very highest testimonial to the success with which the compiler has preserved and arranged everything requisite to satisfy impartial i...

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Ruth Cole is een complexe persoonlijkheid, met tegenstrijdige karaktertrekken - een moeilijke vrouw. 'Aardig' in de gangbare zin van het woord is ze niet, onvergetelijk wel.Het verhaal van Ruth Cole wordt verteld in drie delen, steeds rond een kritiek moment in haar leven. Het eerste deel speelt zich af op Long Island, in de zomer van 1958, als Ruth pas vier is.Een tweede venster op haar leven gaat open in het najaar van 1990, wanneer het priv...

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Den ældre forfatter Juan Diego er på vej til Filippinerne, og sammen med ham rejser hans drømme og minder om barndommen og hans tidlige ungdom i Mexico. 14-årige Juan har en 13-årig søster, som hedder Lupe, og hun tror, at hun kan forudse deres fremtid. Og så kan Lupe læse de flestes tanker, og hun kan som regel regne ud, hvad de værste ting, som er hændt en person, er - en evne hun gør flittigt brug af. Lupe kan dog ikke forudse fremtiden med...

Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice, " but she will never be forgotten.Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life. When we first meet her--on Long Island, in the summer of 1958--Ruth is only four.The second window into Ruth's life opens in the fall of 1990, when Ruth is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly ...

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John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist."-Los Angeles TimesFred "Bogus" Trumper has troubles. A divorced, broke graduate student of Old Norse in 1970s New York, Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness: His ex-wife has moved in with his childhood best friend, his life is the subject of a tell-all movie, and his chronic urinary tract infection requires surgery. Trumper is determine...

In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. Owen Meany believes he didn't hit the ball by accident. He believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after 1953 is extraordinary and terrifying. He is Irving's most heartbreaking hero.

The brown bears paced, brushing their thick coats against the bars, their heads swayed low to the ground, in rhythm with some ritual of stealth they were born knowing and pointlessly never forgot'It is 1967 and two Viennese university students decide to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II.

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