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A selection of bizarre, true-life tales of swindlers, impostors, and expert deceivers, selected from Klein's book The double dealers. Includes chapters on lover and murderer Henri Desire Landru; James Thurber on hoaxing the draft ...
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Robert Prentice is 18. His mother, Alice Prentice,is 53. Both are damaged souls: Robert, by war; Alice, by thwarted dreams of prosperity. In two deeply humanizing portraits, the great American writer Richard Yates crafts a novel o...
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Jane is unmarried and pregnant when she is turned out by her father. She lights on a room at the top of a squalid house. She cares nothing for it, or her neighbours. But it is these neighbours that draw her back into life - Toby, ...
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As events bubbles to a scalding boil, leaders of two great nations fought in desperate secrecy to keep the lid on the world. Bartering, backstabbing, browbeating, bribing... and praying for a little more weight to throw on the del...
Octavo bound in original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. First edition.
Henry Graham Greene was an English novelist and author regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity...