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(0)Megan Green
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Olive Rose Press
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2023.
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Winner of the Historical Fiction Company's "Highly Recommended" award of excellence, The Things We'll Never Have is part mystery, part psychological drama set in 1960s Italy about family, friendship, and the lies that bind us. The brightest things in Everleigh's otherwise dull days in 1964 London are colors, fashion she's not brave enough to wear, and the idea of the enchanted life she'll inherit when she marries Gualtiero. But her dreams are...
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1925
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English
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2021 Reprint of the 1925 Edition. "Mrs Dalloway" (1925) by Virginia Woolf details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post-World War I England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister", the novel's story is of Clarissa's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess. With the interior perspective of the...
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1980
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English
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Set against the backdrop of Edwardian England and the sunlit beauty of Italy, the novel follows Lucy Honeychurch, a young woman torn between societal expectations and her own desires. While traveling in Florence, she meets the unconventional George Emerson, who challenges her views on life and love. Upon returning to England, Lucy must decide whether to conform to tradition or embrace the freedom that George represents. -- Amazon.
4) Pygmalion
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1942
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English
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One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion is based on ancient Greek mythology. Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights.
Shaw's updated and revised version of this ancient Greek legend was first presented in England in 1914. Poking fun of the antiquated British class system, it introduces Henry Higgins, a professor...