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The biography offers a fascinating look at Frances Coke Villiers’s tale of rebellion, the plight of a memorable woman during a tumultuous time.
Oscar Wilde’s life might have been tortured, but the writer never believed he had been disgraced, only rejected.
“As morality shifts,” NPR’s Ann Powers writes, “music does, too, helping people navigate those boundaries.”
Evidently, plain-spoken language plus doubt and apprehension equate to novels that, once opened, are very hard to put down.
“To me, ’67 was a year that was different from what came after it.”
Laurent Binet’s entertaining detective yarn is set in the harum-scarum social scene of French literary theory, philosophy, and politics.
Helen Dunmore’s astounding final novel is a fascinating take on a family of radicals living in Bristol, England during the French Revolution.
Tom Perrotta zeroes in on liberal pieties, a sure way to spice up the fun he has with our current cultural obsessions.
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