Letters to Alice

2013-04-16 Fiction

Author : Fay Weldon
Release : 2013-04-16
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 422/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Letters to Alice written by Fay Weldon. This book was released on 2013-04-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aunt imparts wisdom to her teenage niece, inspired by the works of Jane Austen, in this novel from the Man Booker Prize–nominated author. Alice is an aspiring novelist with green hair and zero interest in reading Jane Austen for her college English class. However, her Aunt Fay, a novelist herself, isn’t about to let Alice stick her nose up at Austen or other enduring authors. “You find her boring, petty and irrelevant, and, that as the world is in crisis, and the future catastrophic, you cannot imagine what purpose there can be in reading her,” Fay writes her. “My dear pretty little Alice, now with black and green hair . . . How can I hope to explain Literature to you, with its capital ‘L’?” Alternating between passages from Jane Austen’s novels and accounts of her own career, Aunt Fay pays tribute to a great author, explores the craft of fiction, and charts her niece’s development as a writer in this unique book that reveals how Austen—and great literature—is truly, wonderfully timeless.

Letters to Alice

2012-02-29 History

Author : Jane Clements Monday
Release : 2012-02-29
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 312/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Letters to Alice written by Jane Clements Monday. This book was released on 2012-02-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1881, Robert Justus Kleberg rode across the hot, dusty South Texas brush country to the palatial home of Capt. Richard King to consult with the cattle baron about attending to his legal affairs. On that same journey, the young lawyer also first laid eyes on Alice King, “Princess of the Wild Horse Desert.” Neither of their lives would ever be the same. Published for the first time in this book, the love letters written by Kleberg to Alice Gertrudis King provide a glimpse of the lives of two of the most influential people in Texas history. Editors Jane Clements Monday and Frances Brannen Vick have also provided generous documentation and annotation of these important primary documents from the Special Collections at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, affording historians and interested readers an insider’s view of one of the world’s greatest ranching empires as it transitioned from its founders to the next generation. Letters to Alice: Birth of the Kleberg-King-Ranch Dynasty represents the only existing collection of letters between any of the great Texas cattle barons and their wives. Although a great deal is already known about the ranch and its development, Monday and Vick present for the first time Robert Justus Kleberg’s personal perspective on his first meeting with Alice King, their early courtship, the difficulties obtaining her parents’ permission to marry, and the poignant time surrounding Captain King’s death.

Alice in France

2017 Americans

Author : Alice Marie O'Brien
Release : 2017
Genre : Americans
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Book Rating : 272/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Alice in France written by Alice Marie O'Brien. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lively and revealing letters of a woman who, with thousands of others, volunteered for service in World War I Europe, taking on jobs that freed men for the trenches.

The End Of Alice

2012-10-23 Fiction

Author : A.M. Homes
Release : 2012-10-23
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 201/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The End Of Alice written by A.M. Homes. This book was released on 2012-10-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 2013 Orange Prize–winning author of May We Be Forgiven. Only a work of such searing, meticulously controlled brilliance could provoke such a wide range of visceral responses. Here is the incredible story of an imprisoned pedophile who is drawn into an erotically charged correspondence with a nineteen-year-old suburban coed. As the two reveal—and revel in—their obsessive desires, Homes creates in The End of Alice a novel that is part romance, part horror story, at once unnerving and seductive.

Staying on Alone

1982 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Alice B. Toklas
Release : 1982
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 311/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Staying on Alone written by Alice B. Toklas. This book was released on 1982. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice B. Toklas' correspondence during the last twenty years of her life provides insight into her friendships and associations as well as the art and literary circles of the era

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