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Peerage & Baronetage 2011
This is the last remaining and only printed reference guide to the British aristocracy currently available.
Debrett's Handbook
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Die Siedlung
"Ich sage - eine Mischung von sonderbaren Elementen hast du da in einen Topf geworfen. Beschränkte Bauern, Judenjungen, Landstreicher, Verbrecher, unzureichende Talente, eine Frau, die man zu viel geliebt hat, eine, die dabei zu kurz gekommen ist. Merkwürdige Grundlagen zu einem Weltverbesserungsgebäude." Am Vorabend des Ersten Weltkriegs zieht eine Schar von Idealisten in die urwüchsige Landschaft Ostpreußens, um eine utopische Kommune aufzubauen, die sich der Herzlosigkeit des Kapitalismus und den "mörderischen Grundsätzen der Arbeitsteilung" entgegenstellen soll. Aber auch an der masurischen Seenplatte bleibt der Mensch nur ein Mensch ...
The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
"Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."
