Francis Spufford
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English
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"New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, 1746. One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat arrives at a countinghouse door on Golden Hill Street: this is Mr. Smith, amiable, charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion shimmering. For in his pocket, he has what seems to be an order for a thousand pounds, a huge sum, and he won't explain why, or where he comes from, or what he is planning to do...
3) Red plenty
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English
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The Soviet Union was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. This book is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away.
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Like Golden Hill, Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, and like Golden Hill it has a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot set within a fully imagined world. Only this world is full of fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. And in the main character of Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly heroic proportions, and a troubled soul to fall in love with. One snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner...
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Español
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Érase una vez, hace muchos años, un lejano país entero, pueblo y dirigentes, campesinos y ciudadanos, vivió en un cuento de hadas. El truco mágico se llamaba "economía planificada" y con él se iba a conseguir el milagro de la abundancia. Las cosechas, la producción, los bienes y los servicios crecerían año tras año, con una eficiencia y una fiabilidad que nunca iba a conseguir el capitalismo. Y durante unos años maravillosos, a finales...
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Español
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Estamos todos tan de vuelta de todo, tenemos tanta información, tantas opiniones, tanta ironía. No es fácil escribir un ensayo que descoloque y escandalice, que presente una idea novedosa e inesperada. Spufford lo ha conseguido con el argumento probablemente menos popular de nuestro tiempo: Creo en Dios, para mí el cristianismo tiene sentido y estoy harto de que ustedes, los ateos y agnósticos, se crean más listos que yo. Profesor de literatura,...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
Description
"Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with particular places, writers, or books to address deeper questions relating to the complicated relationship between story-telling and truth-telling. How must a nonfiction writer imagine facts, vivifying them to bring them to life? How must a novelist create a dependable world...
10) The jungle book
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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The Jungle Book is a collection of Rudyard Kipling's animal stories, wonderfully told and interweaving moral lessons with classic tales. They include the stories of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a brave mongoose, and Toomai of the Elephants, the story of a young elephant handler. The Jungle Book was first published by Macmillan in 1894.