"I can hardly bear to look at Fanny. She is grey and her breath rasps and gurgles and wheezes. She has lost pounds. Her face is all hollow and a dark colour. A bluish grey. That is one of the symptoms of this Flu, Aunt told us. Nobody is saying the word, but we all know. So many have died, but not my Fan. I will not leave her no matter what anyone says." Fee uses her diary to record all of her fears when the Spanish Flu rages through Toronto. It comforts her when she almost loses her twin sister -- and when it actually takes their older sister Jemma.
My mother said , ' He went to London this morning , to visit the Lloyd's building for his Engineering course . ' My mother's grasp of the geographical layout of the British Isles has always been minimal . I informed her of the distance ...
Izgubljeni dnevnik Džejn Ostin
An exciting fictional account of the changing attitudes and beliefs of the former leader of the Soviet Union in a time of great crisis.
Spiritual improvisations, radiant acts of attention: echoing Thoreau's Walden, the meditations of Guy Davenport, and Kenny Moore's groundbreaking articles for Sports Illustrated, Thomas Gardner strides through inner and outer landscapes.
Try to think I look interestingly haggard but have to admit that Unkempt Blowsiness is fitter description' Way before that city slicker, Bridget Jones, there was the Provincial Daughter -- an intelligent woman juggling too little money with ...
Adrian Mole is thirty-four and three quarters, almost officially middle-aged, when Mr Blair tells Parliament that weapons of mass destruction can be deployed in forty-five minutes and can reach Cyprus.
A British teenager struggles to cope with the day-to-day problems of adolescence
'A tour de force by a comic genius and if it isn't the best book published this year, I'll eat my bookshelf' Daily Mail, Books of the Year Sunday 1st July NO SMOKING DAY A momentous day!
But she likes: horses, Mrs B (who is her 81-year-old best friend), collecting things (including horse shoes and swap cards), visiting cemeteries, and writing!You can read all about Penny s hilarious adventures in the six books that make up ...
... au temps de la grippe espagnole Jean Little Le temps des réjouissances Dix récits de Noël Auteurs multiples Terre d'accueil, terre d'espoir Onze récits Auteurs multiples Une terre immense à conquérir Lejournal d'Evelyn Weatherhall, ...