The Beggars
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Author | : Nancy Kress |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Genetic engineering |
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"Leisha Camden is a genetically engineered 'Sleepless.' Her ability to stay awake all the time has not only made her more productive, but the genetic modifications have also given the 'Sleepless' a higher IQ and may even make them immortal. Are they the future of humanity? Or will the small community of 'sleepless' be hunted down as freaks by a world that has grown wary of its newest creation?"--Page [4] of cover.
Author | : Nancy Kress |
Publisher | : Tor Books |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 1995-12-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780812550108 |
In a genetically altered future America that is overrun by beautiful and super-intelligent people, the entire planet faces destruction in the face of overpopulation and unemployment. Reprint.
Author | : Jacob B. Liefde |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : Netherlands |
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Author | : Aminata Sow Fall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : African fiction |
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Author | : Albert Cossery |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2011-12-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590174631 |
Early in Proud Beggars, a brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel. But the real mystery at the heart of Albert Cossery’s wry black comedy is not the cause of this death but the paradoxical richness to be found in even the most materially impoverished life. Chief among Cossery’s proud beggars is Gohar, a former professor turned whorehouse accountant, hashish aficionado, and street philosopher. Such is his native charm that he has accumulated a small coterie that includes Yeghen, a rhapsodic poet and drug dealer, and El Kordi, an ineffectual clerk and would-be revolutionary who dreams of rescuing a consumptive prostitute. The police investigator Nour El Dine, harboring a dark secret of his own, suspects all three of the murder but finds himself captivated by their warm good humor. How is it that they live amid degrading poverty, yet possess a joie de vivre that even the most assiduous forces of state cannot suppress? Do they, despite their rejection of social norms and all ambition, hold the secret of contentment? And so this short novel, considered one of Cossery’s masterpieces, is at once biting social commentary, police procedural, and a mischievous delight in its own right.
Author | : Lucy Caldwell |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2013-01-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0571270573 |
When Lara was twelve, and her younger brother Alfie eight, their father died in a helicopter crash. A prominent plastic surgeon, and Irishman, he had honed his skills on the bomb victims of the Troubles. But the family grew up used to him being absent: he only came to London for two weekends a month to work at the Harley Street Clinic, where he met their mother years before, and they only once went on a family holiday together, to Spain, where their mother cried and their father lost his temper and left early. Because home, for their father, wasn't Earls Court: it was Belfast, where he led his other life... Narrated by Lara, nearing forty and nursing her dying mother, All the Beggars Riding is the heartbreaking portrait of a woman confronting her past just as she realises that time is running out
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Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1812 |
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Author | : Robert Goadby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1812 |
Genre | : Cant |
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Author | : Anonymous |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2022-07-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars" (Containing his Life, a Dictionary of the Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that Extraordinary Man) by Anonymous. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : Bampfylde Moore CAREW |
Publisher | : Gale and the British Library |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1840 |
Genre | : Travel |
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