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Narrada amb to memorialístic, l’obra presenta un carreró barceloní estret i desigual situat entre el Portal Nou i el Passeig de Sant Joan, conegut com el carrer dels Petons. El narrador en descriu l’aspecte, l’origen del nom, l’estat antic i els canvis del veïnat, amb referències a la seva gent, els objectes acumulats al pas i alguns detalls dels edificis i espais propers. També emmarca aquest relat com una dedicatòria lligada a una antiga amistat.
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Elizabeth Bowen’s novel is set in a Riviera hotel where the routines of guests, servants, and visitors are watched with intense sensitivity. Miss Fitzgerald’s abrupt departure into the road and Miss Pym’s anxious movements through the lounge and staircase reveal a charged social atmosphere shaped by unease, observation, and private feeling. The arrival and movement of other women, including Mrs. Kerr, add to the novel’s focus on shifting relations and the uneasy connections formed in hotel life.
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Robert Bloch’s science-fiction story sends Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, and Charles Thomson into Independence Hall on the morning of July 4, 1776. The men speak in gangster slang while Franklin tries to keep their operation on track, with time-travel details and modern intrusions complicating the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The setup centers on a comic attempt to revise the document before the rest of Congress arrives.
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This science-fiction story centers on Alph Agar, director of a Fly-Wheel manufacturing unit, who is suddenly forced to face a contest connected to visiting aliens. His assistant, Ker Kermit, enters both their names, while Agar is privately worried because he cannot operate a Fly-Wheel and fears the consequences if the matter is exposed. The story also develops Agar’s awkward attraction to his secretary, Jean-Jean, alongside the tension between executive status, rivalry, and the technical demands of his world.
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Set in London, this detective novel opens in the offices of Leverton & Carsdale, where John Carsdale reacts to a letter about a twenty-one-year-old who wants Barclay Leverton to handle a fortune of three hundred thousand pounds. As Carsdale weighs the chance for profit, he summons Mrs. Walsingham, a polished and enigmatic woman connected with the firm, and shows her the letter. The opening establishes an atmosphere of business intrigue, money, and suspicion around an inexperienced heir.
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Susan Mitchell arrives at Cranston University as late-summer campus life and rush week begin, watching the sorority and fraternity world of Greek Town and the students moving into place. The novel centers on her hopes and unease as she prepares to be judged by sororities, shaped by her father’s expectations and by the college social world around her. It also follows her inner conflict over Leda and the fact that they are both lesbian, which leaves Mitch torn between love and rejection.
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This epistolary fiction follows Giovanna, an orphan living in a Christian asylum for girls, where the children are divided into “holes” and “halfs.” In her letters she describes school, chores, prayers, the matron, and the hard routine of institutional life. She also writes to the mother she longs for, remembering earlier affection, family losses, and the separation from her sister Isabella after she was taken by a kind woman.
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On a bitter November night in London, Spike Moseley, a crook, makes his way to Scotland Yard, determined to tell Detective-Inspector Strickland what he knows about a gang and a man connected with it. Before he can give the name, he collapses and dies, leaving Strickland with only a fragment of the warning and a strong sense that an important case has been cut short. The scene then shifts to Strickland’s efforts to secure help and continue the inquiry on Westminster Bridge.
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Thomas Hughes reflects on the purpose of revising The Manliness of Christ after years of work with the Working Men’s College and Rugby school addresses. He frames the enlarged edition for younger readers and students, while also noting a theological disagreement about whether Christ retained omniscience in the flesh. The opening chapter also connects the book’s theme of Christian manliness to efforts to reach young men through organized religious and social work.
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Wings of Youth is Nancy Buckley’s second published collection of verse, issued in 1922 and rooted in American poetry of the early 20th century. The book is described as moving between wistful, tender, and joyful tones, with a mellower feeling than her earlier collection and signs of broader poetic growth. It also notes that some poems first appeared in magazines before being gathered here.
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A New York State murder case frames this novel of double jeopardy and the strain it places on an ordinary man. Peter Thatcher, a young Ithaca druggist and World War I veteran, is held responsible for his wife’s death while the account suggests he may not even be sure of his own innocence. The story is presented as his own confession, moving between wartime trauma, his life as an apothecary, and the circumstances that lead to his arrest and trial.
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The novel is set in French Indo-China, with Saigon and the forests around the Annamite range as its main backdrop. Its opening moves from a French report about a little-seen people in the mountains to a cast including a young colonial official, a priest, a lieutenant, a steamboat captain, and a narrator tied to opium use in Cho-lon. From there it enters the opium den atmosphere of the Chinese quarter, where the narrator is drawn into a night of smoke, memory, and unease before the larger story of the forgotten mountain tribes unfolds.
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Oldham is set in a quiet New England parish and centers on a rural schoolroom where Miss Armstrong teaches a small class of children, including the troubled Kit Mallory. The opening presents the community’s plain country life, its old-fashioned school, and a religious exercise that brings Kit’s family beliefs into conflict with the prayers expected at school.
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Set in Greenwich Village, this novel follows Jack Mann, a thirty-three-year-old Manhattan draftsman whose war service left him wary, cynical, and accustomed to love affairs with young men. Living amid the neighborhood’s artists, bars, and police raids on homosexual hangouts, he moves through a bohemian world marked by secrecy and restless desire. Beebo Brinker appears in an intimate encounter with Paula, where the two women acknowledge loneliness and the possibility of desire between them.
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Set at a Texas air circus, this story follows the arrival of Happy Hennessy, a red-headed pilot with a reputation for wild flying. The boss and the crew try to fit him into a safety-first outfit that handles sky-writing, parachute jumps, stunt work, and passenger flights with a mixed fleet of old aircraft. Tension builds when Happy takes interest in a two-seater tied to Pack Kennedy, who is also attached to the woman connected with that plane.
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