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When Pearl Sydenstricker Buck sent the revised manuscript of The Good Earth to her publishers she explained that it might seem "a little stiff. ... I am quite bilingual in English and Chinese, ...
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Hid From Our Eyes’ An Episcopal priest and her police chief husband return ... Clare and Russ are now parents, doting on their 4-month-old son, Ethan.
“Voices From Gettysburg: Letters, Papers, and Memoirs From the Greatest Battle of the Civil War” by Allen C. Guelzo, Citadel Press, 352 pages, $29. Allen C. Guelzo’s bestselling 2013 book ...
The NeverEnding Story is a 1984 film fantasy classic featuring a book within a book, or a tale within a tale as seen through the eyes of ten-year-old Bastian Bux, a New York City child who is ...
Alan Cheuse reviews the new book With Blood in Their Eyes by Thomas Cobb. Cobb also wrote the novel Crazy Heart, which was adapted into a critically-acclaimed movie starring Jeff Bridges.
To crack Old English riddles from the Exeter Book, you have to know about their Anglo-Latin predecessors. One Exeter Book riddle describes a creature with one eye and 1,200 heads.
Eyes wide shut / A travel writer finds enlightenment through a drug that blinds him in ...