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Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Fyodor Dostoyevsky set out to portray "a truly beautiful soul" colliding with the brutal reality of contemporary society. Returning to St. Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive Prince Myshkin -- known as "the idiot" -- pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the general and his circle. But after becoming infatuated with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna,...
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One day in the life of "Senator Vicente Reinosa, a crooked politician stuck in a gargantuan traffic jam; his neurotic, artistocratic wife; their son Benny, a fascist who is quite literally in love with his Ferrari; and the Senator's mistress, who inhabits a poorer world with her idiot child, her cousins (Hughie, Louie, and Dewey) and her friend Doña Chon."--Cover.
13) La cuentista: traditional tales in Spanish and English = cuentos tradicionales en español e ingles
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A collection of stories preserved by oral tradition in the Southwest.
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More politically incorrect incidents happens in Springfield, including: Homer and Ned go into business together as bounty hunters and Marge takes a job at an erotic bakery; Bart gets in trouble with Marge after she finds he has Denis Leary's cell phone and is using it to make prank calls; Lisa becomes an expert crossword puzzle solver, but Homer bets against her in a competition; Homer suspects that the family of Bart's new Muslim friend from Jordan...
15) God: stories
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A collection of stories on God. In Made in Heaven by John Updike a non-believer finds himself attracted to believers, while in Parker's Back by Flannery O'Connor an estranged husband has himself tattooed with the picture of Jesus to get into the good books of his religious wife.
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Admirers of Shapiro's work will welcome this volume of poems selected by the poet himself from over 50 years' work. Shapiro is a craftsman with an eye for detail. In poems such as ``Drug Store, '' ``Haircut, '' and ``The Tingling Back, '' he finds cause for personal celebration in the most quotidian occurrences; yet he is equally adept at probing more public subjects in ``The Conscientious Objector, '' ``Israel'' and ``Vietnam Memorial.
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