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Author : Stefan Zweig
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Release Date : 2009
ISBN : 9780954221720
Pages : 0 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (221 Download)
Download PDF or read online Post Office Girl - Stefan Zweigs Grand Hotel Novel Book by Stefan Zweig and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis :
Author : Stefan Zweig
Publisher : Sort of Books
Release Date : 2011-08-18
ISBN : 1908745037
Pages : 236 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (98 Download)
Download PDF or read online The Post Office Girl Book by Stefan Zweig and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : It's the 1930s. Christine, A young Austrian woman whose family has been impoverished by the war, toils away in a provincial post office. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from an American aunt she's never known, inviting her to spend two weeks in a Grand Hotel in a fashionable Swiss resort. She accepts and is swept up into a world of almost inconceivable wealth and unleashed desire, where she allows herself to be utterly transformed. Then, just as abruptly, her aunt cuts her loose and she has to return to the post office, where - yes - nothing will ever be the same.
Author : Kate Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-15
ISBN : 0199755744
Pages : 264 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (199 Download)
Download PDF or read online Postal Pleasures Book by Kate Thomas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : In 1889 uniformed post-boys were discovered moonlighting in a West End brothel frequented by men of the upper classes. "The Cleveland Street Scandal" erupted and Victorian Britain faced the possibility that the Post Office-a bureaucratic backbone of nation and empire-was inspiring and servicing subversive sexual behavior. However, the unlikely alliance between sex and the postal service was not exactly the news the sensational press made it out to be. Postal Pleasures explores the relationship between illicit sex and the Royal Mail from reforms initiated in 1840 up to the imperial end of the nineteenth century. With a combination of historical details and literary analyses, Kate Thomas illustrates how the postal network, its uniformed employees, and its material trappings-envelopes, postmarks, stamps-were used to signal and circulate sexual intrigue. For many, the idea of an envelope promiscuously jostling its neighbors in a post boy's bag, or the notion that secrets passed through the eyes and fingers of telegraph girls, was more stimulating than the actual contents of correspondence. Writers like Anthony Trollope, Eliza Lynn Lynton, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, and others, invoked the postal system as both an instrument and a metaphor for sexual relations that crossed and double-crossed lines of class, marriage, and heterosexuality. Postal Pleasures adds a new dimension to studies of the era as it uncovers the unlikely linkage between the Victorian Post Office and the queer networks it inspired.
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Release Date : 1897
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Pages : 1328 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (2 Download)
Download PDF or read online The London Gazette Book by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis :
Author : Peter Anderson
Publisher : Lulu Press, Inc
Release Date : 2017-05-14
ISBN : 1447635906
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (447 Download)
Download PDF or read online The Music Teacher Book by Peter Anderson and published by Lulu Press, Inc. This book was released on 2017-05-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : A comic literary novel about Aaron, an emotionally repressed Head of Music at an average school. When his wife runs off with the plumber, Aaron and his father set off on a manic road-trip in search of Aaron's mythical ex-lover...
Author : Rupert Penny
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date : 2009-12
ISBN : 1605433845
Pages : 230 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (65 Download)
Download PDF or read online She Had to Have Gas Book by Rupert Penny and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis :
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
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Release Date : 1958
ISBN :
Pages : 632 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (1 Download)
Download PDF or read online Postal Rates Book by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Considers legislation to increase postal rates, establish postal rate and PO employee salary computation policies, revise undeliverable mail handling procedure, and authorize second-class mail status for certain hard-cover publications.
Author : George Philip Rigney Pulman
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Release Date : 1878
ISBN :
Pages : 166 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (32 Download)
Download PDF or read online Roamings Abroad Book by George Philip Rigney Pulman and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis :
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Release Date : 1893
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Download PDF or read online Golden Days for Boys and Girls Book by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis :
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
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Release Date : 1974
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Pages : pages
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Download PDF or read online Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service Book by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis :
Author : Nancy Revell
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2020-10-01
ISBN : 1473572827
Pages : 410 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (473 Download)
Download PDF or read online A Christmas Wish for the Shipyard Girls Book by Nancy Revell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : **THE NINTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING SHIPYARD GIRLS SERIES** 'Emotional and gripping' Take a Break ______________________________ Sunderland, 1943: As Christmas approaches in the shipyards, everyone is hoping for a little magic... Helen would love to find the courage to tell the dashing Dr Parker of her true feelings for him. But how can she when he clearly has eyes for someone else? More than a year has passed since Bel's wedding to sweetheart Joe. She knows she has much to feel thankful for and yet there is still one burning desire which she cannot ignore. And as Polly grows with child, she hopes against hope for a safe delivery - and that her husband Tommy can soon return from the front line to meet their new arrival. There will be storms to weather, but guided by their strength and friendship there is still hope for each of the shipyard girls that their Christmas wishes will come true. ______________________________ Praise for Nancy Revell 'Nancy Revell knows how to stir the passions and soothe the heart!' Northern Echo 'Stirring and heartfelt storytelling' Peterborough Evening Telegraph 'The author is one to watch' Sun 'Well-drawn, believable characters combined with a storyline to keep you turning the pages' Woman
Author : José Manuel Prieto
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release Date : 2007-12-01
ISBN : 0802199380
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (82 Download)
Download PDF or read online Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire Book by José Manuel Prieto and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Now in paperback, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire was acclaimed by The Hartford Courant as "a thrilling discovery ... a reversal of the letters [of] Saul Bellow's Herzog ... [with] a Nabokovian delight in words and texts." J. is a smuggler living in Russia, making his living fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. In Istanbul he takes a commission to trap an endangered Russian butterfly and decides to use it as an opportunity to smuggle V., his Russian lover who has no papers, back into her homeland. In the port of Odessa, she disappears, and J. continues alone to a small village on the Black Sea. Letters from V. begin to arrive, and as J. hunts the butterfly, he seeks a way to lure V. back into his life. Equal parts bittersweet love story, international intrigue, and one man's quest to write the perfect love letter, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire, wrote The Tennessean, is "an amazing jewel of a story ... that winks with wit [and] wears its astonishing craftsmanship lightly." "An aesthetically blissful reading experience ... Nabokov's spirit, alive and kind, has touched [Prieto] with its butterfly wings." -- Aleksandar Hemon, The Village Voice Literary Supplement "...Nocturnal Butterflies is an impressive performance by a writer whose gifts are clearly abundant." -- Richard Bernstein, The New York Times "A beautiful, lavish, seedy, poetic, and magical book.... Pure pleasure for the literary mind." -- Chris Kridler, The Baltimore Sun
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Release Date : 1888
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Pages : 926 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (39 Download)
Download PDF or read online The Sunday Magazine Book by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis :
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Release Date : 1841
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Download PDF or read online Chambers' Edinburgh Journal Book by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis :
Author : United States. Federal Trade Commission
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Release Date : 1960
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Pages : 2082 pages
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Download PDF or read online Federal Trade Commission Decisions Book by United States. Federal Trade Commission and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 2082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis :
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Expenditures in the Post-Office Department
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Release Date : 1911
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Pages : 966 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (1 Download)
Download PDF or read online Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department, House of Representatives, on House Resolution, No. 109, to Investigate the Post Office Department ... Book by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Expenditures in the Post-Office Department and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis :
Author : Leslie Thomas
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2011-06-30
ISBN : 1446472248
Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (446 Download)
Download PDF or read online Dangerous By Moonlight Book by Leslie Thomas and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Lost, baffled, and alone in Willesden's mean streets, Detective Constable Dangerous Davies is up against the cream of criminality. Newspaper theft (the work of organized crime?), household robbery (including cheese from the fridge), it's all grist to his mill. When Dangerous is beaten up, yet again, at a European Friendship dinner dance he reluctantly takes some sick leave. Recuperating in Bournemouth he is approached by a member of the local Widows' Luncheon Club. She wants him to find out the truth about her husband's disappearance. Dangerous declines. It's against the rules. Back in Willesden a further beating helps change his mind. So starts a double life of regular casework and moonlighting as Dangerous lurches into a mystery fit to confuse the great Holmes himself...
