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Valerie Martin
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http://www.goodreads.com/vmmart
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The United States
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Gustave Flaubert, Anton Chekhov, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Taylor, Henr...more
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Property
— published 2003 — 10 editions |
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Mary Reilly
— published 1990 — 22 editions |
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Trespass
— published 2007 — 8 editions |
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The Confessions of Edward Day
— published 2009 — 11 editions |
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Italian Fever
— published 1999 — 8 editions |
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The Great Divorce
— published 1994 — 6 editions |
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The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories
— published 2006 — 5 editions |
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A Recent Martyr
— published 1987 — 6 editions |
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Alexandra
— 4 editions |
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Love: Short Stories
— published 1976 — 2 editions |
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“He put a dark place in me and I can't forgive him for that. But it's a part of me now and how can I regret what I am - though it often makes me sad.”
― Valerie Martin
― Valerie Martin
“(M)uch as we might imagine we can leave the past behind, it has a nasty way of pressing its hoary old face against the window just as we were sitting down to the feast.”
― Valerie Martin
― Valerie Martin
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| The Book Challenge: Stephanie's 2009 Book Challenge - Finished (almost) | 7 | 184 | Dec 31, 2009 10:13am | |
| Pick-a-Shelf: Katey's The YOU CHOOSE Challenge | 11 | 17 | Jul 09, 2010 03:18am | |
| The Seasonal Read...: Summer 2010 Plans | 154 | 756 | Aug 31, 2010 05:30pm | |
| Reading with Style: 20.2 Rhymes | 35 | 59 | Apr 17, 2011 06:27pm | |
| Reading with Style: General Questions & Answers | 212 | 96 | May 01, 2011 10:11am | |
| The Seasonal Read...: 50.1 - Butterflycager's task: Let's Build a Haunted House! | 120 | 162 | Nov 24, 2011 10:31am | |
| The Seasonal Read...: Fall Challenge 2011 Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC! | 2299 | 548 | Nov 30, 2011 09:05pm |
“The present era is so proud that it has produced a phenomenon which I imagine to be unprecedented: the present's resentment of the past, resentment because the past had the audacity to happen without us being there, without our cautious opinion and our hesitant consent, and even worse, without our gaining any advantage from it.”
― Javier Marías
― Javier Marías
“. . .the books we don't read are full of warnings; we will either never read them or they will arrive too late.”
― Javier Marías, While the Women Are Sleeping
― Javier Marías, While the Women Are Sleeping
