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Summer Will Show

by Sylvia Townsend Warner

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""In a space no longer than it takes to open one's eyes she was back in her accustomed life, in a leap was transferred to daylight from darkness. And yet, as by the mere closing of eyelids, one can surmise a darkness stranger than any star has pierced, a darkness of no light which only the blind can truly possess, she knew that by a moment's flick of the mind she could levant into a personal darkness, an unknown" — Mar 15, 2026 04:54PM

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神游：早期中古时代与十九世纪中国的行旅写作

by Xiaofei Tian

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Eye of the Tiger: Memoir of a United States Marine, Third Force Recon Company, Vietnam

by John Edmund Delezen

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"this compared to my chief and my regiment is kind of.. really bringing out how materially comfortable american soldiers are." — Mar 10, 2026 03:52PM

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Book cover for Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940

Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940 by Anaïs Nin

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After Rupert Pole, Nin’s “west coast husband” and literary executor, died in 2006, I was asked by members of the Anaïs Nin Trust to help clean and organize Anaïs’s Los Angeles studio, which had fallen into serious disrepair. Among the ...more