Crowning Glories integrates Louis XIV's propaganda campaigns, the transmission of Northern art into France, and the rise of empiricism in the eighteenth century - three historical touchstones - to examine what it would have meant for France ...
Winner of the National Book Award for First Work of Fiction "A very good novel indeed, with echoes of Gabriel García Márquez, Katherine Anne Porter, and even Graham Greene.
... stone be placed in position cd, with its repelling end downwards; then the island will be driven upwards obliquely towards D. When it is arrived at D, let the stone be turned upon its axle, till its attracting end points towards E, and ...
... stone courtyard before it, and two stone sweeps of staircase meeting in a stone terrace before the principal door. A stony business altogether, with heavy stone balustrades, and stone urns, and stone flowers, and stone faces of men ...
... stone courtyard before it, and two stone sweeps of staircase meeting in a stone terrace before the principal door. A stony business altogether, with heavy stone balustrades, and stone urns, and stone flowers, and stone faces of men ...
... stone is like those from Balabhipura , in Sorath " ( Valabhî in Kâthiâwâd ) , " three feet high , and nineteen inches in diameter . Both tumulus and stone were formerly held sacred . The two others were not found in tumuli , but such ...
... stone that flew from my mattock. I couldn't help it, you know." "Couldn't help it! A fine story! What do you go breaking the rock for—the very rock upon which the city stands?" "Look at your friend's forehead," said Curdie. "See what a ...
... stone that flew from my mattock. I couldn't help it, you know." "Couldn't help it! A fine story! What do you go breaking the rock for—the very rock upon which the city stands?" "Look at your friend's forehead," said Curdie. "See what a ...
... stone that flew from my mattock. I couldn't help it, you know." "Couldn't help it! A fine story! What do you go breaking the rock for—the very rock upon which the city stands?" "Look at your friend's forehead," said Curdie. "See what a ...
... stone that flew from my mattock. I couldn't help it, you know." "Couldn't help it! A fine story! What do you go breaking the rock for—the very rock upon which the city stands?" "Look at your friend's forehead," said Curdie. "See what a ...