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A Glastonbury Romance
Written by John Cowper Powys in rural upstate New York and first published by Simon and Schuster in New York City in March 1932. An English edition published by John Lane followed in 1933. It is the second of Powys’s Wessex novels, along with Wolf Solent , Weymouth Sands and Maiden Castle . Powys was an admirer of Thomas Hardy and these novels are set in Somerset and Dorset, parts of Hardy’s mythical Wessex
Giving Up the Gun
Second single from Vampire Weekend’s second album Contra
The House of Life
House tour by Mario Praz
In the Heart of the Sea
Book by American writer Nathaniel Philbrick about the loss of the whaler Essex in the Pacific Ocean in 1820. The book was published by Viking Press on May 8, 2000, and won the 2000 National Book Award for Nonfiction
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Book by Robert M. Pirsig first published in 1974. It is a work of fictionalized autobiography, and is the first of Pirsig’s texts in which he explores his “Metaphysics of Quality”.Pirsig received 121 rejections before an editor finally accepted the book for publicationand he did so thinking it would never generate a profit