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Statements of poetry, fiction and life
I picked up this book for 10 dollars as part of a 4 book collection all of the same imprint. The volume listed here is volume 3.One of the interesting things is how these texts are brought together. De Kooning, De La Croix, Red Grooms, Bataille, Ashbery, Bowles, Barthes, and many others. All four books are fantastic. ... Read more

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Towards the middle of May, the bills of mortality began to swell greatly in amount, and though but few were put down to the plague, and a large number to the spotted fever (another frightful disorder raging at the period), it is well known that the bulk had died of the former disease. The rigorous measures adopted by the authorities (whether salutary or not has been questioned), in shutting up houses and confining the sick and sound within them for forty days, were found so intolerable, that most persons were disposed to run any risk rather than be subjected to such a grievance, and every artifice was resorted to for concealing a case when it occurred. Hence, it seldom happened, unless by accident, that a discovery was made. Quack doctors were secretly consulted, instead of the regular practitioners; the searchers were bribed to silence; and large fees were given to the undertakers and buriers to lay the deaths to the account of some other disorder. All this, however, did not blind the eyes of the officers to the real state of things. Redoubling their vigilance, they entered houses on mere suspicion; inflicted punishments where they found their orders disobeyed or neglected; sent the sound to prison, -- the sick to the pest-house; and replaced the faithless searchers by others upon whom they could place reliance. Many cases were thus detected; but in spite of every precaution, the majority escaped; and the vent was no sooner stopped in one quarter than it broke out with additional violence in another. ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Paul Whitehouse, Jeff Minter, Kazuo Ishiguro, Mark Cocker, Matt Smith, John Rhys-Davies, Ian Mcewan, Selina Scott, List of University of East Anglia Alumni, Rihab Taha, William Goodchild, Caroline Flint, Douglas Carswell, David Lemieux, Anne Enright, Benedict Allen, Martin Tyler, John Fraser, Iain Dale, Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos, Ivor Stanbrook, Steve Blame, Murad Qureshi, Greg James, Jack Davenport, Fflur Dafydd, Stephen Lambert, Paul Nurse, Bea Ballard, Peter Bowker, Charlie Higson, Arthur Smith, Andrew Jefford, Wan Hisham Wan Salleh, Adrian Ramsay, Jane Harris, Mathias Cormann, Simon Scarrow, Christopher Catherwood, Alison Brimelow, James Frain, Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde, William Banks-Blaney, Nick Baylis, Tim Guest, David Almond, Adam Tomkins, Össur Skarphéðinsson, Snoo Wilson, Susanne Courtney, James Mccreet, Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, Tim Bowler, Richard Webster, Rose Tremain, James Sorel-Cameron, Rebecca Lowe, John Boyne, Adam Foulds, Graeme Turner, Tracy Chevalier, Jenny Abramsky, Nick Barton, Tito Mboweni, Tash Aw, James Chapman, Nina Conti, Robert Fulton, Kit Whitfield, Tess Kingham, Gareth Malone, Todd Swift, Rosalind Scott, Baroness Scott of Needham Market, Mark Seddon, Alexander Gordon Smith, Christopher J. Lane, Simon Day, Paul Murray, Owen Sheers, Jon Owen Jones, James Scudamore, Neil Morisetti, Christopher T. Gates, Peter S. Williams, Jovan Ratković, Larissa Lai, John Bainbridge, Nigel Hart, Peter Fahy, James Buckley, Derek Pasquill, Amir Muhammad, David Cummings, Gregory Woods, Peter Stachura, Stuart Flynn, James Barber, Paul Wellings, Alan Whiteside, Toby Litt, Lucasta Miller, David Sutton, Antony Little, Ibrahim H. Umar, Phil Whelan, Chris Sugden, Naomi Alderman, Louise Doughty, Marie-Louise Jensen, Vicky Phillips, Geraint Vincent, Ja...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2397386 ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1883Original Publisher: K. Paul, TrenchSubjects: BuddhismReligion / Buddhism / GeneralReligion / Buddhism / HistoryReligion / Buddhism / Rituals ... Read more