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So, I was glancing through some of the reviews here and noticed that someone has totally disparaged this book because its “hero” is immoral. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The editor has taken the liberty of re-arranging the paragraphs and adding emphasis. The comments on ‘Equality’ are particularly pertinent in light of the growing inequality in the world. Ambedkar’s standpoint and play a part in building a society based on these ideals. We are reproducing an extract from the work which we believe is essential reading for those who want to understand Liberty, Equality and Fraternity from Dr. ![]() Ambedkar’s correspondence with the Mandal can be accessed in the ‘Annihilation of Caste’, the print version of the speech which he self-published. Ambedkar says that he was given to understand that the organisation was “an organisation of Caste Hindu Social Reformers, with the one and only aim, namely, to eradicate the Caste System from amongst the Hindus.” The speech remained undelivered as the Mandal cancelled the proposed conference after reviewing the address. The work was composed in 1936 and was intended to be the Presidential Address which would be delivered in meeting of a group of liberal Hindu caste-reformers in Lahore – the Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal. ‘Annihilation of Caste’ is considered as one of the monumental works of Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Morgan Stanley does not provide tax or legal advice. For more information regarding Morgan Stanley’s role with respect to a Retirement Account, please visit Tax laws are complex and subject to change. 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There’s nothing unusual about her – except that Antoinette has seen her somewhere before.Īnd her death won’t stay neat. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty and lying dead next to a table set for a romantic dinner. The new case looks like a regular lovers’ quarrel gone bad. Antoinette is tough, but she’s getting close to the breaking point. Her working life is a stream of thankless cases and harassment. Beating your own squad is a whole other thing.īeing on the Dublin Murder squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed. ‘ONE OF THE BEST CRIME WRITERS WORKING TODAY’ Guardian ‘A TRULY GREAT WRITER’ Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl Winner of the Irish Book Awards Crime Fiction Book of the Year. The masterful Richard & Judy pick, from the Sunday Times bestselling author. ![]() ![]() At one time, thirteenĬhildren lived undet the same roof. Laundry and by taking in orphaned children. Income as a seamstress, doing the neighbours' Most likely Mabel was in fact his birth mother. 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The elements that make up The Moonstone-a purloined jewel that carries a mysterious curse, an indefatigable British police sergeant, a drama of theft and murder in a spacious country house-have been repeated, in varying guises, throughout much of the avalanche of detective fiction that followed Collins's immensely popular 1868 novel. Wilkie Collins gives the reader all the necessary pieces to the puzzle, but they are so cleverly disguised that his surprise ending takes the breath away. ![]() ![]() The diamond's disappearance sets in motion an intricately plotted mystery. Inherited by the beautiful young Englishwoman Rachel Verinder, it is also a sacred talisman to the Hindu priests who hope to bring it back to their holy city in India, from which it was looted long ago. Genres Classics Mystery Fiction Crime Victorian 19th Century Historical Fiction. The Moonstone is a stunning yellow diamond the size of a bird's egg that glows like the harvest moon and harbors a flaw in its brilliant depths. This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition. ![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:oclc:868490432 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120113182521 Scanner . Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood: A novel dealing with extreme genetic engineering, Oryx and Crake revolves around the narrator Jimmy, aka Snowman and his. OL675722W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.33 Pages 408 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:140007536X Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. Oryx seduced Jimmy, and Jimmy worried that Crake would feel jealous if he found out. Oryx and Crake developed a relationship, and when Crake started at RejoovenEsense, he hired Oryx to work there too. Urn:lcp:oryxcrake00atwo:lcpdf:46641931-ff36-4440-a2b7-8f8b9fcaf8b0 Crake had met Oryx in person when he was in college and employed her for sex work. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:24:25 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA170101 Boxid_2 CH120121105-BL1 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed. ![]() ![]() This new cloth-bound edition is beautifully illustrated with 68 paintings and sketches by the author’s father Leonid, including an emotive portrait of Boris on the slipcase and a striking gold-blocked candle motif on the binding. The author’s niece, literary critic Ann Pasternak Slater, has crafted an absorbing introduction that examines the remarkable poetic structure of the book, while the eloquent poems of the novel’s protagonist Yuri Zhivago are presented in English with translations by both Nicolas and the author’s sister Lydia Pasternak. Commissioned exclusively for Folio, the author’s nephew Nicolas Pasternak Slater wrote what is coming to be regarded as the pre-eminent translation of Boris Pasternak’s novel. Originally published as a sell-out leatherbound Limited Edition, the Folio production of Doctor Zhivago brings together the creative brilliance of three generations of the Pasternak family for the first time. ![]() ![]() ‘The first work of genius to come out of Russia since the Revolution’ ![]() |