An International Circus Affair

Half a Lifetime in Provincial France

Notes from the Cévennes

John of Salisbury and the medieval Roman renaissance

Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller

The Life of Trust

Socio-Economic Perspectives

Technological Change, Development and the Environment

Kalevala

Phenomenology, Lifeworlds, and Place Making

Life Takes Place

The principles and art of successful business coaching

Effective Modern Coaching

Frye Practical Kandy Maker

Kürbis

Ein Kriminalroman

Flucht in den Tod oder Der Staat gegen Dr. Satan

modernization, development, and U.S. foreign policy from the Cold War to the present

The Right Kind of Revolution

North-South Divergence

Limits to Globalization

Developing a Career in Primary Education (1994)

50 Impulse, um in Schwung zu kommen

Motivier dich selbst. Sonst macht's keiner!

The Private Collection of Thomas B. Clarke of New York. Exhibited for the Benefit of the Figure Composition Prize Fund of the National Academy of Design at American Art Gallery, New York, Dec. 28, 1883, to Jan. 12, 1884

Eine Einführung in die Etymologie

Die Herkunft der Wörter

The Things He Carries and the Stories He Tells

Tim O'Brien

Mother's Daughter (Crime Does Pay, #5)

Zwei-Sprache

Kill Me a Fortune

Epifanía y decadentismo en De sobremesa de José Asunción Silva

Artista e imagen

La galería de las niñas muertas

Neutrality in Austria

Peripheral Vascular Disease in Primary Care

Cruelty, Violence and Murder

Praise for Pure"Some stories are too wonderful&ndash;too filled with wonders&ndash;to set in the present. They can't really be called historical fiction because they don't serve history so much as plunder it to invent what might have been. Such is the case with Pure."&mdash;The New York Times Book Review"This smart reimagining of the groundwork just before France burst into flames is something to savor."&mdash;The Washington Post"Andrew Miller...is another Hilary Mantel. Pure [is] elegantly written and intricately constructed, with an ending that, like those mirrors at Versailles, cleverly reflects the beginning."&mdash;The New York Times"Such is a wonder of good fiction, when a topic and a tale of which we are ignorant can&ndash;through simple ink symbols on paper&ndash;acquire an urgency that casts the rest of our daily rounds in shadow."&mdash;Cleveland Plain Dealer"One of the most brilliant aspects of Miller's writing is his ability to question unobtrusively, through style alone, sentimentality about both life under the Bourbons and the creative destruction of revolution...he has an instinctive knack for casting bright similes, never overextended, that ripple suggestively...The writing throughout is crystalline, uncontrived, striking and intelligent. You could call it pure."&mdash;Jonathan Beckman, Literary Review"Every so often a historical novel comes along that is so natural, so far from pastiche, so modern, that it thrills and expands the mind. PURE is one ... Miller's newly minted sentences are arresting, often unsettling and always thought-provoking. Exquisite inside and out, Pure is a near-faultless thing: detailed, symbolic and richly evocative of a time, place and man in dangerous flux. It is brilliance distilled, with very few impurities."&mdash;The Telegraph"Quietly powerful, consistently surprising, Pure is a fine addition to substantial body of work...pre-revolutionary Paris is evoked in pungent detail...By concentrating on the bit players and byways of history, Miller conjures up an eerily tangible vanished world."&mdash;Suzi Feay, Financial Times"Murder, rape, seduction and madness impel this elegant novel...Within this physical and political decay, Miller couches the heart of the matter: how to live one's life with personal integrity, with a purity not so much morally unblemished as unalloyed with the fads and opinions of society...Miller populates Baratte's quest for equanimity with lush and tart characters, seductively fleshed out, who collectively help to deliver the bittersweet resolution of his professional and personal travails."&mdash;James Urquhart, Independent"Very atmospheric...Although the theme may sound macabre, Miller's eloquent novel overflows with vitality and colour. It is packed with personal and physical details that evoke 18th-century Paris with startling immediacy. Above all he brings off that difficult trick of making the reader care about an unsymapthetic character. If you enjoyed Patrick Suskind's Perfume, you'll love this."&mdash;Daily Express"It is an audacious novelist who can so knowingly prefigure the symbolism at the heart of his own work without threatening the success of the entire enterprise. It is fortunate, then, that Miller is a writer of subtlety and skill...Unlike many parables, however, Pure is neither laboured nor leaden. Miller writes like a poet, with a deceptive simplicity - his sentences and images are intense distillations, conjuring the fleeting details of existence with clarity. He is also a very humane writer, whose philosophy is tempered always with an understanding of the flaws and failings of ordinary people...Pure defies the ordinary conventions of storytelling, slipping dream-like between lucidity and a kind of abstracted elusiveness... As Miller proves with this dazzling novel, it is not certainty we need but courage."&mdash;Clare Clark, Guardian"Almost dreamlike, a realistic fantasy, a violent fairytale for adults."&mdash;Brian Lynch, Irish Times"Enthralling...superbly researched, brilliantly narrated and movingly resolved."&mdash;Robert McCrum, The Observer

Pure

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Paths to Contemporary French Literature

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