3512 results for '"Walker, Lawrence R.'

"Demands comparison with the very best books of our century . . . A truly important writer . . . His people, his places are masterly."― New York Times Book ReviewDurrell's masterpiece is onne of the...

Two strangers find themselves connected by a vast and mysterious library containing many wonders and still more secrets, in this powerfully moving first book in a new series from the international...

The Pope's Rhinoceros is a vivid, antic, and picaresque novel spun around one of history's most bizarre chapters: the sixteenth-century attempt to procure a rhinoceros as a bribe for Pope Leo X. In...

Was he a martyr or damned? A hero or a fool? This pictorial biography of George Armstrong Custer explores all facets of the legendary general from his boyhood to West Point, through the Civil War and...

Examines Matisse's impact on modern art as well as examining his career, techniques, aesthetics, and stages of artistic development

A painfully honest portait of suburban life captures all of the quiet desperation, humor, struggles, and alienation that can lurk behind a facade of the serenity of the suburbs. A first novel

Study in British customs, folkways, and family structure for the stated 300 year history 1500-1800.

Patients with headache pose many clinical challenges. Even experienced clinicians occasionally arrive at the point where diagnostic, work-up, treatment, or prognostic thinking becomes blocked. In...

"An important and inspiring novel."VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENTIt is 18th-century London and John Lempriere, a young scholar, is writing a dictionary of classical mythology in an attempt to exorcise the...