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Cathleen Schine
There was a time when the family Kuenstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed the fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Kuenstlers found their…
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An enchanting, comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language.
In the Greenwich Village of 1964, eleven-year-old Fin moves in with his glamorous, careless older sister, and it’s hard to tell who’s raising whom.
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From one of America’s greatest comic novelists, a hilarious new novel about ageing, family, loneliness, and love.
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A repackage of the Cathleen Schine’s 1993 Rameau’s Niece, a comedy of manners set in New York.
Thorndike Press large print basic –Verso.
Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Because it was a real and dangerous time–1939, to be precise–she was forced…
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The national bestseller from the author of Rameau’s Niece and Alice in Bed is now available in paper. When an anonymous love letter arrives in Helen MacFarquhar’s mail one summer…
Newlywed Alice appears to have the perfect life. The one fly in the ointment is her mother’s detestable boyfriend, Louie Scifo: champion of incredibly bad taste and a bona fide…
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Schine’s brilliantly funny new novel revolves around one city block in Manhattan. In her book, as in life, canine companions compel their masters to go outside of themselves, to take…
In some mysterious family feud or unintended slight, Jane Barlow Schwartz lost a friend, her cousin and soul mate Martha. But years later, surrounded by the exotic wildlife of the…
Jane Austen’s beloved Sense and Sensibility has moved to Westport, Connecticut, in this enchanting, New York Times -bestselling, modern-day homage to the classic novel.
The lively and spirited new novel from the author of the best-selling The Three Weissmanns of Westport is a wise, clever, romantic comedy of New York in the sixties -…
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Sense and Sensibility moves to Westport, Connecticut, in this New York Times bestselling homage to the classic novel.
In a sprightly first novel (John Updike, The New Yorker), fluently written … (in) an engaging voice (The New York Times Book Review), Schine introduces readers to a convalescent but…
Elizabeth von Arnim
Originally published: London: Macmillan and Co., 1922.
