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Blurb Your Enthusiasm
A dazzling dictionary of book blurbs, filled with writing tips, literary folklore and publishing secrets
A joyful celebration of books – the perfect gift for bibliophiles, word lovers and anyone who’s ever wondered, should you judge a book by its cover?
We love the words in books – but what about the words on them? How do they work their magic? Here is a book about the ways books entice us to read them: their titles, quotes, covers and, above all, blurbs – via authors from Jane Austen to Zadie Smith, writing tricks, classic literature, bonkbusters, plot spoilers and publishing secrets. It’s nothing less than the inside story of the outside of books.
And it answers questions like:
- Why do some authors hate blurbs so much they burn their own books?
- Should all adjectives be murdered?
- Is blurbing sometimes maybe lying?
- Is it true that (checks jacket) you need an animal on a book’s cover to make it a bestseller?
- What are the most terrible blurbs of all time?
Join Penguin publishing word wizard Louise Willder – five thousand blurbs written, mostly avoiding the phrase ‘unputdownable tour-de-force’ – to discover why we should judge a book by its cover. Even this one. (It’s an unputdownable tour-de-force.)
Auschwitz - Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.
This book tells a story to shake the conscience of the world. It is the catalogue of the first-ever traveling exhibition about the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people—mostly Jews, but also non-Jewish Poles, Roma, and others—lost their lives. More than 280 objects and images from the exhibition are illustrated herein. Drawn from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and other collections around the world, they range from the intimate (such as victims' family snapshots and personal belongings) to the immense (an actual surviving barrack from the Auschwitz III-Monowitz satellite camp); all are eloquent in their testimony. An authoritative yet accessible text weaves the stories behind these artifacts into an encompassing history of Auschwitz—from a Polish town at the crossroads of Europe, to the dark center of the Holocaust, to a powerful site of remembrance. Auschwitz: Not long ago. Not far away. is an essential volume for everyone who is interested in history and its lessons.
Nem mézes hetek
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Két esküdt ellenség Hawaiin
Ezt a romantikus történetet mindenkinek olvasnia kell, aki valaha is úgy érezte, nincs szerencséje a szerelemben.
Olive és Ami ikrek. Ami mindent bezsákol, Olive-nak viszont folyton pechje van, és ezt már meg is szokta. Kettejük közt vitathatatlanul Ami a bajnok... még a lakodalma is szinte ingyen van a különböző akcióknak és nyereményeknek köszönhetően. Olive-ot csak egy dolog zavarja a pechszériájánál is jobban: Ami esküvőjén az egész napot a vőféllyel kell együtt töltenie, aki nem más, mint Olive ősellensége, Ethan Thomas.
Olive megacélozza magát a pokoli nap előtt, elhatározza, bátor képet vág hozzá, és az egészet átvészeli. De a komplett násznép ételmérgezést kap, Olive és Ethan kivételével, így aztán átmenetileg muszáj nekik fegyverszünetet kötniük, hogy Hawaiira utazhassanak. Végül is tíz felhőtlen nap megéri, hogy az ember belebújjon a friss házasok bőrébe, nem igaz?
De furcsa módon Olive mintha nem is bánná, hogy bele kell helyezkednie a szerepbe. Mintha minél inkább tettetné, hogy ő a legszerencsésebb nő a világon, annál inkább úgy érezné, hogy tényleg ez az igazság.
„Milyen vidám, rokonszenves és megejtő könyv! Többször úgy nevettem, hogy a könnyem is kicsordult, miközben végig éreztem Olive kiterjedt, szerető, bonyolult és mókás családjának ölelését, majd a szívem is szárnyalt a befejezésnél. Ezt a könyvet el kell olvasnia mindenkinek, aki azt szeretné, hogy az arca is megfájduljon a nevetéstől.” - Jasmine Guillory, a New York Times bestsellerszerzője, a The Proposal írója
„Szellemes és kifejezetten kacagtató, benne épp a megfelelő mennyiségű érzelemmel. A Nem mézes hetek tökéletes kikapcsolódást nyújtó romantikus komédia. Mindenki készüljön fel, hogy az elsőtől a hátsó borítóig haladtában rengeteget fog nevetni és mosolyogni.” - Helen Hoang, a Menyasszony rendelésre írója
„Ebből az egyszerre érzelmes és vicces, „ellenségből-szerető”-regényből megtanulhatjuk, hogy az életben a legjobb dolgokra mind igaz, hogy all-inclusive, ingyenes és másra át nem ruházható.” - Kirkus
„Lauren zseniálisan ötvözi a romantikus regényekben megszokott elemeket - ellenségekből szeretők, álházasság, kiáltóan ellentétes jellemek -, és gyúr belőlük olyan vidám olvasmányt, hogy az olvasók minden szaván csüggeni fognak.” - Publishers Weekly
„Lauren e legújabb, enyhén pikáns, vidám művével is olyat alkotott, ami egészen biztos örömöt okoz majd az olvasóknak. Ez a forró nyári románc tökéletes olvasmány a medence vagy a tenger partjára, kár volna kihagyni!” - Library Journal
„Lauren legújabb kötete szexi és mulatságos romantikus regény, amely bepillantást enged egy soktagú, összetartó mexikói-amerikai család mindennapjaiba, és az ikernővéreket figyelve az is kiderül, a vér nem válik-e vízzé. Az olvasók felkészülhetnek a harsány hahotázásra… Jasmine Guillory és Sally Thorne rajongói számára kötelező.” - Booklist
„Könnyed, kacagtatóan vidám történetet mesél el a Nem mézes hetek, amelyet a túlságos kotnyeleskedés övez (a számos Torres nagynéni és unokatestvér folyamatosan beleártja magát Ami és Olive életébe). Elragadó és élvezetes olvasmány kerekedik abból, ahogyan Olive Ethan iránti kezdeti ellenszenvét lassanként megenyhítik a sorozatos felismerések, hogy a férfinak számos jó tulajdonsága is van.” - Shelf Awareness
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Mikhail
He’s a dangerous jewel thief… she’s the gem expert standing in his way…
Mikhail Barinov knew he F’d up, five hundred years ago. His ‘one job’ as part of a Russian family of imperial dragon shifters? To protect the family hoard of jewels. But a dazzling virgin—who just happened to be the Elizabeth I, the Queen of England—tricked Mikhail and stole the jewels. But now he has a chance at redemption. The jewels have been found five centuries later. The only problem is they’ve been turned over to gemologist, Piper Linwood. She’s sexy, smart, ripe for seduction—but if centuries of exile taught him one thing, it’s never trust a beautiful woman.
Piper Linwood can’t wait to get her hands on her latest project. But hot damn she never expected how badly she’d want to get her hands on the dark, brooding man she sees at the museum. Of course she didn’t know he was a jewel thief. Or a dragon shifter. But all that becomes abundantly clear when he takes the jewels and her, then flies (yes, flies) to his ancestral castle. While all the alpha-male stuff is what fairy tales are made of—and frankly sexy-as-hell—the fact Piper disappeared with Mikhail has her labeled as his partner in crime. Now she must choose.
Will she betray him to save her career? Or will she stay and become the dragon’s greatest treasure?
Twilight meets Games of Thrones in this hot new dragon shifter romance by USA Today Bestselling author Lauren Smith!Scroll up and one-click your copy today!
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Poems: 1962-2020
A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet
For the past fifty years, Louise Gluck has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless intelligence, wit and intimacy of her poetic voice as for her development of a particular form: the book-length sequence of poems. This volume brings together the twelve collections Gluck has published to date, offering readers the opportunity to become immersed in the artistry and vision of one of the world's greatest living poets.
From the allegories of The Wild Iris to the myth-making of Averno; the oneiric landscapes of The House on Marshland to the questing of Faithful and Virtuous Night - each of Gluck's collections looks upon the events of an ordinary life and finds within them scope for the transcendent; each wields its archetypes to puncture the illusions of the self. Across her work, elements are reiterated but endlessly transfigured - Persephone, a copper beech, a mother and father and sister, a garden, a husband and son, a horse, a dog, a field on fire, a mountain. Taken together, the effect is like a shifting landscape seen from above, at once familiar and unspeakably profound.
No One Can Change Your Life Except For You
'When I was a kid the first album I owned was by Wilson Phillips. I remember the lyric from the song Hold On, 'No one can change your life except for you'. It's how I've chosen to live my life. There is a freedom when you take back control. Stop waiting for someone to save you and do it yourself. I recognise everyone has different levels of struggle but no one just hands you a chance. We don't have to wait for Prince Charming to rescue us, or wait for the opportunity to come to us. We can be our own heroes. We can create our own dreams.'
Laura Whitmore knows lucky breaks come to those who are ready to step into their own power, even when they're feeling nervous as hell about it. In No One Can Change Your Life Except For You, she shares her experiences of overcoming heartbreak, body image worries, self-doubt and insecurity.
Laura has learned that optimism, self-belief and learning to accept yourself, will bring you more than anyone else can ever give you. And she shows how her own struggles can help you through yours.
Frank, heartfelt, inspirational and funny, this is a book to remind you that the hero you are looking for is YOU.
Lacná kniha Rich People Problems (-70%)
Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians (soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan) and China Rich Girlfriend, is back with an uproarious new novel of a family riven by fortune, an ex-wife driven psychotic with jealousy, a battle royal fought through couture gown sabotage, and the heir to one of Asia's greatest fortunes locked out of his inheritance.
When Nicholas Young hears that his grandmother, Su Yi, is on her deathbed, he rushes to be by her bedside—but he's not alone. The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake claim on their matriarch’s massive fortune. With each family member vying to inherit Tyersall Park—a trophy estate on 64 prime acres in the heart of Singapore—Nicholas’s childhood home turns into a hotbed of speculation and sabotage. As her relatives fight over heirlooms, Astrid Leong is at the center of her own storm, desperately in love with her old sweetheart Charlie Wu, but tormented by her ex-husband—a man hell bent on destroying Astrid’s reputation and relationship. Meanwhile Kitty Pong, married to China’s second richest man, billionaire Jack Bing, still feels second best next to her new step-daughter, famous fashionista Colette Bing. A sweeping novel that takes us from the elegantly appointed mansions of Manila to the secluded private islands in the Sulu Sea, from a kidnapping at Hong Kong’s most elite private school to a surprise marriage proposal at an Indian palace, caught on camera by the telephoto lenses of paparazzi, Kevin Kwan's hilarious, gloriously wicked new novel reveals the long-buried secrets of Asia's most privileged families and their rich people problems.
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Deacon King Kong
'Brilliantly imagined, larger than life, a tragicomedic epic of intertwined lives.' JOYCE CAROL OATES
'Deeply felt, beautifully written and profoundly humane.' JUNOT DIAZ, New York Times Book Review
The year is 1969. In a housing project in south Brooklyn, a shambling old church deacon called Sportcoat shoots - for no apparent reason - the local drug-dealer who used to be part of the church's baseball team. The repercussions of that moment draw in the whole community, from Sportcoat's best friend - Hot Sausage - to the local Italian mobsters, the police (corrupt and otherwise), and the stalwart ladies of the Five Ends Baptist Church.
DEACON KING KONG is a book about a community under threat, about the ways people pull together in an age when the old rules are being rewritten. It is very funny in places, and heartbreaking in others. From a prize-winning storyteller, this New York Times bestseller shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, and that the communities we build are fragile but vital.
Blueprint: 365-Day Extreme Training To (Re)Build A Bulletproof Body
Ross Edgley has spent decades perfecting the principles and practice of extreme fitness to achieve the impossible. Following a career-threatening injury in 2018, Ross was forced to reassess his training and take the next steps in a lifelong journey of redefining what the human body is capable of. In Blueprint, Ross shares the cutting-edge training program that empowered him to rebuild his body from surgery and a doctor's gloomy prognosis in just 365 days to complete a world record swim.
Whether it's climbing a mountain, swimming the English Channel, or a gruelling triathlon, Blueprint will teach you the tried and tested principles of sports science that have been used for decades by Olympians, explorers and adventurers at the limits of peak physical endurance.
Blueprint is Ross Edgley's complete training journey that shows you how to:
Divide a 365-day training plan into seasons (winter, spring, summer and autumn)
Rebuild your body using evolutionary medicine
Build a superhuman work capacity with forgotten Spartan-style training
Gain bulletproof resilience through Soviet-inspired strength training
Boost your aerobic base with Olympian techniques.
Blueprint applies the exact same principles that enabled Ross to complete extreme feats such as the World's Longest Sea Swim, World's Longest Rope Climb, World's Heaviest Triathlon and World's Strongest Marathon.
Ross is your elite guide to achieving the impossible in the gym and beyond. Featuring almost 30 tailored workouts for different phases of training, packed with digestible sports science to help you optimise your workouts, and interspersed with Ross' own daring adventures across the world, Blueprint is the ultimate guide to optimising your time and training to make the impossible possible.
Make Time for Creativity : Finding Space for Your Most Meaningful Work
A guided journal for exploring how to fit creativity and meaning into everyday life
The first in a series of three guided journals dedicated to living a creative life, Making Time for Creativity explores how we find space in our days to express ourselves, develop our talents, and do the things that matter. This journal provides a series of writing prompts on the themes of defining work-life balance, creating daily rituals, setting intentions, meeting goals, and taking time off from creativity. Working artists from all walks of life-musicians, authors, filmmakers, dancers, designers, and visual artists-offer their responses to these prompts, providing an inspiring framework for reflecting on how you can use your own time meaningfully. In Making Time for Creativity, Brandon Stosuy, the cofounder and editor in chief of The Creative Independent, a growing resource for creative people, taps into an incredible network of talent to provide diverse (and divergent) perspectives on how creativity can be prioritized amid all the other demands on our time.
Jones Tom - Surrounded By Time: The Hourglass Edition 2CD
Tracklist:
CD ONE: Original Album
1 I Won't Crumble With You If You Fall
2 The Windmills Of Your Mind
3 PopStar
4 No Hole In My Head
5 Talking Reality Television Blues
6 I Won't Lie
7 This Is The Sea
8 One More Cup Of Coffee
9 Samson And Delilah
10 Ol' Mother Earth
11 I'm Growing Old
12 Lazarus Man
CD TWO: Bonus Tracks
1 Not Dark Yet
2 One Hell Of A Life
3 I Won't Crumble With You If You Fall (Live from Shepherd's Bush Empire)
4 Samson And Delilah (Live from Shepherd's Bush Empire)
5 Ol' Mother Earth (Live from Shepherd's Bush Empire)
6 This Is The Sea (Live from Shepherd's Bush Empire)
7 In Conversation with Pete Paphides
Twisted Destiny
The basketball practice match that changes everything.
Takumi Ichirou is a first-year high schooler who is an excellent basketball player. Despite receiving many offers to join a basketball team from the prestigious schools in Japan, he chose to go to Minagawa Academy instead. It’s a school which is no longer in The Best 8.Besides him, Takumi’s best friend, Hideki Nakamura also chose to go to Minagawa Academy because of their promise when they were kids. Just like Takumi, he also received numerous offers from the prestigious school. But he declined their invitations.One day, their basketball team decided to have a practice match with Echizen High, which is one of the basketball powerhouses in Japan. That’s when both Takumi and Hideki reunite with their childhood friends, Hikaru Kitagawa and his twin brother, Kaoru.Little they know that their happy reunion turns into a traumatic match that they’ve ever had, all because of Hikaru’s word.Twisted Destiny is a high school basketball, sports light novel in English by Sekina Mayu.If you enjoy reading a novel about friendship and the school life and also love anime and manga like Kuroko no Basket and Slam Dunk, then you'll love Twisted Destiny.Buy this book now to start reading about the destiny that awaits Takumi and his team.
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Lacná kniha EternityS Wheel (-90%)
The heart-pounding conclusion to the InterWorld series, by award-winning writers Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves and Mallory Reaves As the threat of FrostNight looms ever closer, Joey Harker seeks out more of his fellow Walkers across the Altiverse, training them as fast as he can. But even a solid team of recruits can't prepare Joey for the ultimate showdown with InterWorld's enemies, old and new. Joey never wanted to be in charge. But he's the one everyone is looking to now, and he'll have to step up if he has any hope of saving InterWorld, the Multiverse, and everything in between.
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H. P. Lovecraft : The Nameless City (EN)
Audiobook The Nameless City written by H. P. Lovecraft. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) is a novelist famous for his horror stories, fantasy and science fiction. Although he was not famous during his lifetime, his work is now considered a classic of literature. Lovecraft's work has influenced many authors, including Stephen King, who considers him "the greatest craftsman of the classic horror story of the 20th century".
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Swamp Songs
From Romney Marsh to the Danube Delta, North Carolina to the Bay of Bengal, Tom Blass explores swamps, marshes and wetlands - and the people who have made these twilit worlds their homes.
Oozing with bad airs, boggarts and other spirits, the world's marshes and swamps are often seen as sinister, permanently twilit - and only partly of this earth. For centuries, they - and their inhabitants - have been the object of our distrust. We have tried to drain away their demons and tame them, destroying their fragile beauty, botany and birdlife, along with the carefully calibrated lives of those who have come to understand and thrive in them.
In Swamp Songs, Tom Blass journeys through a series of such watery landscapes, from Romney Marsh to North Carolina, from Lapland to the Danube Delta and on to the Bay of Bengal, encountering those whose very existence has been shaped by wetlands, their myths and hidden histories. Here are tales of shepherds, smugglers and salt-gatherers; of mangroves and machismo, frogs and fishermen. And of carp soup, tiger gods, flamingos and floods.
A dazzling exploration of lives lived on the fringes of civilisation, Swamp Songs is a vital reappraisal and vibrant celebration of people and environments closely intertwined.
The Adventures of Jojo the Parrot
Jojo is a little parrot who has always wanted to travel the world. He gained courage and chose to travel around Europe. While travelling, he meets the parrot Fifi who lives in the modern world... Eventually, they go on their journey together.
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U2 - Songs Of Surrender (Super Deluxe Collector's Boxset) 4LP
„Songs of Surrender“ obsahuje 16 nových akustických a prerobených nahrávok z katalógu U2, Produced & Compiled by The Edge. U2 predali viac ako 175 miliónov albumov, získali 22 cien Grammy a vydali 14 štúdiových albumov.
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CD je uložené v 4 panelovom digi-puzdre
Obsahuje 12-stranovú brožúru, ktorá obsahuje poznámky z The Edge. Exkluzívna limitovaná edícia číslovaná Super Deluxe 4CD (4LP) zberateľská edícia obsahuje 40 nových akustických a prerobených nahrávok z katalógu U2.
Tracklist:
Side 1 - The Edge
1 One
2 Where The Streets Have No Name
3 Stories For Boys
4 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
5 Out Of Control
6 Beautiful Day
7 Bad
8 Every Breaking Wave
9 Walk On (Ukraine)
10 Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Side 2 - Larry
1 Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
2 Get Out Of Your Own Way
3 Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
4 Red Hill Mining Town
5 Ordinary Love
6 Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
7 Invisible
8 Dirty Day
9 The Miracle Of Joey Ramone
10 City Of Blinding Lights
Side 3 - Adam
1 Vertigo
2 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
3 Electrical Storm
4 The Fly
5 If God Will Send His Angels
6 Desire
7 Until The End Of The World
8 Song For Someone
9 All I Want Is You
10 Peace On Earth
Side 4 - Bono
1 With Or Without You
2 Stay
3 Sunday Bloody Sunday
4 Lights Of Home
5 Cedarwood Road
6 I Will Follow
7 Two Hearts Beat As One
8 Miracle Drug
9 The Little Things That Give You Away
10 40
Fault in Our Stars
This is the film tie-in edition of John Green's witty yet heart-breaking tour de force. Featuring 7 stills from the hotly anticipated movie from Twentieth Century Fox. "I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once." Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. "Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love". (Sunday Times (Culture)). "A touching, often fiercely funny novel". (The Sun on Sunday (Fabulous Magazine)). "So good I think it should be compulsory reading for everyone!" (Daily Express). "John Green brilliantly captures the voices of a young generation while instilling it with the wisdom of a life that has lived too much yet will never live enough. Rather than depressing, the book is filled with dark humour and is written with a beautiful simplicity that draws the reader in so deeply that it's not just the twist and turns but the gently bends and curves that you feel tugging at your emotions...No doubt in the end you will cry but you will also feel that you have discovered a little something about living". (Daily Telegraph). "The novel, written for teenagers, but proving even more popular with adults". (The Metro - 2013 Best Fiction). "The YA crossover hit of the year. The love affair of two terminally ill teenagers could be mawkish. In fact, it's funny, clever, irreverent and life-affirming". (The Guardian). "A Smart Book". (Grazia). "So good!" (Good Housekeeping). "John Green may write for young adults, but his intelligent sensitive style means The Fault in Our Stars defies categorisation ...as funny as it is heartbreaking ...we defy you not to fall in love with its main characters, Hazel and Augustus". (The Tablet). "A humourous and poignant love story...It's terrifically funny ...as well as a moving exploration of loss and grief. And no, it's so much not just for teenage cancer sufferers ...it's for everyone". (Bliss). "If you need inspiration when it comes to making the most of a moment, this one is for you". (Mizz). 'Exploring the funny, thrilling and tragic business of being alive and in love, this is a life-affirming tale of two teenagers who are terminally ill. Insightful, bold, irreverent and raw, if this doesn't make you cry, it'll definitely make you think, laugh and maybe even fall in love yourself!' "It is a thought-provoking love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns and - with David Levithan - Will Grayson, Will Grayson. John Green has over 1.2 million Twitter followers, and almost 700,000 subscribers to Vlogbrothers, the YouTube channel he created with his brother, Hank. The Fault in Our Stars will capture a crossover audience in the same vein as Zadie Smith, David Nicholls". (One Day and Before I Die by Jenny Downham). "Electric ...Filled with staccato bursts of humor and tragedy". (Jodi Picoult). "A novel of life and death and the people caught in between, The Fault in Our Stars is John Green at his best. You laugh, you cry, and then you come back for more". (Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief). John Green is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author whose many accolades include the Printz Medal, a Printz Honor, and the Edgar Award. With his brother, Hank, John is one half of the Vlogbrothers (youtube.com/vlogbrothers), one of the most popular online video projects in the world. John lives with his wife and son in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The Cask of Amontillado
"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque of Amontillado") is a short story, written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book.The story is set in a nameless Italian city in an unspecified year (possibly sometime during the eighteenth century) and concerns the deadly revenge taken by the narrator on a friend who he claims has insulted him. Like several of Poe's stories, and in keeping with the 19th-century fascination with the subject, the narrative revolves around a person being buried alive – in this case, by immurement.
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