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Alex Connor Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Author - Winner of the Rome Prize. FRSA. Artist, & Historian Published by Newton Compton, Head of Zeus & Quercus https://t.co/injxCb30ye

109 books
Book Cover for: Tao Te Ching: Gilded Pocket Edition, Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching: Gilded Pocket Edition

Lao Tzu
Alex ConnorAlex Connor

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu Ancient Chinese Taoist philosopher, credited with writing the Tao Te Ching. Born: 571 BC Image: Murillo https://t.co/34Ll6kog4v

Hardcover, 2020

$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Letters to Milena

Franz Kafka
Alex ConnorAlex Connor

“I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.” Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena https://t.co/ILHgcpF6qT

Paperback, 2015

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray
Alex ConnorAlex Connor

'I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.' William Makepeace Thackeray English author of 'Vanity Fair.' 1811 - 1863 Image: Bronzino https://t.co/eWUQ3Ir7xO

Paperback, 2003

$14.00$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Alice in Wonderland: Coloring Book, John Tenniel

Alice in Wonderland: Coloring Book

John Tenniel
Alex ConnorAlex Connor

Quentin Massys' 1513 portrait 'Ugly Duchess' inspired John Tenniel's Duchess in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, 1864 Photograph: AF Fotografie However he didn't admire the author. “Dodgson is impossible! You will never put up with that conceited Don for more than a week!” https://t.co/3ZACF4hymf

Paperback, 2017

$5.95$2.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Frankenstein

Mary Shelley
Alex ConnorAlex Connor

"Remember that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.....I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.” Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein https://t.co/D6AO6s3CjN

Paperback, 1994

$6.00$3.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas
Alex ConnorAlex Connor

'If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.' Alexandre Dumas 24 July 1802 - 1870 French author, The Three Musketeers. https://t.co/lTsFFoMDzj

Paperback, Mass Market, 1984

$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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A Dictionary Of The English Language

Samuel Johnson
Alex ConnorAlex Connor

'No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.' Samuel Johnson 1709 -1784 English writer - Dictionary of the English Language. In childhood he contracted scrofula & an operation left his face & body scarred. Queen Anne gave him an amulet he wore all his life on a chain. https://t.co/YwpKoJKFNY

Paperback, 2022

$33.95$16.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte
Alex ConnorAlex Connor

“I have not broken your heart—you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong.” Wuthering Heights. Emily Bronte English novelist, 1818 - 1848 https://t.co/3VCRQGmZOl

Paperback, 2017

$14.56$7.28 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray
Alex ConnorAlex Connor

'I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.' William Makepeace Thackeray English author of 'Vanity Fair.' 1811 - 1863 Image: Bronzino https://t.co/eWUQ3Ir7xO

Paperback, 2017

$15.23$7.61 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins
Alex ConnorAlex Connor

“No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.” Wilkie Collins Author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone Image: Caravaggio https://t.co/sVrbxgG0MM

Paperback, 2003

$11.00$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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