James Miranda BarrySerpent's Tail, 1999 - Počet stran: 375 James Miranda Barry enrols as a medical student in Edinburgh, the start of a glorious career as a military surgeon. He achieves fame as a legendary duellist and a celebrated social figure. But James Miranda Barry was also a woman. Her greatest achievement has been to pass for a man for 50 years. |
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... already a large crowd is flocking around Richardson's jugglers and performing dogs , who are leaping over little pyramids and through coloured hoops , to the cheerful belching of a mechanical organ . Two grotesque dancing figures ...
... already a large crowd is flocking around Richardson's jugglers and performing dogs , who are leaping over little pyramids and through coloured hoops , to the cheerful belching of a mechanical organ . Two grotesque dancing figures ...
Strana 206
... already begun and he was trying both to interest her in a mazurka , which would animate the bosom to delicious advantage , and to field the constant interruptions from other men trying to catch her eye , when he felt her body tense like ...
... already begun and he was trying both to interest her in a mazurka , which would animate the bosom to delicious advantage , and to field the constant interruptions from other men trying to catch her eye , when he felt her body tense like ...
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... already covered in flies . Barry brushed them aside with a gloved hand . As he did so he noticed a marching line of ants entering the bundle and knew that they were already excavating the corpse before him . She was young , younger than ...
... already covered in flies . Barry brushed them aside with a gloved hand . As he did so he noticed a marching line of ants entering the bundle and knew that they were already excavating the corpse before him . She was young , younger than ...
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