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Mike Filey’s «The Way We Were» column in the Toronto Sun continues to be one of the paper’s most popular features. In More Toronto Sketches , the second volume in Dundurn Press’s Toronto Sketches series, Filey brings together some of the best of his columns. Each column looks at Toronto as it was, and contributes to our understanding of how Toronto became what it is. Illustrated with photographs of the city’s people and places of the past, Toronto Sketches is a nostalgic journey for the long-time Torontonian, and a voyage of discovery for the newcomer.


The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches

Автор: Марк Твен

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As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain's more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from political commentary to our species' need to "be remembered" somehow. Taken as a whole the stories are "whimsical". Taken individually, they speak the truth in different ways.


Sketches New and Old Sketches New and Old

Автор: Марк Твен

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A real storyteller can make a great story out of anything, even the most trivial occurrence. The candid, ironic, playful, and petulant sketches are indispensable to our understanding of a harried genius during thirteen quite amazing years.


Our village: sketches of rural character and scenery Our village: sketches of rural character and scenery

Автор: Mary Russell Mitford

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Our village : sketches of rural character and scenery / by Mary Russell Mitford».


Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden. Vol. 2 Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden. Vol. 2

Автор: Robert Ker Porter

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden : Vol. 2 : during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808 : with 41 plates : in 2 volumes / by Robert Ker Porter».


Sketches of the natural, civil, and political state of Swisserland Sketches of the natural, civil, and political state of Swisserland

Автор: William Coxe

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Sketches of the natural, civil, and political state of Swisserland : in a series of letters to William Melmoth, Esq. / from William Coxe».