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![]() I first heard a mention of Vivre in the original French version of Luca Turin’s Parfums: Le Guide, first published in 1992 but which I never laid eyes on until around 2006, when Helen sent me a copy in the post. ![]() A perfume line was launched with 1932’s debut fragrance, Le Chic. His skills were thus much appreciated by the likes of Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Vivien Leigh as well as European royalty. According to historian Caroline Milbank, Molyneux was the designer ‘to whom a fashionable woman would turn if she wanted to be absolutely right without being utterly predictable in the Twenties and Thirties’. The perfume intrigued me : it has a pull.įar less well known that other famous couturiers of the time such as Balmain, Balenciaga, Givenchy and Madame Grès, Edward Molyneux (1891 – 1974) was a British designer who later settled in Paris and became known by those in the know for his ‘impeccably refined simplicity’. Not in prime condition, the top notes faded, perhaps, but still alluring – a mixture of dark and light. ![]() I recently picked up an old extrait de parfum of Vivre by Molyneux at the junk shop in Zushi for just three hundred yen ( £2.27 ). ![]() ![]() Into this society is born Sam Harker, the son of an Immortal whose human mother perishes in childbirth. This is a stable society but the stability will lead only to its destruction the environment of Venus outside the Keeps is malevolent and it is encroaching. Presiding over that society are the Immortals genetic throwbacks to the mutant atomic survivors who control the culture. ![]() In the massive superstructures that were built under the Venusian seas a complex feudal society devoted to decadence has evolved. Under the roiling seas of Venus, under the deadly atmosphere are the Keeps, fully enclosed cities, and within them live the descendants of those survivors who used that atomic energy to propel the spaceships which first took them to Venus. ![]() ![]() Harvard University, where he took high rank in his classes and bidįair to make a reputation as a scholar. He was widely known as poet, critic, and lecturer andĮndowed his son with native qualities of intelligence, good breeding,Īfter somewhat varied and troublous school days, young Dana entered Of less vigor than his predecessors, was yet a man of culture andĪbility. Intellectually but not temperamentally fitted: he should haveīeen a scholar, teacher, and author instead he became a lawyer.īorn in Cambridge, Mass., August 1, 1815, Richard Henry Dana, Jr.,Ĭame of a line of Colonial ancestors whose legal understanding and Of his family forced him into a profession for which he was Of sincere purpose, of many thwarted hopes. The story of his life is one of honest and competent effort, Those which arose through his fame as the author of one book. His happiestĪssociations were literary, his pleasantest acquaintanceships Small recognition and many disappointments. The greater part of his life, but they brought him comparatively ![]() His services in other than literary fields occupied yet the narrative in which he details theĮxperiences of that period is, perhaps, his chief claim to a wide Two years before the mast were but an episode in the life of Of fair and exquisite, O! nothing, nothing,Ĭoleridge’s Wallenstein. Whate’er in the inland dales the land conceals Housed on the wild sea with wild usages,– ![]() ![]() ![]() Zero supervision.”And just like that, Ever Wong’s summer takes an unexpected turn. “Our cousins have done this program,” Sophie whispers. Most anticipated novel of 2020: Boston Globe, Book Riot, Bustle, Nerd Daily, Seventeen, She Reads. ![]() Abigail Hing Wen’s New York Times bestselling debut is now in paperback! Sarah Dessen meets Crazy Rich Asians in this standout #ownvoices romance that follows a Chinese American girl sent from Ohio to Taiwan to study Mandarin for the summer.Ī New York Times bestseller!Optioned for film by the producers of Jenny Han’s To All the Boys I've Loved Before. ![]() ![]()
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