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  • However, when the author-who wrote a brilliant book about Victorian writers called Parallel Lives - casts her seasoned eyes on Proust and the text of Remembrance of Things Past, she makes some wonderfully wry observations.

    Two Memoirs, One Self-Involved, The Other, Self-Realized 1997

  • The link below is to a rather lengthy Haaretz article by Dalia Karpel called Parallel Lives -

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • In " Parallel Lives " she rounds up five Victorian couples, the Thomas Carlyles, the John Ruskins and the Charles Dickenses among them.

    Indelible Portraits Of Women Stacy Schiff 2010

  • In Parallel Lives, Rose, literary critic that she is, says one of her primary motivations for writing the book was to broaden the repertoire of “plots” for couples.

    THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB LAURIE ABRAHAM 2010

  • On May 19, PBS replayed its Nova series segment, Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives, Mark Oliver Everett's touching documentary about his late father, Hugh.

    Mike Ragogna: New Tunes On Monday: Elvis Costello, Marshall Crenshaw, eels, Alex Woodard, and Buckwheat Zydeco 2009

  • And so in this fifth book of my Parallel Lives, in giving an account of Demosthenes and Cicero, my comparison of their natural dispositions and their characters will be formed upon their actions and their lives as statesmen, and I shall not pretend to criticize their orations one against the other, to show which of the two was the more charming or the more powerful speaker.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Shakespeare derives the view in good part from his major source for this play, Plutarch's Life of Antony in his Parallel Lives.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • I am not sure what prompts her to the dissertation on "provocative," since it was not a word I used of the book, but I am indebted to her for the word count, which explains to me my sense that I had not left enough space for Phyllis Rose's Parallel Lives.

    'Literary Domestics' Kelley, Mary 1984

  • And so in this fifth book of my Parallel Lives, in giving an account of Demosthenes and Cicero, my comparison of their natural dispositions and their characters will be formed upon their actions and their lives as statesmen, and I shall not pretend to criticize their orations one against the other, to show which of the two was the more charming or the more powerful speaker.

    Demosthenes Plutarch 1909

  • And so in this book of my Parallel Lives, in giving an account of

    The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls 46-120? Plutarch 1884

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