“... Leah I feel like a poor Story.’Marian Engel was born Ruth, the second of twin girls, to an unknown woman in Toronto, on 24 May 1933. ‘Our mother was eighteen, just out of Central Commerce,’ Engel writes. ‘Her mother a widow, was a cost acct for Eaton’s. Times were bad. They lived on Walmer Rd. They gave us to the Children’s Aid.’ She and ...”

“... intelligentsia came together, at a time when both seemed to have all but disappeared. Virtually unknown outside the country, and little registered within it, he was a scholar of comparative religion and an anatomist of the aftermath of the USSR who joined political integrity and intellectual originality in a body of work that addressed the fate of his ...”

“... Paratroopers, easily recognised by their distinctive red berets, stationed with FN rifles. This, unknown to the demonstrators, was a part of Colonel Wilford’s mass IRA lift operation; the Paratroopers belonged to the 1st Battalion of the Paratroop Regiment.These soldiers had arrived by Army trucks in Derry that morning; the battalion had never been in ...”

“... uncertainty – which seems to be brought into play by virtue of the final figure being unknown at the time the promises are made is probably closer to permissible ‘risk’; the real danger of gharar is ambiguity, which is absent, since the promises and the terms defining the settlement price are crystal clear. This structure allows investors to ...”

“... far there are a total of 126 Platos, 28 Euripideses and 178 Cleopatras in the database. For some unknown reason, the most popular name in almost every region was Dennis i.e. Dionysius – ‘Of Dionysus’. Other common god-names, Apollonius, Apollodorus, Demetrius – ‘Of Demeter’ – were usually in the top ten. For centuries after their deaths the ...”

“... that our arms and legs were quite separate from the other bits of our bodies, yet through some unknown mechanism kept up with our torsos, or if you like vice versa. This group of the hard-drinking left flowed and tottered the length of Dean Street, and could be found finding each other by wandering solitary or in pairs in and out of pubs and clubs in ...”

“... There was a process, all right, even in cases where the personal identity of the target was unknown, but it was never what anyone could call ‘due process’. Pompeo, in a speech to a church group in Kansas three years ago, spoke of the War on Terror as a religious war and said that Americans must ‘pray and stand and fight and make sure that we know ...”

“... breathing in and out on the phrase ‘I am’, while around him, the elements of the unknown world sleepwalk at a chopped and screwed pace between the trees. And what is it that finally brings him back to himself? A cigarette, of course.On the far horizon, Egil’s thoughts begin to hover near the star: ‘What is happening here is that death is ...”

“... and self-delight were clearly a trial to Edmund Wilson, who, though a generous supporter of the unknown genius, was always irked by Nabokov’s independence. As I writer, he was completely sure of his own worth and we believe Vera’s diary when it says: ‘There hardly ever was an author as indifferent to praise of invective as V – “I have too high an ...”

“... death, such as the hospital record of his final sickness in 1855. But it has slumbered virtually unknown ever since the mid-1950s, and this excellent new translation will introduce many to a Kierkegaard they never knew existed. To get the best from it, we need to know a little more about Two Ages (1846). What Kierkegaard’s little work purported to be was a ...”

“... to complete the picture, and the wildest accusations have been made against Trump with an impunity unknown to the resisters of Mussolini and Hitler. The lower courts, too, are standing up against this president with a fair degree of independence, especially in cases related to immigration. Yet in two respects, the authoritarian danger does resemble that of the ...”

“... birthday it was) and his mistress Margaret Livingston, the journalist (then a Hollywood unknown) Louella Parsons, the novelist Elinor Glyn, some goodtime girls and the usual hangers-on. Also there was the tycoon’s young mistress, Marion Davies.Hearst, notoriously possessive, suspected Chaplin, notoriously promiscuous, of fishing in his private ...”

“... about my love for people, as you do. Is it training? Is it the perpetual fear I have of the unknown force that lurks just under the floor? I never cease to feel that I must step very lightly on top of that volcano. The contrast between the intensely private Virginia and the more open, less fragmented Ethel was always a theme of their relationship. In ...”

“... day expect to be united as comrades. A letter sent in 1874 to Whitman by Edward Carpenter, then an unknown young poet, is a representative example; Whitman brought it up in a conversation with Traubel 14 years later, in 1888. ‘I seem to be very close to his heart and he to mine in that letter,’ Whitman remarks. ‘It has a place in our personal history ...”

“... at eight, from the camp. I’ve been wondering why, when you came to transform your own life in an unknown place, hiding out among the hostile peasants, you decided to imagine a girl as the survivor of this ordeal. And did it occur to you ever not to fictionalise this material but to present your experiences as you remember them, to write a survivor’s tale ...”