Bereft is a 2010 novel by the Australian author Chris Womersley. In 1919 the First World War is over and Spanish Flu is at epidemic proportions in Australia...
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up bereft in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bereft may refer to: Bereft (film), 2004 American television film Bereft (TV series) Bereft (novel) This...
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side, while Shatov is affected by the ardour of the feeling, spiritually-bereft side. Shatov "rose from the dead" after hearing Stavrogin's uncompromising...
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The Handmaid's Tale (redirect from Offred (The Handmaid's Tale novel character))
the Commander are left bereft in the house, each thinking about the repercussions of Offred's capture on their lives. The novel concludes with a metafictional...
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The Monk (redirect from The Monk (novel))
Necromancer warns against the pernicious effects of a legal system that is bereft of mercy. A criminal declares during his confession that his life "will...
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A Mercy (redirect from A Mercy (novel))
colonies, along with their attitudes toward slavery. All these characters are bereft of their roots, struggling to survive in a new and alien environment filled...
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The Casual Vacancy (redirect from The Casual Vacancy (novel))
upsetting and magnificently eloquent novel of contemporary England, rich with literary intelligence and entirely bereft of bullshit." The Wall Street Journal...
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Michel is left bereft, and at the end of the novel he travels back to Thailand to die. At this point, the reader realizes that the novel is in fact his...
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Bruce and Rex, resulting in Rex dying and Bruce leaving once more. Now bereft, Amber falls deeper into prostitution. Shunned and unwell following an abortion...
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Belgium and the Netherlands declare war on France, which finds itself bereft of allies when the other EurCon member-states desert as well. The French...
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asylum. Whereas he cannot escape the past, she can only live in the present, bereft of memory by prior electroshock therapy. Two maimed and incomplete people...
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Amy recalled her words, when she was consigned to Lord Hunsdon's care as bereft of her reason, Varney coming forward and pretending that she had just escaped...
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The Old Curiosity Shop (category 1841 British novels)
and her grandfather. Her grandfather suffers a breakdown that leaves him bereft of his wits, and Nell takes him away to the Midlands of England, to live...
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All the Light We Cannot See (category 2014 American novels)
Brad Hopper called it "a novel to live in, learn from, and feel bereft over when the last page is turned". Cha lauded the novel as a "beautiful, expansive...
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The Immigrants (redirect from The Immigrants (1977 novel))
request for a divorce and he signs away his share of their communal assets. Bereft of all his money and torn inside by the emotional destruction of his world...
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Toni Morrison (section Novels)
of us are bereft when criticism remains too polite or too fearful to notice a disrupting darkness before its eyes'." Before the third novel of the Beloved...
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The Painted Veil (2006 film) (category Films based on British novels)
disease and Kitty lovingly nurses him, but he dies, and she is devastated. Bereft and pregnant, she leaves China. Five years later, Kitty is seen in London...
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Polanski stamp." He further felt Barney Clark's performance as Oliver was "bereft of personality." Todd McCarthy of Variety echoed Travers' sentiments about...
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that affected every man, woman, and child in the region, which now sits bereft of humanity. The first priority in fixing this region is to rebuild the...
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At Swim, Two Boys (redirect from At Swim, Two Boys (novel))
community, leaves home and joins the Irish Citizen Army at Dublin. Jim, bereft of the pal of his heart Doyler, befriends MacMurrough, who becomes a mentor...
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with earnest gusto, but Elektra's tone-deaf script is too self-serious and bereft of intelligent dialogue to provide engaging thrills." On Metacritic, the...
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Full Metal Jacket (category Films based on American novels)
the opening act, which concerns the recruit training, the film becomes "bereft of purpose"; nevertheless, he summarized his review by calling it a "hardy...
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The Myst Reader (category 2004 American novels)
that with the books "bereft of the game's dazzling graphics and its hypnotic interactive dimension", the second and third novels plodded along with boring...
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attack. The Cordon half-heartedly attacks the town, and Todbaum, largely bereft of followers and a target of The Cordon, mounts a failed attack on the island...
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Garage Sale Mystery (category Films based on American novels)
Erin (15 March 2019). "Lori Loughlin's 'Garage Sale Mystery' Co-Star Is 'Bereft' Following Show's Cancellation". Access. Retrieved 25 June 2020. "Lori Loughlin...
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House at the End of the Street (section Novelization)
consensus reads, "Poorly conceived, clumsily executed, and almost completely bereft of scares, House at the End of the Street strands its talented star in a...
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Elective Affinities (redirect from Elective Affinities (novel))
Otto, who is in straitened circumstances, and Charlotte's niece, Ottilie, bereft of both parents and money. The captain's considerable knowledge and drive...
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Our Mutual Friend (category 1865 British novels)
centre of the story and is by far the "most wholly good character […] almost bereft of ego". Dickens carries over her moral superiority into her physical characterisation...
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Adele (27 September 2019). "My son is off to uni and I'm excited, not bereft... So why am I made to feel like a bad mother?". The Telegraph. Archived...
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sumptuous visuals, whilst others found it almost restrained, tedious and bereft of emotion. Nevertheless, it received mostly favourable reviews, was moderately...
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