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We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It by Tom Phelan
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Phelan

23 TYRANNY OF THE IRISH WEATHER The weather exercised a tyranny over Dad’s farming life, creating alternating periods of crisis and calm, and sometimes days of frantic intensity. The daily ...
( Category: Irish March 16,2019 )
Machiavelli in hell by Sebastian De Grazia
epub |eng | 1989-03-13 | Author:Sebastian De Grazia

Moses, perhaps his £freatest hero, is the model of the babe in the bulrushes. CHAPTER lO death of Lorenzo de’ Medici the elder, the Duomo was struck in its highest ...
( Category: Renaissance March 14,2019 )
Samuel Johnson by Bate Walter Jackson 1918-
epub |eng | 1979-03-13 | Author:Bate, Walter Jackson, 1918-

Later Forties when emotion becomes so overpowering that he instinctively strives to control it through formality), he stops addressing her as "My Sweet Angel" or "Dearest Dear," and begins "Honoured ...
( Category: Authors March 14,2019 )
Look homeward : a life of Thomas Wolfe by Donald David Herbert 1920-2009
epub |eng | 1988-03-13 | Author:Donald, David Herbert, 1920-2009

Once at 3 a.m., he was found stretched out on the floor and drunk in the men's room at the Plaza Hotel. The attendant, who did not want to call ...
( Category: United States March 14,2019 )
Henry Adams by Samuels Ernest 1903-1996
epub |eng | 1989-03-13 | Author:Samuels, Ernest, 1903-1996

venson; "not the faintest associations with my name, but he knew all about La Farge." The artist and the novelist were quickly drawn to each other, so that Adams found ...
( Category: United States March 14,2019 )
The education of Henry Adams. by Adams Henry
epub |eng | 1973-03-13 | Author:Adams, Henry

Silence (i8g4-i8g8) of mere antiquarian emotion like Wenlock Abbey and Pteraspis; but it expelled archaic law and antiquarianism once for all, without seeming conscious of it; and Adams drifted back ...
( Category: Authors March 14,2019 )
Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Schiff Stacy
epub |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Schiff, Stacy. [Schiff, Stacy]

2 Lolita spent the fall on the bestseller list, the first novel since Gone with the Wind to sell a hundred thousand copies within three weeks of publication. (More meaningfully ...
( Category: Authors March 14,2019 )
A prince of our disorder by John E. Mack
epub |eng | 1998-03-13 | Author:John E. Mack

Return to England: London and All Souls 287 hugely and said, ‘I’m afraid I know him much too well.’ He enjoyed my discomfiture. I said, ‘Well, anyway, you dont look ...
( Category: World War I March 14,2019 )
Henry James by Edel Leon 1907-
epub |eng | 1960-03-13 | Author:Edel, Leon, 1907-

LEON EDEL A visit to Paris in 1884 and long talks with Zola, Edmond de Gon-court, and Daudet had deeply impressed him. James failed this time, however, to take the ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 14,2019 )
Harriet Beecher Stowe : a life by Hedrick Joan D. 1944-
epub |eng | 1994-03-13 | Author:Hedrick, Joan D., 1944-

Having humbly submitted to Garrison's discipline, she reproached him for his continuing feud with Frederick Douglass. She had met with Douglass and formed an impression "far more satisfactory than I ...
( Category: United States March 14,2019 )
J. S. Bach: A Life in Music by Peter Williams
epub, pdf |por | 2012-03-22 | Author:Peter Williams

OTHER MUSICAL ACTIVITIES Not long after, the Duke of Weissenfels appointed him his Capellmeister. (Obituary) Since this sentence follows immediately on the reference to Bach's `funeral music for his deeply ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians March 12,2019 )
Robert Schumann by Daverio John;
epub |eng | 1997-03-10 | Author:Daverio, John;

I used to write most, practically all of my shorter pieces in [the heat of] inspiration; many compositions [were completed] with unbelievable swiftness, for instance, my First Symphony in major ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians March 11,2019 )
Hey Buddy by Gary W. Moore
epub |eng | 2011-01-19 | Author:Gary W. Moore

The more Bill talked, the more excited he became. And he had used the phrase “love at first sound” to describe what he felt when he first heard Buddy’s music—just ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 11,2019 )
Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art by Chilvers Ian; Glaves-Smith John; & JOHN GLAVES-SMITH
epub |eng | 2009-03-08 | Author:Chilvers, Ian; Glaves-Smith, John; & JOHN GLAVES-SMITH

Krebs, Rockne See LIGHT ART. Krémègne, Pinchus See SOUTINE, CHAïM. Kren, Kurt See MUEHL, OTTO. Kricke, Norbert (1922–84) German sculptor, born in Düsseldorf. He served in the air force during ...
( Category: Art March 9,2019 )
Attendant Lords by T.C.A. Raghavan
epub |eng | 2018-03-07 | Author:T.C.A. Raghavan

Soon thereafter, we find the dispatch of four diplomatic missions – to Khandesh, Ahmednagar, Bijapur and Golconda. The Mughal envoy was directed to go to Khandesh first and then to ...
( Category: Authors March 8,2019 )

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