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The Grove Book of Hollywood by Christopher Silvester
epub |eng | 1998-03-01 | Author:Christopher Silvester

Harry Cohn Continues to Employ a Known Commie Garson Kanin, Hollywood (1974) It is often difficult to distinguish between courage, stubbornness, and principle – particularly as Harry Cohn exemplified these ...
( Category: United States March 2,2020 )
Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs by John Thomson
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:John Thomson

1 See p.47. COVENT GARDEN LABOURERS. HE number of persons who obtain out-door or street work at Covent Garden Market is so considerable that it is necessary to devote more ...
( Category: Victorian March 2,2020 )
Essays on The Gita by Sri Aurobindo
epub |eng | 2013-03-01 | Author:Sri Aurobindo [Aurobindo, Sri]

* * * [1] Gita, IX. 1-3. CHAPTER V The Divine Truth and Way THE GITA then proceeds to unveil the supreme and integral secret, the one thought and truth ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 2,2020 )
Sister Aimee by Daniel Mark Epstein
epub |eng | 2018-12-05 | Author:Daniel Mark Epstein

( Category: Religious March 2,2020 )
Antisthenes of Athens by Prince Susan;
epub |eng | | Author:Prince, Susan;

Context of Preservation This passage comes near the end of Galen’s introduction to his topic, how to cure intellectual errors (ἁμαρτήματα) of the soul. Correction of emotional passions (πάθη) is ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 2,2020 )
C. S. Lewis in Context by Doris T. Myers
epub |eng | | Author:Doris T. Myers

Abolishing the Controllers: The First Three Chronicles It cannot be overemphasized that the didacticism of the Chronicles consists in the education of moral and aesthetic feelings rather than the cognitive ...
( Category: European March 2,2020 )
Widower's House by John Bayley
epub |eng | | Author:John Bayley

That was the end of what I had written down just after Iris died, and apparently forgotten about in the days that followed. The two women and the time I ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 2,2020 )
Birth, Marriage and Death Records by David Annal
epub |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:David Annal [Annal, David and Collins, Audrey]

A Fleet marriage party. (Charles Knight, London, n.d.) In the early 1800s, the surviving Fleet registers were collected and brought together by members of the legal profession, clearly conscious of ...
( Category: Great Britain March 2,2020 )
Where Children Run by Karen Emilson
epub |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:Karen Emilson [Emilson, Karen]

NOT MUCH OF A FATHER Within a few days, everybody in the district had heard about the stolen wood. The twins were branded as thieves and they and their stepfather ...
( Category: Child Abuse March 2,2020 )
Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self by Jen Gish
epub |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Jen, Gish [Jen, Gish]

In his essay “Why I Write,” George Orwell confidently gave “four great motives for writing” that he feels exist in every writer. The first of these is sheer egotism—to “be ...
( Category: United States March 2,2020 )
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. by William Makepeace Thackeray
epub |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

Chapter 11 THE FAMOUS MR JOSEPH ADDISON1 THE gentlemen ushers had a table at Kensington, and the Guard a very splendid dinner daily at St James’s, at either of which ...
( Category: European March 2,2020 )
The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness by Cecil B. Hartley
epub |eng | 2016-02-18 | Author:Cecil B. Hartley [Hartley, Cecil B.]

CHAPTER X. ETIQUETTE IN CHURCH. It is not, in this book, a question, what you must believe, but how you must act. If your conscience permits you to visit other ...
( Category: Antiques & Collectibles March 2,2020 )
Loving Literature: A Cultural History by Deidre Shauna Lynch
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-12-22 | Author:Deidre Shauna Lynch [Lynch, Deidre Shauna]

VOLUMINOUSNESS: ON GOING STEADY WITH NOVELS It is no surprise, either, that the novel is central to the discussion of “Voluminous Authors” and the particularly “intimate . . . familiarity” ...
( Category: History of Books March 2,2020 )
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative by Vivian Gornick
epub |eng | 2002-10-11 | Author:Vivian Gornick [Gornick, Vivian]

Written only twenty years later in the century, Agnes Smedley’s Daughter of Earth strikes an altogether different note on the register of “becoming,” one in which the writer describes a ...
( Category: United States March 2,2020 )
The Book of the Month by Al Silverman
epub |eng | | Author:Al Silverman

The actor and playwright Emlyn Williams got a start on his autobiography with George, published in 1962. The playwright, director, and novelist Garson Kanin provided the BOMC audience with “the ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 2,2020 )

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