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Category : Glocester (R.I. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: Glocester Bicentennial Commission: The Heritage Division
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Category : Glocester (R.I. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: Jane Kamensky
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101202777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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The riveting story of the country's first banking scandal in the first decades of the American republic This enthralling historical narrative of the birth of speculative capitalism in America opens in the 1790s when financial pioneer-turned-confidence-man Andrew Dexter, Jr. created a pyramid scheme founded on real estate speculation and the greed of banks, who freely printed the paper money he needed to finance the then tallest building in the United States-the Exchange Coffee House, a 153-room, seven-story colossus in downtown Boston. The story of Dexter's rise and eventual collapse offered an object lesson to the rising young nation, and presents striking parallels to the subprime mortgage meltdown and looming economic collapse of today.

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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1032

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Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Author: S. T. Joshi
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1592240127
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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This is Lovecraft scholar Joshi's definitive annotated bibliography to works by and about H.P. Lovecraft.

Author: Robert (of Gloucester)
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Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Author: Patrick T. Conley
Publisher: Donning Company Publishers
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Author: Committee for a New England Bibliography
Publisher: Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Jeffrey Kahan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135973652
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when discussing the play, the revised folio text, or the popular composite version, stitched together by Alexander Pope in 1725? What of its stage variations? When turning from page to stage, the critical view on King Lear is skewed by the fact that for almost half of the four hundred years the play has been performed, audiences preferred Naham Tate's optimistic adaptation, in which Lear and Cordelia live happily ever after. When discussing King Lear, the question of what comprises ‘the play’ is both complex and fragmentary. These issues of identity and authenticity across time and across mediums are outlined, debated, and considered critically by the contributors to this volume. Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the leading international contributors to King Lear: New Critical Essays offer major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of King Lear. This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive anthology of textual scholarship, performance research, and critical writing on one of Shakespeare's most important and perplexing tragedies. Contributors Include: R.A. Foakes, Richard Knowles, Tom Clayton, Cynthia Clegg, Edward L. Rocklin, Christy Desmet, Paul Cantor, Robert V. Young, Stanley Stewart and Jean R. Brink