Author: G. H. TeedPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1989788041
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Yellow Sphinx
Author: G. H. TeedPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1989788041
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Piracy
Author: G. H. TeedPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1989788025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Sexton Blake fights the bootleggers and pirates of America's Rum Row. A tensely-told tale of 'tec work and thrills, introducing also Mlle. Roxane. Complete! Drama, Action, Thrills-and Sexton Blake! Roxane Harfield, born in New Brunswick, Canada, is featured in this story. Her knowledge of the New Brunswick South-East shoreline, and Bay of Fundy, is a key feature of this thriller from USA prohibition days. Also included is 'The Sexton Blake Works of George Hamilton Teed' in the "Union Jack" and "The Sexton Blake Library"
A Chapter on Outposts
Author: Edward Bruce HamleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guard duty
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Culture of Medieval English Monasticism
Author: James G. ClarkPublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843833215
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Examinations of the culture - artistic, material, musical - of English monasteries in the six centuries between the Conquest and the Dissolution. The cultural remains of England's abbeys and priories have always attracted scholarly attention but too often they have been studied in isolation, appreciated only for their artistic, codicological or intellectual features and notfor the insights they offer into the patterns of life and thought - the underlying norms, values and mentalité - of the communities of men and women which made them. Indeed, the distinguished monastic historian David Knowles doubted there would ever be sufficient evidence to recover "the mentality of the ordinary cloister monk". These twelve essays challenge this view. They exploit newly catalogued and newly discovered evidence - manuscript books, wall paintings, and even the traces of original monastic music - to recover the cultural dynamics of a cross-section of male and female communities. It is often claimed that over time the cultural traditions of the monasteries were suffocated by secular trends but here it is suggested that many houses remained a major cultural force even on the verge of the Reformation. James G. Clark is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. Contributors: DAVID BELL, ROGER BOWERS, JAMES CLARK, BARRIE COLLETT, MARY ERLER, G. R. EVANS, MIRIAM GILL, JOAN GREATREX, JULIAN HASELDINE, J. D. NORTH, ALAN PIPER, AND R. M. THOMSON.
Tropical Medicine
Author: Thomas Wright JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tropical medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Twelve Months with the Eighth Massachusetts Infantry in the Service of the United States
Author: Harry Endicott WebberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish-American War, 1898
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Somerset Maugham and the Cinema
Author: Robert CalderPublisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 029934620X
Category : Film adaptations
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was one of the most prominent and productive authors of the twentieth century--and his works have been among the most cinematically transformed in history. For more than five decades, adaptations of his plays, stories, and novels dominated movie theaters and, later, television screens. More than ninety individual works were filmed, and for many filmgoers his name was a greater draw than that of the director. Works such as Of Human Bondage, "The Letter," The Painted Veil, "Rain," The Razor's Edge, and others were produced multiple times, with starring roles sought by actors like Bette Davis, Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo, Lionel Barrymore, Charles Laughton, and Bill Murray. This study of the famous author explores the relationship between literature and film, what is involved in adaptation, and how best to judge films based on celebrated books. Robert Calder, the world's leading scholar of Maugham's work, offers fascinating production histories, insight into both fortunate and misguided casting decisions, shrewd analyses of performances and film techniques, and summaries of public and critical responses. Maugham's characters were often conflicted, iconoclastic, and morally out of step with their times, which may have accounted for the popularity of his fiction. Most of Maugham's works could be adapted to satisfy the tastes of moviegoers and the demands of the Hays Office censors, if not the expectations of their author.
Famine and Relief Operations in India During 1896-97
Author: Great Britain. India OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Famine and the relief operations in India during the year 1896-97 No. V.
Notebooks
Author: Athol FugardPublisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367792
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
"Fugard registers and captures the keen images that are the very stuff of vibrant theatre."--Time
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