Author: Anna Buchan Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 895
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In 'The Greatest Novels by O. Douglas,' Anna Buchan expertly explores the works of her sister, O. Douglas, in a scholarly and detailed manner. Buchan delves into the literary style and context of each of O. Douglas's greatest novels, providing insightful analysis and commentary on themes, character development, and overall impact on the world of literature. This book serves as a valuable resource for those interested in learning more about the life and works of O. Douglas, offering a deep dive into the intricacies of her writing that is sure to captivate readers. Buchan's thorough examination sheds light on the enduring relevance and importance of O. Douglas's novels in the literary canon. Anna Buchan's personal connection to O. Douglas gives her a unique perspective that enriches the reader's understanding and appreciation of these timeless works. 'The Greatest Novels by O. Douglas' is a must-read for any avid reader or literary enthusiast looking to explore the legacy of this talented author.
Author: O. Douglas Publisher: ISBN: Category : Domestic fiction Languages : en Pages : 324
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The Cinderella story of Jean Jardine, a Scottish girl raising her younger brothers on her own... until a mysterious stranger asks for her hospitality. Part romance, part family story, and part small town semi-satire.
Author: O. Douglas Publisher: ISBN: 9781907503023 Category : Children of clergy Languages : en Pages : 336
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The domestic chronicles of a minister's family that bears a remarkable resemblance to the Buchans themselves, 'Eliza for Common' is set in Glasgow just after the Great War. As Eliza grows up she longs for beauty and excitement, and gradually emerges from the confines of being a daughter of the manse to find her own way in the world.
Author: William O. Douglas Publisher: Read Books Ltd ISBN: 1447482492 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 375
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William O. Douglas was one of that rare mix of man that helped define America, a judge of the supreme court and also a lifelong outdoorsman. This is his story in his words and conveys the joy he felt for the wild untouched vastness of the great forests and the high snow capped peaks which he pitted himself against. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author: Bruce Allen Murphy Publisher: Random House (NY) ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 760
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William Orville Douglas was both the most accomplished and the most controversial justice ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court. He emerged from isolated Yakima, Washington, to be dubbed, by the age of thirty, “the most outstanding law professor in the nation”; at age thirty-eight, he was the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, cleaning up a corrupt Wall Street during the Great Depression; by the age of forty, he was the second youngest Supreme Court justice in American history, going on to serve longer—and to write more opinions and dissents—than any other justice. In evolving from a pro-government advocate in the 1940s to an icon of liberalism in the 1960s, Douglas became a champion for the rights of privacy, free speech, and the environment. While doing so, “Wild Bill” lived up to his nickname by racking up more marriages, more divorces, and more impeachment attempts aimed against him than any other member of the Court. But it was what Douglas did not accomplish that haunted him: He never fulfilled his mother’s ambition for him to become president of the United States. Douglas’s life was the stuff of novels, but with his eye on his public image and his potential electability to the White House, the truth was not good enough for him. Using what he called “literary license,” he wrote three memoirs in which the American public was led to believe that he had suffered from polio as an infant and was raised by an impoverished, widowed mother whose life savings were stolen by the family attorney. He further chronicled his time as a poverty-stricken student sleeping in a tent while attending Whitman College, serving as a private in the army during World War I, and “riding the rods” like a hobo to attend Columbia Law School. Relying on fifteen years of exhaustive research in eighty-six manuscript collections, revealing long-hidden documents, and interviews conducted with more than one hundred people, many sharing their recollections for the first time, Bruce Allen Murphy reveals the truth behind Douglas’s carefully constructed image. While William O. Douglas wrote fiction in the form of memoir, Murphy presents the truth with a narrative flair that reads like a novel.
Author: Lloyd C. Douglas Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781979856096 Category : Languages : en Pages : 400
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Lloyd Cassel Douglas (1877 -1951) born Doya C. Douglas, was an American minister and author. He was born in Columbia City, Indiana, spent part of his boyhood in Monroeville, Indiana, Wilmot, Indiana and Florence, Kentucky, where his father, Alexander Jackson Douglas, was pastor of the Hopeful Lutheran Church. According to the 1910 Census Douglas was listed as a Lutheran Clergyman. He was married to Bessie I. Porch. They had two children: Bessie J. Douglas, 4 at the time and Virginia V Douglas, 2 at the time. They employed a cook, Ms. Josephine Somach. He died in Los Angeles, California. Douglas was one of the most popular American authors of his time, although he did not write his first novel until he was 50. His written works were of a moral, didactic, and distinctly religious tone. His first novel, Magnificent Obsession, published in 1929, was an immediate and sensational success. Critics held that his type of fiction was in the tradition of the great religious writings of an earlier generation, such as Ben-Hur and Quo Vadis. In this book: Magnificent Obsession Forgive Us Our Trespasses Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal
Author: Frazier Hunt Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 1789127947 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 852
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Frazier Hunt’s friendship with Douglas MacArthur began on the battlefields of France during World War I. The young general, not quite six years the author’s senior, had already caught the allure of Pacific destiny by the time that Hunt made his first long trip to the Orient—Japan, Siberia, China, the Philippines, Australia, Southeast Asia, India. Both Hunt and MacArthur, from their separate viewpoints, early foresaw that America’s destiny lay in the Pacific. Hunt had the unique experience of covering for newspapers and magazines every war and revolution. Following four months at General MacArthur’s headquarters in New Guinea in 1944, he wrote MacArthur and the War Against Japan. The Untold Story of Douglas MacArthur was his fourteenth and final book. A fitting monument to an outstanding reporter. “Warmly written, argumentative, greatly detailed, yet fast moving...It is a racing, readable book.”—New York Times Book Review “This is a most unusual book—with its power and sweep and fierce passion for the truth. It is a book that every American should be interested in, the full-length story of the boy, the man, the General.”—The Army-Navy-Air Force Register “An important contribution to the history of the times.”—San Francisco Call-Bulletin “A thrilling biography. Frazier Hunt had a background of information and experience that better fitted him than any other to tell the intimate MacArthur story.”—Montgomery Advertiser “It is a skillful, objective study of a great man, documented to the nines, the product of highly disciplined research. It is honest biography...Anyone wishing to understand the things that moved and formed Douglas MacArthur will find most of the answers in this book.”—Cincinnati Enquirer
Author: O. Douglas Publisher: ISBN: 1406840505 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 96
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OLIVIA IN INDIA O. DOUGLAS When one discovers a hapfy look it is ones ditty to tell ones friends about it. JAMES DOUGLAS in The Star. OLIVIA IN INDIA. By O. DOUGLAS Happy books are not very plentiful, and when one discovers a happy book it is ones duty to tell ones friends about it, so that it makes them happy too. My happy book is called Olivia. It is by a certain young woman who calls herself O. Douglas, though I suspect that its a pen-name. . . . Olivia can write the most fascinating letters you ever read. JAMES DOUGLAS in the Star. fl Extremely interesting. To have read this book is to have met an extremely likeable personality in the author. Glasgow Herald. PENNY PLAIN. By O, DOUGLAS Penny Plain is a story of life in a little town on the banks of the Tweed. Jean Jardine, the heroine who looks, after her brothers in their queer old house, The Rigs, and is in turn looked after by the old servant, Mrs. McCosh from Glasgow, and Peter, the fox-terrierdescribes herself and her life as penny plain, but with the coming of Pamela Res ton and her brother who was what Mrs. McCosh called a Lord no less, everything is changed. There is love in the book and laughter. A very able and delightful book. The Times. st A delicious novel ... a triumphant success. A MAN OF KENT in the British Weekly. THE SETONS. By O. DOUGLAS Portrayed with the humour and insight of a deep affection. The Times. Elizabeth is a delightful creature who radiates the pages. Glasgow Herald. To the reading public at large it will prove a sheer delight. Glasgow Times. Full of charm. Spectator. A delightful romance. A berdeen Journal. HODDER AND STOUGHTON LTD. WARWICK SQUARE LONDON, E. G. 4 OLIVIA IN INDIA BY O. DOUGLAS AUTHOROF THE SETONS PENNY PLAIN This boo is donated by Smt, P. R ynm -. in rn-mory of her hi, 5, i . 0 s, , I B -- L Nar nV, . kao. Ul-C.-A Sf 8, Wh r. p, -J OHI 182- 30 HODDER AND STOUGHTON LIMITED LONDON Pint Edition printed Novemkr Second Edition, , April Third Edition ., April igi Fourth Edition, January iqn v and this the Fifth Edition, Marcl 1922 PRINTED IN ORKAI BRITAIN BV MOKRISON AND GlBB LTD, , EDINBURGH CONTENTS PART I PAGE THROUGH THE GATES OF THE EAST, i PART II FLESHPOTS OF CALCUTTA . 45 PART III THE SUNBURNED EARTH ., .125 PART IV THE LAND OF REGRETS . . .213 THROUGH THE GATES OF THE EAST S, S. Scotia, Oct. 19, 19. ., . THIS is a line to send off with the pilot, There is nothing to say except Good-bye again. We have had luncheon, and I have been poking things out of my cabin trunk, and furtively survey ing one there are two, but the other seems to be lost at present of my cabin companions, She has fair hair and a blue motor-veil, and looks quiet and subdued, but then, I dare say, so do I. I hope you are thinking of your friend going down to the sea in a ship. I feel, somehow, very small and lonely. OLIVIA. 5. S. Scotia, Oct. 21. In pencil . . . WHATEVER you do, whatever folly you commit, never, never be tempted to take a sea voyage. It is quite the nastiest thing you can take I have had three days of it now, so I know. 4 OLIVIA When I wrote to you on Saturday I had an uneasy feeling that in the near future all would not be well with me, but I went in to dinner and afterwards walked up and down the deck trying to feel brave. Sunday morning dawned rain-washed and tempestuous, and the way the ship heaved was not encouraging, but I rose, or rather I descended from my perch did Itell you I had an upper berth r and walked with an undulating motion towards my bath. Some people would have re mained in bed, or at least gone unbathed, but, as I say, I rose mark, please, the rugged grandeur of the Scots character and such is the force of example the fair-haired girl rose also. Before I go any further I must tell you about this girl Her name is Hilton, Geraldine Hilton, but as that is too long a name and already we are great friends, I call her G. She is...
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