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Languages : en
Pages : 880
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The American Church Almanac and Year Book
Author: New Edition of the Babylonian Talmud: Tract Pesachim. c1898
Author: Frank Norris
Author: Joseph R. McElrathPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252030168
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Born in Chicago in 1870, Frank Norris led a life of adventure and art. He moved to San Francisco at fifteen, spent two years in Paris painting, and returned to San Francisco to become an internationally famous author. He died at age thirty-two from a ruptured appendix. During his short life, he wrote an inspired series of novels about the United States coming of age. The Octopus was a prescient warning about the threat of monopolies, and The Pit exposed the intrigues and dirty dealings at the Chicago grain exchange. Extensively reprinted, Norris's works have also found their way into popular consciousness through film (Erich von Stroheim's Greed), and even an opera based on his portrait of the huge, dumb, and murderous dentist, McTeague.Interest in this dynamic writer was wide and sustained, but Frank Norris and his family did biographers no favours. Norris burned most of his correspondence, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire devoured more, and his brother and widow dispersed his surviving papers as gifts. As a result, it was thought impossible to assemble enough material to surpass the single existing biography, published in 1932. Authors Joseph R. McElrath Jr. and Jesse S. Crisler, acknowledged as the leading experts on Norris, have spent have spent over thirty years overcoming these obstacles, devotedly amassing the material necessary to at last fashion a truly full-scale portrait of the artist. Anyone familiar with the breezier existing accounts of the man and hungering for the real story will agree that Frank Norris, A Life was worth the wait.
The Last Pre-Raphaelite
Author: Fiona MacCarthyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674068386
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
While still a student at Oxford, Edward Burne-Jones formed a friendship and made a renunciation that would shape art history. The friendship was with William Morris, with whom he would occupy the social and intellectual center of the era's cult of beauty. The renunciation was of his intention to enter the clergy, when he-together with Morris-vowed to throw over the Church in favor of art. In Fiona MacCarthy's riveting account of Burne-Jones's life, that exchange of faith for art places him at the intersection of the nineteenth century and the Modern, as he leads us forward from Victorian mores and attitudes to the psychological, sexual, and artistic audacity that would characterize the early twentieth century. In MacCarthy's hands, Burne-Jones emerges as a great visionary painter, a master of mystic reverie, and a pivotal late nineteenth-century cultural and artistic figure. Lavishly illustrated with color plates, The Last Pre-Raphaelite shows that Burne-Jones's influence extended far beyond his own circle to Freudian Vienna and the delicately gilded erotic dream paintings of Gustav Klimt, the Swiss Symbolist painter Ferdinand Hodler, and the young Pablo Picasso and the Catalan painters. Drawing on extensive research, MacCarthy offers a fresh perspective on the achievement of Burne-Jones, a precursor to the Modern, and tells the dramatic, fascinating story of this peculiarly captivating and elusive man.
Outstanding Events in U.S. Naval History
Author: United States. Navy Department. Bureau of NavigationPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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The Engineering Index
Author: John Butler JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
Report of the Executive Committee of the New York Civil-Service Reform Association
Author: Civil Service Reform Association (New York, N.Y.)Publisher:
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Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Some years include Treasurer's report.
The Supreme Court and Puerto Rico
Author: Juan R. TorruellaPublisher: La Editorial, UPR
ISBN: 9780847730193
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
Author: James Augustus Henry MurrayPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1700
Book Description
Tales from the Edge
Author: Larry KaniutPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312317034
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A gathering of some of the greatest adventures and best writing ever about America's last frontier, "Tales from the Edge" features contributions from Peter Jenkins, Spike Walker, Jay Hammond, Nick Jans, Dana Stabenow, Larry Kanuit, and many others.