Author: James Matthew BarriePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Works of J.M. Barrie: The little white dove. 1920
Author: James Matthew BarriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Captivated
Author: Piers DudgeonPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 144647657X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
J. M. Barrie has long been a controversial figure; as D. H. Lawrence observed in 1921, 'Barrie has a fatal touch for those he loves. They die'. The five nervous breakdowns, two suicides, one attempted suicide and numerous deaths that are associated with him blacken the reputation of a man adored by generations of children. However, what is less well known is that Barrie's malign influence grew out of his infatuation with the du Maurier family, particularly with the hypnotist, George du Maurier, creator of Svengali; with George's daughter and grandsons (models for the Darlings in Peter Pan); and with his enigmatic granddaughter, Daphne du Maurier, author of Rebecca and Barrie's final victim, whose life and work can never again be considered without reference to 'Unlce Jim'.
The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film
Author: Alan GoblePublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110951940
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
The End and the Beginning
Author: Hermynia Zur MühlenPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1906924279
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
London Calling
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Category : International broadcasting
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
The Italian Lakes
Author: Richard BagotThe Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily
Author: Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170762
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Dino Buzzati's classic tale chronicles the terrible winter that sent the starving bears down into the valley in search of food, as well as their struggles with an army of wild boars, a wily professor who may or may not be a magician, snarling Marmoset the Cat, and, worse still, treachery within their own ranks. Over all this, the bears triumph with bravery, ingenuity, humility, and high spirits.
Monthly Bulletin of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
The Listener
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Category : Radio addresses, debates, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
A weekly publication, established by the BBC in 1929 as the medium for reproducing radio - and later, television - programmes in print. It is our only record and means of accessing the content of many early broadcasts.