Author: Mary BeartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Gunning's Last Years
Author: Mary BeartThe Gunning of America
Author: Pamela HaagPublisher:
ISBN: 0465048951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
"An acclaimed historian explodes the myth about the 'special relationship' between Americans and their guns, revealing that savvy 19th century businessmen--not gun lovers--created American gun culture"--
The Widow's War
Author: Sally Cabot GunningPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061870595
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Red Tent meets The Scarlett Letter in this haunting historical novel set in a colonial New England whaling village. “When was it that the sense of trouble grew to fear, the fear to certainty? When she sat down to another solitary supper of bread and beer and picked cucumber? When she heard the second sounding of the geese? Or had she known that morning when she stepped outside and felt the wind? Might as well say she knew it when Edward took his first whaling trip to the Canada River, or when they married, or when, as a young girl, she stood on the beach and watched Edward bring about his father’s boat in the Point of Rock Channel. Whatever its begetting, when Edward’s cousin Shubael Hopkins and his wife Betsey came through the door, they brought her no new grief, but an old acquaintance.” When Lyddie Berry’s husband is lost in a storm at sea, she finds that her status as a widow is vastly changed from that of respectable married woman. Now she is the “dependent” of her nearest male relative—her son-in-law. Refusing to bow to societal pressure that demands she cede everything that she and her husband worked for, Lyddie becomes an outcast from family, friends, and neighbors—yet ultimately discovers a deeper sense of self and, unexpectedly, love. Evocative and stunningly assured, The Widow’s War is an unforgettable work of literary magic, a spellbinding tale from a gifted talent.
Reminiscences of Cambridge
Author: Henry GunningPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9781001412184
Category : Cambridge (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Gunning's Last Years. Nine Letters from Miss Mary Beart to Professor Adam Sedgwick. Edited by A.T. Bartholomew. Reprinted from the Cambridge Review ... With Portrait
Author: Mary BEARTGunning Bedford, Junior
Author: Henry Clay ConradPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film
Author: Tom GunningPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252063664
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The legendary filmmaker D. W. Griffith directed nearly 200 films during 1908 and 1909, his first years with the Biograph Company. While those one-reel films are a testament to Griffith's inspired genius as a director, they also reflect a fundamental shift in film style from "cheap amusements" to movie storytelling complete with characters and narrative impetus. In this comprehensive historical investigation, drawing on films preserved by the Library of Congress and the Museum of Modern Art, Tom Gunning reveals that the remarkable cinematic changes between 1900 and 1915 were a response to the radical reorganization within the film industry and the evolving role of film in American society. The Motion Picture Patents Company, the newly formed Film Trust, had major economic aspirations. The newly emerging industry's quest for a middle-class audience triggered Griffith's early experiments in film editing and imagery. His unique solutions permanently shaped American narrative film.
The Last Post
Author: Ford Madox FordPublisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Some time has passed since the end of the Great War and the Armistice Day celebration in A Man Could Stand Up—, and Christopher Tietjens and his partner Valentine Wannop are living together with his brother Mark and Mark’s French wife Marie Léonie in a small cottage in the English countryside. Mark has suffered an illness and is now an invalid, tenderly cared for by Marie Léonie. Christopher has turned to dealing antique English furniture to American buyers, and is away on business for much of the novel. The Tietjens’ ancestral home, Groby, is now inhabited by an American renter, and Sylvia, Christopher’s melodramatic and treacherous wife, lurks in the background, her bag of vengeful tricks not yet depleted. The events of the novel take place in a window of just a few hours, but the stream-of-consciousness style invites the reader deep into the thoughts of each of the major characters in the Parade’s End saga—with the notable exception of Christopher. Mark, paralyzed and mute but aware of his surroundings, is the major narrator, but the narrative dips in and out of the thoughts of Marie Léonie, Valentine, Sylvia, and others. Like the rest of the Parade’s End saga, The Last Post is a complex, dense thematic exploration of the Great War and its generational consequences. Christopher, the “last Tory” and embodiment of the traditional English gentleman, finds himself surviving by literally selling off his country’s physical heritage to the newly-ascendant American empire. Mark, an immensely wealthy English landowner, suddenly finds himself not just impotent physically, but, misled by cruel rumors, feuding emotionally with his brother, with each of them unable to forgive the other. Meanwhile Sylvia, the avatar of the decadence, pettiness, and stupidity of the old guard, devotes her energies to striking a mortal blow against her own kind by tricking the American renter into cutting down Groby Great Tree, the very symbol of the stalwart and ancient Tietjens—and English—spirit. Graham Greene, when editing the Parade’s End saga for the Bodley Head in 1962, famously omitted The Last Post, publishing the saga as a trilogy and not a tetralogy. He considered this concluding volume to be unnecessarily sentimental, tying up loose ends that were better left ambiguously unresolved at the end of A Man Could Stand Up—. But critical opinion has since shifted, and The Last Post now stands proudly as a multifaceted and unashamedly modernist capstone to what some consider to be one of the greatest series in 20th century English letters. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Reminiscences of Cambridge
Author: Henry GunnningPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107628296
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
This small 1932 volume presents a selection of Henry Gunning's Reminiscences of Cambridge, chosen by D. A. Winstanley.
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description