Author: Richard GloverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Memoirs by a Celebrated Literary and Political Character
Author: Richard GloverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Minor Characters
Author: Joyce JohnsonPublisher: Methuen Publishing
ISBN: 9780413775597
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Johnson's book is a personal memoir and a summation of the times, a story of adolescent rebellion and a desire to choose a different life. She shows how the Beat women, in deciding to break the rules and leave home as unmarried young women in the 1950s, discovered the risks and the heady excitement of trying to live as freely as the rebels they loved.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Author: Arthur GoldenPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375406786
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. We witness her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and music; wearing kimono, elaborate makeup, and hair; pouring sake to reveal just a touch of inner wrist; competing with a jealous rival for men's solicitude and the money that goes with it. In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction—at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful—and completely unforgettable.
Cast of Characters
Author: Gloria Stroock-SternPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781727189353
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
This memoir is a collection of stories from the veteran actor Gloria Stroock's colorful life. The book includes memories of her growing up in the theatre world of Broadway, working in the Golden Age of Television, traveling abroad and enjoying a long marriage to the comedy writer and co-creator of Mad Libs, Leonard Stern. From her earliest memories of when she was 3 years old to her most recent memory of telling her life stories on stage at 93 years old, Gloria paints a picture of a life filled with fascinating people in and out of the limelight.
Memoirs of Celebrated Naval Commanders
Author: Edward Hawke LockerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Memoirs of Celebrated Characters
Author: Alphonse de LamartinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Personal History
Author: Katharine GrahamPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307758931
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 951
Book Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULTIZER PRIZE WINNER • The captivating inside story of the woman who helmed the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media: the scandals of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate In this widely acclaimed memoir ("Riveting, moving...a wonderful book" The New York Times Book Review), Katharine Graham tells her story—one that is extraordinary both for the events it encompasses and for the courage, candor, and dignity of its telling. Here is the awkward child who grew up amid material wealth and emotional isolation; the young bride who watched her brilliant, charismatic husband—a confidant to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson—plunge into the mental illness that would culminate in his suicide. And here is the widow who shook off her grief and insecurity to take on a president and a pressman’s union as she entered the profane boys’ club of the newspaper business. As timely now as ever, Personal History is an exemplary record of our history and of the woman who played such a shaping role within them, discovering her own strength and sense of self as she confronted—and mastered—the personal and professional crises of her fascinating life.
Memoirs of a Dwarf at the Sun King's Court
Author: Paul WeidnerPublisher: Terrace Books
ISBN: 9780299205102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Set in the over-scaled, decadent Versailles of Louis XIV, Memoirs of a Dwarf is the story of Hugues, an impoverished dwarf who maneuvers his way up into the very highest of court circles by clandestinely serving the needs of a mob of unscrupulous gamblers, of a priest notorious for saying black Masses at midnight, and--from under the gaming tables--of a number of sex-starved society women, including Louis's mistress. Along the way, Hugues finally discovers the truth of his own identity, a revelation which is a political bombshell and which subjects him to a grisly turn. The story combines historical events and characters--Louis, his mistresses, his outrageous brother Philippe, and many other baroque personalities--with fictitious ones. Hugues's tale reaches its climax during the famous affaire des poisons, the sexual and political scandal that thundered through the royal court and threatened wholesale destruction.
Memoirs of Celebrated Characters
Author: Alphonse de LamartinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
![Public Characters, or Contemporary biography. Memoirs of the following personages ... Charles James Fox, William Pitt, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, etc. [Selected from the periodical “Public Characters.”] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/7xRmAAAAcAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
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