Author: Elizabeth A. Campbell
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 082141514X
Category : Cycles in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This volume explores the ways that Charles Dickens appropriated and made central to his novels the dominant symbol of his age. The author argues that Dickens' contribution to the iconographic and narrative traditions was to fuse the classical image of the wheel - fortune - with the industrial one.
Fortune's Wheel
Author: Elizabeth A. Campbell
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 082141514X
Category : Cycles in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This volume explores the ways that Charles Dickens appropriated and made central to his novels the dominant symbol of his age. The author argues that Dickens' contribution to the iconographic and narrative traditions was to fuse the classical image of the wheel - fortune - with the industrial one.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 082141514X
Category : Cycles in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This volume explores the ways that Charles Dickens appropriated and made central to his novels the dominant symbol of his age. The author argues that Dickens' contribution to the iconographic and narrative traditions was to fuse the classical image of the wheel - fortune - with the industrial one.
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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The Memoirs of Count Lavallette
Author: Antoine-Marie Chamans comte de La Valette
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Fatal Risk
Author: Roddy Boyd
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470889802
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Long-listed for the FT & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011 The true story of how risk destroys, as told through the ongoing saga of AIG From the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, the subject of the financial crisis has been well covered. However, the story central to the crisis-that of AIG-has until now remained largely untold. Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide tells the inside story of what really went on inside AIG that caused it to choke on risk and nearly brining down the entire economic system. The book Reveals inside information available nowhere else, including the personal notes and records of key players such as the former Chairman of AIG, Hank Greenberg Takes readers behind the scenes at the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Details how an understanding of risk built AIG, but a disdain for government regulators led to a run-in with New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer Fatal Risk is the comprehensive and compelling true story of the company at the center of the financial storm and how it nearly caused the entire economic system to collapse.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470889802
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Long-listed for the FT & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011 The true story of how risk destroys, as told through the ongoing saga of AIG From the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, the subject of the financial crisis has been well covered. However, the story central to the crisis-that of AIG-has until now remained largely untold. Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide tells the inside story of what really went on inside AIG that caused it to choke on risk and nearly brining down the entire economic system. The book Reveals inside information available nowhere else, including the personal notes and records of key players such as the former Chairman of AIG, Hank Greenberg Takes readers behind the scenes at the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Details how an understanding of risk built AIG, but a disdain for government regulators led to a run-in with New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer Fatal Risk is the comprehensive and compelling true story of the company at the center of the financial storm and how it nearly caused the entire economic system to collapse.
Speculation, The delinquent, Laugh when you can, Fortune's fool, Folly as it flies; by Frederick Reynolds
Author: Mrs. Inchbald
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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The Century Dictionary
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Languages : en
Pages : 1244
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Languages : en
Pages : 1244
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The Life and Works of Lord Macaulay. Complete
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay
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Languages : en
Pages : 730
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Languages : en
Pages : 730
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The Complete Works
Author: Macaulay
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Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Languages : en
Pages : 732
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The Works of Lord Macaulay. Complete. Edited by His Sister Lady Trevelyan. [With a Portrait.]
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan
Author: Thomas Babington baron Macaulay
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 734
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