Author: Jacqueline Baird
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Love stories
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Gamble on Passion
Author: Jacqueline Baird
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Love stories
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Love stories
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
The Gambler
Author: F.M. Dostoevsky
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474279155
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The film script for a major film from Channel Four Films and Canal+ Image International, from director Karoly Makk and producer Marc Vlessing. Starring Michael Gambon, Jodhi May, Polly Walker, Dominic West and Luise Rainer. Dostoevsky, impoverished by gambling debts and desperate, makes a Faustian contract with his publisher: In return for an advance he agrees to deliver a novel within a year or lose all rights to his existing and future works. Twenty-seven days before the manuscript is due, he has still not begun work. Despairing, he hires a stenographer, Ann Snitkina, whose passionate determination urges him on to finish the book, saving his career. This true story of Dostoevsky's love affair with Anna Snitkina, the woman he later married is interwoven with scenes from his novella, The Gambler, as he dictates it.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474279155
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The film script for a major film from Channel Four Films and Canal+ Image International, from director Karoly Makk and producer Marc Vlessing. Starring Michael Gambon, Jodhi May, Polly Walker, Dominic West and Luise Rainer. Dostoevsky, impoverished by gambling debts and desperate, makes a Faustian contract with his publisher: In return for an advance he agrees to deliver a novel within a year or lose all rights to his existing and future works. Twenty-seven days before the manuscript is due, he has still not begun work. Despairing, he hires a stenographer, Ann Snitkina, whose passionate determination urges him on to finish the book, saving his career. This true story of Dostoevsky's love affair with Anna Snitkina, the woman he later married is interwoven with scenes from his novella, The Gambler, as he dictates it.
The Firm of Nucingen
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613100914
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613100914
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
What's Wrong with the World?
Author: John Downey Works
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social problems
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social problems
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Complete Works
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 8928
Book Description
Musaicum Books presents to you a meticulously edited Balzac collection. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: The Human Comedy: Scenes From Private Life: At the Sign of the Cat and Racket The Ball at Sceaux The Purse Vendetta Madame Firmiani A Second Home Domestic Peace Paz Study of a Woman Another Study of Woman The Grand Breteche Albert Savarus Letters of Two Brides A Daughter of Eve A Woman of Thirty The Deserted Woman La Grenadiere The Message Gobseck The Marriage Contract A Start in Life Modeste Mignon Beatrix Honorine Colonel Chabert The Atheist's Mass The Commission in Lunacy Pierre Grassou Scenes From Provincial Life Ursule Mirouet Eugenie Grandet Pierrette The Vicar of Tours The Two Brothers The Illustrious Gaudissart The Muse of the Department Eve and David Scenes From Parisian Life Scenes from a Courtesan's Life A Prince of Bohemia A Man of Business Gaudissart II Unconscious Comedians Ferragus The Duchesse de Langeais The Girl with the Golden Eyes Father Goriot Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau The Firm of Nucingen Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan Bureaucracy Sarrasine Facino Cane Cousin Betty Cousin Pons The Lesser Bourgeoisie Scenes From Political Life An Historical Mystery An Episode Under the Terror The Brotherhood of Consolation Z. Marcas The Deputy of Arcis Scenes From Military Life The Chouans A Passion in the Desert Scenes From Country Life The Country Doctor Juana Farewell The Recruit El Verdugo A Drama on the Seashore The Red Inn The Elixir of Life Maitre Cornelius Catherine de' Medici Louis Lambert The Exiles Seraphita Short Stories The Napoleon of the People Droll Stories Plays Vautrin The Resources of Quinola Paméla Giraud The Stepmother Mercadet Analytical Studies
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 8928
Book Description
Musaicum Books presents to you a meticulously edited Balzac collection. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: The Human Comedy: Scenes From Private Life: At the Sign of the Cat and Racket The Ball at Sceaux The Purse Vendetta Madame Firmiani A Second Home Domestic Peace Paz Study of a Woman Another Study of Woman The Grand Breteche Albert Savarus Letters of Two Brides A Daughter of Eve A Woman of Thirty The Deserted Woman La Grenadiere The Message Gobseck The Marriage Contract A Start in Life Modeste Mignon Beatrix Honorine Colonel Chabert The Atheist's Mass The Commission in Lunacy Pierre Grassou Scenes From Provincial Life Ursule Mirouet Eugenie Grandet Pierrette The Vicar of Tours The Two Brothers The Illustrious Gaudissart The Muse of the Department Eve and David Scenes From Parisian Life Scenes from a Courtesan's Life A Prince of Bohemia A Man of Business Gaudissart II Unconscious Comedians Ferragus The Duchesse de Langeais The Girl with the Golden Eyes Father Goriot Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau The Firm of Nucingen Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan Bureaucracy Sarrasine Facino Cane Cousin Betty Cousin Pons The Lesser Bourgeoisie Scenes From Political Life An Historical Mystery An Episode Under the Terror The Brotherhood of Consolation Z. Marcas The Deputy of Arcis Scenes From Military Life The Chouans A Passion in the Desert Scenes From Country Life The Country Doctor Juana Farewell The Recruit El Verdugo A Drama on the Seashore The Red Inn The Elixir of Life Maitre Cornelius Catherine de' Medici Louis Lambert The Exiles Seraphita Short Stories The Napoleon of the People Droll Stories Plays Vautrin The Resources of Quinola Paméla Giraud The Stepmother Mercadet Analytical Studies
The Psychology of Passion
Author: Robert J. Vallerand
Publisher: Series in Positive Psychology
ISBN: 0199777608
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
In The Psychology of Passion, Robert J. Vallerand provides a complete presentation of the Dualistic Model of Passion and reports on the empirical evidence supporting the theory. Vallerand highlights the effects of two types of passion--harmonious and obsessive--on a number of psychological phenomena, such as cognition, emotions, performance, relationships, aggression, and violence.
Publisher: Series in Positive Psychology
ISBN: 0199777608
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
In The Psychology of Passion, Robert J. Vallerand provides a complete presentation of the Dualistic Model of Passion and reports on the empirical evidence supporting the theory. Vallerand highlights the effects of two types of passion--harmonious and obsessive--on a number of psychological phenomena, such as cognition, emotions, performance, relationships, aggression, and violence.
Card Sharps and Bucket Shops
Author: Ann Fabian
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136685642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In a highly readable work that engages topics in American cultural, social and business history, Ann Fabian details the place of gambling in industrializing America. Card Sharps and Bucket Shops investigates the relationship between gambling and other ways of making profit, such as speculation and land investment, which became entrenched during the nineteenth century. While all these undertakings ran counter to deeply ingrained American--and Protestant--work ethics, only gambling took on a stigma that made other efforts to acquire wealth socially acceptable. Fabian considers here the reformers who sought to ban gambling; psychological explanations for the deviant gambler; numbers games in the African American community; and efforts by speculators to draw distinctions between their own activities and gambling. She combines first-rate cultural analysis with rigorous research, and along the way provides a wealth of colorful details, characters and anecdotes.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136685642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In a highly readable work that engages topics in American cultural, social and business history, Ann Fabian details the place of gambling in industrializing America. Card Sharps and Bucket Shops investigates the relationship between gambling and other ways of making profit, such as speculation and land investment, which became entrenched during the nineteenth century. While all these undertakings ran counter to deeply ingrained American--and Protestant--work ethics, only gambling took on a stigma that made other efforts to acquire wealth socially acceptable. Fabian considers here the reformers who sought to ban gambling; psychological explanations for the deviant gambler; numbers games in the African American community; and efforts by speculators to draw distinctions between their own activities and gambling. She combines first-rate cultural analysis with rigorous research, and along the way provides a wealth of colorful details, characters and anecdotes.
Westminster Papers
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The American Journal of Psychology
Author: Granville Stanley Hall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Collecting Information with a Passion
Author: Corey Lowe
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN:
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
About the Book A sequel to Lowe’s first book Seven Sins Plus One Obsession, Collecting Information with a Passion departs from the way that mysteries or crime stories are usually presented. When four senior detectives are told to train rookie cops in a murder simulation on a ship, the training mission becomes shockingly real. Through many twists and turns, the unique message is always this: treasure what’s precious, even if it’s just a memory. About the Author Corey Lowe was born and raised in Louisiana, mainly in the Shreveport area and countryside. He’s worked in different fields from restaurants to retail and warehouse industries. Lowe now owns an irrigation and landscaping business that he runs with his father. In his spare time, he enjoys writing, working out, and watching anime. He is the youngest of 5 children, with 3 sisters and a brother. He has always enjoyed watching any type of mystery or crime show or movies and loves the challenge of solving a good mystery.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN:
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
About the Book A sequel to Lowe’s first book Seven Sins Plus One Obsession, Collecting Information with a Passion departs from the way that mysteries or crime stories are usually presented. When four senior detectives are told to train rookie cops in a murder simulation on a ship, the training mission becomes shockingly real. Through many twists and turns, the unique message is always this: treasure what’s precious, even if it’s just a memory. About the Author Corey Lowe was born and raised in Louisiana, mainly in the Shreveport area and countryside. He’s worked in different fields from restaurants to retail and warehouse industries. Lowe now owns an irrigation and landscaping business that he runs with his father. In his spare time, he enjoys writing, working out, and watching anime. He is the youngest of 5 children, with 3 sisters and a brother. He has always enjoyed watching any type of mystery or crime show or movies and loves the challenge of solving a good mystery.