Author: George Eliot
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Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Romola
Author: George Eliot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The Princess of 42nd Street
Author: Romola Hodas
Publisher: Riverdale Avenue Books LLC
ISBN: 1626014728
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
The eldest daughter of the Times Square “King of Porn,” Romola Hodas recounts her chaotic childhood amid the turmoil of publically growing up as the daughter of the man who almost single-handedly built New York City’s pornography and adult entertainment empire from the 1960s to the 1980s before his spectacular and public fall from grace. Behind the salacious headlines, Marty’s family paid a terrible price. In her shockingly honest, no-holds-barred memoir, Romola describes hanging out as a child in her father’s porn shops on 42nd Street and meeting the eclectic clientele who frequented the stores, making friends with the girls who performed live sex acts on stage, and spying on her parents’ sex orgies and crazy all-night swinger parties. Romola relates, in moving detail, how she cared for her three younger siblings when her brilliant, bipolar mother broke with reality, and how she survived verbal, physical, and emotional abuse; a year in reform school; her father’s three stints in prison; two kidnapping attempts by the mob (one while at summer fat camp); and how her baby brother, Jarrett, actually was briefly kidnapped by mobsters wanting to send Marty Hodas a clear, unambiguous message. For all its darkness, The Princess of 42nd Street is, at its heart, an uplifting and inspirational story of how one young woman overcame incredible odds to become a successful businesswoman who now devotes her life to helping others. Raw, unflinching, and devoid of self-pity, The Princess of 42nd Street is a one-of-a-kind story.
Publisher: Riverdale Avenue Books LLC
ISBN: 1626014728
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
The eldest daughter of the Times Square “King of Porn,” Romola Hodas recounts her chaotic childhood amid the turmoil of publically growing up as the daughter of the man who almost single-handedly built New York City’s pornography and adult entertainment empire from the 1960s to the 1980s before his spectacular and public fall from grace. Behind the salacious headlines, Marty’s family paid a terrible price. In her shockingly honest, no-holds-barred memoir, Romola describes hanging out as a child in her father’s porn shops on 42nd Street and meeting the eclectic clientele who frequented the stores, making friends with the girls who performed live sex acts on stage, and spying on her parents’ sex orgies and crazy all-night swinger parties. Romola relates, in moving detail, how she cared for her three younger siblings when her brilliant, bipolar mother broke with reality, and how she survived verbal, physical, and emotional abuse; a year in reform school; her father’s three stints in prison; two kidnapping attempts by the mob (one while at summer fat camp); and how her baby brother, Jarrett, actually was briefly kidnapped by mobsters wanting to send Marty Hodas a clear, unambiguous message. For all its darkness, The Princess of 42nd Street is, at its heart, an uplifting and inspirational story of how one young woman overcame incredible odds to become a successful businesswoman who now devotes her life to helping others. Raw, unflinching, and devoid of self-pity, The Princess of 42nd Street is a one-of-a-kind story.
Romola
Author: George Eliot
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781770482265
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The most exotic of George Eliot’s works, Romola recounts the story of the famous religious leader Savonarola in Florence at the time of Machiavelli and the Medicis. Of all her novels, this was the author’s favourite. No other Eliot novel was illustrated in its first edition. Romola, however, was sought by George Smith for serialization in the prestigious illustrated Cornhill Magazine. Smith commissioned illustrations for the novel from the rising young artist Frederick Leighton, who had studied in Florence in the 1840s and had frequently painted Florentine Renaissance subjects. Romola was serialised with the Leighton illustrations in the magazine from July 1862 to August 1863. It was first published in book form in 1863; the first edition was published by Smith, Elder in three volumes, and a one-volume edition in two-column format with all but one of the Leighton illustrations was published later that year by Harper & Brothers in the United States. This facsimile reprint is of the one-volume 1863 Harper & Brothers edition, and includes 8 pages of original advertisements from the back of the book. This is one of a series from Broadview Press of facsimile reprint editions—editions that provide readers with a direct sense of these works as the Victorians themselves experienced them.
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781770482265
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The most exotic of George Eliot’s works, Romola recounts the story of the famous religious leader Savonarola in Florence at the time of Machiavelli and the Medicis. Of all her novels, this was the author’s favourite. No other Eliot novel was illustrated in its first edition. Romola, however, was sought by George Smith for serialization in the prestigious illustrated Cornhill Magazine. Smith commissioned illustrations for the novel from the rising young artist Frederick Leighton, who had studied in Florence in the 1840s and had frequently painted Florentine Renaissance subjects. Romola was serialised with the Leighton illustrations in the magazine from July 1862 to August 1863. It was first published in book form in 1863; the first edition was published by Smith, Elder in three volumes, and a one-volume edition in two-column format with all but one of the Leighton illustrations was published later that year by Harper & Brothers in the United States. This facsimile reprint is of the one-volume 1863 Harper & Brothers edition, and includes 8 pages of original advertisements from the back of the book. This is one of a series from Broadview Press of facsimile reprint editions—editions that provide readers with a direct sense of these works as the Victorians themselves experienced them.
Romola
Author: M. A. E. L. Cross ((George Eliot, pseud.))
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Romola ... With illustrations
Author: George Eliot
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Romola and Theophrastus Such
Author: George Eliot
Publisher: Chicago : Belford, Clarke
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Category : Florence (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Historisk roman fra Firenze i det 15. århundrede og essays
Publisher: Chicago : Belford, Clarke
ISBN:
Category : Florence (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Historisk roman fra Firenze i det 15. århundrede og essays
Romola, by George Eliot
Author: Mary Ann Evans
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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George Eliot's Works: Romola
Author: George Eliot
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Romola by George Eliot
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Romola (cont.) Silas Marner
Author: George Eliot
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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