Author: Donald Rayfield
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781452886466
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
These anonymous but highly literate Confessions describe in prurient detail the sexual activities and perversions in Russia and Italy before WW1. We know for certain that Nabokov read Victor X's Confessions before writing Lolita, his best and most famous book written in English. Victor X is Nabokov's hero Humbert Humbert in action, but without any sexual inhibitions. Much of the ambience of Lolita and some actual incidents come almost directly from Victor X. This book also describes aspects of Russian social and cultural life almost unreported anywhere else. For this book, Professor Donald Rayfield has written an extensive, scholarly and fascinating commentary
Secret Lolita
Author: Donald Rayfield
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781452886466
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
These anonymous but highly literate Confessions describe in prurient detail the sexual activities and perversions in Russia and Italy before WW1. We know for certain that Nabokov read Victor X's Confessions before writing Lolita, his best and most famous book written in English. Victor X is Nabokov's hero Humbert Humbert in action, but without any sexual inhibitions. Much of the ambience of Lolita and some actual incidents come almost directly from Victor X. This book also describes aspects of Russian social and cultural life almost unreported anywhere else. For this book, Professor Donald Rayfield has written an extensive, scholarly and fascinating commentary
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781452886466
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
These anonymous but highly literate Confessions describe in prurient detail the sexual activities and perversions in Russia and Italy before WW1. We know for certain that Nabokov read Victor X's Confessions before writing Lolita, his best and most famous book written in English. Victor X is Nabokov's hero Humbert Humbert in action, but without any sexual inhibitions. Much of the ambience of Lolita and some actual incidents come almost directly from Victor X. This book also describes aspects of Russian social and cultural life almost unreported anywhere else. For this book, Professor Donald Rayfield has written an extensive, scholarly and fascinating commentary
Secret Lolita--The Confessions of Victor X
Author: Victor X
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780969640820
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780969640820
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
AB Bookman's Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
The Confessions of Victor X
Author: Victor X
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780904573947
Category : Child molesters
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780904573947
Category : Child molesters
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Within Our Gates
Author: Alan Gevinson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520209640
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1588
Book Description
"[These volumes] are endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520209640
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1588
Book Description
"[These volumes] are endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Why A***oles Succeed and Nice Guys Fail in Small Business
Author: MR X
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781726296410
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Do you know why as**holes succeed and nice guys fail in small business?It's true, in today's instant gratification society where everyone demands all nice things in life - right now - from someone else's pocket. The only way a small business man can survive is with the following motto: As I walk through the valley of death, I should fear no evil, because I am the meanest A***ole in the valley.Our book "why A***ole's succeed and nice guys fail in small business" proves it.It is put together by strategic input from experienced masters, A***ole insiders who have lost millions learning and honing their A***ole skills; this combined with confidential interviews of small businessmen that have taken floundering businesses and turned them into a great success by becoming a dedicated A***oles.It's the book that every small business man needs. It tells it like it is, how the cards are stacked against the small business man by big banks, big business, big government, big unions, big organizations and all the other lying greedy b**tred that want to keep the small businessman down. The book shows you chapter by chapter, step by step, how to beat the stacked deck, by playing by the rules dictated by the power elite, rough and smart, who are dedicated to keeping small business small and marginally profitable.Here is what you will learn -1.Understanding risk and how the shrewd pricks stack it in their favor, taking miniscule risk and pushing all the risk and problems everyone else. It's like owning the casino where every game you play, you own the stacked deck. How to use it to roll over every obstacle in your path.2.How to screw your employees, first, before they screw you. How to maneuver and keep them smiling on low pay. How to hire and always make money.3.How to get your banker by the balls and control the vault. How to get the hardnosed, cold eyed, tight fisted A***ole and turn them into a pussycat that will fill your pockets with cash whenever you ask. How to skyrocket your credit score in a few mere days and have the banks begging to give you money.4.How to be a first class A***ole while dealing with 2nd and 3rd class A***ole bureaucrats and want to be terrorist, who want to knock you down. How to win every a** kicking contest by outsmarting and out hustling them every step of the way.5.How to deal with the natural A***ole the professionals, lawyers, accountants, brokers and all the rest of the super egos. How to lasso them and put them in your trunk and make them love it. How to not pay the greedy lawyers with one simple step, virtually eliminate all potential lawsuits and put the outcome on your side.6.How to give the tax man constipation. How to keep your money and secure it and use every legal tax angle and pay far less than you pay now.7.How a shrewd A***ole gets his advertising and publicity for free. How he can make himself, product, and company famous and become a local media star.8.How to squeeze your competitors dry. How to play the game like Facebook, Amazon, Tesla and the other big guys, play it to win with these A***ole, bury them and laugh all the way to the bank.9.How to sell a business turkey and get filet mignon and lobster prices. How to get top dollar for a business that is worth a low nickel. Where and when to find eager buyers.10.How to give them the finger. How to use bankruptcy to cover your tracks and save your assets.Every small business owner needs this book, even the nice guys to protect themselves against the A***ole.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781726296410
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Do you know why as**holes succeed and nice guys fail in small business?It's true, in today's instant gratification society where everyone demands all nice things in life - right now - from someone else's pocket. The only way a small business man can survive is with the following motto: As I walk through the valley of death, I should fear no evil, because I am the meanest A***ole in the valley.Our book "why A***ole's succeed and nice guys fail in small business" proves it.It is put together by strategic input from experienced masters, A***ole insiders who have lost millions learning and honing their A***ole skills; this combined with confidential interviews of small businessmen that have taken floundering businesses and turned them into a great success by becoming a dedicated A***oles.It's the book that every small business man needs. It tells it like it is, how the cards are stacked against the small business man by big banks, big business, big government, big unions, big organizations and all the other lying greedy b**tred that want to keep the small businessman down. The book shows you chapter by chapter, step by step, how to beat the stacked deck, by playing by the rules dictated by the power elite, rough and smart, who are dedicated to keeping small business small and marginally profitable.Here is what you will learn -1.Understanding risk and how the shrewd pricks stack it in their favor, taking miniscule risk and pushing all the risk and problems everyone else. It's like owning the casino where every game you play, you own the stacked deck. How to use it to roll over every obstacle in your path.2.How to screw your employees, first, before they screw you. How to maneuver and keep them smiling on low pay. How to hire and always make money.3.How to get your banker by the balls and control the vault. How to get the hardnosed, cold eyed, tight fisted A***ole and turn them into a pussycat that will fill your pockets with cash whenever you ask. How to skyrocket your credit score in a few mere days and have the banks begging to give you money.4.How to be a first class A***ole while dealing with 2nd and 3rd class A***ole bureaucrats and want to be terrorist, who want to knock you down. How to win every a** kicking contest by outsmarting and out hustling them every step of the way.5.How to deal with the natural A***ole the professionals, lawyers, accountants, brokers and all the rest of the super egos. How to lasso them and put them in your trunk and make them love it. How to not pay the greedy lawyers with one simple step, virtually eliminate all potential lawsuits and put the outcome on your side.6.How to give the tax man constipation. How to keep your money and secure it and use every legal tax angle and pay far less than you pay now.7.How a shrewd A***ole gets his advertising and publicity for free. How he can make himself, product, and company famous and become a local media star.8.How to squeeze your competitors dry. How to play the game like Facebook, Amazon, Tesla and the other big guys, play it to win with these A***ole, bury them and laugh all the way to the bank.9.How to sell a business turkey and get filet mignon and lobster prices. How to get top dollar for a business that is worth a low nickel. Where and when to find eager buyers.10.How to give them the finger. How to use bankruptcy to cover your tracks and save your assets.Every small business owner needs this book, even the nice guys to protect themselves against the A***ole.
Walden on Wheels
Author: Ken Ilgunas
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054402883X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Inspired by Thoreau, Ilgunas set out on a Spartan path to pay off $32,000 in undergraduate student loans by scrubbing toilets and making beds in Alaska. Determined to graduate debt-free after enrolling in graduate school, he lived in an Econoline van in a campus parking lot, saving--and learning--much about the cost of education today.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054402883X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Inspired by Thoreau, Ilgunas set out on a Spartan path to pay off $32,000 in undergraduate student loans by scrubbing toilets and making beds in Alaska. Determined to graduate debt-free after enrolling in graduate school, he lived in an Econoline van in a campus parking lot, saving--and learning--much about the cost of education today.
Lady Chatterley's lover
Author: David Herbert Lawrence
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9788809020825
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9788809020825
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Feud
Author: Alex Beam
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 1101870222
Category : BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
"In 1940 Edmund Wilson was the undisputed big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a near-penniless Russian exile seeking asylum in the States. Wilson became a mentor to Nabokov, introducing him to every editor of note, assigning reviews for The New Republic, engineering a Guggenheim. Their intimate friendship blossomed over a shared interest in all things Russian, ruffled a bit by political disagreements. But then came Lolita, and suddenly Nabokov was the big (and very rich) dog. Finally the feud erupted in full when Nabokov published his hugely footnoted and virtually unreadable literal translation of Pushkin's famously untranslatable verse novel Eugene Onegin. Wilson attacked his friend's translation with hammer and tong in the New York Review of Books. Nabokov counterattacked in the same publication. Back and forth the increasingly aggressive letters volleyed until their friendship was reduced to ashes by the narcissism of small differences"--
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 1101870222
Category : BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
"In 1940 Edmund Wilson was the undisputed big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a near-penniless Russian exile seeking asylum in the States. Wilson became a mentor to Nabokov, introducing him to every editor of note, assigning reviews for The New Republic, engineering a Guggenheim. Their intimate friendship blossomed over a shared interest in all things Russian, ruffled a bit by political disagreements. But then came Lolita, and suddenly Nabokov was the big (and very rich) dog. Finally the feud erupted in full when Nabokov published his hugely footnoted and virtually unreadable literal translation of Pushkin's famously untranslatable verse novel Eugene Onegin. Wilson attacked his friend's translation with hammer and tong in the New York Review of Books. Nabokov counterattacked in the same publication. Back and forth the increasingly aggressive letters volleyed until their friendship was reduced to ashes by the narcissism of small differences"--
The Ground Breaking
Author: Scott Ellsworth
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1785787284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
** Chosen by Oprah Daily as one of the Best Books to Pick Up in May 2021 ** 'Fast-paced but nuanced ... impeccably researched ... a much-needed book' The Guardian ''[S]o dystopian and apocalyptic that you can hardly believe what you are reading. ... But the story [it] tells is an essential one, with just a glimmer of hope in it. Because of the work of Ellsworth and many others, America is finally staring this appalling chapter of its history in the face. It's not a pretty sight.' Sunday Times A gripping exploration of the worst single incident of racial violence in American history, timed to coincide with its 100th anniversary. On 31 May 1921, in the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a mob of white men and women reduced a prosperous African American community, known as Black Wall Street, to rubble, leaving countless dead and unaccounted for, and thousands of homes and businesses destroyed. But along with the bodies, they buried the secrets of the crime. Scott Ellsworth, a native of Tulsa, became determined to unearth the secrets of his home town. Now, nearly 40 years after his first major historical account of the massacre, Ellsworth returns to the city in search of answers. Along with a prominent African American forensic archaeologist whose family survived the riots, Ellsworth has been tasked with locating and exhuming the mass graves and identifying the victims for the first time. But the investigation is not simply to find graves or bodies - it is a reckoning with one of the darkest chapters of American history. '[A] riveting, painful-to-read account of a mass crime that, to our everlasting shame ... has avoided justice. Ellsworth's book presents us with a clear history of the Tulsa massacre and with that rendering, a chance for atonement ... Readers of this book will fervently hope we take that opportunity.' Washington Post
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1785787284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
** Chosen by Oprah Daily as one of the Best Books to Pick Up in May 2021 ** 'Fast-paced but nuanced ... impeccably researched ... a much-needed book' The Guardian ''[S]o dystopian and apocalyptic that you can hardly believe what you are reading. ... But the story [it] tells is an essential one, with just a glimmer of hope in it. Because of the work of Ellsworth and many others, America is finally staring this appalling chapter of its history in the face. It's not a pretty sight.' Sunday Times A gripping exploration of the worst single incident of racial violence in American history, timed to coincide with its 100th anniversary. On 31 May 1921, in the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a mob of white men and women reduced a prosperous African American community, known as Black Wall Street, to rubble, leaving countless dead and unaccounted for, and thousands of homes and businesses destroyed. But along with the bodies, they buried the secrets of the crime. Scott Ellsworth, a native of Tulsa, became determined to unearth the secrets of his home town. Now, nearly 40 years after his first major historical account of the massacre, Ellsworth returns to the city in search of answers. Along with a prominent African American forensic archaeologist whose family survived the riots, Ellsworth has been tasked with locating and exhuming the mass graves and identifying the victims for the first time. But the investigation is not simply to find graves or bodies - it is a reckoning with one of the darkest chapters of American history. '[A] riveting, painful-to-read account of a mass crime that, to our everlasting shame ... has avoided justice. Ellsworth's book presents us with a clear history of the Tulsa massacre and with that rendering, a chance for atonement ... Readers of this book will fervently hope we take that opportunity.' Washington Post