Author: Lucasta Miller
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375412786
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 429
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On 15 October 1838, the body of a thirty-six-year-old woman was found in Cape Coast Castle, West Africa, a bottle of Prussic acid in her hand. She was one of the most famous English poets of her day: Letitia Elizabeth Landon, known by her initials 'L.E.L.' What was she doing in Africa? Was her death an accident, as the inquest claimed? Or had she committed suicide, or even been murdered? To her contemporaries, she was an icon, hailed as the 'female Byron', admired by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Heinrich Heine, the young Bronte sisters and Edgar Allan Poe. However, she was also a woman with secrets, the mother of three illegitimate children whose existence was subsequently wiped from the record. After her death, she became the subject of a cover-up which is only now unravelling. Too scandalous for her reputation to survive, Letitia Landon was a brilliant woman who made a Faustian pact in a ruthless world. She embodied the post-Byronic era, the 'strange pause' between the Romantics and the Victorians. This new investigation into the mystery of her life, work and death excavates a whole lost literary culture.
Author: Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Author: Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Category : Switzerland
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Author: Michael Cunningham
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374706247
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold new novel, his first since The Hours, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, an older man, and a young woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost story that takes place at the height of the industrial revolution, as human beings confront the alienating realities of the new machine age. "The Children's Crusade," set in the early twenty-first century, plays with the conventions of the noir thriller as it tracks the pursuit of a terrorist band that is detonating bombs, seemingly at random, around the city. The third part, "Like Beauty," evokes a New York 150 years into the future, when the city is all but overwhelmed by refugees from the first inhabited planet to be contacted by the people of Earth. Presiding over each episode of this interrelated whole is the prophetic figure of the poet Walt Whitman, who promised his future readers, "It avails not, neither time or place . . . I am with you, and know how it is." Specimen Days is a genre-bending, haunting, and transformative ode to life in our greatest city and a meditation on the direction and meaning of America's destiny. It is a work of surpassing power and beauty by one of the most original and daring writers at work today.
Author: Cheryl Landon Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781560547099
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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Michael Landon's daughter discusses her father's television roles and offers anecdotes about his private life and his perspectives on dying
Author: David A. Robertson
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
ISBN: 155379995X
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Helen Betty Osborne, known as Betty to her closest friends and family, dreamed of becoming a teacher. She left home to attend residential school and later moved to The Pas, Manitoba, to attend high school. On November 13, 1971, Betty was abducted and brutally murdered by four young men. Initially met with silence and indifference, her tragic murder resonates loudly today. Betty represents one of almost 1,200 Indigenous women in Canada who have been murdered or gone missing. This is her story. Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story has been selected as a White Raven 2016 by the International Youth Library for its annual catalogue of book recommendations in the field of international children’s and youth literature. This year’s White Ravens catalogue contains 200 titles in 42 languages from 60 countries.
Author: Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Author: Howard Chandler Robbins Landon
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Author: R. K. Mortenson
Publisher: Barbour Pub Incorporated
ISBN: 9781593108816
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
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Landon Snow questions the meaning of life and after falling through the pages of the Book of Meaning, he enters a fantasy realm where new friends are discovered and answers are unearthed.
