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
Publisher:
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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
Publisher:
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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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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1244
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Languages : en
Pages : 1244
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The Historians' History of the World
Author: Henry Smith Williams
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 1366
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 1366
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England to 1485
Author: Henry Smith Williams
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
The Historians' History of the World: England to 1485
Author: Henry Smith Williams
Publisher:
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Category : World History
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : World History
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Half Hours of English History: From the Roman period to the death of Henry III
Author: Charles Knight
Publisher: London ; New York : F. Warne, [18--]
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Publisher: London ; New York : F. Warne, [18--]
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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