Bennie: the King's little servant

Bennie: the King's little servant PDF Author: Louise Marston
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Pages : 136

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Bennie: the King's little servant

Bennie: the King's little servant PDF Author: Louise Marston
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Pages : 136

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The English Catalogue of Books for ..

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Category : English literature
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Pages : 130

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The English Catalogue of Books

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Pages : 116

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The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World

The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World PDF Author: Paula S. Fass
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415782325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding the history of childhood in the West from antiquity to the present day. By broadly incorporating the research in the field of Childhood Studies, the book explores the major advances that have taken place in the past few decades in this crucial field. This important collection from a leading international group of scholars presents a comprehensive survey of the current state of the field. It will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of childhood.

The Kings & Queens of Hollywood Comedy

The Kings & Queens of Hollywood Comedy PDF Author: Terry Rowan
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365853640
Category : Comedy films
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature, and Booksellers' Record

Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature, and Booksellers' Record PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1220

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The English Catalogue of Books [annual].

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Pages : 108

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Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

The Chiffon Trenches

The Chiffon Trenches PDF Author: André Leon Talley
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0593129261
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the pages of Vogue to the runways of Paris, this “captivating” (Time) memoir by a legendary style icon captures the fashion world from the inside out, in its most glamorous and most cutthroat moments. “The Chiffon Trenches honestly and candidly captures fifty sublime years of fashion.”—Manolo Blahnik NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Fortune • Garden & Gun • New York Post During André Leon Talley’s first magazine job, alongside Andy Warhol at Interview, a fateful meeting with Karl Lagerfeld began a decades-long friendship with the enigmatic, often caustic designer. Propelled into the upper echelons by his knowledge and adoration of fashion, André moved to Paris as bureau chief of John Fairchild’s Women’s Wear Daily, befriending fashion's most important designers (Halston, Yves Saint Laurent, Oscar de la Renta). But as André made friends, he also made enemies. A racially tinged encounter with a member of the house of Yves Saint Laurent sent him back to New York and into the offices of Vogue under Grace Mirabella. There, he eventually became creative director, developing an unlikely but intimate friendship with Anna Wintour. As she rose to the top of Vogue’s masthead, André also ascended, and soon became the most influential man in fashion. The Chiffon Trenches offers a candid look at the who’s who of the last fifty years of fashion. At once ruthless and empathetic, this engaging memoir tells with raw honesty the story of how André not only survived the brutal style landscape but thrived—despite racism, illicit rumors, and all the other challenges of this notoriously cutthroat industry—to become one of the most renowned voices and faces in fashion. Woven throughout the book are also André’s own personal struggles that impacted him over the decades, along with intimate stories of those he turned to for inspiration (Diana Vreeland, Diane von Fürstenberg, Lee Radziwill, to name a few), and of course his Southern roots and faith, which guided him since childhood. The result is a highly compelling read that captures the essence of a world few of us will ever have real access to, but one that we all want to know oh so much more about.

The English Catalogue of Books [annual]

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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

Night in Shanghai

Night in Shanghai PDF Author: Nicole Mones
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547517726
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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This novel of an American musician caught up in the dangers of 1930s China is “historical fiction at its best” (Alan Cheuse, NPR’s All Things Considered). In 1936, classical pianist Thomas Greene is recruited to Shanghai to lead a jazz orchestra of fellow African American expats. After being flat broke in segregated Baltimore, he is now living in a mansion with servants of his own, the toast of a city obsessed with music, money, pleasure, and power, even as it ignores the rising winds of war. Song Yuhua is refined and educated, and has been bonded since age eighteen to Shanghai’s most powerful crime boss in payment for her father’s gambling debts. Outwardly submissive, she burns with rage—and risks her life spying on her master for the Communist Party. Only when Shanghai is shattered by the Japanese invasion do Song and Thomas find their way to each other. Though their union is forbidden, neither can back down from it in the turbulent years of occupation and resistance that follow. Torn between music and survival, freedom and commitment, love and world war, they are borne on an irresistible riff of melody and improvisation to Night in Shanghai’s final, impossible choice. This stunningly researched novel that “keeps the suspense mounting until the end” not only tells the forgotten story of black musicians in the Chinese jazz age, but also weaves in a startling true tale of Holocaust heroism little-known in the West (Kirkus Reviews).