Author: American Libraries Book Procurement Center, New Delhi
Publisher:
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Accessions List, Ceylon
Author: American Libraries Book Procurement Center, New Delhi
Publisher:
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Colombo
Author: Carl Muller
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351181588
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Colombo is in the throes of an explosion. Its face changes continuously, its vices are legion, its future as yet obscure and its paths speak of sunlight as well as of shadow.-' Carl Muller begins his quasi-fictional portrait of this beautiful, war-torn city by describing the great battles fought over it by European colonizers-. In AD 1505, a Portuguese fleet blown off-course took shelter in Galle, overthrew the local kings, fortified Colombo and decided to stay. The Dutch came along, ousted the Portuguese, made Colombo their capital and ruled till the British arrived and sent them packing. Muller intersperses the tales of the past into descriptions of the battles that are being fought in Colombo today"political battles in which vested interests play a major role as well as battles fought on the individual level in the struggle to survive: young women and children turning to prostitution to earn an extra buck, people begging in the streets to make ends meet, unemployed young men turning to crime in frustration, students demonstrating against atrocities, lovers pining for nightfall in order to push away loneliness if only for a few moments... Written in Muller's lucid style, Colombo: A Novel is a chronicle of a city's trials and triumphs.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351181588
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Colombo is in the throes of an explosion. Its face changes continuously, its vices are legion, its future as yet obscure and its paths speak of sunlight as well as of shadow.-' Carl Muller begins his quasi-fictional portrait of this beautiful, war-torn city by describing the great battles fought over it by European colonizers-. In AD 1505, a Portuguese fleet blown off-course took shelter in Galle, overthrew the local kings, fortified Colombo and decided to stay. The Dutch came along, ousted the Portuguese, made Colombo their capital and ruled till the British arrived and sent them packing. Muller intersperses the tales of the past into descriptions of the battles that are being fought in Colombo today"political battles in which vested interests play a major role as well as battles fought on the individual level in the struggle to survive: young women and children turning to prostitution to earn an extra buck, people begging in the streets to make ends meet, unemployed young men turning to crime in frustration, students demonstrating against atrocities, lovers pining for nightfall in order to push away loneliness if only for a few moments... Written in Muller's lucid style, Colombo: A Novel is a chronicle of a city's trials and triumphs.
Ceylon and Its Capabilities
Author: Bennett
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Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926-1931
Author: Edwin M. Bradley
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476606846
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
This study of early sound shorts begins with an explanation of the development of sound motion pictures in Hollywood by such influential companies as Warner Bros. and Fox, with an emphasis on short subjects, leading up to the first few months when all of the major studios were capable of producing them. The next chapters discuss the impact on other mass entertainments, the development of audible news reels and other non-fiction shorts, as well as the origins of animated sound subjects. A comprehensive list of pre-1932 American-made shorts completes the volume.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476606846
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
This study of early sound shorts begins with an explanation of the development of sound motion pictures in Hollywood by such influential companies as Warner Bros. and Fox, with an emphasis on short subjects, leading up to the first few months when all of the major studios were capable of producing them. The next chapters discuss the impact on other mass entertainments, the development of audible news reels and other non-fiction shorts, as well as the origins of animated sound subjects. A comprehensive list of pre-1932 American-made shorts completes the volume.
Ceylon and Its Capabilities
Author: John Whitchurch Bennett
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Ceylon in the Jubilee Year
Author: John Ferguson
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120609631
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
With An Account Of The Progress Made Since 1803, And Of The Present Condition Of Its Agricultural And Commercial Enterprises; The Resources Awaiting Development By Capitalists And The Unequalled Attractions Offered To Visitors.
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120609631
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
With An Account Of The Progress Made Since 1803, And Of The Present Condition Of Its Agricultural And Commercial Enterprises; The Resources Awaiting Development By Capitalists And The Unequalled Attractions Offered To Visitors.
The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Asiaweek
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
A Revised Edition of the Legislative Enactments of Ceylon ...
Author: Ceylon
Publisher:
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Category : Statutes
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Statutes
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Author: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Ceylon Branch, Colombo
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Contains the Society's Proceedings.
Publisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Contains the Society's Proceedings.