Author: Claudia Harris
Publisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Latchkeys for Ladies
Author: Claudia Harris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Latchkey Ladies
Author: Marjorie Grant
Publisher: Handheld Classics
ISBN: 9781912766628
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher: Handheld Classics
ISBN: 9781912766628
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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Funnymen
Author: Ted Heller
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074324236X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
SIGMUND "ZIGGY" BLISSMAN isn't the best-looking, sanest boy in the world. Far, far from it. But this misfit child of a failed husband-and-wife vaudeville team has one (and only one) thing going for him: He can crack people up merely by batting his eyelashes. And Vittorio "Vic" Fontana, the son of a fisherman, is a fraud. Barely able to carry a tune or even stay awake while attempting to, the indolent baritone (if that's what he is) has one thing going for him: Women love to look at him. On their own, they're failures. But on one summer night in the Catskills, they step onstage and together become the funniest men -- and the hottest act -- in America. Funnymen is the wildly inventive story of Fountain and Bliss, the comedy duo that delighted America in the 1940s and '50s. Conceived as a fictional oral biography and filled with more than seventy memorable characters, Funnymen details the extraordinary careers of two men whose professional success is never matched in their personal lives. The two men fight constantly with their managers, their wives, their children, their mistresses, and those responsible for their success: each other. The stories recounted about Vic and Ziggy -- and the truths Heller reveals about human ambition, egotism, and friendship -- make Funnymen a wild ride of a novel that is also a rare and imaginative masterpiece of storytelling.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074324236X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
SIGMUND "ZIGGY" BLISSMAN isn't the best-looking, sanest boy in the world. Far, far from it. But this misfit child of a failed husband-and-wife vaudeville team has one (and only one) thing going for him: He can crack people up merely by batting his eyelashes. And Vittorio "Vic" Fontana, the son of a fisherman, is a fraud. Barely able to carry a tune or even stay awake while attempting to, the indolent baritone (if that's what he is) has one thing going for him: Women love to look at him. On their own, they're failures. But on one summer night in the Catskills, they step onstage and together become the funniest men -- and the hottest act -- in America. Funnymen is the wildly inventive story of Fountain and Bliss, the comedy duo that delighted America in the 1940s and '50s. Conceived as a fictional oral biography and filled with more than seventy memorable characters, Funnymen details the extraordinary careers of two men whose professional success is never matched in their personal lives. The two men fight constantly with their managers, their wives, their children, their mistresses, and those responsible for their success: each other. The stories recounted about Vic and Ziggy -- and the truths Heller reveals about human ambition, egotism, and friendship -- make Funnymen a wild ride of a novel that is also a rare and imaginative masterpiece of storytelling.
The Sketch
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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The Bookman
Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Punch
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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The Second Latchkey
Author: Alice Muriel Williamson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732660303
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Second Latchkey by Alice Muriel Williamson, Charles Norris Williamson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732660303
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Second Latchkey by Alice Muriel Williamson, Charles Norris Williamson
The World's Work
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Gerald O'Donovan: A Life
Author: John F. Ryan
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1800855273
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This is the first full-length study of the life and work of novelist Gerald O’Donovan (1871–1942), a Catholic priest and social and cultural activist who, having abandoned the priesthood, became a writer and publisher. As a priest in Loughrea, Co. Galway, he was a very public figure in Irish life in several different areas. He was friendly with W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and George Moore and actively promoted the ‘Celtic Revival’. He was also a friend of Douglas Hyde and Sir Horace Plunkett and, for a number of years, he was a national figure in their respective organizations, the Gaelic League and the Co-operative Movement. After his marriage to Beryl Verschoyle, he moved to England and subsequently published six novels, the best-known and most controversial of which was Father Ralph (1913), a portrait of the artist as a priest. He also spent time working in the British Department of Propaganda under Lord Northcliffe, where H.G. Wells was one of his colleagues. This biography of an important and strangely neglected figure allows us new insights into a whole range of interesting cultural moments in twentieth-century Irish life, including the beginnings of literary modernism, the flourishing of the Irish literary revival and the emergence of a dissident strand within the Catholic clergy. Based on a rich and previously untapped array of archival material in Ireland, Britain and the US, the book provides both a much-needed reassessment of O'Donovan's work and also a history of Irish writing during those early decades of the twentieth century that saw the development of a new and powerful national literature.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1800855273
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This is the first full-length study of the life and work of novelist Gerald O’Donovan (1871–1942), a Catholic priest and social and cultural activist who, having abandoned the priesthood, became a writer and publisher. As a priest in Loughrea, Co. Galway, he was a very public figure in Irish life in several different areas. He was friendly with W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and George Moore and actively promoted the ‘Celtic Revival’. He was also a friend of Douglas Hyde and Sir Horace Plunkett and, for a number of years, he was a national figure in their respective organizations, the Gaelic League and the Co-operative Movement. After his marriage to Beryl Verschoyle, he moved to England and subsequently published six novels, the best-known and most controversial of which was Father Ralph (1913), a portrait of the artist as a priest. He also spent time working in the British Department of Propaganda under Lord Northcliffe, where H.G. Wells was one of his colleagues. This biography of an important and strangely neglected figure allows us new insights into a whole range of interesting cultural moments in twentieth-century Irish life, including the beginnings of literary modernism, the flourishing of the Irish literary revival and the emergence of a dissident strand within the Catholic clergy. Based on a rich and previously untapped array of archival material in Ireland, Britain and the US, the book provides both a much-needed reassessment of O'Donovan's work and also a history of Irish writing during those early decades of the twentieth century that saw the development of a new and powerful national literature.
The Outlook
Author:
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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