Author: Henry Colin Gray Matthew
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Randolph-Rippingille
Author: Henry Colin Gray Matthew
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Randolph-Rippingille
Author: Henry Colin Gray Matthew
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 2142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 2142
Book Description
Boxing
Author: Kasia Boddy
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1861897022
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Throughout history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers, and filmmakers have recorded and tried to make sense of boxing. From Daniel Mendoza to Mike Tyson, boxers have embodied and enacted our anxieties about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. In her encyclopedic investigation of the shifting social, political, and cultural resonances of this most visceral of sports, Kasia Boddy throws new light on an elemental struggle for dominance whose weapons are nothing more than fists. Looking afresh at everything from neoclassical sculpture to hip-hop lyrics, Boddy explores the ways in which the history of boxing has intersected with the history of mass media. Boddy pulls no punches, looking to the work of such diverse figures as Henry Fielding and Spike Lee, Charlie Chaplin and Philip Roth, James Joyce and Mae West, Bertolt Brecht and Charles Dickens in an all-encompassing study that tells us just how and why boxing has mattered so much to so many.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1861897022
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Throughout history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers, and filmmakers have recorded and tried to make sense of boxing. From Daniel Mendoza to Mike Tyson, boxers have embodied and enacted our anxieties about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. In her encyclopedic investigation of the shifting social, political, and cultural resonances of this most visceral of sports, Kasia Boddy throws new light on an elemental struggle for dominance whose weapons are nothing more than fists. Looking afresh at everything from neoclassical sculpture to hip-hop lyrics, Boddy explores the ways in which the history of boxing has intersected with the history of mass media. Boddy pulls no punches, looking to the work of such diverse figures as Henry Fielding and Spike Lee, Charlie Chaplin and Philip Roth, James Joyce and Mae West, Bertolt Brecht and Charles Dickens in an all-encompassing study that tells us just how and why boxing has mattered so much to so many.
The Antiqvities of Athens
Author: James Stuart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages :
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A Dictionary of musicians from the earliest times
Author: John S. Sainsbury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
English Psychology
Author: Théodule Ribot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Antiquities of Athens
Author: Stuart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Certificate
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374529345
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
It's 1922 and David Bendiger, an aspiring eighteen-and-a-half-year-old writer, arrives in Warsaw, penniless and homeless. His only contacts are Sonya, a young woman with whom he has had amorous dealings in the village they have left, and a Zionist functionary who informs him he has qualified for a certificate permitting him to emigrate to Palestine. But in order to make the journey David must enter into a fictitious marriage with a woman so eager to get to Palestine that she will pay all the expenses. While David waits for his certificate, he becomes involved not only with Sonya but with Edusha, the sexually avant-garde Communist Party member in whose apartment he finds a temporary haven; and with Minna, the well-to-do young woman who wants to join her fiance in Palestine and agrees to "marry" David. Grappling with romantic, political, and youthful turmoil, David also confronts his literary future and religious past when his older brother - a writer disillusioned by a recent sojourn in Russia - and his father, an Orthodox rabbi, both turn up in Warsaw. The Certificate was serialized in Yiddish in 1967, but may have been written much earlier. The translator, Leonard Wolf, in a postscript calls it "a very young man's book" and "certainly the most playful of Singer's long fictions", with its alternately comic and poignant shifts in plot. Young David's passions for women, philosophizing, Jewish religious speculation, and Walter Mitty-like fantasies make The Certificate a captivating novel in the great tradition of a master storyteller.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374529345
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
It's 1922 and David Bendiger, an aspiring eighteen-and-a-half-year-old writer, arrives in Warsaw, penniless and homeless. His only contacts are Sonya, a young woman with whom he has had amorous dealings in the village they have left, and a Zionist functionary who informs him he has qualified for a certificate permitting him to emigrate to Palestine. But in order to make the journey David must enter into a fictitious marriage with a woman so eager to get to Palestine that she will pay all the expenses. While David waits for his certificate, he becomes involved not only with Sonya but with Edusha, the sexually avant-garde Communist Party member in whose apartment he finds a temporary haven; and with Minna, the well-to-do young woman who wants to join her fiance in Palestine and agrees to "marry" David. Grappling with romantic, political, and youthful turmoil, David also confronts his literary future and religious past when his older brother - a writer disillusioned by a recent sojourn in Russia - and his father, an Orthodox rabbi, both turn up in Warsaw. The Certificate was serialized in Yiddish in 1967, but may have been written much earlier. The translator, Leonard Wolf, in a postscript calls it "a very young man's book" and "certainly the most playful of Singer's long fictions", with its alternately comic and poignant shifts in plot. Young David's passions for women, philosophizing, Jewish religious speculation, and Walter Mitty-like fantasies make The Certificate a captivating novel in the great tradition of a master storyteller.
Selections From the Diary and Correspondence
Author: John Grant Sargent
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021969330
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discover the memories and reflections of John Grant Sargent with his famous 'Selections from Diary and Correspondence.' Filled with insights and musings, this book provides an intimate look at one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures of the 19th century. Sargent's writings will keep any reader engaged and captivated as he recounts his experiences with the world around him. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021969330
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discover the memories and reflections of John Grant Sargent with his famous 'Selections from Diary and Correspondence.' Filled with insights and musings, this book provides an intimate look at one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures of the 19th century. Sargent's writings will keep any reader engaged and captivated as he recounts his experiences with the world around him. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.