Author: Douglas G. Browne
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486250557
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: Catherine Kohman
Publisher: Love Spell
ISBN: 9780505520395
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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The ghost of dashing explorer Brendan Tyrell haunts Marissa Erickson, his biographer. Their meeting stirs up dangerous currents from the past as well as unsolved mysteries. What happened to Brendan

Author: Julien Gracq
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231057899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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With four elegant and beautifully crafted novels Julien Gracq has established himself as one of France's premier postwar novelists. A mysterious and retiring figure, Gracq characteristically refused the Goncourt, France's most distinguished literary prize, when it was awarded to him in 1951 for this book. As the latest work in the Twentieth-Century Continental Fiction Series, Gracq'a masterpiece is now available for the first time in English. Set in a fictitious Mediterranean port city, The Opposing Shore is the first-person account of a young aristocrat sent to observe the activities of a naval base. The fort lies at the country's border; at its feet is the bay of Syrtes. Across the bay is territory of the enemy who has, for three hundred years, been at war with the narrator's countrymen; the battle has become a complex, tacit game in which no actions are taken and no peace declared. As the narrator comes to understand, everything depends upon a boundary, unseen but certain, separating the two sides. Besides the narrator there are two other main characters, the dark and laconic captain of the base and a woman whose compex relations to both sides of the war brings the narator deeper into the story's web. For many French readers The Opposing Shore (published as Le rivage des Syrtes ), with its theme of transgressions and boundaries, spoke to the issue of defeat and the desire to fail: a paticularly sensitive motif in postwar French literature. But there is nothing about the novel tying it either to France or to the 1950s; in fact, Gracq's novel, with its elaborate, richly detailed prose, will be of greater interest now than at any point in the last twenty years.

Author: Gary A. Smith
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476605300
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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There has been a tremendous amount of renewed interest in the output of Britain's Hammer Films. But there remain a great number of worthwhile British horror films, made at the same time by other companies, that have received little attention. The author provides a comprehensive listing of British horror films--including science fiction, fantasy, and suspense films containing horror-genre elements--that were released between 1956 and 1976, the "Golden Age" of British horror. Entries are listed alphabetically by original British title, from Vincent Price in The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) to Zeta One (1969). Entries also include American title, release information, a critique of the film, and the film's video availability. The book is filled with photographs and contains interviews with four key figures: Max J. Rosenberg, cofounder of Amicus Productions, one of the period's major studios; Louis M. Heyward, former writer, film executive and producer; Aida Young, film and television producer; and Gordon Hessler, director of such films as The Oblong Box and Murders in the Rue Morgue.

Author: John Bartlett
Publisher:
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Category : Quotations
Languages : en
Pages : 892

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Author: John Bartlett
Publisher:
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Category : Quotations
Languages : en
Pages : 864

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Category : Quotations
Languages : en
Pages : 1192

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Author: John Bartlett
Publisher:
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Category : Quotations
Languages : en
Pages : 802

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Author: William Donati
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813118956
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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An intimate portrayal of the life of film noir queen of the forties and fifties discusses the conflicts of her failed marriages, and the obstacles that she encountered as a lone woman film director

Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134986904
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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Alexander Pope's technical polish and intellectual poise appeal to the subtlest audience. This selection includes The Rape of the Lock, Eloisa to Abelard, and extracts from The Dunciad and the translation of Homer.