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A mother cardinal teaches her son Preep about the area where their cardinal family has always lived.
Author : Sarah Jackson
Publisher : Halcyon Press Ltd.
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 30,11 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Cardinals (Birds)
ISBN : 1931823251
A mother cardinal teaches her son Preep about the area where their cardinal family has always lived.
Author : Henry James
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,86 MB
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8027229804
Washington Square is a tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter and her brilliant, unemotional father. The plot of the novel is based upon a true story told to James by his close friend, British actress Fanny Kemble. The book is often compared with Jane Austen's work for the clarity and grace of its prose and its intense focus on family relationships. Dr. Austin Sloper, a wealthy and highly successful physician, lives in Washington Square, New York with his daughter Catherine. Catherine is a sweet-natured young woman who is a great disappointment to her father, being physically plain and, he believes, dull in terms of personality and intellect. His sister, Lavinia Penniman, a meddlesome woman with a weakness for romance and melodrama, is the only other member of the doctor's household. Henry James (1843–1916) was an American-British writer who spent most of his writing career in Britain. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism.
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Page : 1346 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Drugs
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Author : Winchester (Mass.). Special Committee to Prepare and Report a School Building Program
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Education
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Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 2018-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0525565779
The third volume of Gore Vidal's magnificent series of historical novels aimed at demythologizing the American past, 1876 chronicles the political scandals and dark intrigues that rocked the United States in its centennial year. ------Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, Aaron Burr's unacknowledged son, returns to a flamboyant America after his long, self-imposed European exile. The narrator of Burr has come home to recoup a lost fortune by arranging a suitable marriage for his beautiful daughter, the widowed Princess d'Agrigente, and by ingratiating himself with Samuel Tilden, the favored presidential candidate in the centennial year. With these ambitions and with their own abundant charms, Schuyler and his daughter soon find themselves at the centers of American social and political power at a time when the fading ideals of the young republic were being replaced by the excitement of empire. ------"A glorious piece of writing," said Jimmy Breslin in Harper's. "Vidal can take history and make it powerful and astonishing." Time concurred: "Vidal has no peers at breathing movement and laughter into the historical past." ------With a new Introduction by the author.
Author : Buffalo (N.Y.). Common Council
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Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 23,60 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
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Author : Madison Smartt Bell
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 26,34 MB
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1453235507
Seven men tell their stories of survival on the streets of 1980s New York City in this gritty debut novel by the National Book Award–finalist. Like most New Yorkers, Johnny B. Goode hustles to make a living. His beat happens to be pharmaceutical distribution. His place of business, Washington Square Park. Over the course of one weekend, he and his crew of “retailers” sell their product to students, businessmen, tourists, drifters, and lowlifes, while evading the law and outmaneuvering the competition. It’s a fragile balance that avant-garde saxophonist and all-around nuisance Porco Miserio threatens to upend with his big mouth. As Johnny B. and his crew scramble to maintain their embattled existence, each relates their personal story of life on the fringes of Greenwich Village. Among them are Yusuf Ali, the NBA-sized Muslim whose profession is at odds with his faith; Holy Mother, Johnny B.’s boyhood friend and former Mafia hitman; and Santa Barbara, the Puerto Rican Santeria practitioner who has been deeply spooked. Authentic and original, the chorus of voices captures the streets of New York in all its widescreen splendor and punishing blight. An “atmospherically electric . . . Winning debut,” The Washington Square Ensemble introduced a prodigiously gifted new novelist to American readers (Kirkus Reviews). “The most exotic bunch of sweet characters since some of Jack Kerouac’s ‘holy angels’ first came alive in print.” —Los AngelesHerald Examiner
Author : Charles M. Oliver
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 24,53 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1438108583
Presents a complete reference to the life and works of Walt Whitman.
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Page : 720 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Architecture, Domestic
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Page : 898 pages
File Size : 12,95 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Dressmaking
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