The First Merry Widow a biography of Carrie Moore


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Born near the docks in Geelong Australia, Carrie Moore was destined to be the queen of the Edwardian stage, From diamonds to dust, her career soared from the heights of the English stage to the depths of the rooming house in Sydney. This is the story of Australia's first Merry Widow.




The First Merry Widow


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"Born near the docks in Geelong, Carrie Moore was destined to become the queen of the Edwardian stage. From the bright lights of London to the vaudeville halls of Hobart, Carrie captivated audiences around the world. She danced aross stages adorned in diamonds but died penniless and alone in Sydney. This is the story of Australia's own Carrie Moore, the Merry Widow"--Back cover.




Stars of Early Australian Theatre


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Biographies of stars from the early Australian stage, including George Lauri, Florence Young, Carrie Moore and many more.




My Life's Story


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The Poultry Farmer


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The Dollar Princess


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180 Masterpieces You Should Read Before You Die (Vol.1)


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Invest your time in reading the true masterpieces of world literature, the great works of the greatest masters of their craft, the revolutionary works, the timeless classics and the eternally moving poetry of words and storylines every person should experience in their lifetime: Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Middlemarch (George Eliot) The Madman (Kahlil Gibran) Ward No. 6 (Anton Chekhov) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) The Overcoat (Gogol) Ulysses (James Joyce) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot) Odes (John Keats) The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Vanity Fair (Thackeray) Swann's Way (Marcel Proust) Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy) Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling) Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) Pepita Jimenez (Juan Valera) The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) A Room with a View (E. M. Forster) Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) The Republic (Plato) Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) Art of War (Sun Tzu) Candide (Voltaire) Don Quixote (Cervantes) Decameron (Boccaccio) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Dream Psychology (Sigmund Freud) The Einstein Theory of Relativity The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie) A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle) Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Call of the Wild Alice in Wonderland The Fairytales of Brothers Grimm The Fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen




Summertime Reading List: 180 Books You Need to Read (Vol.I)


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This summer, during these strange strange times, immerse yourself in words that have touched all of us and will always get to the core of all of us, of every single person. Books that have made us think, change, relate, cry and laugh:_x000D_ Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)_x000D_ Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)_x000D_ Middlemarch (George Eliot)_x000D_ The Madman (Kahlil Gibran)_x000D_ Ward No. 6 (Anton Chekhov)_x000D_ Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)_x000D_ The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)_x000D_ Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)_x000D_ The Overcoat (Gogol)_x000D_ Ulysses (James Joyce)_x000D_ Walden (Henry David Thoreau)_x000D_ Hamlet (Shakespeare)_x000D_ Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)_x000D_ Macbeth (Shakespeare)_x000D_ The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot)_x000D_ Odes (John Keats)_x000D_ The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire)_x000D_ Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)_x000D_ Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)_x000D_ Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)_x000D_ Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)_x000D_ Vanity Fair (Thackeray)_x000D_ Swann's Way (Marcel Proust)_x000D_ Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence)_x000D_ Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)_x000D_ Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)_x000D_ Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)_x000D_ Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling)_x000D_ Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)_x000D_ The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)_x000D_ Pepita Jimenez (Juan Valera)_x000D_ The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)_x000D_ A Room with a View (E. M. Forster)_x000D_ Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)_x000D_ The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)_x000D_ The Republic (Plato)_x000D_ Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)_x000D_ Art of War (Sun Tzu)_x000D_ Candide (Voltaire)_x000D_ Don Quixote (Cervantes)_x000D_ Decameron (Boccaccio)_x000D_ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass_x000D_ Dream Psychology (Sigmund Freud)_x000D_ The Einstein Theory of Relativity_x000D_ The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie)_x000D_ A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle)_x000D_ Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)_x000D_ The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft)_x000D_ Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)_x000D_ The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells)_x000D_ The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe)_x000D_ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz_x000D_ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_x000D_ The Call of the Wild_x000D_ Alice in Wonderland_x000D_ The Fairytales of Brothers Grimm_x000D_ The Fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen