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Great Granny Webster

Great Granny Webster

Caroline Blackwood

Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood’s masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer.
Corrigan

Corrigan

Caroline Blackwood

With Corrigan Caroline Blackwood takes a long, hard look at our dearly beloved notions of saints and sinners, victims and villains, patrimony and present pleasure, and winks.
Card Games All-In-One For Dummies

Card Games All-In-One For Dummies

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Kevin Blackwood: Growing up in a conservative small town in Maine, Kevin Blackwood never anticipated visiting Sin City. With aspirations of becoming a college professor, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in religious education and ...
Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition, 1805-1930

Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition, 1805-1930

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Two hundred years after the founding of this significant influence on British literary, political, and social history, this collection of essays reappraises the place of the Blackwood firm and its magazine in literary and print culture ...
Police Casualties in Ireland, 1919-1922

Police Casualties in Ireland, 1919-1922

Richard Abbott

22 March 1921 Blackwood, Co. Roscommon William Devereux Con 49046 Michael James Dowling Con 67499 An RIC party was cycling from Keadue to Ballyfarnon to investigate a raid on the Post Office. When the patrol reached Blackwood ...
Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood

Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood

Nancy Schoenberger

She herself died of cancer on Valentine's Day 1996, at the age of sixty-four. Dangerous Muse is the first biography of Lady Caroline Blackwood.
Never Breathe a Word: The Collected Stories of Caroline ...

Never Breathe a Word: The Collected Stories of Caroline ...

Caroline Blackwood

Never Breathe a Word calls attention to Blackwood's mastery, presenting a series of acclaimed short stories, both fictional and autobiographical.
Play Blackjack Like the Pros

Play Blackjack Like the Pros

Kevin Blackwood

Play Blackjack Like the Pros is written in the style of Phil Hellmuth's Play Poker Like the Pros using easy-to-understand lessons that all levels of players can quickly benefit from. Blackwood is one of the world's top card counters.
Blackwood Farm: The Vampire Chronicles 9 (Paranormal Romance)

Blackwood Farm: The Vampire Chronicles 9 (Paranormal Romance)

Anne Rice

Here are vampire and witches, men and women, demons and doppelgangers, caught up in a maelstrom of death and destruction, blood and fire, cruelty and fate. 'Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice's best book in years' Miami Herald
The Ithaqua Cycle

The Ithaqua Cycle

A. Blackwood

He is Sasquatch, the Wendigo, the Wind-Walker. Here, gathered together in one place, is an entire cycle of stories abouth Ithaqua, from Algernon Blackwood's seminal "The Wendigo", to the brand new "Wrath of the Wind-Walker".
On the perimeter

On the perimeter

Caroline Blackwood

Looks at the nuclear protest camps at Greenham Common, discusses the British Women's Peace movement, and describes public reaction to the protesters
Kasino für Dummies

Kasino für Dummies

Kevin Blackwood

Tools from the areas of genetics, neuroscience, cell biology, virology, and infectious disease are being applied to the problem and are yielding useful results.This is the second volume of a series of four on autoimmunity, and findings ...
“The” Counter

“The” Counter

Kevin Blackwood

THE COUNTER follows an idealistic young man, Raven Townsend, who abruptly drops his plans to become a Biblical archaeologist and detours into the world of high stakes card counting.
Before Blackwood's: Scottish Journalism in the Age of ...

Before Blackwood's: Scottish Journalism in the Age of ...

Alex Benchimol

This collection of essays is the result of a major conference focusing specifically on the role of Scotland’s print culture in shaping the literature and politics of the long eighteenth century.
The Last of the Duchess

The Last of the Duchess

Caroline Blackwood

A portrait of the Duchess of Windsor focuses on her final days and profiles Maitre Blum, one of France's most powerful lawyers, who controlled every aspect of the Duchess' life.
Blackwood's Magazine

Blackwood's Magazine

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Now they are old people-considerably upwards of sixty-and twenty years' professional life have converted Allan Easton, once the wild and eccentric genius , intoastaid, solemn, formal, and pedantic pedagogue. All his scholars love him, ...
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

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Now they are old people—considerably upwart s of sixty—and twenty years' professional life have converted Allan Easton, once the wild and eccentric genius , into a staid, solemn,formal, and edantic pedagogue. All his scholars ove him, ...
Casino Gambling For Dummies

Casino Gambling For Dummies

Kevin Blackwood

Relax! This hands-on guide is filled with insider secrets and tips for maximizing winnings and minimizing losses in the most popular casino games --blackjack, poker, craps, roulette, slots, and more.
Blackwood's Magazine

Blackwood's Magazine

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Blackwood's Magazine

Blackwood's Magazine

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V. at 6s. per copy, a limited number of a very Curious Genealogical History of the Family of Forbes, &c. written in 1580; by Mr Mathew Lumsden of Tullikerne, and continued in 1667, by Mr William Forbes, and to which will be added, a Family ...
Forgotten Fantasy: Issue #5, June 1971

Forgotten Fantasy: Issue #5, June 1971

Douglas Menville

The fifth issue of this classic magazine features: "Hartmann the Anarchist," by E. Douglas Fawcett, plus stories by Algernon Blackwood and Tudor Jenks, and more!
Hauptmann centenary lectures

Hauptmann centenary lectures

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1893 51. Anon: Recent German Fiction. Blackwood's Ed. Mag., CLIII, 92-97. ['Der Apostel' and 'Bahnwachter (sic) Thiel', with many quotations in translation]. 52. Anon: Herr H. Spectator, LXXI, 436-437. 53. Zimmermann, Robert: Germany. Ath.
The Edinburgh monthly magazine [afterw.] Blackwood's ...

The Edinburgh monthly magazine [afterw.] Blackwood's ...

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at 6s. per copy, a limited number of a very Curious Genealogical History of the Family of Forbes, &c written in 1580 ; by Mr Mathew Lumsden of Tullikeme, and continued in 1667, by Mr William Forbes, and to which will be added, a Family ...
A Hundred Years of British Philosophy

A Hundred Years of British Philosophy

Rudolf Metz

Leibniz (Blackwood's Philosophical Classics), 1884.; History of European Thought in the XIXth Century, four vols., 1896—1914; “On the Synoptic Aspect of Reality”, in Proceedings of University of Durham Philosophical Society, vol. 5 ( 1920) ...
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

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Large silver tassels hung before the ears, and the bands of his harness were of crimson velvet and gold, studded with large golden bosses. Besides these, other symbols of royal state stood round — golden flags, such as stand before the king  ...

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