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"The relative merits of goodness and originality": the ...

"The relative merits of goodness and originality": the ...

Christer Larsson

Hassall, Huggan and Woodcock include a chronology of Carey's life and career, and in their acknowledgments Carey is commended for having assisted them with comments. 3 Carolyn Bliss, "Book on Peter Carey Breaks Ground," Antipodes ...
Dancing on Hot Macadam: Peter Carey's Fiction

Dancing on Hot Macadam: Peter Carey's Fiction

Anthony J. Hassall

Susan Wyndham, "Peter Carey: An Unusual Life", The Australian Magazine (20- 21 August 1994), p.45. 2. Peter Carey, jack Maggs (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1997), p.332. Subsequent references are to this edition and are ...
The Journal and Selected Letters of William Carey

The Journal and Selected Letters of William Carey

William Carey

William Carey Terry G. Carter. The Joutnal and Selected Lettets ,\WCUNOORUA Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc. 6316PeakeRoad Macon, Georgia 31210-3960 1 -800-747-3016. Collecred and Edired by Terry G. Carter.
The Essential Paradise Lost

The Essential Paradise Lost

John Carey

In this fascinating reinterpretation, Carey reveals new insights about Milton's sources of inspiration, while exploring divided readings of the work's key characters.
The Democratic Soul: A Wilson Carey McWilliams Reader

The Democratic Soul: A Wilson Carey McWilliams Reader

Wilson Carey McWilliams

The first comprehensive volume of Wilson Carey McWilliams' collected writings, The Democratic Soul will be welcomed by scholars of political science and American political thought as a long-overdue contribution to the field.
William Carey: Father of Missions

William Carey: Father of Missions

Sam Wellman

A shoemaker turned missionary, William Carey was one of the first missionaries to India.
Peter Carey

Peter Carey

Graham Huggan

Huggan argues that Carey's fictions present both a satire on destructive material values and a defence of the right to change, to invent new pasts and futures.
Peter Carey: the genesis of fame

Peter Carey: the genesis of fame

Karen Lamb

A concise commentary on the fiction of Peter Carey, author of TBliss', TIllywhacker', TOscar and Lucinda' and TThe Tax Inspector'.
Collected Stories

Collected Stories

Peter Carey

The stories, persuasive and precisely crafted, reveal Carey to be a moralist with a sense of humour, a surrealist interested in naturalism and an urban poet delighting in paradox.
Peter Carey

Peter Carey

Bruce Woodcock

This is a revised and expanded edition of Woodcock's accessible study, now including detailed readings of Carey's latest novels, 'Jack Maggs' and 'True History of the Kelly Gang'.
Peter Carey: A Literary Companion

Peter Carey: A Literary Companion

Mary Ellen Snodgrass

"This book provides an introduction to the author's life, as well as a guided overview of his body of work. This text features an alphabetized, fully-annotated listing of major terms in the Carey canon.
The Life of William Carey, D.D: Shoemaker and Missionary

The Life of William Carey, D.D: Shoemaker and Missionary

George Smith

A fascinating account of the life of William Carey, one of the nineteenth century's pioneers of Protestant mission in India.
Barbara Heathcote's Trial

Barbara Heathcote's Trial

Rosa Nouchette Carey

Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840-1909) was well-known for her novels, often described as domestic melodrama. She also wrote short stories for the Girls' Own Paper and the Religious Tract Society.
True History of the Kelly Gang

True History of the Kelly Gang

Peter Carey

But to his fellow ordinary Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey brings the famous bushranger wildly and passionately to life.
Swamplandia!

Swamplandia!

Karen Russell

To Carey McHugh, Kim Tingley, Lytton Smith, Michael White, Brandon Freeman, Lauren Russell, Kent Russell, Vince Ruiz—thank you to the moon for being my first readers and for the lifeline of your friendship. And thanks to Rob, Carey, New  ...
A Knight of the Nets

A Knight of the Nets

Amelia E. Barr

... Catherine Parr Traill Charles A. Eastman Charles Dickens Charles Dudley Warner Charles Farrar Browne Charles Ives Charles Kingsley Charles Lathrop Pack Charles Whibley Charles Willing Beale Charlotte M. Braeme Charlotte M. Yonge ...
Life of William Carey: Shoemaker and Missionary

Life of William Carey: Shoemaker and Missionary

George Smith

William Carey was one of the most remarkable Christians in history -- a self-taught linguist, pastor, missionary, and visionary who paved the way for the modern missionary movement.
Transcriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes: Concepts, ...

Transcriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes: Concepts, ...

Michael Carey

Written by two experienced investigators, Michael Carey and Stephen Smale at the UCLA School of Medicine, and based in part on the Gene Expression course taught at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, this book directly addresses all the concerns ...
William Carey College: The First 100 Years

William Carey College: The First 100 Years

Donna Duck Wheeler

Although many of the archives of the college have been destroyed, it is hoped this book will present the interesting story of William Carey College and its predecessors, faculty, alumni, and students.
Eustace Carey, a Missionary in India: A Memoir (Classic Reprint)

Eustace Carey, a Missionary in India: A Memoir (Classic Reprint)

Mrs. Eustance Carey

About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.
Mariah Carey: The Making of an American Diva

Mariah Carey: The Making of an American Diva

Pier Dominguez

Based on exclusive interviews, court transcripts, and years of research this unauthorized bio is the gritty, no-holds-barred story behind her remarkable rise, fall, and triumphant comeback: how Mariah Carey single-mindedly scratched and ...
30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account

30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account

Peter Carey

After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character with the help of his old friends, drawing the reader into a wild and wonderful journey of discovery and rediscovery as bracing ...
Parrot and Olivier in America

Parrot and Olivier in America

Peter Carey

As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, and their picaresque travels together and apart - in love and politics, prisons and the world of art - Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy, in ...
Latin prosody made easy: The 4th ed. with the poetic ...

Latin prosody made easy: The 4th ed. with the poetic ...

John Carey

The 4th ed. with the poetic treatise of Terentianus Maurus, De metics John Carey. I do not conceive that we ought in any case to pronounce it otherwise than as one long, unless compelled by unavoidable necessity. Parvo dilexit spatio ...
The Judas Church: An Obsession With Sex

The Judas Church: An Obsession With Sex

Kevin Carey

Kevin Carey's thorough exegesis questions the purpose of the modern church and argues that the Church has betrayed its core message by becoming myopic in its obsession with doctrinal minutiae.
A Mask for Privilege: Anti-Semitism in America

A Mask for Privilege: Anti-Semitism in America

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Carey McWilliams, California: the Great Exception (New York: A.A. Wyn, 1949); the best biographical study of my father known to me is Lee Ann Meyer, Great Exception: Carey McWilliams' Path to Activism (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation.

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