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Acceptable Losses: A Novel

Acceptable Losses: A Novel

Irwin Shaw

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.
Lucy Crown: A Novel

Lucy Crown: A Novel

Irwin Shaw

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.
Rich Man, Poor Man and Beggarman, Thief: In One Volume

Rich Man, Poor Man and Beggarman, Thief: In One Volume

Irwin Shaw

Two books in one: Irwin Shaw’s bestselling Rich Man, Poor Man and Beggarman, Thief chronicle one family’s struggle with the forces of change after WWII.
Bernard Shaw and Nancy Astor

Bernard Shaw and Nancy Astor

Bernard Shaw

This collection of nearly 250 letters between Shaw and Astor - as well as between Astor and Shaw's wife, Charlotte, and Shaw's secretary, Blanche Patch - illustrates the rewarding friendship the two shared and the numerous issues they ...
The Bradleys and allied families of South Carolina

The Bradleys and allied families of South Carolina

Sarah Isabelle Bradley Ensworth

(b) William David Shaw 4. (c) Elizabeth Shaw 2. (2) (1) John Shaw, X Shaw, born May 21, 1750. The date of his death is found on the tombstone in the old Shaw burying -ground, five miles below Brick Church, "Sacred to the memory of John ...
A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language

A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language

T.J. Carty

... Felicia Mary Frances Skene SEVERAL YOUNG PERSONS Jane Taylor with Ann Taylor SEVERN, DAVID David Storr ... Griffiths SHAW, FELICITY Ann Morice SHAW, GORDON Stanley Gordon Shaw SHAW, IRENE Irene Roberts SHAW, ...
Nightwork: A Novel

Nightwork: A Novel

Irwin Shaw

New York Times Bestseller: The story of a down-on-his-luck desk clerk, a con man, and a fortune from the author of Rich Man, Poor Man.
Bread Upon the Waters: A Novel

Bread Upon the Waters: A Novel

Irwin Shaw

Bread Upon the Waters is a masterful story about the way lives interconnect, and how every good deed, no matter how selfless, comes with a price.
Evening in Byzantium: A Novel

Evening in Byzantium: A Novel

Irwin Shaw

Evening in Byzantium is a masterwork that brilliantly documents a man’s precipitous slide—along with that of his industry—from independence toward cynical mediocrity.
The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw

The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw

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This volume covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focusing both on the political and theatrical context, while the illustrations showcase productions from the Shaw Festival in Canada.
Rapture Reality Check

Rapture Reality Check

James Irwin

James Irwin. RAPTURE REALITY CHECK JAMES IRWIN Copyright © 2017 by James Irwin. Library of Congress Control.
Canadian Books in Print: Author and Title Index

Canadian Books in Print: Author and Title Index

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ECW, 1985 $24.00 doth [0-920802-99-0]; $14.00 paper Irvine, V. Bruce and Silvester, w. ... [0-88839-183-8]; $12.95 paper [0-88839-181-1] CIP Irwin, Ross see Neale, Graham Irwin, Ross Weston; Mariposa - the banner township. Irwin. R.W..
Voices of a Summer Day: A Novel

Voices of a Summer Day: A Novel

Irwin Shaw

Insightful and evocative, Voices of a Summer Day is an enchanting story about a man’s life and an unforgettable look at the power of memory.
Beggarman, Thief: A Novel

Beggarman, Thief: A Novel

Irwin Shaw

Driven by his sorrow and a need for justice, Wesley uncovers surprising truths about his estranged family’s complicated past. Focused, forceful, and deeply moving, Beggarman, Thief is a stunning novel by a true American literary master.
Short Stories: Five Decades

Short Stories: Five Decades

Irwin Shaw

Among these sixty-three stories are iconic works such as “The Eighty-Yard Run,” a tale of an American dream crippled on Black Monday, and “Main Currents in American Thought,” in which a hack radio copywriter is tormented by the ...
New York Magazine

New York Magazine

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The beautiful lady's husband is Irving Lazar, at 76 still the most renowned literary agent in the world — the tiny, manic, lone-wolf deal-maker, self-styled dandy, bi- coastal commuter, globe-trotter, connoisseur, agent and friend to Irwin Shaw and  ...
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

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In his book, George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (1905), he called Shaw 'a world- figure in the modern drama' and said that 'in all the history of the English stage, no man has exceeded him in technical resources nor in nimbleness of wit.' When he ...
Poe Meets Shaw: The Shaw Alphabet Edition of Edgar Allan Poe

Poe Meets Shaw: The Shaw Alphabet Edition of Edgar Allan Poe

Tim Browne

This is the first book in 50 years to be published in the Shaw Alphabet with a side by side comparison with traditional spelling.
Courtship, Love, and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century English ...

Courtship, Love, and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century English ...

Peter Ward

... Protestant churches and, 26-30 sexuality: Christian doctrine on, 15-19; Roman Catholic doctrine and enforcement, 21-5 Shanley, Walter, 123 Shaw, C.G., 153 Shaw, Isabella, 107 Shaw, Kinsley, 111 Sherwood, Sophia, 129-30 shivaree: see  ...
University of Edinburgh Journal

University of Edinburgh Journal

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1948, ph.d. 1973: Dr Robertson graduated B.Sc. with honours in Zoology. Helena Jane Robertson, m.b. 1920: in Glasgow, 19th ... Geoffrey Shaw, or Councillor Geoffrey Shaw as he was known latterly, was a son of J. J. M. Shaw, the Edinburgh ...
Victorians and mystery: crises of representation

Victorians and mystery: crises of representation

William David Shaw

Victorian literature, according to Shaw, gives rise to a wealth of questions and mysteries.
The Ballad of Horatio's Gold

The Ballad of Horatio's Gold

James Irwin Kruger

Then the earth shook, and the world changed. About the author: James Irwin Kruger, a native of Minneapolis, is a graduate of the University of Minnesota where he majored in English and minored in History.
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Eldon Cleon Hill

Traces Shaw's creative development as it coincided with the events of his life and the appearance of his major plays
Plato's Ethics

Plato's Ethics

Terence Irwin

Replacing Irwin's earlier Plato's Moral Theory (Oxford, 1977), this book gives a clearer and fuller account of the main questions and discusses some recent controversies in the interpretation of Plato's ethics.
Origins of the Monologue: The Hidden God

Origins of the Monologue: The Hidden God

William David Shaw

Focusing on such pricipal creators as Browning and Tennyson, Shaw shows how changes in cultural history can transform a major poetic genre.
Collected Letters: 1874-1897

Collected Letters: 1874-1897

Bernard Shaw

Gathers correspondence between Shaw and his family, friends, acquaintances in the theater and politics, and fellow writers during the period leading up to his first success as a playwright
Brutal Uncut

Brutal Uncut

Aiden Shaw

Adult film superstar Aiden Shaw follows up his bestselling memoir, My Undoing, with a no-holds-barred look at sexual excess.

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