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My Movie Business

My Movie Business

John Irving

But My Movie Business focuses primarily on the thirteen years John Irving spent adapting his novel The Cider House Rules for the screen - for four different directors.
The Imaginary Girlfriend

The Imaginary Girlfriend

John Irving

Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend is a lucid portrait of the writers and wrestlers who played a mentor role in John Irving's development as a novelist, a wrestler and a ...
John Irving

John Irving

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Explores the author's literary works through critical essays that explore Irving's popularity, narrative perspective, and post-modernism from a variety of viewpoints.
John Irving and Cultural Mourning

John Irving and Cultural Mourning

Bouchra Belgaid

John Irving and Cultural Mourning offers a chronological survey of his eleven novels, examining his prose via thematically focused chapters on postmodernism, the sixties, fatherhood, narcissism, mourning and finally self-redemption.
Documents relating to Donaldson's Hospital. 1851

Documents relating to Donaldson's Hospital. 1851

Donaldson's Hospital (EDINBURGH)

In witness whereof, these presents, written upon this and the ten preceding pages of stamped paper by Stuart Neilson, clerk to me the said John Irving, are subscribed by us the- said John Irving and Walter Cook, at Edinburgh the 22d day of ...
Astoria: or, Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains

Astoria: or, Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains

Washington Irving

The first English edition was issued simultaneously with the American. John Jacob Astor persuaded Irving to undertake this story of his ill-fated enterprise at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1834.
Politics and the Intellectual: Conversations with Irving Howe

Politics and the Intellectual: Conversations with Irving Howe

Irving Howe

Presented here is a compilation of Irving Howe's interviews during the last fifteen years of his life that could be viewed as the sequel to his intellectual autobiography, A Margin of Hope.
Irving Howe and the Critics: Celebrations and Attacks

Irving Howe and the Critics: Celebrations and Attacks

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Irving Howe and the Critics is a selection of essays and reviews about the work of Irving Howe (1920?93), a vocal radical humanist and the most influential American socialist intellectual of his generation.
Understanding John Irving

Understanding John Irving

Edward C. Reilly

Analyzes Irving's novels including the popular 'World According to Garp' & 'Hotel New Hampshire'--their settings, characters, conflicts, symbols, & themes as they reveal his maturing literary techniques & comprehensive world vision.
Irving Sandler: Out of 10th Street and Into The 60s

Irving Sandler: Out of 10th Street and Into The 60s

Irving Sandler

The critic and curator Irving Sandler was a key figure as a critic and friend to many artists as well as an employee of the influential Tanager gallery. Sandler was also an active presence at the famous Artists Club.
Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict ...

Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict ...

J. Gerald Kennedy

Ed. Ralph M. Aderman, Herbert L. Kleinfield, and Jenifer S. Banks. Vol. 2. Boston: Twayne, 1979. Irving, Washington. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. 1828. Ed. John Harmon McElroy. Boston: Twayne, 1981. Irving, Washington ...
The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

Richard Irving Dodge

THE EIGHT JOURNALS PUBLISHED IN THIS VOLUME, with entries dated between September 18, 1878, and December 18, 1880, are Lieutenant Colonel Richard Irving Dodge's personal record of an eventful period in his career as a United ...
The Sherman Tour Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

The Sherman Tour Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

Richard Irving Dodge

In summer 1883, General William Tecumseh Sherman took Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, his former aide-de-camp, with him on a 10,000-mile inspection tour across the northern tier of territories, on to the Pacific Northwest, south through ...
Something about the Author

Something about the Author

Lisa Kumar

... photograph. Courtesy of Irving Adler. / Adler, Irving, and Joyce Adler, photograph. Courtesy of Irving Adler. BECHARD, MARGARET I Cohen, Santiago, illustrator. From an illustration in My Mom Married the Principal, by Margaret Bechard.
Sir Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry: A Record of Over ...

Sir Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry: A Record of Over ...

Walter Calvert

On reel with Yorick, pseud. A letter concerning Mr. Henry Irving.
Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race

Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race

Debby Irving

For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships.
Leila Khaled: Fighting for Palestine

Leila Khaled: Fighting for Palestine

Sarah Irving

In this intimate profile, based on interviews with Khaled and those who know her, Sarah Irving gives us the life-story behind the image.
The sketch book, illustr. with 120 engravings

The sketch book, illustr. with 120 engravings

Washington Irving

John arranged that they should ride by turns, and the eldest should ride first Off they set at last ; one on the pony, with the dog bounding and barking before him, and the others holding John's hands ; both talking at once, and overpowering him  ...
Religious Movements in Contemporary America

Religious Movements in Contemporary America

Irving I. Zaretsky

Irving I. Zaretsky, Mark P. Leone. they do not find the resolution they seek through sect membership. The evidence suggests, while it does not prove, that for those who remain in the church socioeconomic conditions are improved, nuclear ...
Chronicle of The Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving ...

Chronicle of The Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving ...

Washington Irving

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter.
The Black Hills Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

The Black Hills Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

Richard Irving Dodge

Black Hills Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge is by far the most detailed account yet available of the conflicting claims, interests, and populations that converged on the Black Hills during the key transitional period before the ...
Text: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies

Text: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies

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Letter to Ralph M. Aderman. 9 January 1973. The Complete Works of Washington Irving Records. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. POCHMANN, HENRY A., et al. Washington Irving Manual (which went through several stages).
The Hotel New Hampshire

The Hotel New Hampshire

John Irving

' So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry.
The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving

The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving

Andrew Burstein

With a historian’s eye for scope and significance, Andrew Burstein returns Irving to the context of his native nineteenth century where he was a major celebrity-both a colorful comic genius and the first name in our national literature.
Five Things to Know About the Australian Constitution

Five Things to Know About the Australian Constitution

Helen Irving

In this excellent new book, Helen Irving delves into the mystery that is the Australian constitution by discussing the major national debates of recent years.
Meaning in Life

Meaning in Life

Irving Singer

This final book in Irving Singer's Meaning in Life trilogy studies the interaction between nature and the values that define human spirituality.
Alan Jay Lerner: A Lyricist's Letters

Alan Jay Lerner: A Lyricist's Letters

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The following letter to Irving Lazar, Lerner's agent at the time, reveals Lerner's feelings on all three musicals: To Irving Lazar March 14, 1974 Dear fellow, Sorry I missed you in New York, but as I trust somebody told you, I was in Haiti for a ...

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