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The High Himalaya
Art Wolfe-- The new book by Art Wolfe, internationally acclaimed nature photographer -- Intimate interviews with world-renowned climbers Ed Viesturs, Doug Scott, and Reinhold Messner -- 160 stunning full-color photographs Art Wolfe has achieved what ...
Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader
Peter WrightThis new study of the fiction of Gene Wolfe, one of the most influential contemporary American science fiction writers, offers a major reinterpretation of Gene Wolfe’s four-volume The Book of the New Sun and its sequel The Urth of the New ...
The Lost Boy: A Novella
Thomas WolfeGrover Gant, a young boy who died of typhoid fever at the turn of the century, is portrayed through the eyes of family members Thomas Wolfe's The Lost Boy is a captivating and poignant retelling of an episode from Wolfe's childhood.
The Longest Cave
Roger W. Brucker... Gary F. Wischmeyer, Michael A. Wolfe, Douglas Arthur Wolfe, Nancy Wolfe, Thomas Edward Wright, Herbert E., Jr. Wright, Richard F. Wykes, Robert A. Yarnell, Jean Black Yarnell, Richard A. Yasney, Barbara J. Yoder, Diane Kathleen Zeller, ...
The Good Child's River
Thomas WolfeThe work was based loosely on the early life of New York stage and costume designer Aline Bernstein, with whom Wolfe
The churches and the British Broadcasting Corporation, ...
Kenneth M. WolfeWhen in October Archbishop Lang announced that that day would be kept as ' Armistice Sunday', Welch, having ascertained that Richards intended to preach on pacifism, asked him to postpone the broadcast until 1 1 February 194o; he felt ...
Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas WolfeThis new edition includes an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian. Wolfe's second novel, Of Time and the River, continuing the story of Eugene Gant, is also now available in Penguin Classics.
The Right Stuff
Tom WolfeIt is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny emapthetic powers, that made this book a classic.
Conversations with Tom Wolfe
Dorothy McInnis ScuraGathers interviews with Tom Wolfe from each period of his career and offers a brief profile of his life and accomplishments
Thomas Wolfe and the Politics of Modernism
Shawn HollidayThis book combats the academic and critical inertia that currently surrounds Wolfe by exploring his complex relationship to modernism.
A Man in Full
Tom WolfeTom Wolfe was the razor sharp chronicler of the 1980s and now boldly turns to dissect greed-obsessed America on the cusp of the millenium.
Fighting Ruben Wolfe
Markus Zusak' The Wolfe brothers know how to fight. They've been fighting all their lives. Now there's something more at stake than just winning. A powerful, poignant novel from the author of the international bestseller, The Book Thief.
Hooking Up
Tom WolfeAlso included in this collection are some of his most classic and enduring pieces of journalism, and 'Ambush at Fort Bragg', his fiercely satirical novella about sting TV. Funny, often savagely so, hard-hitting, wise, Wolfe remains a unique ...
Wolfe Tone: Second edition
Marianne ElliottKenneth R. Rossman, Thomas Mifflin and the Politics of the American Revolution (Chapel Hill, N. Car., 1952); entry in DAB, XII. 606–8; Rowan, Autobiography, 283 –4; TCD, MS 868/2/13–15, Tone [under pseudo William Penn] to Russell, ...
Finding Bix: The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend
Brendan WolfeThis is where Finding Bix begins: in Wolfe's good-faith attempt to get the facts right.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom WolfeLong considered one of the greatest books about the history of the hippies, Wolfe's ability to research like a reporter and simultaneously evoke the hallucinogenic indulgence of the era ensures that this book, written in 1967, will live ...
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom WolfeThe Bonfire of the Vanities is a caustic satire on the money-feverish Eighties. This exuberant novel cemented Wolfe's reputation as the foremost chronicler of his age.
My Other Loneliness: Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein
Preview" That time continues to live, however, in these letters and in the books that both Wolfe and Mrs. Bernstein wrote about their relationship.
Something More Than Night: The Case of Raymond Chandler
Peter WolfeSomerset Maugham and George Grella both rate him above Dashiell Hammett; Eric Partridge deems him “a serious artist and a very considerable novelist,” while praising him as “one of the finest novelists of his time.” Peter Wolfe ...
Wolfe Tone
Marianne ElliottThis book is the definitive scholarly biography. A major contribution to Irish historiography...one which will have important public influence in challenging many of the simplistic public notions of Wolfe Tone.
Stop the Presses!
Robert GoldsboroughNero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin are tasked with protecting the most hated columnist in New York City There are few people Nero Wolfe respects, and Lon Cohen of the New York Gazette is one of them.
Elsie de Wolfe: a decorative life
Nina CampbellCombining a survey of contemporary interior design with a portrait of the innovative work of Elsie de Wolfe, this illustrated study highlights the seminal contributions of the designer to the world of home decorating. 20,000 first printing.
Death on Deadline
Robert GoldsboroughTo save his favorite newspaper, Wolfe steps into the crossfire of a tabloid war Master sleuth Nero Wolfe’s small circle of friends is limited to his assistant Archie Goodwin, his chef Fritz, and Lon Cohen, the head man at the New York ...
Belmont Castle, Or, Suffering Sensibility
Theobald Wolfe ToneThis gothic, epistolary novel has lain in obscurity since its first publication in 1790, with only three known copies in existence today. Written primarily by Theobald Wolfe Tone, it parodies the popular sentimental fiction of the time.
You Can't Go Home Again
Thomas WolfeYou Can't Go Home Again is a novel by Thomas Wolfe published posthumously in 1940. The novel tells the story of George Webber, a fledgling author, who writes a book that makes frequent references to his home town of Libya Hill.
Behold the Hero: General Wolfe and the Arts in the ...
Alan McNairn52 The full inscription is given in Kerslake, Some Portraits of General Wolfe, 3-4- CHAPTER TWELVE 1 David Howard Dickason, William Williams, Novelist and Painter of Colonial America (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press ...
Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas WolfeThomas Wolfe published “ Look Homeward, Angel, “his first novel, about a young man's burning desire to leave his small town and tumultuous family in search of a better life, in 1929.
Corridors of deceit: the world of John le Carré
Peter WolfePeter Wolfe has produced an informative study of le Carr’s works, showing how le Carr’s five years in the Service (British Intelligence) helped him become a keen observer, social historian, and expert in bureaucratic politics.
Butler County: The Boston Studio Collection
Susan R. McLainMadessa Wolfe is with her two young sons, Thomas Jr. (left) and Lionel, in 1902. Her husband, Thomas Wolfe, was president of the First National Bank of David City. The little Dutch boy cap lying on the floor gives the effect of a mother at home ...
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