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Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time

Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time

Nina Auerbach

Nina Auerbach brilliantly reveals the Ellen Terry whose roles, on stage and off, embodied everything that a rapidly changing world exhorted women to be.
Private Theatricals: The Lives of the Victorians

Private Theatricals: The Lives of the Victorians

Nina Auerbach

Nina Auerbach has written a closely reasoned and stimulating book for everyone interested in the Victorian age, and everyone interested in theatricality---whether private or on the stage.
Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress

Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress

Nina Auerbach

Nina Auerbach examines both the life of Daphne du Maurier as it is revealed in her writings and the sensibility of a vanished class and a time now gone that haunts the fringes of our own age.
Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach

Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach

Erich Auerbach

This book presents a selection of Auerbach's essays, many of which are little known outside the German-speaking world.
Our Vampires, Ourselves

Our Vampires, Ourselves

Nina Auerbach

'What vampires are in any given generation,' she writes, 'is a part of what I am and what my times have become. This book is a history of Anglo-American culture through its mutating vampires.'.
Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth

Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth

Nina Auerbach

Analyzes the Victorian conception of both demonic and divine nature of women in Victorian art and literature
Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction

Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction

Nina Auerbach

This is a fascinating study of the complex attitudes of communities of women which are distinct from the long-honored traditions of the bonding of brothers.
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature

Erich Auerbach

This Princeton Classics edition includes a substantial introduction by Edward Said as well as an essay in which Auerbach responds to his critics.
Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture

Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture

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NINA AUERBACH have never had a friend — shall I find one now?" croons J. Sheridan Le Farm's Carmilla in 1872 when she confronts her beloved prey (87). Until the coming of the impersonal, imperial Dracula in 1897, this friend-seeking ...
Romantic Imprisonment: Women and Other Glorified Outcasts

Romantic Imprisonment: Women and Other Glorified Outcasts

Nina Auerbach

Also includes information on acting and theatricality, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, George Gordon Byron cannibalism and vampirism, Lewis Carroll, children and childhood, Charles Dickens, eroticism and sexuality, fallen women, ...
Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel

Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel

Claudia L. Johnson

"The best (and the best written) book about Austen that has appeared in the last three decades."—Nina Auerbach, Journal of English and Germanic Philology "By looking at the ways in which Austen domesticates the gothic in Northanger Abbey, ...
Nina Campbell Interiors

Nina Campbell Interiors

Meredith Etherington-Smith

This book features the private homes of Nina's clients, ranging from a city pied-a-terre to a large family home, from a chic apartment to a country bolt-hole, all designed and decorated to suit a range of lifestyles, but all reflecting Nina ...
Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology: The ...

Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology: The ...

Avihu Zakai

This book analyzes and contextualizes Auerbach’s life and mind in the wide ideological, philological, and historical context of his time, especially the rise of Aryan philology and its eventual triumph with the Nazi Revolution or the ...
Nina Rose and Her Dancing Prince

Nina Rose and Her Dancing Prince

Sandra Wise

The next in the delightful Nina Rose series. This time Nina is in search of her prince.
Nina, Nina Star Ballerina

Nina, Nina Star Ballerina

Jane O'Connor

Playing the star in the class dance show, Nina finds herself in an awkward situation. All her friends think that she is the star of the show, so she now has to set the record straight and make things right once more.
Kentucky Libraries

Kentucky Libraries

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Ann Hagedorn Auerbach. New York: Holt, 1994. Ann Hagedorn Auerbach, a former investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal, has written the history of Calumet Farm from its origins, through its magnificent years as the standard bearer ...
Auerbach's Wilderness Medicine

Auerbach's Wilderness Medicine

Paul S. Auerbach

... 1200 SETH C. HAWKINS, MICHAEL G. MILLIN, AND WILL SMITH Search and Rescue 1213 DONALD C. COOPER AND WILL SMITH Technical Rescue, Self- Rescue, and Evacuation 1242 KEN ZAFREN, LOUI H. MCCURLEY, CHARLESS.
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

Nina Sankovitch

Nina ultimately turns to reading as therapy andthrough her journey illuminates the power of books to help us reclaim ourlives. Caught up in grief after the death of her sister, Nina Sankovitch decided to stop running and start reading.
Western States Jewish Historical Quarterly

Western States Jewish Historical Quarterly

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AUERBACH'S: ONE OF THE WEST'S OLDEST DEPARTMENT STORES A Picture Story By Hynda Rudd influence, an important landmark in the capital of Utah is one of the oldest Jewish mercantile institutions in the West. Auerbach's ...
Si proche si loin: Par l'auteur de best-sellers Nina George

Si proche si loin: Par l'auteur de best-sellers Nina George

Nina George

Et voilà qu’il refait irruption dans sa vie. À force de veiller un vivant, leurs pensées vagabondent, délicieusement portées par la plume délicate de Nina George qui signe là une belle polyphonie intérieure qui se transforme au ...
Official (ISC)2® Guide to the CISSP®-ISSEP® CBK®

Official (ISC)2® Guide to the CISSP®-ISSEP® CBK®

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ThomasR.Peltier, Information SecurityPolicies andProcedures: A Practitioner's Reference,2nd ed.,Auerbach NewYork,2004. Publications, ThomasR. Peltier, Information SecurityRisk Analysis,2nded.,Auerbach Publications, New York,2005 .
Nina Campbell's Decorating Notebook

Nina Campbell's Decorating Notebook

Nina Campbell

In "Nina Campbell's Decorating Notebook," she reveals the trademark touches, the secret sources and techniques, and the methods she uses to create her timeless, sophisticated interiors.
Finished Lines: A Collection of Memorable Writings on ...

Finished Lines: A Collection of Memorable Writings on ...

Frank R. Scatoni

"Mystery" from Wild Ride: The Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm, Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty by Ann Hagedorn Auerbach. Copyright © 1994, 1995 by Ann Hagedorn Auerbach. Reprinted by Permission of Henry Holt and ...
The Filson Club History Quarterly

The Filson Club History Quarterly

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David Wallace St. Catherine College Wild Ride, by Ann Hagedorn Auerbach. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994. Contents, Notes, Acknowledgments, Index. pp.438. $22.50. Wild Ride, Ann Hagedorn Auerbach's tale of the decline and ...
Dante, Poet of the Secular World

Dante, Poet of the Secular World

Erich Auerbach

A precursor and companion to Erich Auerbach's majestic Mimesis, Dante: Poet of the Secular World is both a comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the greatest poets and a brilliantly provocative and stimulating essay in the ...
Deception and Abuse at the Fed: Henry B. Gonzalez Battles ...

Deception and Abuse at the Fed: Henry B. Gonzalez Battles ...

Robert D. Auerbach

In Deception and Abuse at the Fed, Robert Auerbach, a former banking committee investigator, recounts major instances of Fed mismanagement and abuse of power that were exposed by Rep.
Wild Ride: The Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm, Inc., ...

Wild Ride: The Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm, Inc., ...

Ann Hagedorn Auerbach

Wild Ride is Ann Hagedorn Auerbach's investigation of the fast-track, multibillion-dollar thoroughbred industry and the fall of Calumet -- the inside story of a debacle that extended further than anyone could have imagined.
Nina Campbell Mini Notebook

Nina Campbell Mini Notebook

Cico

This elegant collection from world-renowned interior designer Nina Campbell is a must-have.
Nina Campbell Classic Notecards

Nina Campbell Classic Notecards

Cico

This elegant collection from world-renowned interior designer Nina Campbell is a must-have.

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