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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Thomas Stearns Eliot

T. S. Eliot's playful cat poems were originally composed for his godchildren, with Eliot posing as Old Possum himself, and later inspired the legendary musical "Cats." Now with vibrant illustrations by the award-winning Axel Scheffler.
Luzerne Legal Register Reports

Luzerne Legal Register Reports

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Esther Stearns Shoemaker died on March 20, 1926, her husband and two minor children, Irving Stearns Shoemaker and William Mercer Shoemaker, 2nd, surviving. On March 27, 1926, Irving Stearns Shoemaker died. In the will we find this ...
T. S. Eliot and Christian Tradition

T. S. Eliot and Christian Tradition

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Quoted by KevinJ. H. Dettmar, “'An Occupation for the Saint': Eliot as a Religious Thinker,” in A Companion to T. S. Eliot, ed. David E. Chinitz (Chichester: WileyBlackwell, 2009), 363. Of course in actuality Virginia Woolf continued to be a good ...
Blackout

Blackout

Richard Steele

Paul Stearns, one of the CIA's top undercover agents, has just succeeded in smuggling an East German scientist through the Berlin Wall, when suddenly Stearns falls flat on his face-literally.
A Study Guide for T. S. Eliot's _¨«_¨«_¨«_¨«The Hollow ...

A Study Guide for T. S. Eliot's _¨«_¨«_¨«_¨«The Hollow ...

Gale, Cengage Learning

For instance, discussing the conundrum of Eliot's nearconstant allusive style in the poem, Yeats Eliot Review contributor Joseph Jonghyun Jeon states that "the intelligence of the 'final' section is ... not found in profundity of statement; from this  ...
The Longman anthology of British literature

The Longman anthology of British literature

David Damrosch

Gail McDonald, Learning to Be Modern: Pound, Eliot, and the American University, 1993. • Louis Menand, Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His Context, 1986. • Anthony David Moody, ed., The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot, 1994.
In the Benedictine Tradition: The Origins and Early ...

In the Benedictine Tradition: The Origins and Early ...

M. Dorothy Neuhofer

"The Catholic Church in Stearns County." In William Bell Mitchell. History of Stearns County Minnesota, 195-209. Chicago: H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1915. . " Collegiate Institutions." In William Bell Mitchell. History of Stearns County Minnesota, ...
Dryland: One Woman's Swim to Sobriety

Dryland: One Woman's Swim to Sobriety

Nancy Stearns Bercaw

For swimming champion Nancy Stearns Bercaw, the pool was a natural habitat.
The Journals of George Eliot

The Journals of George Eliot

George Eliot

The great Victorian novelist's complete surviving journals - first publication of new George Eliot text.
The Southern Literary Messenger

The Southern Literary Messenger

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Happily at the same time comes from the pen of the former president of the Poetry Society of Virginia, Florence Dickinson Stearns, a little book of verse, Strange Dimension, dedicated to her sister, Virginia Dickinson Reynolds. Mrs. Stearns was ...
George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies

George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies

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Deborah Guth analyses another German influence in her "George Eliot and Schiller: Rereading Savonarola" (Cahiers Victorians et edonardens 49: 71-85). George Eliot's well-known admiration for Schiller (thinking that Wallenstein was ...
Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations

Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations

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David L. Thomson, Evan G. Cooch, Michael J. Conroy. 1992; Stearns 1992). The field of life history evolution focuses on the evolution of demographic parameters, a class of traits also called fitness components (Stearns 1992) Studies of the ...
History of Stearns County, Minnesota

History of Stearns County, Minnesota

William Bell Mitchell

Dr. and Mrs. David L. Kiehle celebrated their golden wedding on the 16th inst., at Portland Oregon, their present home. ... Mr. Bennett, better known as "Deacon" Bennett, has been a resident of Stearns county since 1856, first making his home  ...
George Eliot's Silas Marner - Primary Source Edition

George Eliot's Silas Marner - Primary Source Edition

George Eliot

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
George Eliot

George Eliot

Jenny Uglow

One of the most brilliant writers of her day, George Eliot (1819-1880) was also one of the most talked about.
Rescued

Rescued

Eliot Schrefer

Eliot Schrefer's last two novels, Endangered and Threatened, were both finalists for the National Book Award.
Endangered

Endangered

Eliot Schrefer

From National Book Award Finalist Eliot Schrefer comes the compelling tale of a girl who must save a group of bonobos -- and herself -- from a violent coup.
A Companion to George Eliot

A Companion to George Eliot

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This collection offers students and scholars of Eliot’s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, reflecting the latest developments in literary criticism.
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 5: 1930-1931

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 5: 1930-1931

John Haffenden

At the close of this volume Eliot will accept a visiting professorship at Harvard University, which will take him away from England and Vivien for the academic year 1932-33.
The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot, Her Letters ...

The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot, Her Letters ...

Rosemarie Bodenheimer

Bodenheimer defines the personal paradoxes that helped to shape Eliot's fictional characters and narrative style.
George Eliot (Authors in Context)

George Eliot (Authors in Context)

Tim Dolin

In this book Tim Dolin examines Eliot's life and work and the social and intellectual contexts in which they developed.
George Eliot (Authors in Context)

George Eliot (Authors in Context)

Tim Dolin

In this book Tim Dolin examines Eliot's life and work and the social and intellectual contexts in which they developed.
George Eliot

George Eliot

Leslie Stephen

This volume examines the life and literary achievements of George Eliot through biographical discussion and literary criticism.
T. S. Eliot Between Two Worlds: A Reading of T. S. Eliot's ...

T. S. Eliot Between Two Worlds: A Reading of T. S. Eliot's ...

David Ward

embodied in the poem (however mixed with failure and uncertainty), and to strengthen the image of the mind as desert: a desert embarrassed by the cruel flowering of memory and desire: Only There is shadow under this red rock (Come in ...
George Eliot and Nineteenth-century Psychology: Exploring ...

George Eliot and Nineteenth-century Psychology: Exploring ...

Michael Davis

Michael Davis aligns Eliot's work with the formulations of such key thinkers as Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwi
Troubled Legacies: Narrative and Inheritance

Troubled Legacies: Narrative and Inheritance

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Eliot was an early supporter of Daniel O'Connell, but her fiction is reticent on the subject of Ireland, as Neil McCaw has noted in his provocative reading of Adam Bede as an allegory of English-Irish relations.5 In 1868 Eliot expressed her ...
The Mill on the Floss: George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss: George Eliot

George Eliot

The story begins when she is 9 years old, 13 years into her parents' marriage.

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