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We Were Kings

We Were Kings

Thomas O'Malley

... but he knew Kieran Fitzgerald and the slim, lighthaired fellow at the back, Bobby Myles. The other two were strangers to him. “Kieran,” he said. “How was the ride across?” “A right bitch, that's what it was,” said Fitzgerald. “The boat tossed us ...
China

China

Damian Harper

... Sim and Maki in Chéngdū for the warm welcome and the western Sìchuān adventures (Maki, it's your turn next time); Andrew Scanlon, Kieran Fitzgerald and Li Shu Lan for their hospitality in Jiǔzhàigōu; Lu Min (Rebecca) for exploring with  ...
Continental Shifts: Migration, Representation, and the ...

Continental Shifts: Migration, Representation, and the ...

John D. Riofrio

... and was dreaming of an eventual career in the military—likely had no idea the Marines were even there. According to Kieran Fitzgerald's documentary film The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández, the Marines, led by Corporal Clemente Bañuelos  ...
Fair Game: The 8th Spider Shepherd Thriller

Fair Game: The 8th Spider Shepherd Thriller

Stephen Leather

He was on the O'Connell Bridge and he was early. Fox was always early to meetings, even when he was seeing someone he trusted as much as he trusted Kieran FitzGerald. It was a habit that had saved his life on at least two occasions.
Everyone Can!: Skill Development and Assessment in ...

Everyone Can!: Skill Development and Assessment in ...

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... University All the students in the department of kinesiology and physical education at Northern Illinois University: Marc Gorecki Tara McCarthy Joseph A. Ryback Pamela Delnagro Kieran Fitzgerald We would also like to thank Scott Wikgren, ...
Snowden: Official Motion Picture Edition

Snowden: Official Motion Picture Edition

Kieran Fitzgerald

Snowden opens the door on the untold story of Edward Snowden, examining the forces that turned a conservative young eager patriot into a historic whistleblower and posing provocative questions about which liberties we are willing to trade ...
Militarizing the Border: When Mexicans Became the Enemy

Militarizing the Border: When Mexicans Became the Enemy

Miguel Antonio Levario

Jack Zimmerman, The Ballad ofEsequiel Hernández (2008), DVD, directed by Kieran Fitzgerald (Taos, NM: Heyoka Pictures, LLC, 2008). Joseph Nevins, Operation Gatekeeper and Beyond: The War on “Illegals” and the Remaking ofthe ...
Sometimes Madness is Wisdom: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald : a ...

Sometimes Madness is Wisdom: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald : a ...

Kendall Taylor

The Life of Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan Smith. Copyright © 1995 by Eleanor Lanahan. Correspondence qfF Scott Fitzgerald. Copyright © 1980 by Frances Scott Fitzgerald Smith. The Notebooks of F Scott Fitzgerald. Copyright © 1978 by ...
Lonely Planet China

Lonely Planet China

Lonely Planet

Thank you Drolma (Amelia) Koknor, Laura Zhou, Martin Ding, Cao Lijuan, Andy Danzhen, Kris Rubesh, Luoqing Lan, Kevin Liu, Angie Wong, Zhongqiang Wu, Lang Ge, Chen Shifu, Klaus Wang, and Kieran Fitzgerald for sharing your unique  ...
Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald

Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Although most of these are not standard interviews in the modern sense, the quotes from Fitzgerald and the contemporary journalistic reaction to him reveal much about his writing techniques, artistic wisdom, and life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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1951 I. Nothing Succeeds Like Failure The caseof F. Scott Fitzgerald belongs first of all to the history of taste in our time. It is immensely difficult at the present moment to distinguish our responses to Fitzgerald's achievement from our self ...
Lonely Planet Sichuan, Chongqing & the Yangzi

Lonely Planet Sichuan, Chongqing & the Yangzi

Lonely Planet

Thank you Drolma (Amelia) Koknor, Laura Zhou, Martin Ding, Cao Lijuan, Andy Danzhen, Kris Rubesh, Luoqing Lan, Kevin Liu, Angie Wong, Zhongqiang Wu, Lang Ge, Chen Shifu, Klaus Wang, and Kieran Fitzgerald for sharing your unique  ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald on Authorship

F. Scott Fitzgerald on Authorship

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

A collection of 46 works by Fitzgerald on writing
Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and ...

Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and ...

Kieran Dolin

Utilizing legal and literary theory, Kieran Dolin examines the interplay between legal discourse and the novel in the century between Walter Scott and E. M. Forster.
Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and ...

Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and ...

Kieran Dolin

Utilising legal and literary theory, Kieran Dolin examines the interplay between legal discourse and the novel in the century between Walter Scott and E. M. Forster.
So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald

So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Fitzgerald

A fascinating collection of letters from the great English novelist – and prolific correspondent – Penelope Fitzgerald
The Wine of Wisdom: The Life, Poetry and Philosophy of Omar ...

The Wine of Wisdom: The Life, Poetry and Philosophy of Omar ...

Mehdi Aminrazavi

436. 138. See Maurice Todhunter, “Edward FitzGerald Miscellanies,” Englische Studien, XXXI (1902), pp. 126–9; and “Edward FitzGerald: More Letters,” Ibid., pp. 142–5. 139. See Sol Gittleman, The Reception of Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat ...
Pebbles from Castalia

Pebbles from Castalia

Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard

Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard. 8/5/146 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA wils 81Sh48 OP Shepard, Isaac Fitzgerald, 1816-1889.
Zelda Fitzgerald: The Tragic, Meticulously Researched ...

Zelda Fitzgerald: The Tragic, Meticulously Researched ...

Sally Cline

Copyright © 1991,1992 by Eleanor Lanahan, Matthew J. Bruccoli, and Samuel J. Lanahan as Trustees under Agreement Dated July 3, 1975. Created by Frances Scott Fitzgerald Smith; from Introduction by Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan to ...
Magnetism

Magnetism

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Magnetism was written in the year 1928 by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. This book is one of the most popular novels of Francis Scott Fitzgerald, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.
The Crack-up

The Crack-up

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at age thirty nine from a life of success and glamor to one of emptiness and despair, and his determined recovery.
On Booze

On Booze

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

A collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best drinking stories makes this the most intoxicating New Directions Pearl yet!
The Crack-Up

The Crack-Up

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery.
The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald

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This volume offers undergraduates, graduates and general readers a full account of Fitzgerald's work as well as suggestions for further exploration of his work.
The Crack-Up

The Crack-Up

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery.
Babylon Revisited

Babylon Revisited

F Scott Fitzgerald

In these three tales of a fragile recovery, a cut-glass bowl and a life lost, Fitzgerald portrays, in exquisite prose and with deep human sympathy, the idealism of youth and the ravages of success.
The Beautiful and Damned

The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Transparently based on the lives of Fitzgerald and his beautiful wife, Zelda, the novel eerily foreshadows the real-life's couple's rapid descent into ruin.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on writing

F. Scott Fitzgerald on writing

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

This collection of the famed author's best remarks on his craft, taken from his works and letters to friends and colleagues, is useful to both aspiring and accomplished writers for advice and inspiration
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Background information accompanies the story of a young man, newly rich, who tries to recapture the past and win back his former love, despite the fact that she has married
Scenes and Songs of Social Life: A Miscellany

Scenes and Songs of Social Life: A Miscellany

Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard

A Miscellany Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard. r • SOCIAL LIFE, ISAAC FITZGERALD SHEPAKD, * Aath.or of 'Poetry. / • I I-

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