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Author: Megan Chance
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A Candle In The Dark

by Megan Chance, A Candle In The Dark Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download A Candle In The Dark books, Historical Romance novel: When prostitute Ana hires alcoholic doctor Cain D'Alessandro to partner her on the journey to the gold fields of California via Panama, she doesn't realize her life will be changed forever.

Author: Robert Sitton
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023153714X
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Category : Performing Arts
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Lady In The Dark

by Robert Sitton, Lady In The Dark Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Lady In The Dark books, Iris Barry (1895–1969) was a pivotal modern figure and one of the first intellectuals to treat film as an art form, appreciating its far-reaching, transformative power. Although she had the bearing of an aristocrat, she was the self-educated daughter of a brass founder and a palm-reader from the Isle of Man. An aspiring poet, Barry attracted the attention of Ezra Pound and joined a demimonde of Bloomsbury figures, including Ford Maddox Ford, T. S. Eliot, Arthur Waley, Edith Sitwell, and William Butler Yeats. She fell in love with Pound's eccentric fellow Vorticist, Wyndham Lewis, and had two children by him. In London, Barry pursued a career as a novelist, biographer, and critic of motion pictures. In America, she joined the modernist Askew Salon, where she met Alfred Barr, director of the new Museum of Modern Art. There she founded the museum's film department and became its first curator, assuring film's critical legitimacy. She convinced powerful Hollywood figures to submit their work for exhibition, creating a new respect for film and prompting the founding of the International Federation of Film Archives. Barry continued to augment MoMA's film library until World War II, when she joined the Office of Strategic Services to develop pro-American films with Orson Welles, Walt Disney, John Huston, and Frank Capra. Yet despite her patriotic efforts, Barry's "foreignness" and association with such filmmakers as Luis Buñuel made her the target of an anticommunist witch hunt. She eventually left for France and died in obscurity. Drawing on letters, memorabilia, and other documentary sources, Robert Sitton reconstructs Barry's phenomenal life and work while recasting the political involvement of artistic institutions in the twentieth century.

Author: Roger Johnson
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1780920512
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In The Night In The Dark

by Roger Johnson, In The Night In The Dark Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download In The Night In The Dark books, Tales of phantoms, demons and alien gods, including all the stories from the out-of-print collection A Ghostly Crew: Tales from the Endeavour, winner of the Dracula Societys Children of the Night Award for 2001

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The London Journal And Weekly Record Of Literature Science And Art

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Author: Greg King
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 0806535210
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The Duchess Of Windsor

by Greg King, The Duchess Of Windsor Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download The Duchess Of Windsor books, A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. It was the love story of the century--the king and the commoner. In December 1936, King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry "the woman I love," Wallis Warfield Simpson, a twice-divorced American who quickly became one of the twentieth century's most famous personalities, a figure of intrigue and mystery, both admired and reviled. "Never explain, never complain." Wrongly blamed for the abdication crisis, Wallis suffered hostility from the Royal Family and much of the world. Yet interest in her story has remained constant, resulting in a small library of biographies that convey a thinly veiled animosity toward their subject. The truth, however, is infinitely more fascinating than the shallow, pathetic portrait that has often been painted. "For a gallant spirit, there can never be defeat." Using previously untapped sources, acclaimed biographer Greg King presents a complete and, for the first time, sympathetic portrait of the Duchess that sifts the decades of rumor and accusation to reveal the woman behind the legend. From her birth in Pennsylvania during the Gilded Age to her death in Paris in 1986, King takes the reader through a world of privilege, palaces, high society, and love with the accompaniment of hatreds, feuds, conspiracies, and lies. The cast of characters is vast: politicians and presidents, dictators and socialites. Twenty-four pages of photographs reveal the life of the Duchess in all its incomparable glamour and romance.

Author: George William MacArthur Reynolds
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Reynolds S Miscellany Of Romance General Literature Science And Art

by George William MacArthur Reynolds, Reynolds S Miscellany Of Romance General Literature Science And Art Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Reynolds S Miscellany Of Romance General Literature Science And Art books,

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The Conductor And Brakeman

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Author: Imogen Rossi
Publisher: Hot Key Books
ISBN: 1471402517
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The Dark City

by Imogen Rossi, The Dark City Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download The Dark City books, Beyond La Luminosa lies a darker path... Only three weeks have passed since the treacherous Filpepi and the Baron tried to depose Duchess Catriona, and although they seem to have disappeared forever, Bianca can't stop worrying about where they might be and what lies beyond her old master's magical paintings. Her friends are still full of adventure though, and there is also the very important business of running di Lombardi's studio to attend to! But her new responsibilities as Head of the Royal Studios are hard, and she is puzzled by the strange messages di Lombardi still seems to be sending her from beyond the grave. What is the meaning of the medallion and magical paint mix he left her in his will? And why does she keep finding herself in a strange, yet completely familiar city at night? Why is she so at home there - and who is the beautiful lady who looks a lot like Bianca? Bianca will have to be at her plucky, bright and adventurous best if she wants to find the answers to all the mysteries lurking in the dark city of Oscurita...

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Appletons Journal

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The Athenaeum

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