Brief van Suzanna Maria Andriessen (1850-1924) aan ... Holkema 1922 fl
Title | Brief van Suzanna Maria Andriessen (1850-1924) aan ... Holkema 1922 fl PDF eBook |
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Release | 1922 |
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Giphantia
Title | Giphantia PDF eBook |
Author | Charles-François Tiphaigne de La Roche |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 90 |
Release | 2023-05-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3368900528 |
Reproduction of the original.
Creation Revisited
Title | Creation Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | Peter William Atkins |
Publisher | Penguin (Non-Classics) |
Pages | 163 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780140174250 |
A Flower Wedding
Title | A Flower Wedding PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Crane |
Publisher | Good Press |
Pages | 51 |
Release | 2020-03-16 |
Genre | Poetry |
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'A Flower Wedding: Described by Two Wallflowers' by Walter Crane is an exquisitely illustrated poem that transports readers to a joyous wedding celebration in 1905. Immerse yourself in the charming tale of Lad's Love and Miss Meadow Sweet as their love blossoms amidst a garden filled with a kaleidoscope of flowers. Crane's masterful artistry brings each page to life, with intricate illustrations capturing the essence of every bloom.
New Paths
Title | New Paths PDF eBook |
Author | Cyril William Beaumont |
Publisher | |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Art |
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The Colonel
Title | The Colonel PDF eBook |
Author | Alanna Nash |
Publisher | Aurum Press |
Pages | 588 |
Release | 2014-06-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 178131201X |
Almost the only indisputable fact about Colonel Tom Parker is that he was the manager of the greatest performer in popular music: Elvis Presley. His real name wasn’t Tom Parker †“ indeed, he wasn’t an American at all, but a Dutch immigrant called Andreas van Kujik. And he certainly wasn’t a proper military colonel: he purchased his title from a man in Louisiana. But while the Colonel has long been acknowledged as something of a charlatan, this book is the first to reveal the extraordinary extent of the secrets he concealed, and the consequences for the career, and ultimately the life, of the star he managed. As Alanna Nash’ prodigious research has discovered, the Colonel left Holland most probably because, at the age of twenty, he bludgeoned a woman to death. Entering the US illegally, he then enlisted in the army as ‘Tom Parker’. But, with supreme irony for someone later styling himself as Colonel, Parker’s military career ended in desertion, and discharge after a psychiatrist had certified him as a psychopath. He then became a fairground barker, working sideshows with a zeal for small-scale huckstering and the casual scam that never left him. And by the height of Elvis’s success, Parker had become a pathological gambler who, at the same time as he was taking, amazingly, a full 50% of Presley’s earnings, frittered away all his wealth in the casinos of Las Vegas. As Nash shows, therefore, the often baffling trajectory of Elvis Presley’s career makes perfect sense once the secret imperatives of the Colonel’s life are known. Parker never booked Presley for a tour of Europe because of the dark secret that ensured he himself could never return there. Even at his most famous, Elvis was still being booked to play out-of-the-way towns in North Carolina †“ because the former fairground barker (who shamelessly negotiated as such even with top record company and film executives) knew them from his days on the circus circuit. And Elvis was trapped playing years of arduous seasons in Las Vegas †“ two shows nightly, seven days a week, until boredom and despair brought on the excessive drug use that killed him †“ because for Parker he was “an open chit†? whose huge earnings prevented his manager’s losses at the gambling tables being called in. Alanna Nash knew Parker towards the end of his life, and has now uncovered the whole story, improbable, shocking, and never less than compelling, of how this larger-than-life man made, and then unmade, popular music’s first and greatest superstar.
The Wall at the Edge of the World
Title | The Wall at the Edge of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Aikin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780441871407 |
Trapped inside a walled city of telepaths in the Earth's distant past, Danlo Ree feels isolated and alone, until he is kidnapped by a band of wild humans who give him a taste of freedom. Original.