Winterbound

Winterbound
Title Winterbound PDF eBook
Author Margery Williams Bianco
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 260
Release 2014-01-15
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0486492907

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With their parents away, city-bred teenaged sisters Kay and Garry take charge of their younger siblings during a severe winter in rural 1930s Connecticut.

Appleton's Magazine

Appleton's Magazine
Title Appleton's Magazine PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 872
Release 1908
Genre
ISBN

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Recovering Ruth

Recovering Ruth
Title Recovering Ruth PDF eBook
Author Robert L. Root
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 212
Release 2003-01-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780803289925

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The task of editing and annotating a nineteenth-century diary seemed straightforward at first, but as Robert Root assembled scattered fragments of lost history and immersed himself in background research, he became enmeshed in unexpected ways. When doubts arose about who really wrote the journal, Root found himself plunged into a mystery of lost identity, drawn ever deeper into the drama and complexity of forgotten lives and engaged in a quest at times both compulsive and quixotic. Part memoir, part meditation on the nature of biography, Recovering Ruth is the absorbing story of recovering a hidden past?and of learning firsthand the complications of intimacy that develop between a biographer and his subject.

Annual Report

Annual Report
Title Annual Report PDF eBook
Author New York State Waterways Association
Publisher
Pages 132
Release 1920
Genre Inland navigation
ISBN

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Aline MacMahon

Aline MacMahon
Title Aline MacMahon PDF eBook
Author John Stangeland
Publisher University Press of Kentucky
Pages 354
Release 2022-11-08
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0813196078

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American actress Aline MacMahon's youth was spent honing her talents while performing at local events in New York City. After popular stage success on Broadway, she headlined a touring company in Los Angeles, where she was discovered by legendary Hollywood director Mervyn LeRoy and put under contract to Warner Brothers. During the 1930s and 1940s, MacMahon starred in countless films and was among the most influential actors of the era, her talent revered as highly as peers Katherine Hepburn, Paul Muni, and Bette Davis. Her pioneering use of a new acting style brought to America from Russia by Konstantin Stanlisavsky—now widely known as the Method—began a revolution on the screen and made her an industry darling. Although popular with audiences and widely lauded for her versatile, naturalistic style, MacMahon's despair at the lack of challenging roles and fallout from her political activism would soon dim her star in the most tragic of ways. Blacklisted during the Communist Red Scare of the 1950's she became the subject of covert FBI surveillance and was denied work for many years. John Stangeland's biography of this unique actress, Aline MacMahon, offers an insightful look into the life and oeuvre of this largely overlooked talent and how the atmosphere of Hollywood's golden age created an inescapable blueprint for a career nearly destroyed by politics and fear.

The Book of Minor Perverts

The Book of Minor Perverts
Title The Book of Minor Perverts PDF eBook
Author Benjamin Kahan
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 257
Release 2019-02-05
Genre Social Science
ISBN 022660800X

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Shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Assocation Book Prize Statue-fondlers, wanderlusters, sex magicians, and nymphomaniacs: the story of these forgotten sexualities—what Michel Foucault deemed “minor perverts”—has never before been told. In The Book of Minor Perverts, Benjamin Kahan sets out to chart the proliferation of sexual classification that arose with the advent of nineteenth-century sexology. The book narrates the shift from Foucault’s “thousand aberrant sexualities” to one: homosexuality. The focus here is less on the effects of queer identity and more on the lines of causation behind a surprising array of minor perverts who refuse to fit neatly into our familiar sexual frameworks. The result stands at the intersection of history, queer studies, and the medical humanities to offer us a new way of feeling our way into the past.

To Read and to Act

To Read and to Act
Title To Read and to Act PDF eBook
Author Clarence Stratton
Publisher
Pages 432
Release 1938
Genre College and school drama
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