Aleta Dey
Aleta Dey

Author: Francis Marion Beynon

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2000-10-18

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 146040307X

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Francis Marion Beynon’s autobiographical novel Aleta Dey is increasingly recognised as a small classic of early twentieth-century fiction. Beynon was a journalist and feminist much involved in public affairs in early twentieth-century Manitoba. In 1917, aged 33, she was forced to leave her job as a result of her open pacifism, and she soon moved to New York where she dropped out of the public eye. Aleta Dey, first published in 1919, tells in plain and affecting prose the story of a girl growing up in Manitoba, becoming politically conscious, and falling in love with McNair, a man of much more conventional views. The First World War brings a crisis for them both after McNair enlists as a soldier. Though Beynon was a Canadian, her spare, emotionally open prose may have less in common with that of other Canadian writers of the time than it does with the style of contemporaneous western American women writers such as Willa Cather and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Like Cather’s My Antonia, Beynon’s Aleta Dey resonates with prairie simplicity, passion, and strength.

The Fine Art of Photography
The Fine Art of Photography

Author: Paul L. Anderson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-17

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 9781330585504

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Excerpt from The Fine Art of Photography In "Pictorial Photography, Its Principles and Practice" the author endeavored to produce a textbook which should furnish technical information to those camera workers who desire to express artistic impulses, thus enabling them to choose the best medium for any particular purpose, and to become skilled in its use; but the aim of the present work is, on the other hand, to supplement the earlier book by pointing out the underlying principles of art insofar as they can be applied to photography, and to encourage the student of the subject to apply these principles in his own work. Necessarily this book must differ in a measure from the former one as regards plan, since technique, which is entirely scientific, can be a matter of rule, whereas an artistic impulse, being purely of the mind and dealing with intangible things, cannot be reduced to a formula. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Adventures in Interviewing
Adventures in Interviewing

Author: Isaac Frederick Marcosson

Publisher: Sagwan Press

Published: 2018-02

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9781376399837

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The Idolatry of Science (Classic Reprint)
The Idolatry of Science (Classic Reprint)

Author: Stephen Coleridge

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-28

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780666606204

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Excerpt from The Idolatry of Science I have used'it in this book in, its more modern application, and I mean by it those branches of knowledge only which are associ ated'with/ the law of numbers, of dimension, of motion and of time which is its measure ment, with trigonometry, conic sections, the differential calculus and all the higher mathe maties; with all the discovered laws of Natureassociated with gravitation, electricity, mag netism, light, heat, statics, physics, dynamics and the like in the inorganic world and with the laws and hypotheses connected with or gamic matter in so far as they can be proved to be immutable. And by A man of Science I mean one whose interest is centred in a study of these fields of knowledge, who devotes his energies to ascertaining proved phenomena and per haps in formulating hypotheses upon them. Such a man for example as Darwin, or Newton, or Lord Merchison the inventor of logarithms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.