Frank Merriwell's Setback; Or, True Pluck Welcomes Defeat
Author: Burt L. Standish
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-08-28
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 3368919415
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With Amusement for All
Author: LeRoy Ashby
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2006-05-12
Total Pages: 713
ISBN-13: 0813123976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith Amusement for All contextualizes what Americans have done for fun since 1830, showing the reciprocal nature of the relationships among social, political, economic, and cultural forces and the ways in which the entertainment world has reflected, changed, or reinforced the values of American society.
Memory's Storehouse Unlocked, True Stories
Author: John T. Bristow
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2021-11-05
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Memory's Storehouse Unlocked, True Stories" by John T. Bristow. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
I Am Providence
Author: S. T. Joshi
Publisher:
Published: 2013-01
Total Pages: 578
ISBN-13: 9781614980513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHoward Phillips Lovecraft was born to a well-to-do family in Providence, Rhode Island. As a child, he revealed remarkable precocity in his early interests in literature and science. Ill-health dogged him in youth, rendering his school attendance sporadic; and in 1908 he experienced a nervous breakdown that rendered him a virtual recluse for several years. In 1914 he discovered the world of amateur journalism and began slowly emerging from his hermitry. He wrote tremendous amounts of essays, poetry, and other work; in 1917, under the encouragement from W. Paul Cook and others, he resumed the writing of horror fiction, and his career as a dream-weaver began anew. In 1921 Lovecraft met his future wife, Sonia H. Greene, at an amateur journalism convention. It was at this time that he began expanding his horizons, both geographical and intellectual: he traveled widely, from New England to New York to Cleveland; and he absorbed such literary and intellectual influences as Lord Dunsany, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Machen. In 1924 he and Sonia decided to marry, and Lovecraft moved to New York to pursue his literary fortune. But, as the first volume of this biography concludes, his metropolitan adventure would be bittersweet at best. S. T. Joshi's award-winning biography H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996) provided the most detailed portrait of the life, work, and thought of the dreamer from Providence ever published. But that edition was in fact abridged from Joshi's original manuscript, and this expanded and updated two-volume edition restores the 150,000 words that Joshi omitted and, in addition, updates the texts with new findings.
The Path of Modern Yoga
Author: Elliott Goldberg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-07-18
Total Pages: 817
ISBN-13: 1620555689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of yoga’s transformation from sacred discipline to exercise program to embodied spiritual practice • Identifies the origin of exercise yoga as India’s response to the mania for exercise sweeping the West in the early 20th century • Examines yoga’s transformations through the lives and accomplishments of 11 key figures, including Sri Yogendra, K. V. Iyer, Louise Morgan, Krishnamacharya, Swami Sivananda, Indra Devi, and B. K. S. Iyengar • Draws on more than 10 years of research from rare primary sources and includes 99 illustrations In The Path of Modern Yoga, Elliott Goldberg shows how yoga was transformed from a sacred practice into a health and fitness regime for middle-class Indians in the early 20th century and then gradually transformed over the course of the 20th century into an embodied spiritual practice--a yoga for our times. Drawing on more than 10 years of research from rare primary sources as well as recent scholarship, Goldberg tells the sweeping story of modern yoga through the remarkable lives and accomplishments of 11 key figures: six Indian yogis (Sri Yogendra, Swami Kuvalayananda, S. Sundaram, T. Krishnamacharya, Swami Sivananda, and B. K. S. Iyengar), an Indian bodybuilder (K. V. Iyer), a rajah (Bhavanarao Pant Pratinidhi), an American-born journalist (Louise Morgan), an Indian diplomat (Apa Pant), and a Russian-born yogi trained in India (Indra Devi). The author places their achievements within the context of such Western trends as the physical culture movement, the commodification of exercise, militant nationalism, jazz age popular entertainment, the quest for youth and beauty, and 19th-century New Age religion. In chronicling how the transformation of yoga from sacred discipline to exercise program allowed for the creation of an embodied spiritual practice, Goldberg presents an original, authoritative, provocative, and illuminating interpretation of the history of modern yoga.
The Columbia History of the American Novel
Author: Emory Elliott
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 940
ISBN-13: 9780231073608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesigned as a companion to The Columbia Literary History of the United States, this compilation of 31 major essays covers the American novel from the 1700s to the present, although the majority deal with the 20th century. Within each era, themes, genres, and topics such as realism, gender, romance, and technology are discussed in depth, as well as modern Canadian, Caribbean, and Latin American fiction. Each essayist selects only the authors who best illustrate the topic, thus subtly skewing the view of the literary scene at that time. The volume also covers women, minorities, popular fiction, and the book marketplace. ISBN 0-231-07360-7: $59.95.
The Story of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith
Author: Nigel Playfair
Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFables for the Frivolous
Author: Guy Whitmore Carryl
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-09-20
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 3734017645
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Pulp Hero
Author: Steven S Long
Publisher:
Published: 2019-04-27
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781583660577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Twenties and Thirties were a golden age of adventure as two-fisted heroes and daring explorers came to life in the pages of pulp magazines. Now you can create roleplaying games and characters set in this thrilling era!
Mother Goose in Prose
Author: L. Frank Baum
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2002-05-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780486420868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of twenty-two nursery rhymes, including "Old King Cole" and "Little Bo-Peep," fashioned into full-length stories by the author of "The Wizard of Oz."
