The Little Brothers of St. Mortimer
Author: John Fergus Ryan
Publisher: Delta
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 196
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Author: John Fergus Ryan
Publisher: Delta
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ellen Baskin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-27
Total Pages: 2398
ISBN-13: 1351769839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title was first published in 2003. The sixth edition of this compendium of film and television adaptations of books and plays includes several thousand new listings that cover the period from 1992 to December 2001. There are 8000 main entries, covering 70 years of film history, including some foreign language material.
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 2048
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marie Carter
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2024-03-05
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 1531506259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe neglected histories of 19th-century NYC’s maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit them Under the pseudonym Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B., humor writer Mortimer Thomson went undercover to investigate and report on the fortune tellers of New York City’s tenements and slums. When his articles were published in book form in 1858, they catalyzed a series of arrests that both scandalized and delighted the public. But Mortimer was guarding some secrets of his own, and in many ways, his own life paralleled the lives of the women he both visited and vilified. In Mortimer and the Witches, author Marie Carter examines the lives of these marginalized fortune tellers while also detailing Mortimer Thomson’s peculiar and complicated biography. Living primarily in the poor section of the Lower East Side, nineteenth-century fortune tellers offered their clients answers to all questions in astrology, love, and law matters. They promised to cure ailments. They spoke of loved ones from beyond the grave. Yet Doesticks saw them as the worst of the worst evil-doers. His investigative reporting aimed to stop unsuspecting young women from seeking the corrupt soothsaying advice of these so-called clairvoyants and to expose the absurd and woefully inaccurate predictions of these “witches.” Marie Carter views these stories of working-class, immigrant women with more depth than Doesticks’s mocking articles would allow. In her analysis and discussion, she presents them as three-dimensional figures rather than the caricatures Doesticks made them out to be. What other professions at that time allowed women the kind of autonomy afforded by fortune-telling? Their eager customers, many of whom were newly arrived immigrants trying to navigate life in a new country, weren’t as naive and gullible as Doesticks made them out to be. They were often in need of guidance, seeking out the advice of someone who had life experience to offer or simply enjoying the entertainment and attention. Mortimer and the Witches offers new insight into the neglected histories of working-class fortune tellers and the creative ways that they tried to make a living when options were limited for them.
Author: Edith J. May
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 386
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 658
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA world list of books in the English language.
Author: Leonard Mustazza
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide to English-language works that have been adapted as theatrical and television films, this volume includes books (both fiction and non-fiction), short stories, newspaper and magazine articles and poems. Entries are arranged alphabetically by literary title with cross-listings for films made under different titles. Each entry includes the original work's title, author, year of first publication, literary prizes, and a brief plot summary. Information on film adaptation(s) of the work, including adaptation titles, director, screenwriter, principal cast and the names of the characters they portray, major awards, and availability in the most common formats (DVD, VHS), is also offered. The book is published as a set of two volumes. Replacement volumes can be obtained individually under ISBN 0-7864-2503-2 (for Volume 1) and ISBN 0-7864-2504-0 (for Volume 2).
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 1716
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Published: 1865
Total Pages: 1200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKVols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-06-06
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 3385497809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1876.