The Golden Age and Other Stories (With Grahame Biography)

The Golden Age and Other Stories (With Grahame Biography)
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Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
Total Pages : 201
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ISBN-10 : 9781629174433
ISBN-13 : 1629174432
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis The Golden Age and Other Stories (With Grahame Biography) by : Paul Brody

The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame. Typical of his culture and his era, Grahame casts his reminiscences in imagery and metaphor rooted in the culture of Ancient Greece. This edition also includes a biography of the books author, Kenneth Grahame.

The Golden Age Illustrated

The Golden Age Illustrated
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Total Pages : 136
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ISBN-10 : 9798732841510
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Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis The Golden Age Illustrated by : Kenneth Grahame

The 'Golden Age of Illustration' refers to a period customarily defined as lasting from the latter quarter of the nineteenth century, until just after the First World War. In this period of no more than fifty years the popularity, abundance and most importantly the unprecedented upsurge in the quality of illustrated books marked an astounding change in the way that publishers, artists and the general public came to view this hitherto insufficiently esteemed art form.

The Reluctant Dragon and Other Stories (With Grahame Biography)

The Reluctant Dragon and Other Stories (With Grahame Biography)
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Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
Total Pages : 195
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ISBN-10 : 9781629174464
ISBN-13 : 1629174467
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Reluctant Dragon and Other Stories (With Grahame Biography) by : Kenneth Grahame

"The Reluctant Dragon" is an children's story by exclaimed author Kenneth Grahame (originally published as a chapter in his book Dream Days). It served as the key element to the 1941 feature film with the same name from Walt Disney Productions. This edition also includes a biography of the books author, Kenneth Grahame.

Dream Days

Dream Days
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Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HWK9UI
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Rating : 4/5 (UI Downloads)

Synopsis Dream Days by : Kenneth Grahame

The adventures of five children growing up in rural England at the turn of the century.

Hollywood Lives

Hollywood Lives
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Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 1432780492
ISBN-13 : 9781432780494
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Hollywood Lives by : Graham Bannock

Golden Age Movie Actors as Writers 'Hollywood Lives' is about the movies in the Golden Age (1930-1950). It reviews some 175 star autobiographies distilling out of them the actor's accounts of the Communist Witch Hunt, racial prejudice, studio pressures, the glamour of movie stardom, the bosses, fellow actors and much else. This is the first ever book about movie actors as writers and contains many surprises. Graham Bannock, a British author now in his seventies, has been watching movies and reading about them since he was in his teens. He has authored or co-authored some 30 books, mostly on economics and business.

My Adventures with Your Money

My Adventures with Your Money
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 310
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ISBN-10 : 9781466886971
ISBN-13 : 1466886978
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis My Adventures with Your Money by : T. D. Thornton

Today, we talk about Bernard Madoff, but in the early 20th century, they talked about George Graham Rice. Born Jacob Simon Herzig in 1870, he later changed his name - just as he would frequently change his swindles to make himself into one of the most colorfully successful villains in American history. T.D. Thornton now tells the story of Rice's life as it unfolded against the dark rise of American greed in the early 20th century. In the early 1900s, Rice made market-manipulation killings valued at billions in today's dollars by inventing fictitious boom towns in Death Valley and flagrantly exaggerating worthless mining claims throughout the West. As a shameless racetrack tipster, Rice cultivated a national following of 100,000 daily subscribers who paid for the privilege of being tipped to bet on hopeless nags. Vilified by securities regulators as the "Jackal of Wall Street," Rice sparked riots in Manhattan's financial district by perfecting the art of "bucket shop" trading with the sole purpose of bilking the public blind. He was capable of pulling off everything from street corner rip-offs for pocket change to elaborately scripted gambling hoaxes, all while being vilified by old-guard profiteers like J.P. Morgan and befriended by gangsters like Arnold Rothstein. In My Adventures With Your Money, T.D. Thornton has given us a real-life version of The Sting with one of America's most colorful con men at it's center.

Personal History

Personal History
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 720
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ISBN-10 : 9781474610261
ISBN-13 : 1474610269
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Personal History by : Katharine Graham

As seen in the new movie The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep, here is the captivating, inside story of the woman who piloted the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media. In this bestselling and widely acclaimed memoir, Katharine Graham, the woman who piloted the Washington Post through the scandals of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, tells her story - one that is extraordinary both for the events it encompasses and for the courage, candour and dignity of its telling. Here is the awkward child who grew up amid material wealth and emotional isolation; the young bride who watched her brilliant, charismatic husband - a confidant to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson - plunge into the mental illness that would culminate in his suicide. And here is the widow who shook off her grief and insecurity to take on a president and a pressman's union as she entered the profane boys' club of the newspaper business. As timely now as ever, Personal History is an exemplary record of our history and of the woman who played such a shaping role within them, discovering her own strength and sense of self as she confronted - and mastered - the personal and professional crises of her fascinating life.

Bill Graham Presents

Bill Graham Presents
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Publisher : Da Capo Press
Total Pages : 612
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ISBN-10 : 0306813491
ISBN-13 : 9780306813498
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Bill Graham Presents by : Bill Graham

The national best-selling autobiography of Bill Graham, the colorful, larger-than-life architect of the modern concert industry

The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1802631801
ISBN-13 : 9781802631807
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis The Wind in the Willows by : Kenneth Grahame

Wild Tales

Wild Tales
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Total Pages : 394
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ISBN-10 : 9780385347549
ISBN-13 : 0385347545
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Wild Tales by : Graham Nash

A founding member of the bands Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and the Hollies shares the story of his life from his youth in post-war England through his creative relationship with Joni Mitchell and his career as a solo musician and political activist