Frances: 2004 books
by Frances Kiernan
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2002
A revealing portrait of the dramatic life of writer and intellectual Mary McCarthy.
From her Partisan Review days to her controversial success as the author of The Group, to an epic libel battle with Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy brought a nineteenth-century scope and drama to her emblematic...
The Truth Is Always Grey
A History of Modernist Painting
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Changing how we look at and think about the color grey
Why did many of the twentieth century’s best-known abstract painters often choose grey, frequently considered a noncolor and devoid of meaning? Frances Guerin argues that painters (including Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Agnes Martin, Brice...
by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Solomon Northup, Frances Anne Kemble
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2015
The slave narrative is a literary sub-genre that emerged from the written accounts of enslaved Africans in Great Britain and its colonies, including the later United States, Canada, and Caribbean nations.
Some of the earliest memoirs of captivity known in England and the British Isles were...
EcoMind
Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
In EcoMind, Frances Moore Lappé-a giant of the environmental movement-confronts accepted wisdom of environmentalism. Drawing on the latest research from anthropology to neuroscience and her own field experience, she argues that the biggest challenge to human survival isn't our fossil fuel dependency,...
by Frances Anne Kemble
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This file includes: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839, Poems (1844), Records of a Girlhood, Records of Later Life, and Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble 1871-1883. According to Wikipedia: "Frances Anne Kemble (27 November 1809 - 15 January 1893), was a famous...
by Frances Anne Kemble
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Autobiographical journal, with first-hand account of slavery in Georgia, first published in 1863. According to Wikipedia: "Frances Anne Kemble (27 November 1809 - 15 January 1893), was a famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century… In 1834, she retired from the stage to...
by Frances Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
A vivid and intimate portrait of the New Deal president by the first woman ever appointed to the U.S. Cabinet.
When Frances Perkins first met Franklin D. Roosevelt at a dance in 1910, she was a young social worker and he was an attractive young man making a modest debut in state politics. Over...
Ghostly Encounters
True Stories of America's Haunted Inns and Hotels
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
Frances Kermeen bought the Myrtles Plantation of St Francisville with the dream of turning the historic site into a cosy inn. When it turned out to be haunted, she feared losing customers but interest in the ghosts meant she gained custom. Here, she tells stories collected from 150 haunted hotels across America.
by Frances Ive
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Working for yourself can be rewarding both personally and financially, but it can also be very tough and many small businesses fail in their first year.
Frances Ive’s book helps you to decide if you are the right kind of person to venture out on your own, and looks closely at both the...
The Girl Who Never Quit
The Life Story of a Determined Soul
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2005
Frances M. Cummings intimate autobiography, TheGirl Who Never Quit,describes her humble beginnings in rural growing up as the fourteenth child on the farm and picking cotton at age four. You will meet a child far beyond her years who at five years of age in second grade was ready to meet the challenges...
Gwen Raverat
Friends, Family and Affections
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
'The best of these Darwins is that they are cut out of rock - three taps is enough to convince one how immense is their solidarity.' So wrote Virginia Woolf affectionately of Gwen Raverat, the granddaughter of Charles Darwin.
In this first full biography, Frances Spalding looks beyond the artist...
by Frances A Yates
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
The ancient Greeks, to whom a trained memory was of vital importance - as it was to everyone before the invention of printing - created an elaborate memory system, based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind. Inherited and recorded by the Romans, this art of memory passed...
Die großen Klassiker der englischen Literatur (40+ Titel in einem Buch)
Das Herz der Finsternis, Moby-Dick, Sturmhöhe, Sherlock Holmes, Stolz und Vorurteil, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, Alice im Wunderland, Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit, Adam Bede, Robinson Crusoe, Walden...
Language: German
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Dieses eBook: "Die großen Klassiker der englischen Literatur (40+ Titel in einem Buch)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt: Das Herz der Finsternis (Joseph Conrad) Stolz und Vorurteil (Jane Austen) Sturmhöhe...
American Indian Places
A Historical Guidebook
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
This historical guidebook includes 366 places that are significant to American Indians and open to the public. The book is organized geographically and includes location information, maps, and color photographs as well as suggestions for further reading about the sites and an extensive bibliography.
Among...