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A travel book for those of us who never travel, who never want to travel.Patchogue is a village on Long Island sixty miles from New York City. After a prologue of âfactsâ about Patchogue calling to mind the opening of Moby-Dick, Thomas McGonigleâs acclaimed novel divides naturally into three parts: the going to, the being in, and the coming back from Patchogue by way of Bulgaria, Turkey, and Italy. The trip to and from assumes the contours of the oldest journey of all: the search for paradise, impelled by the disappointment of reality.
The definitive reference guide for vintage Halloween collectors looking for accurate information on each piece, as well as for designers looking for the best in Halloween graphics. The collectibles showcased span what some people consider the Golden Years of Halloween production - 1920 through 1949. Youll be charmed by the artwork of the many invitations shown and wonder how a host ever survived without the myriad party helps. Dozens of die cut items have graphics so vivid they almost jump from the pages! See the artists creativity at its best when you pore over the party games and hats. And what Halloween would be complete without the Jack-O-Lantern? The stock number, initial release year, and objects proper name, are taken directly from holiday sales catalogues and interspersed with the authors comments. Over 350 photographs include some never-before-seen items. A value guide accompanies each entry.
Fifty years after her untimely death, Marilyn Monroe continues to attract attention as an ongoing focus of interest and controversy. In this brand-new book, film historian Cindy De La Hoz gives Marilyn's countless fans a dramatic biography, and supplements it with 20 rare and removable facsimile documents that mark important events in the actress's life. The biography begins with the birth of Norma Jeane Mortensen in 1926, then describes her unstable family background, her childhood spent in an orphanage and foster homes, her early career as a photographer's model, her 1946 contract with Twentieth Century-Fox, her rise to movie stardom, and her important films, including Some Like It Hot and The Misfits. Also described are Marilyn's several marriages, her emotional troubles, and her sudden, mysterious death on August 5, 1962. Among the facsimile documents included with the book are-- Marilyn Monroe's personal script for her film, Niagara Airline tickets for Aug. 27, 1950, the day Marilyn and a companion traveled a to a hospital where she checked in for treatment, following a nervous breakdown The contact sheet for Marilyn's last modeling shoot A handwritten note written by Marilyn to Joe DiMaggio The divorce certificate between Joe DiMaggio and Norma Jeane . . . and more Marilyn Monroe: The Personal Archives uncovers the private life and lays bare the conflicting dreams and emotions of one of the twentieth century's most memorable film stars. Marilyn Monroe's legendary true story is supplemented with approximately 170 stunning photos in color and black and white.
Made up of misfit super-heroes with unusual powers and abilities, the Doom Patrol embarked on and endured some of the most bizarre adventures ever imaginable. Assembled in this hardcover volume are the earliest escapades of Robotman, Negative Man, Elasti-Girl, and the Chief. Reprinted as they originally appeared in the 1960s, this archive edition includes the Doom Patrol's first appearance and origin, as well as their first battles with their greatest adversary, General Immortus, the prehistoric monster menace Dr. Janus, the subterranean Atomic Furies, and the mutant Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man.
Royalty-free illustrations from 1909 French typography foundry catalog: more than 100 plates, over 3,200 pictures and motifs, including fruits, flowers, plants, and trees; animals; stray eyes and ears; playing cards; angels, saints, and religious motifs; musical instruments; carriages and sailing vessels; sporting events; plus ornamental borders, mortised cuts, banners, wreaths, and other line art.
C. S. Giscombe's Here is a long, single poem that takes place in three settings, three "unlikely locations": the edges of the urban south, the edgesâjust beyond and just within the city&mash;of rural Ohio, and the places where upstate New York forms the border with Canada, "the next country." Here is racial in its knowledge and acknowledgment of the great geographic archetype, the journey north; yet the work's nature denies the closure of destination. The poem's interest instead is in statement(s) of situation, in "the path traced by a moving point."
Over 150 superb photographs from the Country Life archive are selected especially here to highlight 25 major houses and their architects in a stunning and astoundingly thorough display With authority and verve, distinguished architectural theorist David Watkin takes a fresh and innovative look at the traditional British country house in this gorgeous illustrated history book. Rather than focus on any given period, he shows instead how classicism has been a seminal influence on British and American architecture since the 17th century through to the waning of modernist design in the present day. Consisting of five parts, sections cover everything from the birth of English classicism to the richness of the Italian Renaissance revival—seen, for example, in Kingston Lacy and Brodsworth Hall. An interesting parallel movement in America is also touched upon that shows how, from Thomas Jefferson's Monticello designs in pre-Revolutionary war times to the stunning 20th-century Villa Vizcaya, Florida, built in 1916, the same persisting respect for classical forms is thoroughly evident. This lovely photographic tome should appeal to anyone interested in the influences that have formed the grand tradition of the British country house.
In this spellbinding, utterly unconventional fiction, an aging author who is identified only as Reader contemplates the writing of a novel. As he does, other matters insistently crowd his mind-literary and cultural anecdotes, endless quotations attributed and not, scholarly curiosities-the residue of a lifetime's reading which is apparently all he has to show for his decades on earth.
Out of these unlikely yet incontestably fascinating materials - including innumerable details about the madness and calamity in many artists' and writers' ¡¡ves, the eternal critical affronts, the startling bigotry, the countless suicides-David Markson has created a novel of extraordinary intellectual suggestiveness. But while shoring up Reader's ruins with such fragments, Markson has also managed to electrify his novel with an almost unbearable emotional impact. Where Reader ultimately leads us is shattering.
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Archival research of any magnitude can be daunting. With this in mind, Alexis E. Ramsey, Wendy B. Sharer, Barbara LâEplattenier, and Lisa Mastrangelo have developed an indispensable volume for the first-time researcher as well as the seasoned scholar. Working in the Archives is a guide to the world of rhetoric and composition archives, from locating an archival source and its materials to establishing oneâs own collection of archival materials. This practical volume provides insightful information on a variety of helpful topics, such as basic archival theory, processes, and principles; the use of hidden or digital archives; the intricacies of searching for and using letters and photographs; strategies for addressing the dilemmas of archival organization without damaging the provenance of materials; the benefits of seeking sources outside academia; and the difficult (yet often rewarding) aspects of research on the Internet. Working in the Archives moves beyond the basics to discuss the more personal and emotional aspects of archival work through the inclusion of interviews with experienced researchers such as Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Peter Mortensen, Kathryn Fitzgerald, Kenneth Lindblom, and David Gold. Each shares his or her personal stories of the joys and challenges that face todayâs researchers.          Packed with useful recommendations, this volume draws on the knowledge and experiences of experts to present a well-rounded guidebook to the often winding paths of academic archival investigation. These in-depth yet user-friendly essays provide crucial answers to the myriad questions facing both fledgling and practiced researchers, making Working in the Archives an essential resource.
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