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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Tom Percy's ingenious new novel is an unsettling transcontinental tale of personal relations unfolding in tandem with ruthless market machinations. The fictional characters are crafted from a reality lived by the author. A desperate quest for the elusive sources of power and guilt involves outback gold prospectors, a vulnerable and glamorous ......
Although the novels of Walker Percy represent some of the most prominent work in 20th-century Southern fiction, the Percy family itself has a history that is arguably as compelling as anything he could have created. Behind Percy's prose lurks a legacy of wealth, literary accomplishment, political leadership, depression, and suicide that spans two centuries. In this compelling biography, Wyatt-Brown skilfully combines intensive research and telling insights to produce the unforgettable story of this gifted family. 48 halftones.
One of the most memorable and affecting Shakespearean characters is Edgar in King Lear. He has long been celebrated for his faithfulness in the face of his father's rejection, and the scene in which he saves his blinded father from suicide is regarded as one of the most moving in all of Shakespeare. In 'Poor Tom', Simon Palfrey asks us to rethink all those received ideas - and thus to experience King Lear as never before. He argues that Edgar is Shakespeare's most radical experiment in characterization - and also his most exhaustive model of both human and theatrical possibility.
Today, the saxophone is an emblem of "cool" and the instrument most closely associated with jazz. Yet not long ago it was derided as the "Siren of Satan," and it was largely ignored in the United States for well over half a century after its invention. When it was first widely heard, it was often viewed as a novelty noisemaker, not a real musical instrument. In only a few short years, however, saxophones appeared in music shops across America and became one of the most important instrumental voices. How did the saxophone get from comic to cool? Bandleader Tom Brown claimed that it was his saxophone sextet, the Six Brown Brothers, who inaugurated the craze. While this boast was perhaps more m...
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The fooled was a company and a person at the same time. Josh Sean Ferning started a company which stole money from rich people to give the poor and for the company's gain through magic and manipulation. Josh employed a group of six people and named them the herdmen to do this work for him. Well, the herdmen were not his only employees but they were his main employees. He had a lot of other people working for him undercover. The herdmen did not know Josh or what he sounds like or looked like because he only spoke to them using an edited voice behind a sophisticated door. Josh had completely changed his identity so that they wouldn't know who he was. The herdmen proved to be extremely talented in this field. However even though they worked for the fooled as magicians their lives were full of drama, suspense, complicated friendships and romantic relationships, mental struggles and other issues.
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