![]() She delivered a fine turn in "Stage Door" (1937) and served as the Marx Brothers' foil in "Room Service" (1938). ![]() Prior to "I Love Lucy," Ball took over the mantle of "Queen of the Bs" from Fay Wray after appearing in a number of B-movies, with the occasional A-list project like the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers vehicles "Top Hat" (1935) and "Follow the Fleet" (1936) classing up her resume. Because of her eternally syndicated sitcom, "I Love Lucy" (CBS, 1951-57), which broke new ground in too many areas to count, Ball remained a constant presence on the small screen and, consequently, remained well-known to subsequent generations of fans. As one of America's most beloved comediennes and one of Hollywood's more astute businesswomen, the legendary Lucille Ball rose from being a B-movie film actress to one of television's most iconic figures, boasting more than 50 years of continuous employment in Hollywood. ![]()
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The Four-Month Scandal That Made Martin Amis the Center of the Literary World He’s One of Twitter’s Most Beloved Writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lammas Night is a spectacular feat of creative imagination from the author of the acclaimed Deryni fantasy series. But it will take more than combined Wiccan sorcery to repel the Reich’s black magic on Lammas Night-and the sacrifice required might be greater than imagined and truly terrible to endure. Now, with the future of Britain at stake, these two men, the spy and the royal, must rally the hidden adherents of the Old Religion, hoping to unite the British covens in defense of their endangered island homeland. In this life-and other lives before-Gray’s destiny has been firmly intertwined with that of his close friend Prince William of the British royal family. John “Gray” Graham of MI6 is not only a valuable player in the great game of wartime espionage, he is also a practitioner of the ancient occult arts. A British secret agent pays the ultimate price to deliver early warning of the Führer’s secret plan to harness the awesome power of the occult to conquer Great Britain by launching a supernatural assault that no defending military force could possibly deflect.īritish Intelligence operative Col. France has fallen easily to Adolf Hitler’s army and England is next in his sights. ![]() The year is 1940, and Great Britain’s forces struggle against the invincible Nazi war machine. The New York Times–bestselling author explores the occult history of WWII in this thriller inspired by true events during the Battle of Britain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. ~ Faulkner is considered one of the most important writers of the Southern literature of the United States, along with Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Harper Lee and Tennessee Williams. ![]() He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a setting Faulkner created based on Lafayette County, where he spent most of his childhood. Faulkner worked in a variety of media he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career. From Wikipedia: William Cuthbert Faulkner (born Falkner, SeptemJuly 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. ![]() ![]() The book offers an astoundingamalgam of death portraits, anecdotes of battle, last words, messages to distant loved ones, and remarkably restrained and muted descriptions of pain, dismemberment, and dying-all of it, however grim, suffused with Whitman's undiminished enthusiasm and affection for these young soldiers. Whitman details his encounters with soldiers and doctors,meditates on particular battles and on the meanings of the war for the nation, and recounts his wordless though peculiarly intimate public exchanges with President Lincoln, a man Whitman saw often on the streets of Washington and by whom he was deeply fascinated. The book consists of journal entries extending from Whitman's arrival on the front in 1862 through to the war's conclusion in 1865. But Whitman also found there a "new world," a world dense with horror and revelation.Memoranda During the War is Whitman's testament to the anguish, heroism, and terror of the Civil War. In December of 1862, having read his brother's name in a casualty list, Walt Whitman rushed from Brooklyn to the war front, where he found his brother wounded but recovering. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jenn, who is also a professor at Universite Lille, reports, ![]() It prominently features Elmira College alumna, Olivia Clemens, and discusses the importance of Elmira and Quarry Farm in Twain’s life. The film made its US debut in August of 2017 here in Elmira, as part of our 8th Quadrennial Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies. The film, written by recent Quarry Farm Fellow, Ronald Jenn, and directed by Patrice Thery, uses pictures and documents from French and American archives, including our own, to familiarize its audience with the author, the subject of his passionate interest, and, finally, the novel, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, which he published in 1896. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And as the action shifts from the dusty plains of Mid-World to the mean streets of New York City – old and new fans alike will experience the rich and vibrant world of The Dark Tower in new and interesting ways.Īs this tale of urban crime opens, you’ll meet Eddie Dean as an innocent child who grows into a troubled young man gifted with the ability to open doors to other worlds. THE DARK TOWER: DRAWING OF THE THREE – THE PRISONER marks another milestone for the graphic fiction sensation that’s captivated fans worldwide as the saga moves to the second volume of King’s magnum opus. Beginning in September 2014, New York Times Best-Selling writers Peter David & Robin Furth along with critically acclaimed artist Piotr Kowalski bring the action from Mid-World to our world as the epic series returns! ![]() Marvel is proud to announce the new chapter in the Dark Tower series – DARK TOWER: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE – THE PRISONER. The Drawing of the Three - The Prisoner NOW AVAILABLE AS A PAPERBACK OMNIBUS ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, our scientists are hampered by lack of access to the EU’s Horizon programme, the young can no longer enjoy the educational benefits of Erasmus student exchanges, and freedom of movement is inhibited in all sorts of ways. The bureaucracy is going to become far worse at the end of the year, when the full impact of the trading limitations the government has imposed on itself is due to be felt. Our imports from and exports to our nearest and most important trading partner, namely the EU, are already suffering from serious delays – in some cases coming to a halt as businesses decide to give up the ghost. The evidence mounts that great woes have befallen the state. ![]() Brexit has proved to be an unmitigated disaster. Let us face it: the Brexiters, led by Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, conducted their referendum campaign with honeyed words their minds may not have been intentionally evil, but you could have fooled me. ![]() ![]() As a serious artist, he knows that the deck is stacked against him after all, a great novel is a kind of antiproduct, one that is "inexpensive, infinitely reusable, and, worst of all, unimprovable." 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