![]() ![]() ***Eighty-six black and white illustrations mainly from photographs throughout by Allan P. First impression of the true first edition. Allan Mottram and Vernon Mottram (illustrator). Alexandre Dumas called this novel 'the masterpiece of the century.' inventory #33051 Previous Owner s name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. With emotional sincerity and intellectual integrity, George Eliot probes deeply into the psychology of commonplace people caught in the act of uncommon heroics. Betrayed by their innocence, vanity, and imprudence, their foolish hearts lead them to a tragic triangle of seduction, murder, and retribution. Adam Bede, a simple carpenter, loves too blindly Hetty Sorrel, a coquettish beauty, loves too recklessly and Arthur Donnithorne, a dashing squire, loves too carelessly. ![]() FROM THE PUBLISHER - The English Midlands at the turn of the eighteenth century is the setting for George Eliot's moving novel of three unworldly people trapped by unwise love. Previous Owner s name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Schmitz, during World War II, served as an aerial photographer in the Pacific for the United States Army Air Forces. He lived in various German cities, where he worked for the International Harvester Company, until his family left in 1938 just before World War II broke out in Europe. Since he was unable to get a job because of the Great Depression, he went back to Germany so that he could work with his dad’s company. In 1930, he traveled to Chicago to attend business school, and then switched to a correspondence course in journalism. The family spent the First World War in America, then returned to Germany. He was educated at a Realgymnasium in Hamburg, and he grew up speaking both German and English. ![]() James Henry Schmitz was born Octoin Hamburg, Germany. ![]() ![]() With their glittery pastel covers and focus on human relationships and romance, shojo manga are thoroughly marked by gender-as indeed are almost all manga titles, magazines, and publishing divisions. ![]() ![]() In Straight from the Heart, Jennifer Prough examines the shojo manga industry as a site of cultural storytelling, illuminating the ways that issues of mass media, gender, production, and consumption are involved in the process of creating shojo manga. Shojo manga (girls' comics) has been seminal to the genre as a whole and especially formative for Japanese girls' culture throughout the postwar era. Manga is the backbone of Japanese popular culture, influencing everything from television, movies, and video games to novels, art, and theater. ![]() ![]() ![]() After the fashion of epic legends and contemporary Bollywood films, they are separated but not before he promises to see her again. It is during the desecration of the Glass Palace that Rajkumar spies Dolly, a royal household maid who becomes his lifelong love. King Thebaw and his family are captured and exiled to India. ![]() Not long after the explosions, British soldiers – mostly Indian sepoys – force the surrender of the Burmese army and march up to the Glass Palace at the center of the King’s complex, “a vast hall that is like a great shaft of light, with crystal walls and mirrored ceilings.” This great hall is looted by British forces, then by Mandalay residents who had until this day held the palace grounds in awe. The boy’s words presage the momentous downfall of the Burmese sovereign King Thebaw and the start of an epic tale. So begins Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Glass Palace. Rajkumar, however, a poor eleven-year-old Indian boy, recognized it right away: “‘English cannon,’ he said in his fluent but heavily accented Burmese.” Such jarring noise was unfamiliar and bewildering to the people of the royal capital in the interior of Burma in the 1880s. ![]() Booming sounds break into the lives of people at a food stall in Mandalay. ![]() |