The Great Crash, 1929

The Great Crash, 1929
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1961
Genre: Depressions
ISBN:

John Kenneth Galbraith's classic study of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 9

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 9
Author: T. S. Eliot
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 1040
Release: 2021-08-31
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0571362826

This volume covers the production of Eliot's play The Family Reunion; the publication of The Idea of a Christian Society; and the joyous versifying of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. After exhausting himself through nights of fire-watching in the London wartime blackout, he travels the country, attends meetings of The Moot, delivers talks, and advises a fresh generation of writers including Cyril Connolly, Keith Douglas, Kathleen Raine and Vernon Watkins. Major correspondents include W. H. Auden, George Barker, William Empson, Geoffrey Faber, John Hayward, James Laughlin, Hope Mirrlees, Mervyn Peake, Ezra Pound, Michael Roberts, Stephen Spender, Tambimuttu, Allen Tate, Michael Tippett, Charles Williams and Virginia Woolf. Four Quartets, Eliot's culminating masterpiece, is discussed in detail.

The World in Depression, 1929-1939

The World in Depression, 1929-1939
Author: Charles Poor Kindleberger
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1986
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780520055919

"The World in Depression is the best book on the subject, and the subject, in turn, is the economically decisive decade of the century so far."--John Kenneth Galbraith

The Burgess Seashore Book for Children

The Burgess Seashore Book for Children
Author: Thornton W. Burgess
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-05-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 048611757X

Danny Meadow Mouse, Jimmy Skunk, and Reddy Fox explore the Atlantic shoreline and learn about habits and habitats of many creatures — from horseshoe crabs to sea cucumbers. 48 illustrations.

Horror in Silent Films

Horror in Silent Films
Author: Roy Kinnard
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2024-10-09
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476609136

Though the horror film was not officially born until Universal Pictures released Frankenstein in 1931, there were many silent films that contained terrifying scenes and horrific elements. Many of the early horror soundies drew much of their inspiration for visual design and thematic development from the silents. This filmography includes all silent films that were horrific in nature, containing one or more of the stock horror movie elements, e.g., haunted houses, ghosts, witches, monsters, the occult or hypnotism. Each entry includes release date, running time, cast and credit information, contemporary review quotes when available, and in the case of foreign films, the original title and country of origin.

Wheeler & Woolsey

Wheeler & Woolsey
Author: Edward Watz
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2016-12-16
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476616841

During the Depression years, the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey were second only to Laurel and Hardy at the box office. Each of their over 20 comedies are analyzed in detail here; full filmographic data, production notes, plot synopses, and critical commentary are provided. The research is supplemented by an interview with Bert Wheeler.

Christopher and His Kind

Christopher and His Kind
Author: Christopher Isherwood
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1466853298

An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generation Originally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life—from 1928, when Christopher Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. His friends and colleagues during this time included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and E. M. Forster, as well as colorful figures he met in Germany and later fictionalized in his two Berlin novels—and who appeared again, fictionalized to an even greater degree, in I Am a Camera and Cabaret. What most impressed the first readers of this memoir, however, was the candor with which he describes his life in gay Berlin of the 1930s and his struggles to save his companion, a German man named Heinz, from the Nazis. An engrossing and dramatic story and a fascinating glimpse into a little-known world, Christopher and His Kind remains one of Isherwood's greatest achievements.

The Quest For CertaintyA Study Of The Relation Of Knowledge And Action

The Quest For CertaintyA Study Of The Relation Of Knowledge And Action
Author: John Dewey
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781015662193

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Bricks and Brownstone

Bricks and Brownstone
Author: Charles Lockwood
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Bricks and Brownstone: The New York Rowhouse 1783?1929 was first published in 1972, and remains the only book ever written on the New York row house. It has been met with impressive critical praise ever since and Rizzoli is proud to publish this revised and updated edition as the introductory volume in the new Rizzoli Classics program, dedicated to keeping in print important architecture titles. Charles Lockwood looks at different architecture styles of the New York row house. The book is comprehensive, examining the history of New York's changing neighborhoods and the history of the various row house architectural styles--the Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, and Second Empire, as well as the eclectic but picturesque styles of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The text and illustrations also delve into the architectural details, paying meticulous attention to all features, including doorways, glass, mantels, staircases, ceiling ornaments, and ironwork. Twenty years later, this edition is updated to include specially commissioned new color photographs of interiors and exteriors of some of New York's most impressive homes. Also included is Best of the Brownstones Walking Tours, carefully detailed and illustrated with color photographs.