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Publisher
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Frederic Stewart Isham (March 29, 1865 – September 6, 1922) was an American novelist and playwright who wrote mainly historical romances and adventure novels.
Isham was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Charles Storrs Isham and Lucy B. (Mott) Isham. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London for two years. In 1895 he married Helen Margaret Frue. He died in New York.
Isham began as a playwright and later turned to novels, writing mainly...
Author
Publisher
T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Boon" is a 1915 work of literary satire by H. G. Wells. It purports, however, to be by the fictional character Reginald Bliss, and for some time after publication Wells denied authorship. "Boon" is best known for its part in Wells's debate on the nature of literature with Henry James, who is caricatured in the book. But in "Boon," Wells also mocks himself, calling into question and ridiculing a notion he held dear—that of humanity's collective...
Author
Publisher
J. Robins and Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
It will be readily perceived that the literary part of this work is of humble pretensions. One object alone has been aimed at and it is hoped with success—to select or to invent those incidents which might be interesting or amusing in themselves, while they afforded scope for the peculiar talents of the artist who adorns them with his designs. The selection was more difficult than may at first sight be supposed. It is true, there is no paucity of...
Author
Publisher
C. Baldwyn
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
It will be readily perceived that the literary part of this work is of humble pretensions. One object alone has been aimed at and it is hoped with success—to select or to invent those incidents which might be interesting or amusing in themselves, while they afforded scope for the peculiar talents of the artist who adorns them with his designs. The selection was more difficult than may at first sight be supposed. It is true, there is no paucity of...
Author
Publisher
The American Journal of Atmospheric Consumption
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Get the Monkey Off Your Back
Food is a drug. Break the shackles of addiction and learn to eat air!
In this detailed guide, Dr. Robert Jones, MD, PhD, DDS, ODD gives you the practical, step-by-step advice you need to transition to the air-only diet.
Common Questions About the Air-Only Diet:
Q: Eating air? Are you crazy?
A: I am a medical doctor with more than forty years of clinical experience. An Obesity Epidemic is sweeping across our great...
Author
Publisher
The Evening Post
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Being the curious adventures of Theodore the Red Knight in his quest of the Third Cup, of his faithful companion Alice, of the Old Lady who lived in a shoe behind a high tariff wall, and divers quaint and lively persons, all comprising a veritable Theodyssey of incidents, set down in simple third terms.
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Jean Webster was the pseudonym used by Alice Jane Chandler Webster (1876–1916), an American writer and author of many books, including 'Daddy-Long-Legs' and 'Dear Enemy'. Her best-known books feature lively, likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers. 'Daddy-Long-Legs'...
Author
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
I have committed sins, of course; but I have not committed enough of them to entitle me to the punishment of reduction to the bread and water of ordinary literature during six years when I might have been living on the fat diet spread for the righteous in Professor Dowden's Life of Shelley, if I had been justly dealt with.
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