Author: Ravi Dhar
Publisher: Blackbuck Publication
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Orphans Of The Storm

by Ravi Dhar, Orphans Of The Storm Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Orphans Of The Storm book, A novel about a boy who finds his family completely devastated by the outbreak of militancy in Kashmir valley. Its about his efforts to support his fathers efforts to eke out a living in the migrant camps of Jammu and to educate himself. In the inhospitable environment of Jammu, though he succeeds in earning a Masters degree in English, he sees no hope of settlement. He gets selected as a Lecturer in English in Nagaland University, where he falls in love in the midst of an overwhelming environment of political intrigue and racial conflict. The abrupt end of this love affair hits him hard. But as if this was not enough, he gets isolated in the campus politics that views him with suspicion for proximity to both the groups of faculty. The murder of the Dean draws him into a shell. Life begins to smile yet again when he completes his doctoral thesis and happens to travel together with his future wife from Nagaland to Delhi. The breakdown of the train by which they are travelling gives them the time to come close and by the time they are travelling back from home, the bond between them is already sealed.

Author: Katie Flynn
Publisher: Random House
Release Date: 2010-12-23
Book Size: 38.66 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Orphans Of The Storm

by Katie Flynn, Orphans Of The Storm Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Orphans Of The Storm book, From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a classic Katie Flynn story of hope and love, set against the backdrop of WWII Liverpool. ____________ In the tragedy of war, will love conquer all? ____________ Liverpool, 1940 When nurses Nancy Kerris and Jess Williams both lose their lovers in the trenches during the Great War, their future in Liverpool looks bleak. As the war finally ends, their lives are set on different paths, with Nancy choosing to marry an Australian, leaving behind her life - and her friend - for the Outback. Years later with the outbreak of the Second World War, Nancy's son Pete decides to join the Royal Air Force and as such travels to England. He promises to pay his mother's friend a visit, however when he arrives in Liverpool, he is dismayed to find half the city has been demolished by the May Blitz. Jess's home has been destroyed, and even worse, her daughter Debbie is missing. In an unknown country and war-ravaged city, Pete decides he must help find Debbie, whatever the cost . . .

Author: Henry MacMahon
Publisher:
Release Date: 1922
Book Size: 46.72 MB
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Category : Children and war
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Orphans Of The Storm

by Henry MacMahon, Orphans Of The Storm Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Orphans Of The Storm book, Two orphan girls, one blind, arrive in Paris seeking medical help and are caught in the storm of the French Revolution and Robespierre's reign of terror. They are exploited, separated and finally threatened with the guillotine.

Author: Janice Johnson
Publisher:
Release Date: 1992
Book Size: 15.59 MB
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Orphans Of The Storm

by Janice Johnson, Orphans Of The Storm Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Orphans Of The Storm book,

Author: Eve Golden
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date: 2007-11-30
Book Size: 47.65 MB
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Vernon And Irene Castle S Ragtime Revolution

by Eve Golden, Vernon And Irene Castle S Ragtime Revolution Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Vernon And Irene Castle S Ragtime Revolution book, Vernon and Irene Castle popularized ragtime dancing in the years just before World War I and made dancing a respectable pastime in America. The whisper-thin, elegant Castles were trendsetters in many ways: they traveled with a black orchestra, had an openly lesbian manager, and were animal-rights advocates decades before it became a public issue. Irene was also a fashion innovator, bobbing her hair ten years before the flapper look of the 1920s became popular. From their marriage in 1911 until 1916, the Castles were the most famous and influential dance team in the world. Their dancing schools and nightclubs were packed with society figures and white-collar workers alike. After their peak of white-hot fame, Vernon enlisted in the Royal Canadian Flying Corps, served at the front lines, and was killed in a 1918 airplane crash. Irene became a movie star and appeared in more than a dozen films between 1917 and 1922. The Castles were depicted in the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939), but the film omitted most of the interesting and controversial aspects of their lives. They were more complex than posterity would have it: Vernon was charming but irresponsible, Irene was strong-minded but self-centered, and the couple had filed for divorce before Vernon's death (information that has never before been made public). Vernon and Irene Castle's Ragtime Revolution is the fascinating story of a couple who reinvented dance and its place in twentieth-century culture.

Author: Saros Cowasjee
Publisher:
Release Date: 1995
Book Size: 72.52 MB
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Orphans Of The Storm

by Saros Cowasjee, Orphans Of The Storm Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Orphans Of The Storm book,

Author: Harriet Almaria Baker Suddoth
Publisher:
Release Date: 1873
Book Size: 74.96 MB
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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An Orphan Of The Old Dominion

by Harriet Almaria Baker Suddoth, An Orphan Of The Old Dominion Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download An Orphan Of The Old Dominion book,

Author: Carl Sandburg
Publisher: Lake Claremont Press
Release Date: 2000
Book Size: 51.16 MB
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 397
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The Movies Are

by Carl Sandburg, The Movies Are Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Movies Are book, A compilation of hundreds of Sandburg's writings on film during the silent era for the Chicago Daily News, showing how this great American writer was an early champion of movies and their possibilities, and, thus, set the stage for future film criticism.

Author: Tony Shaw
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date: 2014-11-20
Book Size: 36.67 MB
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Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Cinematic Terror

by Tony Shaw, Cinematic Terror Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Cinematic Terror book, Cinematic Terror takes a uniquely long view of filmmakers' depiction of terrorism, examining how cinema has been a site of intense conflict between paramilitaries, state authorities and censors for well over a century. In the process, it takes us on a journey from the first Age of Terror that helped trigger World War One to the Global War on Terror that divides countries and families today. Tony Shaw looks beyond Hollywood to pinpoint important trends in the ways that film industries across Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East have defined terrorism down the decades. Drawing on a vast array of studio archives, government documentation, personal interviews and box office records, Shaw examines the mechanics of cinematic terrorism and challenges assumptions about the links between political violence and propaganda.

Author: Charles Affron
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date: 2002-03-12
Book Size: 77.34 MB
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 445
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Lillian Gish

by Charles Affron, Lillian Gish Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Lillian Gish book, "As someone who worked with and knew Lillian Gish for years, I found Charles Affron’s portrait revealing and moving. He rekindles the life of this intuitive and generous artist beautifully."—Eva Marie Saint

Author: David Thomson
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: 2014-05-06
Book Size: 44.21 MB
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Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
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The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film

by David Thomson, The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film book, For almost thirty years, David Thomson’s Biographical Dictionary of Film has been not merely “the finest reference book ever written about movies” (Graham Fuller, Interview), not merely the “desert island book” of art critic David Sylvester, not merely “a great, crazy masterpiece” (Geoff Dyer, The Guardian), but also “fiendishly seductive” (Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone). This new edition updates the older entries and adds 30 new ones: Darren Aronofsky, Emmanuelle Beart, Jerry Bruckheimer, Larry Clark, Jennifer Connelly, Chris Cooper, Sofia Coppola, Alfonso Cuaron, Richard Curtis, Sir Richard Eyre, Sir Michael Gambon, Christopher Guest, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Spike Jonze, Wong Kar-Wai, Laura Linney, Tobey Maguire, Michael Moore, Samantha Morton, Mike Myers, Christopher Nolan, Dennis Price, Adam Sandler, Kevin Smith, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlize Theron, Larry Wachowski and Andy Wachowski, Lew Wasserman, Naomi Watts, and Ray Winstone. In all, the book includes more than 1300 entries, some of them just a pungent paragraph, some of them several thousand words long. In addition to the new “musts,” Thomson has added key figures from film history–lively anatomies of Graham Greene, Eddie Cantor, Pauline Kael, Abbott and Costello, Noël Coward, Hoagy Carmichael, Dorothy Gish, Rin Tin Tin, and more. Here is a great, rare book, one that encompasses the chaos of art, entertainment, money, vulgarity, and nonsense that we call the movies. Personal, opinionated, funny, daring, provocative, and passionate, it is the one book that every filmmaker and film buff must own. Time Out named it one of the ten best books of the 1990s. Gavin Lambert recognized it as “a work of imagination in its own right.” Now better than ever–a masterwork by the man playwright David Hare called “the most stimulating and thoughtful film critic now writing.”

Author: Melvyn Stokes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2008-01-15
Book Size: 75.89 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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D W Griffith S The Birth Of A Nation

by Melvyn Stokes, D W Griffith S The Birth Of A Nation Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download D W Griffith S The Birth Of A Nation book, In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie. By going back to the original archives, particularly the NAACP and D. W. Griffith Papers, Stokes explodes many of the myths surrounding The Birth of a Nation (1915). Yet the story that remains is fascinating: the longest American film of its time, Griffith's film incorporated many new features, including the first full musical score compiled for an American film. It was distributed and advertised by pioneering methods that would quickly become standard. Through the high prices charged for admission and the fact that it was shown, at first, only in "live" theaters with orchestral accompaniment, Birth played a major role in reconfiguring the American movie audience by attracting more middle-class patrons. But if the film was a milestone in the history of cinema, it was also undeniably racist. Stokes shows that the darker side of this classic movie has its origins in the racist ideas of Thomas Dixon, Jr. and Griffith's own Kentuckian background and earlier film career. The book reveals how, as the years went by, the campaign against the film became increasingly successful. In the 1920s, for example, the NAACP exploited the fact that the new Ku Klux Klan, which used Griffith's film as a recruiting and retention tool, was not just anti-black, but also anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish, as a way to mobilize new allies in opposition to the film. This crisply written book sheds light on both the film's racism and the aesthetic brilliance of Griffith's filmmaking. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the cinema.