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  • A True Life of Valor | The World War I Biography of Eugene Bullard

    by John Passmore ...
    The Black Swallow: A True Life of ValorOne man's journey from the Jim Crow South to the blood-soaked trenches of Verdun—and into the history books as the first African American fighter pilot.Born into the red clay of Georgia and haunted by the shadow of a lynch mob, Eugene Bullard didn't just escape the American South; he redefined the limits of human courage. Chasing a dream of a land where "all ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uncle Toms Companions: Or, Facts Stranger than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Toms Cabin

    by John Passmore Edwards ...
    Uncle Toms Companions: Or, Facts Stranger than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Toms Cabin is a collection of short biographies of famous former slaves, such as Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown. Heraklion Press has included a linked table of contents. ... Read more

    $2.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memoirs Of A Semi-Detached Australian

    by Passmore, John ...
    In this vivid and iconoclastic memoir, John Passmore takes us on an unsentimental journey from his childhood in Manly, then half-village, half-resort-'seven miles from Sydney, a thousand miles from care'-to the hot-house environment of the University of Sydney, and on to the realities of his imagined Europe. These physical voyages were rites of passage. The first marked the end of the fierce ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Women Are Up to Something

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  • Quite A Good Time to be Born

    A Memoir: 1935-1975

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    'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, David Lodge inherited his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his Irish-Belgian mother. Four years old when World War II began, David grew to maturity through decades of great social and ... Read more

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  • The Intellectuals and the Masses

    Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939

    by John Carey ...
    Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and ripe for extermination. Exposing the revulsion from common humanity in George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, W. B. Yeats and other canonized writers, he relates this to ... Read more

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  • The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

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    This is a landmark intellectual history of Britain’s working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers’ memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose uncovers which books people read, how they educated themselves, and what they knew. A new preface addresses the continuing relevance of the book amidst the upheavals of the present day.“An ... Read more

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  • The Irish Story

    Telling Tales and Making it Up in Ireland

    by Professor R F Foster ...
    Each of Foster's books has generated vigorous discussion, but in THE IRISH STORY he breaks fresh ground even by his own standards. Driven by his sense of the seriousness of history and a fascination with those who distort it, THE IRISH STORY examines how key facets of Ireland's past have been tampered with to serve a multiplicity of purposes.THE IRISH STORY is endlessly varied, surprising and ... Read more

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  • Nikolaus Pevsner

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    Born Nikolai Pewsner into a Russian-Jewish family in Leipzig in 1902, Nikolaus Pevsner was a dedicated scholar who pursued a promising career as an academic in Dresden and Göttingen. When, in 1933 Jews were no longer permitted to teach in German universities, he lost his job and looked for employment in England. Here, over a long and amazingly industrious career, he made himself an authority on ... Read more

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