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  • Sarah's Journey

    par David R Beasley ...
    Born a slave in 1790 in the Virginia Panhandle Sarah, a beautiful woman, marries a supposedly free Negro, Lewis, whom she hopes will earn her freedom. Her husband is taken back to Kentucky from where he escaped and Sarah is sold to a neighbour who mistreats her. She is forced to escape with her three youngest children through the Ohio wilderness and arrives in Simcoe, Upper Canada in 1822. She ... En savoir plus

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  • Who Really Invented the Automobile?

    Skulduggery at the Crossroads

    par David R Beasley ...
    The automobile was perfected in 1829 and ran well on English roads. Who prevented its development? Was it the railway entrepreneurs? Was it the landed interests? Was it the free-traders? The same interests prevented its development in Europe and in America. Beasley takes you from the beginning through these various factions into the railway and banking conflicts to the 1890's when the automobile ... En savoir plus

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  • ASPECTS OF LOVE

    THREE NOVELLAS

    par David R Beasley ...
    Three novellas explore the emotional and sexual relationships that can entrap, consume, frustrate and preserve the human spirit. "Helen" is an intensely erotic story of the love between a young man and an older woman. "Caravetti" deals with romantic love as against married love by contrasting love in Paris to love in a highly structured Spanish society, in which duty to family and the opportunism ... En savoir plus

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  • Violet's flight

    Kahbia

    par David R Beasley ...
    Japanese Armies invaded an almost defenseless Burma in 1942, sending tens of thousands fleeing over the mountains to India. They ruled the remaining Burmese, whom they boasted of liberating from British rule, with arrogance and brutality. Violet's Flight narrates the experiences of a young Anglo-Burmese girl and her relatives growing up happily under the British and their ordeal either escaping ... En savoir plus

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  • Chocolate for the Poor

    A Story of Rape in 1805

    par David R Beasley ...
    Rape and wife and child abuse are common news today. Their distressing frequency makes us question the safeguards and the very nature of our society. Where have we gone wrong? Yet these crimes have always been present in civilized societies. Chocolate for the poor is a fictionalized account of an actual event from 1805. Ephraim Wheeler, an unemployed labourer, raped his 13 year old daughter in the ... En savoir plus

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  • The Rosy Crucifixion

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    Henry Miller's Rosy Crucifixion, his second major trilogy, took more than 10 years for the author to complete. Beginning in 1949 with Sexus, a work so controversial all of Paris was abuzz with L'Affaire Miller, (and publisher Maurice Girodias saw himself threatened with jail), following in 1952 with Plexus, and finally concluding with 1959's Nexus, the three works are a dazzling array of scenes, ... En savoir plus

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  • The Greatest Works of Thomas Wolfe (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River & You Can't Go Home Again

    The Greatest Works of Thomas Wolfe gathers the major achievements of one of American modernism's most prodigious voices, showcasing fiction that transforms autobiography into vast, lyrical myth. Across novels such as Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River, The Web and the Rock, and You Can't Go Home Again, Wolfe renders family, ambition, exile, memory, and the restless promise of America in ... En savoir plus

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  • Thomas Wolfe, Collection

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    Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was a major American novelist of the early 20th century.Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works and novellas. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. His books, written and published from the 1920s to the 1940s, vividly reflect on ... En savoir plus

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