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The Golden Bowl

Author: Henry James, Denis Donoghue, Virginia Llewellyn Smith
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780679417330
Publisher : Alfred a Knopf Inc
Last update : 2009-05-22
Possibly James's most complex and difficult work, THE GOLDEN BOWL concerns four characters: the American art connoisseur Adam Verver, his daughter Maggie, Maggie's old school friend Charlotte Stant, and Charlotte's ex-suitor Prince Amerigo. The fabulously wealthy Ververs encounter the prince on their European tour, and he and Maggie fall in love and are married. When Charlotte comes to visit, Ada

Dialect of the Tribe: Speech and Community in Modern Fiction

Author: Margery Sabin
Category: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN : 9780195041538
Publisher : 101 Productions
Last update : 2009-05-22
The bold careers of Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett--writers with profoundly unsettled cultural identities--spark Margery Sabin's investigation of values carried through inherited forms of speech. The Dialect of the Tribe offers fresh readings of such great novelsas The Golden Bowl, Women in Love, Ulysses, and the Beckett trilogy which illustrate how complex attitudes

The Golden Bowl

Author: Henry James, Denis Donoghue, Virginia Llewellyn Smith
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9781592640478
Publisher : Toby Pr
Last update : 2009-05-19
Possibly James's most complex and difficult work, THE GOLDEN BOWL concerns four characters: the American art connoisseur Adam Verver, his daughter Maggie, Maggie's old school friend Charlotte Stant, and Charlotte's ex-suitor Prince Amerigo. The fabulously wealthy Ververs encounter the prince on their European tour, and he and Maggie fall in love and are married. When Charlotte comes to visit, Ada

Bartleby of the Mighty Mississippi

Author: Shalant, Phyllis
Category: Animals - Turtles
ISBN : 9780595444779
Publisher : Backinprint.com
Last update : 2009-05-21
All Bartleby has ever known is life in his plastic bowl. Then his boy chucks him into the big water place. There Bartleby faces challenges both fearful and thrilling. He also meets another discarded pet-Seezer-an alligator whose true home is the Mighty Mississippi, too. Seezer wants Bartleby to help him seek out the great river. But can a small turtle trust a growing alligator? The most redoubtab

The Golden Bowl

Author: James, Henry
Category: Classics
ISBN : 9781419164088
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Last update : 2009-05-22
He handled it with tenderness, with ceremony, making a place for it on a small satin mat. My Golden Bowl, he observed--and it sounded on his lips as if it said everything. He left the important object--for as important it did somehow present itself--to produce its certain effect. Simple but singularly elegant, it stood on a circular foot, a short pedestal with a slightly spreading base, and, thou

The Golden Bowl

Author: Henry James, James
Category: General
ISBN : 9781421826196
Publisher : 1st World Library
Last update : 2009-05-21
The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber. Brought up on the legend of the City to which the world paid tribute, he recognised in the present London much more than in contemporary Rome the real dimensions of such a case. If it

The Golden Bowl

Author: Henry James, James
Category: Literary
ISBN : 9781421827193
Publisher : 1st World Library
Last update : 2009-05-21
The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber. Brought up on the legend of the City to which the world paid tribute, he recognised in the present London much more than in contemporary Rome the real dimensions of such a case. If it

The Golden Bowl (Dodo Press)

Author: James, Henry
Category: General
ISBN : 9781406526585
Publisher : Dodo Press
Last update : 2009-05-21
1904 novel, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the major phase of James' career. By the prolific American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on

The Golden Bowl

Author: James, Henry
Category: Literary
ISBN : 9781420930092
Publisher : Digireads.com
Last update : 2009-05-21
Henry James's 1904 novel The Golden Bowl is the story of Prince Amerigo, an impoverished but charismatic Italian nobleman who travels to London to marry Maggie Verver, only child of the wealthy American financier and art collector, Adam Verver. While in London, Prince Amerigo meets his former mistress, Charlotte Stant, and the two are soon engaged in an adulterous affair. Considered by some to be

The Golden Bowl

Author: Henry James
Category: Literary
ISBN : 9781421914053
Publisher : Unknown
Last update : 2009-05-22

The Golden Bowl and the Silver Cord

Author: Haywood, H. L.
Category: Uncategorized
ISBN : 9781428690233
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Last update : 2009-05-21

The Golden Bowl (Paperback)

Author: Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Henry James, Denis Donoghue, Virginia Llewellyn Smith
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780141441276
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Last update : 2009-08-28
Possibly James`s most complex and difficult work, THE GOLDEN BOWL concerns four characters: the American art connoisseur Adam Verver, his daughter Maggie, Maggie`s old school friend Charlotte Stant, and Charlotte`s ex-suitor Prince Amerigo. The fabulously wealthy Ververs encounter the prince on their European tour, and he and Maggie fall in love and are married. When Charlotte comes to visit, Ada

The Golden Bowl

Author: Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Henry James, Denis Donoghue, Virginia Llewellyn Smith
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780140432350
Publisher : Viking Pr
Last update : 2009-08-28
Possibly James's most complex and difficult work, THE GOLDEN BOWL concerns four characters: the American art connoisseur Adam Verver, his daughter Maggie, Maggie's old school friend Charlotte Stant, and Charlotte's ex-suitor Prince Amerigo. The fabulously wealthy Ververs encounter the prince on their European tour, and he and Maggie fall in love and are married. When Charlotte comes to visit, Ada

The Golden Bowl (Paperback)

Author: Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Henry James, Denis Donoghue, Virginia Llewellyn Smith
Category: Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199538584
Publisher : Oxford Univ Pr
Last update : 2009-08-28
Possibly James`s most complex and difficult work, THE GOLDEN BOWL concerns four characters: the American art connoisseur Adam Verver, his daughter Maggie, Maggie`s old school friend Charlotte Stant, and Charlotte`s ex-suitor Prince Amerigo. The fabulously wealthy Ververs encounter the prince on their European tour, and he and Maggie fall in love and are married. When Charlotte comes to visit, Ada

Message in a Bottle

Author: Janet Golden
Category: General
ISBN : 9780674022379
Publisher : Harvard Univ Pr
Last update : 2009-05-22
A generation has passed since a physician first noticed that women who drank heavily while pregnant gave birth to underweight infants with disturbing tell-tale characteristics. Women whose own mothers enjoyed martinis while pregnant now lost sleep over a bowl of rum raisin ice cream. In Message in a Bottle, Janet Golden charts the course of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) through the courts, media,

Packer Pride

Author: Alan Ross
Category: Football
ISBN : 9781581824179
Publisher : Cumberland House
Last update : 2009-08-27
Lombardi, the Golden Boy, Fuzzy, Bart, Taylor, Nitschke, the Ice Bowl, five world championships in seven years, and a place in history as secure as Fort Knox. Packer Pride provides firsthand accounts of the great Packers players; the intense rivalries; great moments in Green Bay history; the Ice Bowl; all twelve world championship rosters; an all-time Packers team; and even a shrine to No. 14, th

The 25 Greatest Moments in Lambeau Field History

Author: Christl, Cliff ;Hofmann, Dale
Category: Football - General
ISBN : 9780979872907
Publisher : Kci Sports
Last update : 2009-05-21
In the half century since Gary Knafelc caught Babe Parilli''s fourth-quarter touchdown pass to stun the heavily favored Bears, Lambeau Field has been the scene of countless thrills for fans from coast to coast. Brett Favre to Kittrick Taylor for 35 yards and the first touchdown in a Hall of Fame quarterback''s unparalleled career; the Packers and the Washington Redskins trading punches in a recor

Da Queen A'Sleep: A Story of Waking and Sleeping in New Orleans

Author: Ballard Baker, Mark
Category: Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology
ISBN : 9781412082112
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Last update : 2009-05-22
A wake. A wake upon the river rolls. It bubbles and gurgles and carefully unfolds from the barnacled belly of a passing ship. It reaches its rings around the bend of this crescent-shaped bowl below sea level, stretching from ship to shore. It curls and then breaks onto the bank of this city without cares and pushes a black bottle into the hands of the queen of this sleep... Thus begins this story

The Golden Bowl - Volume 2

Author: James, Henry
Category: General
ISBN : 9781426415111
Publisher : Biblio Bazaar
Last update : 2009-05-21
Short excerpt: It was not till many days had passed that the Princess began to accept the idea of having done a little something she was not always doing or indeed that of having listened to any inward voice that spoke in a new tone.

The Golden Bowl - Volume 1

Author: James, Henry
Category: General
ISBN : 9781426415104
Publisher : Biblio Bazaar
Last update : 2009-05-21
Short excerpt: The Prince had always liked his London when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber.

Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction, 1900-14: New Voices in the Age of Uncertainty

Author:
Category: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN : 9780198605348
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Last update : 2009-05-22
The Edwardian era saw a remarkable outpouring of fiction, much of which we don't normally think of as Edwardian. There were major works such as Conrad's Lord Jim and Nostromo, Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh, and D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers. Children's literature saw such marvelousbooks as Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and A Little Princess, and there were many popular cla

The Golden Bowl

Author: Henry James, Denis Donoghue, Virginia Llewellyn Smith
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780192835420
Publisher : Oxford Univ Pr
Last update : 2009-05-19
Possibly James`s most complex and difficult work, THE GOLDEN BOWL concerns four characters: the American art connoisseur Adam Verver, his daughter Maggie, Maggie`s old school friend Charlotte Stant, and Charlotte`s ex-suitor Prince Amerigo. The fabulously wealthy Ververs encounter the prince on their European tour, and he and Maggie fall in love and are married. When Charlotte comes to visit, Ada

The Financier

Author: Larzer Ziff, Theodore Dreiser
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780452008250
Publisher : Plume
Last update : 2009-08-27
Possibly James's most complex and difficult work, THE GOLDEN BOWL concerns four characters: the American art connoisseur Adam Verver, his daughter Maggie, Maggie's old school friend Charlotte Stant, and Charlotte's ex-suitor Prince Amerigo. The fabulously wealthy Ververs encounter the prince on their European tour, and he and Maggie fall in love and are married. When Charlotte comes to visit, Ada

Oklahoma City Zoo: 1902-1959

Author: Stephens, Amy Dee
Category: United States - State & Local - Southwest
ISBN : 9780738540498
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Last update : 2009-05-21
The Oklahoma City Zoo began when a single deer was donated to a neighborhood park. Because deer were rare in 1902, crowds flocked to see the creature. Soon other people in Oklahoma Territory began donating native animals such as bears, golden eagles, and wolves. By 1903, the little menagerie became known as Wheeler Park Zoo, the first zoo in the Southwest. During its next 50 years, the zoo endure