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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
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quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
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original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
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A Daughter of the Samurai
Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto; Foreword by Janice P Nimura; Introduction by Christopher Morley
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"Her life was a bridge from the nineteenth century to the
twentieth, from the time-hallowed beauty and rigidity of a samurai
household to the disorienting, forward-looking freedoms of the
West." --Janice P. Nimura, from the foreword. This is the story of
one woman's remarkable life successfully navigating two very
different cultures--the first memoir of an Asian-American woman.
Beautifully told, this immigrant's account of an unforgettable
journey is the story of a headstrong and empowered woman--a loyal
wife, a widowed mother and a bilingual breadwinner--finding her way
and finding her voice in a strange new world. Follow in her
footsteps and trace the remarkable trajectory of her life as she:
Witnesses her father prepare and perform the ritual seppuku and her
mother burn down the family home Bids an emotional farewell and
sails across the ocean to marry a wealthy merchant in a new land
Returns to Tokyo with her two daughters and mother-in-law, only to
find her homeland just as alien as America, forcing her to reinvent
herself again in order to provide for her family Returns to America
with her children following the death of her mother-in-law An
international bestseller when it was first published a century ago,
A Daughter of the Samurai emerges as a rare testament to a singular
woman's resolve, strength and endurance. This edition features a
new foreword by 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist Janice P. Nimura.
The Haunted Bookshop (1919) is a novel by Christopher Morley.
Although less popular than Kitty Foyle (1939), a novel adapted into
an Academy Award-winning film, The Haunted Bookshop is a fast-paced
thriller that deserves a modern audience. From unassuming
beginnings as a tale about a lovelorn advertising salesman who
visits a charming bookstore, The Haunted Bookshop quickly morphs
into a story of paranoia, stalking, and kidnapping. "If you are
ever in Brooklyn, that borough of superb sunsets and magnificent
vistas of husband-propelled baby-carriages, it is to be hoped you
may chance upon a quiet by-street where there is a very remarkable
bookshop." In need of a new client, Aubrey Gilbert steps into a
bookstore on a quiet Brooklyn street. There, he meets Roger
Mifflin, the store's owner, who inundates the adman with
information on the value of books. Although he fails to get
Mifflin's business, Gilbert is drawn to Titania Chapman, the man's
beautiful young assistant who just so happens to be the daughter of
Gilbert's most important client. As mysterious occurrences begin to
pile up-a valuable book is stolen, Gilbert is assaulted, and a
strange man is found lurking in the alleyway behind the store-it
becomes clear that Titania is in grave danger. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of Christopher Morley's The Haunted Bookshop is a classic of
American literature reimagined for modern readers.
The Haunted Bookshop (1919) is a novel by Christopher Morley.
Although less popular than Kitty Foyle (1939), a novel adapted into
an Academy Award-winning film, The Haunted Bookshop is a fast-paced
thriller that deserves a modern audience. From unassuming
beginnings as a tale about a lovelorn advertising salesman who
visits a charming bookstore, The Haunted Bookshop quickly morphs
into a story of paranoia, stalking, and kidnapping. "If you are
ever in Brooklyn, that borough of superb sunsets and magnificent
vistas of husband-propelled baby-carriages, it is to be hoped you
may chance upon a quiet by-street where there is a very remarkable
bookshop." In need of a new client, Aubrey Gilbert steps into a
bookstore on a quiet Brooklyn street. There, he meets Roger
Mifflin, the store's owner, who inundates the adman with
information on the value of books. Although he fails to get
Mifflin's business, Gilbert is drawn to Titania Chapman, the man's
beautiful young assistant who just so happens to be the daughter of
Gilbert's most important client. As mysterious occurrences begin to
pile up-a valuable book is stolen, Gilbert is assaulted, and a
strange man is found lurking in the alleyway behind the store-it
becomes clear that Titania is in grave danger. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of Christopher Morley's The Haunted Bookshop is a classic of
American literature reimagined for modern readers.
From humble origins in the middle of the 19th century as a penny
singing class within the Birmingham and Midland Institute, the
Birmingham School of Music was finally established as a major force
for musical education in 1886. This beautiful illustrated history
tells of the challenge it faced to forge an identity during the
century that followed, eventually re-inventing itself as Royal
Birmingham Conservatoire, a school within the Arts, Design and
Media Faculty of Birmingham City University. Today a studentship at
the Conservatoire can put the world at a graduate's feet.; It has
become a huge presence in the cultural life of its home city, while
passing down the greatest standards of musicianship to the next
generation. Looking to its bright future, the Conservatoire has
recently moved into its magnificent new state-of-the-art home in
what is rapidly becoming Birmingham's learning quarter.; This
stunning book celebrates Royal Birmingham Conservatoire - its
history, its people, its triumphs: how it has positioned itself
upon the world stage, the support of the wider university in
facilitating these achievements, and the talents of the
Conservatoire students themselves, both from long ago, and today,
as they venture out into the world.
Here, brought together in one volume for the first time, are the
best poems of Christopher Morley. Best known to the public as a
novelist, Morley considered himself first and last a poet, and it
is as a poet that he wished to be remembered. From the span of
Morley's work, John Bracker has drawn 132 poems that may be said to
represent the high points of the poet's art. In addition, the
editor has included a number of the "translations from the
Chinese," so much admired by Pearl Buck and Leonard Bacon.
In 1930 A. S. W. Rosenbach founded a Fellowship in Bibliography at
the University of Pennsylvania. Christopher Morley was appointed
the first fellow under this foundation. The present volume contains
the five informal talks Morley delivered, on book collecting and
literary anecdotes, at the University in the Autumn of 1931 and
also includes a list of the author's eighty-five favorite books.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck were drawn to each other the moment
they met, but there were obstacles in the way. Clara was ten years
younger and her domineering father, Friedrich Wieck, Robert's piano
teacher, was against their relationship as it developed over the
years. He saw Robert as a dissolute womaniser, and he saw his own
reflected glory disappearing if Clara's career prospects as a
pianist diminished. But the couple did marry, with help from the
judiciary, and had a happy life together, so happy that their
increasing number of children did indeed hamper Clara's performing
opportunities. Then a young composer, Johannes Brahms, came into
their household as a disciple of Schumann and nothing would ever be
the same again. About The Author Christopher Morley is Chief Music
Critic of the Birmingham Post, and contributes to several
international magazines. Schumann has always been very special to
him, and a visit to the asylum in which the composer died made a
huge impression upon him.
Excerpt: ...person of our tale would frequentatively apply to his
lips, and then withdraw with a quick, swooping motion. With a
rapid, somewhat sidelong gait (at first somehow clumsy, yet upon
closer observation a mode of motion seen to embrace certain
elements of harmony) this gentleman would converge upon the
southwest corner of Madison avenue and 38th street; and the intent
observer, noting the menacing contours of the face, would conclude
that he was going to work. This gentleman, beneath his sober but
excellently haberdashered surtout, was plainly a man of large
frame, of a Sam Johnsonian mould, but, to the surprise of the
calculating observer, it would be noted that his volume (or mass)
was not what his bony structure implied. Spiritually, in deed, this
interesting individual conveyed to the world a sensation of
stoutness, of bulk and solidity, which (upon scrutiny) was not (or
would not be) verified by measurement. Evidently, you will
conclude, a stout man grown thin; or, at any rate, grown less
stout. His molded depth, one might assess at 20 inches between the
eaves; his longitude, say, five feet eleven; his registered
tonnage, 170; his cargo, literary; and his destination, the
editorial sancta of a well-known publishing house. This gentleman,
in brief, is Mr. Robert Cortes Holliday (but not the "stout Cortes"
of the poet), the editor of The Bookman. CHAPTER II (OUR HERO
BEGINS A CAREER) "It would seem that whenever Nature had a man of
letters up her sleeve, the first gift with which she has felt
necessary to dower him has been a preacher sire." R.C.H. of N.B.
Tarkington. Mr. Holliday was born in Indianapolis on July 18, 1880.
It is evident that ink, piety and copious speech circulated in the
veins of his clan, for at least two of his grandfathers were
parsons, and one of them, Dr. Ferdinand Cortez Holliday, was the
author of a volume called "Indiana Methodism" in which he was the
biographer of the Rev. Joseph Tarkington, the grandfather of Newton
B....
Christopher Morley was one of the most celebrated American authors
of the 1920s and 1930s. Best known as the author of Parnassus on
Wheels and Kitty Foyle, Morley wrote for a popular audience that
keenly appreciated his style, his wit, and his exuberant
championing of the written word. Morley wrote most of the pieces
collected in this volume from 1918 to 1920, while a columnist for
the Philadelphia Evening Ledger. His assignment: to "saunter"
around town and the Philadelphia suburbs, and then - usually after
a leisurely lunch - report back. The result was a series of lively
essays that, read now, not only reveals a city's colorful past, but
sheds light on its present: much of the Philadelphia Morley
explored remains intact for the native or visitor with the eye and
patience to discover it. Morley's best Philadelphia work, scattered
among 12 volumes published during his lifetime, have been collected
in this handsome new book, which includes period illustrations by
Walter Jack Duncan and Frank Taylor, and a critical introduction by
Ken Kalfus. Published on May 5, 1990, on the 100th anniversary of
Morley's birth, Christopher Morley's Philadelphia brings together
numerous essays that have been out of print for 50 years or longer.
The book joins Fordham University Press's 1988 collection,
Christopher Morley's New York, as a lasting contribution to the
Morley oeuvre.
Christopher Morley was one of the most celebrated American authors
of the 1920s and 1930s. Best known as the author of Parnassus on
Wheels and Kitty Foyle, Morley wrote for a popular audience that
keenly appreciated his style, his wit, and his exuberant
championing of the written word. Morley wrote most of the pieces
collected in this volume from 1918 to 1920, while a columnist for
the Philadelphia Evening Ledger. His assignment: to "saunter"
around town and the Philadelphia suburbs, and then a usually after
a leisurely lunch a report back. The result was a series of lively
essays that, read now, not only reveals a cityas colorful past, but
sheds light on its present: much of the Philadelphia Morley
explored remains intact for the native or visitor with the eye and
patience to discover it. Morleyas best Philadelphia work, scattered
among 12 volumes published during his lifetime, have been collected
in this handsome new book, which includes period illustrations by
Walter Jack Duncan and Frank Taylor, and a critical introduction by
Ken Kalfus. Published on May 5, 1990, on the 100th anniversary of
Morleyas birth, Christopher Morleyas Philadelphia brings together
numerous essays that have been out of print for 50 years or longer.
The book joins Fordham University Pressas 1988 collection,
Christopher Morleyas New York, as a lasting contribution to the
Morley oeuvre.
A collection of fifty-five essays, written mostly in the
mid-twenties but with some later examples as well, Christopher
Morley's New York presents in rich, evocative detail New York at
the end of World War I - that heady time after the doughboys
returned, the Twenties got roaring, the Volstead Act found itself
thwarted, and a lot of progressive life got on with its business
before running into the wall of the Great Depression. In the first
section of the book, East Side, West Side, All Around the Town, we
experience New York just as Morley did: through its bookstores,
restaurants, taverns, waterfronts, and other locales that lent the
city its unique, rough-and-tumble character. But we're also treated
to a vivid picture of Christopher Morley himself, particularly in
the next section, The Three Hours for Lunch Club, in which Morley's
gusto in food, drink, companionship, conversation, and general
bonhomie is plainly evident. Finally, in the last section, we
experience another, suburban New York: Roslyn, Long Island, where
for years Morley lived with his wife and family. Contrasted with
the vulgar beauty of the city, the natural splendor Morley
encountered on Long Island is particularly affecting. This
attractive volume is enhanced by the evocative period illustrations
of Walter Jack Duncan, who illustrated so many Morley first
editions.
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