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This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50
archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's
daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2,000 letters, and
while a few are business - to publishers, agents and secretaries -
the majority are much more personal. Wells's private correspondence
extends from letters to President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime
Ministers Winston Churchill and A.J. Balfour, to persons such as
'Mark Benney', who wrote novels based on his life in the slums and
his time in prison. There is correspondence too with his many
female friends and lovers, among them Rebecca West, Eileen Power,
Gertrude Stein, Marie Stopes, Lilah MacCarthy and Dorothy
Richardson. For example, a letter from Moura Budberg, with whom
Wells had a long-standing affair, which announces that she is
pregnant by him and about to have an abortion, reveals how an
advocate of birth control is himself caught out. Wells also enjoyed
correspondence with the press, particularly during the two World
Wars, and with various BBC officials and people who worked on his
films. Some of his letters on the controversies of free love,
socialism, birth control, the Fabian Society, and the nature of the
curriculum of the new London University in the 1890s are included.
Interspersed chronologically with Wells's letters is a small
selection of about 40 letters to Wells, where letters from him are
not extant. Among these are letters from Ray Lankester, Joseph
Conrad, C.G. Jung, Trotsky, Hedy Gatternigg (the woman who
attempted suicide in Wells's flat), and J.C. Smuts. The letters are
arranged in these periods: Volume 1 1878-1900; Volume 2 1901-1912;
Volume 3 1913-1930; and Volume 4 1930-1946. H.G. Wells's works
include The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), The War
of the Worlds (1898), The History of Mr Polly (1910), and A Short
History of the World (1922).
This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50
archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's
daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2,000 letters, and
while a few are business - to publishers, agents and secretaries -
the majority are much more personal. Wells's private correspondence
extends from letters to President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime
Ministers Winston Churchill and A.J. Balfour, to persons such as
'Mark Benney', who wrote novels based on his life in the slums and
his time in prison. There is correspondence too with his many
female friends and lovers, among them Rebecca West, Eileen Power,
Gertrude Stein, Marie Stopes, Lilah MacCarthy and Dorothy
Richardson. For example, a letter from Moura Budberg, with whom
Wells had a long-standing affair, which announces that she is
pregnant by him and about to have an abortion, reveals how an
advocate of birth control is himself caught out. Wells also enjoyed
correspondence with the press, particularly during the two World
Wars, and with various BBC officials and people who worked on his
films. Some of his letters on the controversies of free love,
socialism, birth control, the Fabian Society, and the nature of the
curriculum of the new London University in the 1890s are included.
Interspersed chronologically with Wells's letters is a small
selection of about 40 letters to Wells, where letters from him are
not extant. Among these are letters from Ray Lankester, Joseph
Conrad, C.G. Jung, Trotsky, Hedy Gatternigg (the woman who
attempted suicide in Wells's flat), and J.C. Smuts. The letters are
arranged in these periods: Volume 1 1878-1900; Volume 2 1901-1912;
Volume 3 1913-1930; and Volume 4 1930-1946. H.G. Wells's works
include The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), The War
of the Worlds (1898), The History of Mr Polly (1910), and A Short
History of the World (1922).
This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50
archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's
daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2,000 letters, and
while a few are business - to publishers, agents and secretaries -
the majority are much more personal. Wells's private correspondence
extends from letters to President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime
Ministers Winston Churchill and A.J. Balfour, to persons such as
'Mark Benney', who wrote novels based on his life in the slums and
his time in prison. There is correspondence too with his many
female friends and lovers, among them Rebecca West, Eileen Power,
Gertrude Stein, Marie Stopes, Lilah MacCarthy and Dorothy
Richardson. For example, a letter from Moura Budberg, with whom
Wells had a long-standing affair, which announces that she is
pregnant by him and about to have an abortion, reveals how an
advocate of birth control is himself caught out. Wells also enjoyed
correspondence with the press, particularly during the two World
Wars, and with various BBC officials and people who worked on his
films. Some of his letters on the controversies of free love,
socialism, birth control, the Fabian Society, and the nature of the
curriculum of the new London University in the 1890s are included.
Interspersed chronologically with Wells's letters is a small
selection of about 40 letters to Wells, where letters from him are
not extant. Among these are letters from Ray Lankester, Joseph
Conrad, C.G. Jung, Trotsky, Hedy Gatternigg (the woman who
attempted suicide in Wells's flat), and J.C. Smuts. The letters are
arranged in these periods: Volume 1 1878-1900; Volume 2 1901-1912;
Volume 3 1913-1930; and Volume 4 1930-1946. H.G. Wells's works
include The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), The War
of the Worlds (1898), The History of Mr Polly (1910), and A Short
History of the World (1922).
This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50
archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's
daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2,000 letters, and
while a few are business - to publishers, agents and secretaries -
the majority are much more personal. Wells's private correspondence
extends from letters to President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime
Ministers Winston Churchill and A.J. Balfour, to persons such as
'Mark Benney', who wrote novels based on his life in the slums and
his time in prison. There is correspondence too with his many
female friends and lovers, among them Rebecca West, Eileen Power,
Gertrude Stein, Marie Stopes, Lilah MacCarthy and Dorothy
Richardson. For example, a letter from Moura Budberg, with whom
Wells had a long-standing affair, which announces that she is
pregnant by him and about to have an abortion, reveals how an
advocate of birth control is himself caught out. Wells also enjoyed
correspondence with the press, particularly during the two World
Wars, and with various BBC officials and people who worked on his
films. Some of his letters on the controversies of free love,
socialism, birth control, the Fabian Society, and the nature of the
curriculum of the new London University in the 1890s are included.
Interspersed chronologically with Wells's letters is a small
selection of about 40 letters to Wells, where letters from him are
not extant. Among these are letters from Ray Lankester, Joseph
Conrad, C.G. Jung, Trotsky, Hedy Gatternigg (the woman who
attempted suicide in Wells's flat), and J.C. Smuts. The letters are
arranged in these periods: Volume 1 1878-1900; Volume 2 1901-1912;
Volume 3 1913-1930; and Volume 4 1930-1946. H.G. Wells's works
include The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), The War
of the Worlds (1898), The History of Mr Polly (1910), and A Short
History of the World (1922).
This title brings together twenty-five writings by women who share
their rich and varied World War II experiences, from serving in the
military to working on the home front to preparing for the postwar
world. By providing evidence of their active and resourceful roles
in the war effort as workers, wives, and mothers, these women offer
eloquent testimony that World War II was indeed everybody's war.
Litoff and Smith combine pieces by well-known writers, such as
Margaret Culkin Banning and Nancy Wilson Ross, with important-but
largely forgotten-personal accounts by ordinary women living in
extraordinary times. This volume is divided into the six sections
listed below:
Preparing for War
In the Military
At 'Far-Flung' Fronts
On the Home Front
War Jobs
Preparing for the Postwar World
This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50
archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's
daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2,000 letters, and
while a few are business - to publishers, agents and secretaries -
the majority are much more personal. Wells's private correspondence
extends from letters to President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime
Ministers Winston Churchill and A.J. Balfour, to persons such as
'Mark Benney', who wrote novels based on his life in the slums and
his time in prison. There is correspondence too with his many
female friends and lovers, among them Rebecca West, Eileen Power,
Gertrude Stein, Marie Stopes, Lilah MacCarthy and Dorothy
Richardson. For example, a letter from Moura Budberg, with whom
Wells had a long-standing affair, which announces that she is
pregnant by him and about to have an abortion, reveals how an
advocate of birth control is himself caught out. Wells also enjoyed
correspondence with the press, particularly during the two World
Wars, and with various BBC officials and people who worked on his
films. Some of his letters on the controversies of free love,
socialism, birth control, the Fabian Society, and the nature of the
curriculum of the new London University in the 1890s are included.
Interspersed chronologically with Wells's letters is a small
selection of about 40 letters to Wells, where letters from him are
not extant. Among these are letters from Ray Lankester, Joseph
Conrad, C.G. Jung, Trotsky, Hedy Gatternigg (the woman who
attempted suicide in Wells's flat), and J.C. Smuts. The letters are
arranged in these periods: Volume 1 1878-1900; Volume 2 1901-1912;
Volume 3 1913-1930; and Volume 4 1930-1946. H.G. Wells's works
include The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), The War
of the Worlds (1898), The History of Mr Polly (1910), and A Short
History of the World (1922).
This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50
archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's
daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2,000 letters, and
while a few are business - to publishers, agents and secretaries -
the majority are much more personal. Wells's private correspondence
extends from letters to President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime
Ministers Winston Churchill and A.J. Balfour, to persons such as
'Mark Benney', who wrote novels based on his life in the slums and
his time in prison. There is correspondence too with his many
female friends and lovers, among them Rebecca West, Eileen Power,
Gertrude Stein, Marie Stopes, Lilah MacCarthy and Dorothy
Richardson. For example, a letter from Moura Budberg, with whom
Wells had a long-standing affair, which announces that she is
pregnant by him and about to have an abortion, reveals how an
advocate of birth control is himself caught out. Wells also enjoyed
correspondence with the press, particularly during the two World
Wars, and with various BBC officials and people who worked on his
films. Some of his letters on the controversies of free love,
socialism, birth control, the Fabian Society, and the nature of the
curriculum of the new London University in the 1890s are included.
Interspersed chronologically with Wells's letters is a small
selection of about 40 letters to Wells, where letters from him are
not extant. Among these are letters from Ray Lankester, Joseph
Conrad, C.G. Jung, Trotsky, Hedy Gatternigg (the woman who
attempted suicide in Wells's flat), and J.C. Smuts. The letters are
arranged in these periods: Volume 1 1878-1900; Volume 2 1901-1912;
Volume 3 1913-1930; and Volume 4 1930-1946. H.G. Wells's works
include The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), The War
of the Worlds (1898), The History of Mr Polly (1910), and A Short
History of the World (1922).
Women are holy The people of Weyburn, Ohio, practice a religion
thousands of years old-the first religion. And the first law of
this religion is that no one may harm a woman. One of them has
broken this law. He is a rapist and killer, and he must be found
and punished. Only his mother can decide what that punishment will
be because only mothers have the right to pass judgment on their
children. This is the second law: Life is not a right. Life is a
privilege. Young Scott is witness to all of this. Twelve years old,
he is a boy on the cusp of adolescence, full of questions and
uncertainty. Is he in some way like Will, the killer? Does Scott
belong in the village of Weyburn, or is he, too, an outsider? As
the community searches for the murderer, Scott searches for answers
to troubling questions. His answers will come from the last person
he would ever expect. 'The best short novel I have read in the past
ten years. -Donald Sidney-Fryer, author of Aloysius Bertrand's
Gaspard de la Nuit and Songs and Sonnets Atlantean 'Renowned genre
novelist David C. Smith blazes fresh, new territory with a chilling
roller coaster ride of a story that will have you gripping
white-knuckled at the safe
This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50
archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's
daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2,000 letters, and
while a few are business - to publishers, agents and secretaries -
the majority are much more personal. Wells's private correspondence
extends from letters to President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime
Ministers Winston Churchill and A.J. Balfour, to persons such as
'Mark Benney', who wrote novels based on his life in the slums and
his time in prison. There is correspondence too with his many
female friends and lovers, among them Rebecca West, Eileen Power,
Gertrude Stein, Marie Stopes, Lilah MacCarthy and Dorothy
Richardson. For example, a letter from Moura Budberg, with whom
Wells had a long-standing affair, which announces that she is
pregnant by him and about to have an abortion, reveals how an
advocate of birth control is himself caught out. Wells also enjoyed
correspondence with the press, particularly during the two World
Wars, and with various BBC officials and people who worked on his
films. Some of his letters on the controversies of free love,
socialism, birth control, the Fabian Society, and the nature of the
curriculum of the new London University in the 1890s are included.
Interspersed chronologically with Wells's letters is a small
selection of about 40 letters to Wells, where letters from him are
not extant. Among these are letters from Ray Lankester, Joseph
Conrad, C.G. Jung, Trotsky, Hedy Gatternigg (the woman who
attempted suicide in Wells's flat), and J.C. Smuts. The letters are
arranged in these periods: Volume 1 1878-1900; Volume 2 1901-1912;
Volume 3 1913-1930; and Volume 4 1930-1946. H.G. Wells's works
include The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), The War
of the Worlds (1898), The History of Mr Polly (1910), and A Short
History of the World (1922).
This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50
archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's
daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2,000 letters, and
while a few are business - to publishers, agents and secretaries -
the majority are much more personal. Wells's private correspondence
extends from letters to President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime
Ministers Winston Churchill and A.J. Balfour, to persons such as
'Mark Benney', who wrote novels based on his life in the slums and
his time in prison. There is correspondence too with his many
female friends and lovers, among them Rebecca West, Eileen Power,
Gertrude Stein, Marie Stopes, Lilah MacCarthy and Dorothy
Richardson. For example, a letter from Moura Budberg, with whom
Wells had a long-standing affair, which announces that she is
pregnant by him and about to have an abortion, reveals how an
advocate of birth control is himself caught out. Wells also enjoyed
correspondence with the press, particularly during the two World
Wars, and with various BBC officials and people who worked on his
films. Some of his letters on the controversies of free love,
socialism, birth control, the Fabian Society, and the nature of the
curriculum of the new London University in the 1890s are included.
Interspersed chronologically with Wells's letters is a small
selection of about 40 letters to Wells, where letters from him are
not extant. Among these are letters from Ray Lankester, Joseph
Conrad, C.G. Jung, Trotsky, Hedy Gatternigg (the woman who
attempted suicide in Wells's flat), and J.C. Smuts. The letters are
arranged in these periods: Volume 1 1878-1900; Volume 2 1901-1912;
Volume 3 1913-1930; and Volume 4 1930-1946. H.G. Wells's works
include The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), The War
of the Worlds (1898), The History of Mr Polly (1910), and A Short
History of the World (1922).
This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50
archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's
daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2,000 letters, and
while a few are business - to publishers, agents and secretaries -
the majority are much more personal. Wells's private correspondence
extends from letters to President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime
Ministers Winston Churchill and A.J. Balfour, to persons such as
'Mark Benney', who wrote novels based on his life in the slums and
his time in prison. There is correspondence too with his many
female friends and lovers, among them Rebecca West, Eileen Power,
Gertrude Stein, Marie Stopes, Lilah MacCarthy and Dorothy
Richardson. For example, a letter from Moura Budberg, with whom
Wells had a long-standing affair, which announces that she is
pregnant by him and about to have an abortion, reveals how an
advocate of birth control is himself caught out. Wells also enjoyed
correspondence with the press, particularly during the two World
Wars, and with various BBC officials and people who worked on his
films. Some of his letters on the controversies of free love,
socialism, birth control, the Fabian Society, and the nature of the
curriculum of the new London University in the 1890s are included.
Interspersed chronologically with Wells's letters is a small
selection of about 40 letters to Wells, where letters from him are
not extant. Among these are letters from Ray Lankester, Joseph
Conrad, C.G. Jung, Trotsky, Hedy Gatternigg (the woman who
attempted suicide in Wells's flat), and J.C. Smuts. The letters are
arranged in these periods: Volume 1 1878-1900; Volume 2 1901-1912;
Volume 3 1913-1930; and Volume 4 1930-1946. H.G. Wells's works
include The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), The War
of the Worlds (1898), The History of Mr Polly (1910), and A Short
History of the World (1922).
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Dark Muse (Paperback)
Bob McLain; David C. Smith
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During World War II, the millions of letters American servicemen
exchanged with their wives and sweethearts were a lifeline, a vital
way of sustaining morale on both fronts. Intimate and poignant,
"Miss You" offers a rich selection from the correspondence of one
such couple, revealing their longings, affection, hopes, and fears
and affording a privileged look at how ordinary people lived
through the upheavals of the last century's greatest conflict.
A MAN OUT OF TIME Restaurant owner Steve Beaudine is killed in a
car accident and his beautiful wife, Ava is severely injured. After
months of physical recuperation, she returns to AVA'S with the
desire to keep the business going. But Tony Jasco, her husband's
partner, has plans to sell the eatery and split the profits. Ava
adamantly refuses to terminate what had been Steve's dream. She is
determined to make it work no matter Jasco's opposition. Then the
mysterious David Ehlert enters her life with a fantastic story, one
straight out of a fairy tale. He claims to be a wizard and that
Jasco is trying to have her killed to gain his own ends. Ava simply
can't believe such a fanciful claim...until they are attacked by
magical dark forces. Suddenly she finds herself the target of a
twisted, dark magician and her only salvation is Ehlert, a man
claiming to have been born in 1886 but still looking young and fit.
Writer David C. Smith spins a colorful, fast paced thriller that
introduces a fascinating new hero in the vein of the classic golden
age pulps but with a decidedly modern day twist. It is the story of
a haunted man out of time seeking redemption for past sins in a
world of arcane mysteries and magiks. CALL TO SHADOWS is a
masterful thriller by a veteran writer that will keep you on the
edge of your chair from start to finish.
Johnny Nicholas had many faces. To some he was "Major John
Nicholas," a downed black American pilot who parachuted into France
on a secret intelligence mission. To others he was a key player in
the French Resistance and a doctor who'd set up a practice in Paris
as a cover for his clandestine activities. At a well built 6 feet,
he was a bon vivant who loved the high life, and a film producer
with a penchant for boldly thumbing his nose at the Nazis in World
War II Paris. To Florence, his blonde girlfriend, he was an enigma
who cheated on her; she betrayed him to her German handlers.
Nicholas was arrested by the Gestapo and wound up in 1943 in
Buchenwald as a slave laborer, later working with thousands of
other prisoners to hollow out a secret underground plant under
construction at Camp Dora where V-1 and V-2 rocket bombs were
built. He was the only black and only "American" at Dora. Who was
Johnny Nicholas and how did he survive four death sentences? What
was his real mission and ultimate fate? More than 20 years and 600
contacts worldwide have gone into The Search for Johnny Nicholas,
the dramatic untold story of an unsung hero. "What an interesting
character Nicholas was As enigmatic as he seemed I kept rooting for
him throughout the book. He seemed to fill his roles perfectly and
managed to succeed at everything he tried. While he was a loner he
seemed to always be doing something to help someone else. I thought
that the "eulogy" at the end of the book was very appropriate for
him. I imagine that there were many such heroic people in WWII who
were never recognized for what they did to help stop the Axis
countries and the Nazi killing machine." --Jerry Bricker, Aadvise
Consulting, LLC
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