Sharp is a vibrant depiction of the intellectual beau monde of twentieth-century New York, where gossip-filled parties gave out to literary slugging-matches in the pages of the Partisan Review or the New York Review of Books.

" Footnotes give additional information concerning many of the people listed. This volume was published in 1949 to help scholarly research in the history of colonial of Georgia.

This "gorgeously written" National Book Award finalist is a dazzling, heart-rending story of an oil rig worker whose closest friend goes missing, plunging him into isolation and forcing him to confront his past (NPR, One of the Best Books ...

Through unprecedented archival research and gripping personal testimonies, Greg Grandin powerfully challenges these views in this classic work.

... Hanna & Neale , 29 , Nassau St. , Dublin Sauvan's Picturesque Tour of the Seine . 24 coloured plates . 4to . bound . Half mor . , gil edges . £ 7 15s . Ackermann's History of University ... in author's autograph on fly - leaf . Ist edits ...

... Hannah Kirby , 12 April 1819 ; Amy [ Willis ? ] to Amy Kirby , 8 December 1822 ; Phebe [ Willis ? ] to Amy Kirby ... Neale , Farmington , 8-9 , 23 ; and Wellman , “ 1816 Farmington Quaker Meeting- house , " 17-21 , 37-43 . 72 ...

This book offers a new approach to the vexing question of how to write the early history of Islam.

Focusing on the variety of genres that make up pop music, Roy Shuker explores key subjects which shape our experience of music such as music production, the music industry, music policy, fans, audiences and subcultures.

This collection of writings, introduced by Lomax's daughter Anna, reintroduces these essential writings. Drawing on the Lomax Archives in New York, this book brings together articles from the 30s onwards.