The Beautiful and the Damned - Francis Scott Fitzgerald - Fitzgeralds second novel, a devastating portrait of the excesses of the Jazz Age, is a largely autobiographical depiction of a glamorous, reckless Manhattan couple and their spectacular spiral into tragedy. Published on the heels of This Side of Paradise, the story of the Harvard-educated aesthete Anthony Patch and his willful wife, Gloria, is propelled by Fitzgeralds intense romantic imagination and demonstrates an increased technical and emotional maturity. The Beautiful and Damned is at once a gripping morality tale, a rueful meditation on love, marriage, and money, and an acute social document. As Hortense Calisher observes in her Introduction, Though Fitzgerald can entrance with stories so joyfully youthful they appear to be safewhen he cuts himself, you will bleed.This book has caused an even greater sensation in America than This Side of Paradise. It is a long, searching, and absolutely convincing study of degeneration, that degeneration which ruins so many of the rich, young, idle people. The "smart set" of New York is hurled into the limelight and mercilessly revealed. A witty, pungent, and entirely orginal book. An excellent portrayal of the Eastern elite at the beginning of the Jazz Age.
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MONEY MATH LEARNING CENTERS: 10 EASY CENTERS WITH SKILL-BUILDING ACTIVITIES THAT TEACH COUNTING, ONE-TO-ONE CORRESPONDENCE, SORTING, ADDITION, AND SUBTRACTIONAND MEET THE By Shirley Barulich *Excellent Condition*.
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The Land Vita Sackville-West - Vita Sackville-West was born on March 9, 1892. The illegitimate daughter of a baron and a Spanish dancer, she grew up with money but few friends. She adored writing poetry from an early age. She grew up both in England and France.Vita realized quickly that she adored both men and women. She had a wide range of suitors, but she preferred enjoying life on her own terms. At 21 she married Harold Nicholson, a near-penniless diplomat, but he was a good match for her. Both were bisexual and both enjoyed relationships with the others blessings.For a period of time Vita dressed as a man and travelled with one of her lovers, Violet Keppel. In 1925, Vita became involved with famous author Virginia Woolf the two became each others muse. Vita was the inspiration for Woolfs novel Orlando.
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Dombey and Son is an English novel by Charles Dickens (1812-1870), published in London in nineteen soap operas from October 1846 to April 1848 by The Graphic Magazine, and in a single volume by Bradbury And Evans in 1848. The novel first appeared under its full title, Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export Dombey and Son. It was illustrated, according to very precise indications of Dickens, by the draftsman Hablot Knight Browne. With this seventh novel, Dickens crowns the first phase of his creative work, which, according to criticism, has reached its maturity. As such, it represents a "watershed novel", announcing "the more mature and artistically more satisfactory works," 1 with a perfect match between, on the one hand, his perception of the social tensions of the epoch And its moral significance and, on the other, the coherence of its structure and the relevance of its symbolic network.
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READY...SET...RETIRE!: FINANCIAL STRATEGIES FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE By Lucia Raymond J. Sr. & Dale Fetherling **Mint Condition**.
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When she leaves her French convent school for London's glittering society, Mona dreams of a passionate love—yet finds herself caught between the demands of duty and the pull of temptation. Her calculating mother seeks a convenient match, her charming brother courts chaos, and two very different men vie for her heart: the noble, reserved Peter Brayton, and the dangerous, magnetic Alec, whose seductive shadow hides the power to ruin. In the bloom of newfound freedom, Mona's journey sweeps her from candlelit ballrooms and Paris salons to the wild, lonely moors of Scotland. Each step forces her to unravel secrets of her own heart—and decide which love is worth risking everything for. This 100-Year Anniversary Edition of Jigsaw celebrates Barbara Cartland's debut masterpiece. First published in 1925 and adored ever since, a timeless novel is perfect for readers discovering the fierce spirit and courage of Barbara Cartland heroines for the first time.
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Title: Debt-Proof Living: The Complete Guide to Living Financially Free Item Condition: used item in a very good condition. Will be clean, not soiled or stained. Edition: List Price: -.
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A woman must confront the evil that has been terrorizing her street since she was a child in this gripping haunted house novel, perfect for fans of The Last House on Needless Street and Tell Me I'm Worthless. On an otherwise ordinary street in Chicago, there is a house. An abandoned house where, once upon a time, terrible things happened. The children who live on this block are told by their parents to stay away from that house. But of course, children don't listen. Children think it's fun to be scared, to dare each other to go inside. Jessie Campanelli did what many older sisters do and dared her little brother Paul. But unlike all the other kids who went inside that abandoned house, Paul didn't return. His two friends, Jake and Richie, said that the house ate Paul. Of course adults didn't believe that. Adults never believe what kids say. They thought someone kidnapped Paul, or otherwise hurt him. They thought Paul had disappeared in a way that was ordinary, explainable. The disappearance of her little brother broke Jessie's family apart in ways that would never be repaired. Jessie grew up, had a child of her own, kept living on the same street where the house that ate her brother sat, crouched and waiting. And darkness seemed to spread out from that house, a darkness that was alive—alive and hungry.
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The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Nell Trent, a beautiful and virtuous young girl of "not quite fourteen". An orphan, she lives with her maternal grandfather (whose name is never revealed) in his shop of odds and ends. Her grandfather loves her dearly, and Nell does not complain, but she lives a lonely existence with almost no friends her own age. Her only friend is Kit, an honest boy employed at the shop, whom she is teaching to write. Secretly obsessed with ensuring that Nell does not die in poverty as her parents did, her grandfather attempts to provide Nell with a good inheritance through gambling at cards. He keeps his nocturnal games a secret, but borrows heavily from the evil Daniel Quilp, a malicious, grotesquely deformed, hunchbacked dwarf moneylender. In the end, he gambles away what little money they have, and Quilp seizes the opportunity to take possession of the shop and evict Nell and her grandfather. Her grandfather suffers a breakdown that leaves him bereft of his wits, and Nell takes him away to the Midlands of England, to live as beggars. Convinced that the old man has stored up a large and prosperous fortune for Nell, her wastrel older brother, Frederick, convinces the good-natured but easily led Dick Swiveller to help him track Nell down, so that Swiveller can marry Nell and share her supposed inheritance with Frederick. To this end, they join forces with Quilp, who knows full well that there is no fortune, but sadistically chooses to 'help' them to enjoy the misery it will inflict on all concerned. Quilp begins to try to track Nell down, but the fugitives are not easily discovered. To keep Dick Swiveller under his eye, Quilp arranges for him to be taken as a clerk by Quilp's lawyer, Mr. Brass. At the Brass firm, Dick befriends the mistreated maidservant and nicknames her 'the Marchioness'. Nell, having fallen in with a number of characters, some villainous and some kind, succeeds in leading her grandfather to safet
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Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq by Miller, T. Christian Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less
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A queer horror novella about the occult, cult cinema, queer desires and other things left on the cutting room floor. Perfect for fans of Paul Tremblay and Cassandra Khaw. From the USA Today bestselling author of Cuckoo Ellen, a deeply closeted lesbian spends all her time in solitude, restoring films at a failing archive in 1980s New York City. When a group of German academics present her with a print of an infamous exploitation film believed to have been destroyed during the Holocaust, Ellen finds herself forced to confront her own repressed sexuality. And the more she works on the restoration, the more obsessed she becomes with its depictions of occult practices and queer debauchery. She's soon convinced that the depraved acts portrayed in the film are not fiction, but reality. And that they're happening to her.
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Authors : Arnold, Curtis. Honey, Who Shrunk Our Money?. Title : Honey, Who Shrunk Our Money?. Condition : Very Good. Pages : 256. About booksfromca. Publication Date : 2008-03-01.
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A stunning edition of the greatest poems by the beloved Dylan Thomas, selected and introduced by Cerys Matthews Dylan Thomas is one of most beloved British poets of all time. Richly melodious and vividly expressive, Thomas's poems strike to the heart of eternal themes of living and dying, of innocence lost and the persistence of nature's cycles. In this new selection, Cerys Matthews brings together poems from across Thomas's career to showcase the very best of his work. Full of gorgeous imagery and piercing insight, Out of Chaos Comes Bliss is the perfect introduction to this remarkable writer.
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A Surprise They Will Never Forget: This exquisite money pull box is designed to enchant your loved ones. Delight them with a unique treasure they can cherish forever – it even doubles as an amusing prank for adults!
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