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Portrait of a Danish Conman
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 158

Portrait of a Danish Conman

Frantz Leander Hansen has written a brilliant book about Otto Stein (Martin Zerlang, University of Copenhagen, reviewing the Danish edition in Scandinavian Studies, University of Illinois Press, Vol. 92, No. 2). Jacob Paludan's Danish classic novel Jørgen Stein (1933) includes the subordinate character Otto Stein, a man about town in the roaring 1920s and a promising barrister. Involvement in small-time crime leads to large-scale confidence trickery which ends in decline, fall and suicide. This literary portrait of an epoch of deceit and fraud as a cultural phenomenon brings to the fore the economics and criminal psychology of the period. Otto Stein is viewed as an ultra-topical figure of o...

Quincie Bolliver
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 452

Quincie Bolliver

Quincie, the motherless thirteen-year-old daughter of an itinerant muleskinner, is the captivating protagonist of this Depression-era novel set in the Texas oil patch. Her story's value resides not only in the viewpoint of a young girl who comes of age in the shadow of the derricks but also in the currency of her creator's sensitivity to the natural world and environmental issues. Originally a 1941 Houghton-Mifflin Literary Fellowship Book, Quincie Bolliver is an extraordinary study in character, place, and the community of women weak and strong. From the moment the wise, lonesome Quincie and her stubborn, charming father, Curtin, arrive in Good Union, Texas, where the boom has passed and Ju...

The Pharmaceutical Era
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 508

The Pharmaceutical Era

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1888
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Railway News, Finance and Joint-stock Companies' Journal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 972

Railway News, Finance and Joint-stock Companies' Journal

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1882
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Transactions - American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 784
The Canada Gazette
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1174

The Canada Gazette

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1919
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Report of the Secretary of State for Canada for the Year Ending ...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1262

Report of the Secretary of State for Canada for the Year Ending ...

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1920
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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