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This book offers a typology of altered states, defining dream, hallucination, trance, vision and ecstasy in their cinematic expression.
Charles Davies (b.ca. 1706) emigrated from England to Philadelphia, and married Hannah Matson in 1732/1733. Descendants (chiefly spelling the surname Davis) and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere.
The world is full of mysteries...
In One Writer's Imagination, Suzanne Marrs draws upon nearly twenty years of conversations, interviews, and friendship with Eudora Welty to discuss the intersections between biography and art in the Pulitzer Prize winner's work. Through an engaging chronological and comprehensive reading of the Welty canon, Marrs describes the ways Welty's creative process transformed and transfigured fact to serve the purposes of fiction. She points to the sparks that lit Welty's imagination -- an imagination that thrived on polarities in her personal life and in society at large. Marrs offers new evidence of the role Welty's mother, circle of friends, and community played in her development as a writer and...
Carefully and extensively documented, a definitive history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.
In this definitive account of the life of one of the finest writers of the 20th century, Marrs restores Eudora Welty's story to human proportions, tracing Welty's history from her roots in Jackson, Mississippi, to her rise to international stature.
Three Allison Lane novellas: For Richer or Poorer, The Three Beaux, part 2; The Ultimate Magic, The Three Beaux, part 3; and Promises to Keep. For Richer or Poorer: Richard Hughes is shocked when a ragged miss bursts into his sister’s wedding. Georgiana Whittaker is fleeing her guardian’s plot to sell her to a scoundrel. The Ultimate Magic: Lord Charles Beaumont is shocked that the favor he promised his friend involves helping governess Edith Knowlton, the bane of his existence who has caused him more embarrassment than any diplomat can tolerate. Promises to Keep: A deathbed vow sends Maggie Adams from America to England to meet the family she’s never known, but only Marcus Widmer welcomes her. The others revive the plot that drove her father from the country many years ago… Originally published by Signet