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Book Madonna Babetta

Download or read book Madonna Babetta written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pasquerella and Madonna Babetta

Download or read book Pasquerella and Madonna Babetta written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pasquerella and Madonna Babetta

Download or read book Pasquerella and Madonna Babetta written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Two Worlds

Download or read book Two Worlds written by Arthur Symons and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pacquerella and Madonna Babetta

Download or read book Pacquerella and Madonna Babetta written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Passquerella and Madonna Babetta

Download or read book Passquerella and Madonna Babetta written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conor  Volume I

Download or read book Conor Volume I written by Donald Harman Akenson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994-09-07 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The career of Conor Cruise O'Brien reads like the work of several people, not just one. Having served as a diplomat under Sean MacBride, he came to world prominence as special representative to Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary General of the United Nations, in the then-Congo. Squeezed ruthlessly by big-power politics, he resigned and wrote To Katanga and Back (1962), a classic in modern African history and still the only book to get behind the polished marble façade to reveal how the United Nations works. O'Brien then became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, and battled for academic freedom against one of the most amiable of tyrants, Kwame Nkrumah. He moved on to become the first incumbent of the Schweitzer Chair at New York University. His relations with the "New York intellectuals" of the time were productive, acrimonious, sometimes comic - and part of a central chapter in the intellectual history of America in the 1960s. From 1969 to 1977 O'Brien was probably the most hated person in Ireland, as well as one of the most heroic. One of the first to see the fascistic nature of the Provisional IRA, he began an unrelenting campaign against its terrorism. In that campaign he called into question the basic myths upon which the Irish republic was constructed. His States of Ireland (1972) is the most publicly influential piece of Irish historical writing since John Mitchel's The Last Conquest of Ireland (1860), and many students of Irish history believe that O'Brien's work in the 1970s was crucial to averting civil war in Ireland. Whatever one thinks about this extraordinary man, one cannot ignore him. He may well be the most important Irish nonfiction writer of the twentieth century, with writings as widely scattered as they have been influential. Volume I, Narrative is the biography of one of the most controversial, engaging, and courageous individuals of this century. Volume II, Anthology brings together his best short pieces, many of which originally appeared in such periodicals as the Spectator, the New Republic, Harper's, the Atlantic, the New Statesman, the Observer, and the New York Review of Books and have never been reprinted. A complete bibliography of O'Brien's work is also provided.

Book Bookleggers and Smuthounds

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  • Author : Jay A. Gertzman
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2011-09-02
  • ISBN : 0812205855
  • Pages : 428 pages

Download or read book Bookleggers and Smuthounds written by Jay A. Gertzman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the two world wars, at a time when both sexual repression and sexual curiosity were commonplace, New York was the center of the erotic literature trade in America. The market was large and contested, encompassing not just what might today be considered pornographic material but also sexually explicit fiction of authors such as James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, and D.H. Lawrence; mail-order manuals; pulp romances; and "little dirty comics." Bookleggers and Smuthounds vividly brings to life this significant chapter in American publishing history, revealing the subtle, symbiotic relationship between the publishers of erotica and the moralists who attached them—and how the existence of both groups depended on the enduring appeal of prurience. By keeping intact the association of sex with obscenity and shameful silence, distributors of erotica simultaneously provided the antivice crusaders with a public enemy. Jay Gertzman offers unforgettable portrayals of the "pariah capitalists" who shaped the industry, and of the individuals, organizations, and government agencies that sought to control them. Among the most compelling personalities we meet are the notorious publisher Samuel Roth, "the Prometheus of the Unprintable," and his nemesis, John Sumner, head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, a man aggressive in his pursuit of pornographers and in his quest for a morally united—and ethnically homogeneous—America.

Book Pasquerella  and Madonna Babetta  Two Hitherto Untranslated Stories by Giovanni Boccaccio  with Some Hitherto Unpublished Sketches by Aubrey Beardsley

Download or read book Pasquerella and Madonna Babetta Two Hitherto Untranslated Stories by Giovanni Boccaccio with Some Hitherto Unpublished Sketches by Aubrey Beardsley written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation

Download or read book Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation written by Robin Healey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation provides the most complete record possible of texts from the early periods that have been translated into English, and published between 1929 and 2008. It lists works from all genres and subjects, and includes translations wherever they have appeared across the globe. In this annotated bibliography, Robin Healey covers over 5,200 distinct editions of pre-1900 Italian writings. Most entries are accompanied by useful notes providing information on authors, works, translators, and how the translations were received. Among the works by over 1,500 authors represented in this volume are hundreds of editions by Italy's most translated authors – Dante Alighieri, Machiavelli, and Boccaccio – and other hundreds which represent the author's only English translation. A significant number of entries describe works originally published in Latin. Together with Healey's Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.

Book Samuel Roth  Infamous Modernist

Download or read book Samuel Roth Infamous Modernist written by Jay A. Gertzman and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Roth is known to most literary scholars as a bold literary "pirate" for issuing unauthorized editions of modernist sensations, including Ulysses and Lady Chatterley’s Lover. In the absence of an international copyright agreement and because works deemed obscene could not be copyrighted, what he did was not illegal. But it did violate the protocols of mutual fair dealing between publishers and authors. Those publications provoked an unprecedented international protest of writers, publishers, and intellectuals, who eventually vilified Roth on two continents. Roth was a man with an uncanny ability to recognize good contemporary writing and make it accessible to popular audiences. Ultimately, his dedication to the publication of these works broke down many of the censorship laws of the time, though he suffered greatly for his efforts. His story portrays a struggle with literary censorship in the mid-twentieth century while providing insights into how modernism was marketed in America.

Book Obscenity Rules

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  • Author : Whitney Strub
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 2013-09-24
  • ISBN : 0700619372
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Obscenity Rules written by Whitney Strub and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some, he was “America’s leading smut king,” hauled into court repeatedly over thirty years for peddling obscene publications through the mail. But when Samuel Roth appealed a 1956 conviction, he forced the Supreme Court to finally come to grips with a problem that had plagued both American society and constitutional law for longer than he had been in business. For while the facts of Roth v. United States were unexceptional, its constitutional issues would define the relationship of obscenity to the First Amendment. The Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision in Roth for the first time tried to definitively rule on the issue of obscenity in American life and law—and failed. In this first book-length examination of the case, Whitney Strub lays out the history of obscenity’s meaning as a legal concept, highlights the influence of antivice crusaders like Anthony Comstock and John Sumner, and chronicles the shadowy career that led Roth to spend nearly a decade of his life imprisoned for the allegedly obscene materials that he sent through the mails. Strub then unwraps the events that produced Roth v. United States, placing the trial in the context of its times—the Kinsey Reports, the Kefauver hearings, free speech debates—by using Roth’s own private papers along with the records of the various prosecutions and the memos of the justices. The significance of Roth, as Strub reveals, lay in the two faces of Justice William Brennan’s majority opinion—which on the one hand reflected the liberalizing attitude toward sexual matters in mid-century America, but on the other kept “obscene” expressions beyond First Amendment protection. Because that ruling points up the contradictions of a society where the prurient and repressive commingle uncomfortably, Strub shows how Roth says much more about American sexual values than Brennan’s written words necessarily acknowledged. In our era of internet pornography and Fifty Shades of Grey, it may be difficult to imagine a time when obscenity was a matter for the courts. As Strub tracks the legacy of Roth and obscenity law through the ongoing policing of acceptable sexuality into the twenty-first century, his riveting narrative brings those times to life and helps readers navigate the fine line between what is socially acceptable and what is criminally obscene.

Book Sale Catalogues

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  • Author : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book Sale Catalogues written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contact Book

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  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Contact Book written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Book Auction Records

Download or read book Book Auction Records written by Frand Karslake and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.

Book Michael Field and Poetic Identity

Download or read book Michael Field and Poetic Identity written by Marion Thain and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Esquire

Download or read book Esquire written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: