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Book Not All the King s Horses

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  • Author : George Agnew Chamberlain
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1919
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Not All the King s Horses written by George Agnew Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book All the King s Horses

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  • Author : Michele Bernstein
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2008-10-10
  • ISBN : 1584350652
  • Pages : 145 pages

Download or read book All the King s Horses written by Michele Bernstein and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-10-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Situationist International roman à clef, written by Guy Debord's first wife, a founder of the movement and one of its influential thinkers. “What do you do, exactly? I have no idea.” “I reify,” he answered. “It's a serious job,” I added. “Yes, it is,” he said. “I see,” Carol observed with admiration. “Serious work, with big books and a big table cluttered with papers.” “No,” said Gilles. “I walk. Mostly I walk.”—from All the King's Horses Michèle Bernstein's novel, All the King's Horses (1960), is one of the odder and more elusive, entertaining, and revealing documents of the Situationist International. At the instigation of her first husband, Guy Debord, Bernstein agreed to write a potboiler to help swell the Situationist International's coffers. When she objected to the idea of practicing a “dead art,” Debord suggested that it would be instead be détournement—the Situationist reuse of media toward different, subversive, ends. Inspired by the pseudo-scandalous success of Roger Vadim's filmed version of Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons dangereuses and the adolescent Françoise Sagan's bestselling novel Bonjour tristesse, Bernstein lampooned and borrowed from both Sagan and de Laclos, concocting a roman à clef that succeeded on several levels. A moneymaker for the most radical front of the French avant-garde, the novel (by its very success) demonstrated the bankruptcy of contemporary French letters and the Situationist contempt for the psychological novel, while (perhaps unintentionally) holding up a playful mirror to the private lives of two of the Situationist International's most important members.All the King's Horses is a slippery rewrite of Dangerous Liaisons with Debord playing the role of cold libertine, Bernstein as his cohort, and disguised walk-on roles by the likes of the painter Asger Jorn and others. Though Greil Marcus sparked interest in this novel in his 1989 book Lipstick Traces, All the King's Horses remained unavailable until its 2004 republication in France. This Semiotext(e) edition is its first translation into English.

Book All the King s Horses

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  • Author : Kimberly Gatto
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2017-08-14
  • ISBN : 1621576175
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book All the King s Horses written by Kimberly Gatto and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Elvis Presley decided he wanted to buy a horse in 1966, he didn't want just any horse. "He wanted a Golden Palomino," Priscilla Presley remembers. "He would get up at 3:00 in the morning, go to certain farms and ranches and say, 'Do you have a Golden Palomino for sale?' People would say, 'That was Elvis Presley!" Elvis's legendary love of horses drove him to find the Golden Palomino who would become his beloved companion Rising Sun, and to fill Graceland's stables and Circle G Ranch with horses for family and friends to ride. In the first-ever book dedicated to Elvis's equestrian side, horse lovers Kimberly Gatto and Victoria Racimo share rare stories, interviews, and photographs that shed light on the beautiful, quiet life the King lived when he was with his horses.

Book Not All the King s Horses

Download or read book Not All the King s Horses written by Anonymous and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Not All the King s Horses

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  • Author : George Agnew Chamberlain
  • Publisher : Palala Press
  • Release : 2016-05-12
  • ISBN : 9781356488612
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Not All the King s Horses written by George Agnew Chamberlain and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book All the King s Horses

Download or read book All the King s Horses written by Steven D. Price and published by Studio. This book was released on 1983 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the Clydesdale horse and depicts the training of Clydesdales at the Anheuser-Busch breeding facility

Book Not All the King s Horses

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  • Author : George Agnew Chamberlain
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2017-10-11
  • ISBN : 9780265180266
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Not All the King s Horses written by George Agnew Chamberlain and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Not All the King's Horses: A Novel They too are an integral part of the encircling barrier for there is a mean to human vision beyond which perspective gives way to the hunger Of the eye to crowd all it can embrace along the even limit of its reach. Beneath their snowy heights there is a saddle, a gap, almost a break in the mountainous rim and toward this pass a highway shoots straight as an arrow along the level plain only to twist and turn and writhe as it strikes the ramp and rises steep and steeper for the leap that will carry it up, over and down. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book All the Kings Horses

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  • Author : Amanda Murray
  • Publisher : Robson
  • Release : 2006-05-31
  • ISBN : 9781861059307
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book All the Kings Horses written by Amanda Murray and published by Robson. This book was released on 2006-05-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1066 there have been 42 monarchs in Britain, each with their individual tastes and styles of government, yet the one thing which has always linked them is an overriding fascination and love of horses, from their use in war and pageantry to sport and leisure. Henry VIII and Elizabeth I bred horses at Hampton Court to race and imported stallions and mares from North Africa and the Middle East. James I and Charles I expanded the importation of Barb and Arab blood, and though Oliver Cromwell prohibited racing, the studs and racetracks of the Restoration were able to continue to produce some of the finest horses in the world. Amanda Murray's intriguing and comprehensive study offers a new history of the British royal family told through the fascinating and often surprising story of 'The Sport of Kings'. Discover how the side saddle was introduced, how horsemanship has always worked hand in hand with architecture, Queen Victoria's many and impressive achievements as a breeder, as well as countless other tales of the heroes and villains of horse-racing and breeding.

Book All the King s Horses

Download or read book All the King s Horses written by Laura C. Stevenson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2001 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It began the day Grandpa escaped. Something very odd has happened to Colin and Sarah's much-loved grandfather. It's as if he has been spirited away and a changeling is inhabiting his body. Raised all their lives on Grandpa's tales of the great heros in Celtic legends, Colin and Sarah feel sure that the Faer Folk are involved. In an attempt to find him again, they follow Grandpa's path, crossing the boundary between the everyday world and the enchantments of the otherworld. Suggested level: secondary.

Book All the King s Horses  and Other Stories

Download or read book All the King s Horses and Other Stories written by Anthony C. West and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Black Horses For The King

Download or read book Black Horses For The King written by Anne McCaffrey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Artos is on a historic quest - to search out the finest black horses ever known to man. He has vowed to drive the invading Saxons out of Britain, and he needs big, strong, powerful horses to carry his army into battle. Galwyn, a young Roman-Celt, leaps at the chance to accompany the group, little guessing the adventure ahead of him - or the price he will have to pay for his loyalty...

Book The Terrible Fate of Humpty Dumpty

Download or read book The Terrible Fate of Humpty Dumpty written by David Calcutt and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opens discussion on the moral issues and prejudices surrounding bullying in schools.

Book All The King s Horses

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  • Author : Lauren Gallagher
  • Publisher : GallagherWitt
  • Release : 2017-03
  • ISBN : 1943426554
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book All The King s Horses written by Lauren Gallagher and published by GallagherWitt. This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2014 EPIC Award Finalist Amy Dover’s dream of training horses has come with a price. The pressures of her career—not to mention an oppressive husband and business partner—have sucked out all the joy the horses used to bring her. After her husband’s sudden death, Amy leaves that world behind and takes a job as a farmhand so she can find her passion—and herself. Dustin King has more than enough on his plate. He’s got a full barn and a packed training roster that includes rescued horses who need more attention than he can spare. The last thing he wants to deal with is a woman who’s unnervingly indifferent toward horses, no matter how attractive she is. Except Amy isn’t as indifferent as Dustin thought. In fact, working with two traumatized horses might be just what she needs, and as Amy and Dustin bond with the rescued horses, they also bond with each other. Dustin reignites something else Amy thought she’d lost forever. No matter how much they try to resist, the spark that draws them together keeps getting hotter. But Amy has known from the beginning that she’ll one day go back to her old life. She just didn’t plan on having someone to leave behind this time… All The King's Horses is a story of love after loss and two people finding not only love, but themselves. This 91,000 word contemporary western romance was previously published, and will appeal to readers who enjoy authors such as Vivian Arend and Maya Banks.

Book All the Pretty Horses

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  • Author : Cormac McCarthy
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 1993-06-29
  • ISBN : 0679744398
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book All the Pretty Horses written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1993-06-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Book Welcome to the Monkey House

Download or read book Welcome to the Monkey House written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty-five short works by the American author written between 1950 and 1968 and originally printed in a wide range of publications including "The Atlantic Monthly," "Esquire," and "Ladies' Home Journal."

Book Welcome to the Monkey House  The Special Edition

Download or read book Welcome to the Monkey House The Special Edition written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original publication in 1968, Welcome to the Monkey House has been one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved works. This special edition celebrates a true master of the short-story form by including multiple variant drafts of what would eventually be the title story. In a fascinating accompanying essay, “Building the Monkey House: At Kurt Vonnegut’s Writing Table,” noted Vonnegut scholar Gregory D. Sumner walks readers through Vonnegut’s process as the author struggles—false start after false start—to hit upon what would be one of his greatest stories. The result is the rare chance to watch a great writer hone his craft in real time. Includes the following stories: “Where I Live” “Harrison Bergeron” “Who Am I This Time?” “Welcome to the Monkey House” “Long Walk to Forever” “The Foster Portfolio” “Miss Temptation” “All the King’s Horses” “Tom Edison’s Shaggy Dog” “New Dictionary” “Next Door” “More Stately Mansions” “The Hyannis Port Story” “D.P.” “Report on the Barnhouse Effect” “The Euphio Question” “Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son” “Deer in the Works” “The Lie” “Unready to Wear” “The Kid Nobody Could Handle” “The Manned Missiles” “Epicac” “Adam” “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”

Book The Sport of Kings

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  • Author : C. E. Morgan
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2016-05-03
  • ISBN : 0374715173
  • Pages : 560 pages

Download or read book The Sport of Kings written by C. E. Morgan and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction • A Recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the Rathbones Folio Prize • Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence • One of New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Book Named a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly • GQ • The New York Times (Selected by Dwight Garner) • NPR • The Wall Street Journal • San Francisco Chronicle • Refinery29 • Booklist • Kirkus Reviews • Commonweal Magazine "In its poetic splendor and moral seriousness, The Sport of Kings bears the traces of Faulkner, Morrison, and McCarthy. . . . It is a contemporary masterpiece."—San Francisco Chronicle Hailed by The New Yorker for its “remarkable achievements,” The Sport of Kings is an American tale centered on a horse and two families: one white, a Southern dynasty whose forefathers were among the founders of Kentucky; the other African-American, the descendants of their slaves. It is a dauntless narrative that stretches from the fields of the Virginia piedmont to the abundant pastures of the Bluegrass, and across the dark waters of the Ohio River; from the final shots of the Revolutionary War to the resounding clang of the starting bell at Churchill Downs. As C. E. Morgan unspools a fabric of shared histories, past and present converge in a Thoroughbred named Hellsmouth, heir to Secretariat and a contender for the Triple Crown. Newly confronted with one another in the quest for victory, the two families must face the consequences of their ambitions, as each is driven---and haunted---by the same, enduring question: How far away from your father can you run? A sweeping narrative of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, The Sport of Kings is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in the shadow of slavery and a moral epic for our time.