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This story is about two young American men who came of age in the '70s. They were alike in many ways. Although three years apart in age they were both bright, physically fit, and good looking. They each considered themselves alpha males and both were averse to the slightest hint of personal criticism. They grew up over two-thousand miles apart. In those days neither had any idea that they would one day meet face to face and one of them, perhaps both, would be changed drastically.

An assessment of Forster's posthumous writings arguing that they are complete and substantial works of art.

In the early 1960's Dick Sizemore married his high school sweetheart just before he joined the Army. Across the years both in and out of the Army he discovered his wife had agendas of her own. He forgave her foibles more than once, but eventually lady fate played her card.

This story begins when Kim Moran and her life-long friend Carol Devine make the capricious decision to take an automobile trip across the US. The story ends with a life-altering experience in Ireland which leads the two women to discover a new depth to their friendship.

Mary DeWine, the youngest of seven children, was harassed by her siblings. In self-defense she developed a hard side. The story relates how her eldest brother manipulated their ailing parents into selling him a large portion of the family farm dirt cheap. Ultimately Jake Flake got involved. This is what he did.

This story is about an ex-stockbroker who ended up on LA's Skid Row. During a dumpster diving episode he found a cell phone containing a threating text message. He and two of his fellow residents realized they must work fast in order to save a life.

This book suggests that anyone can be artistic. It only requires some ingenuity. The author calls it "ingenista."

Like Paris in the '20s, Berlin in the early thirties was one of the most exciting cities in the world. As the Weimar Republic sputtered to a close and war loomed on the horizon, the city was a magnet for talented writers and artists.

This chronology, like others in the series, presents the story of Dr Johnson's life in a readily accessible format to provide scholar and general reader alike with a quick guide to dates, people and places together with supplementary indexes.

General Editor's Preface - Introduction - A Dickens Chronology - Sources - Genealogical Table - Index

Housman (1859-1936) was a poet of enormous popularity and widespread influence: a Latin scholar of the front rank, a superb prose stylist, a notable writer of comic verse and, thanks to the enormous success of A Shropshire Lad, one of the greatest and best-known poems in the English language, he became a legend in his own lifetime.

The scope of this study, ranging from poetry and cinema to street violence and prostitution, provides a detailed account of two writers engaged in the process of self-definition. It presents portraits of figures with whom Auden and Isherwood came into contact and demonstrates how the raw material of daily existence was transformed into art.

This book is designed to serve as a practical guide for students and others wishing to improve their skills in the detailed analysis and discussion of Hardy's prose texts.

Combining the most widely-read and studied of Conrad's novels, Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent, with The Shadow Line, this volume represents Conrad's early, middle and later writing.