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Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Gowan McGland is poet who hasn't written anything in over five years. To get by, he beds other men's wives, gives flamboyant lectures on the New England college circuit, and steals tips from waiters at expensive restaurants. It's not much of a life, but that's all he has, until he meets the dazzling Geneva Spofford.
Series
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Born with cerebral palsy, the 10th of 22 children of a Dublin bricklayer and his wife, Christy Brown was doomed to life as a vegetable by physicians in 1932. His strong-willed mother's love and faith encouraged him to overcome this label. At age seven, he made a mark with chalk grasped between the toes of his left foot, the only limb on his body he could control. With this proof of intelligence, his schooling begins, and aided by his loving family,...
4) J'accuse
Publisher
Lobster Films
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
J'accuse is a World War I drama considered to be one of the most technically advanced films of the era and the first major pacifist film. It was referred to by Gance as "a human cry against the bellicose din of armies." Stars Marise Dauvray as Edith, a young woman who is unhappily married to an older man, François (Séverin-Mars), but is actually in love with a young poet Jean Diaz (Romuald Joubé). Both Jean and François end up on the front lines...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Italiano
Description
Variety lights: A beautiful and ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.
The white sheik: During a day in their honeymoon, a couple is separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces.
I vitelloni: Details a year in the life of five young men lingering in post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small town and struggling to...
7) #SidIAdoma
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Russian
Description
"V to vremia kak ves' mir poet pesni s balkonov i ustraivaet vecherinki po videosviazi, Gennadiĭ Borisovich, vladelets seti khoziaĭstvennykh magazinov v Podol'ske, pytaetsia spasti svoĭ biznes. A ego zhena ne mozhet (ili ne khochet?) uezzhat' s Bali domoĭ. Byvshiĭ polkovnik FSO Serëga Dergach okopalsia na dache s zapasom alkogolia i postavliaet protivorechivye dannye ot svoikh somnitel'nykh informantov, chem navodit strakh na kolleg. A sekretarsha...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Freedom Rising is a fresh, intensely human account of how the Civil War transformed the nation's capital from the debating forum for a loose union of states into the seat of a forceful central government. Before 1861, Washington was a dusty, muddy city of 60,000, joked about by urban sophisticates from New York and Boston. But at the onset of war, thousands of soldiers, job seekers, nurses, good-time girls, gamblers, newly freed slaves-all kinds...
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2010-<2017>
Language
English
Description
"Volume 1 focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of literary history, and ultimately the concept of 'writing' itself.
Rethinking the history of women's writing and literary history itself, this volume 2 examines the diversity of...
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