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Who Do You Think You Are? is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, published by Macmillan of Canada in 1978.It won Munro her second Governor General's Award for Fiction in English, [1] and short-listed for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1980 under its international title, The Beggar Maid (subtitled Stories of Flo and Rose).
Alice Turner Curtis (September 6, 1860 – July 10, 1958) was an American writer of juvenile historical fiction. She was probably best remembered by young readers of her day for The Little Maid's Historical Series (which comprises twenty-four books, starting with A Little Maid of Province Town).
Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been translated into 175 languages. [1] [2] The language with the most editions of the Alice in Wonderland novels in translation is Japanese, with 1,271 editions. [3] Some translations, with the first date of publishing and of reprints or re-editions by other publishers, are:
Bill Hosokawa was born on January 30, 1915, in Seattle, Washington. [1] His parents were recent immigrants from Japan. [2] His father, Setsugo Hosokawa, who immigrated from Hiroshima, Japan, in 1899 at the age of 15, worked as a migrant farm worker and a railroad section hand in Montana before running an employment agency for Japanese immigrants.
Alice 19th (Japanese: ありす19th, Hepburn: Arisu Naintīnsu) is a Japanese shōjo manga written by Yuu Watase. [2] It appeared as a serial in the manga magazine Shōjo Comic . The heroine's name (Alice), and her encounter with a white rabbit (Nyozeka) starts the storyline.
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II is a history book written by John W. Dower and published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1999. [1] The book covers the difficult social, economic, cultural and political situation of Japan in the aftermath of World War II and the nation's occupation by the Allies between August 1945 and April 1952, delving into topics such as the administration ...
Alice McDermott's ninth novel perfectly captures the manner and mood of that era and the constricted lives that women led as “helpmeets” for their husbands. McDermott won the National Book ...
A Town Like Alice: Japanese Sergeant: 1957: Sea Wife: Submarine Interpreter: 1958: The Camp on Blood Island: Japanese Patrol: Uncredited 1961: The Long and the Short and the Tall 'Tojo' 1963: 55 Days at Peking: Old Man: Uncredited 1963: The Cool Mikado: Ho Ho: 1965: A High Wind in Jamaica: Cook: 1965: The Saint: Angkor: Episode: "Sign of the ...