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Intrigue is a 1947 American film noir crime film directed by Edwin L. Marin and starring George Raft, June Havoc and Helena Carter. Intrigue was intended to be the first of a number of films Raft made, with producer Sam Bischoff, for his own production company, Star Films. [1] [2] It was one of several movies Raft made with Marin. [3]
Others have dismissed the book on grounds that Booker is too rigid in fitting works of art to the plot types above. For example, novelist and literary critic Adam Mars-Jones wrote, "[Booker] sets up criteria for art, and ends up condemning Rigoletto , The Cherry Orchard , Wagner , Proust , Joyce , Kafka and Lawrence —the list goes on—while ...
"Glory" is a novel that tells the story of a fictional country's journey towards liberation after the downfall of Old Horse, its longtime dictator. Inspired by the real-life coup that ended Robert Mugabe's nearly four-decade rule in Zimbabwe in 2017, the book is a vibrant and imaginative take on a nation in transition, as told by a group of ...
The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648–1815, written by the British historian Timothy Blanning, was first published by Allen Lane in 2007. It met with very favourable reviews, was The Sunday Times history book of the year, and was reprinted in paperback by Penguin Books in 2008.
Glory was, as the writer and critic John Updike observed in a 1972 New Yorker review, the author's fifth Russian-language novel but his last to be translated to English. "In its residue of bliss experienced," Updike writes, "and in its charge of bliss conveyed, 'Glory' measures up as, though the last to arrive, far from the least of this happy ...
Paths of Glory, a 2009 novel on Everest by Jeffrey Archer; Paths of Glory, a 1935 novel by Humphrey Cobb, the basis of the Stanley Kubrick film; Paths of Glory, a 1915 book written by Irvin S. Cobb; a non-fiction account of his journalistic experiences during World War I; Paths of Glory, a 1935 play by Sidney Howard, based on Humphrey Cobb's novel
Film producer Albert R. Broccoli attempted to film Rags of Glory in the mid-1960s with David Lean directing, but Lean subsequently – despite his initial interest in the book which he called "very good in an awful sort of way" and its subject matter – rebuffed the offer. [2] By 1974 Broccoli still intended to film the book. [3] He wrote ...
The Intrigue is a surviving [1] 1916 silent film drama produced by Pallas Pictures and released through Paramount Pictures. Frank Lloyd directed the film which was written by Julia Crawford Ivers and photographed by her son James Van Trees .