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[64] Such complaints were still commonplace nearly 20 years later; in The Book of Days (1864), author Robert Chambers wrote about a case of wife selling in 1832, and noted that "the occasional instances of wife-sale, while remarked by ourselves with little beyond a passing smile, have made a deep impression on our continental neighbours, [who ...
Wife selling is the practice of a husband selling his wife and may include the sale of a female by a party outside a marriage. Wife selling has had numerous purposes throughout the practice's history; and the term " wife sale " is not defined in all sources relating to the topic.
Here is a sample: "I only enjoy working on books that say something. I know this is an anathema to people who insist on preserving books that are only going to be on the shelves forever--or on coffee tables. Books are for people to read, and that's that. I think books are for the birds unless people read them." (Donna Murray, bookbinder)
Former first lady Melania Trump is now a bestselling author, as calculated by Amazon’s sales rankings.. Her forthcoming memoir, Melania, is the #1 seller in Amazon’s “Books” category, as ...
Taylor Swift's "Eras Tour" book sold 814,000 copies in its first weekend. It became the second-best-selling non-fiction book after Barack Obama's memoir, "A Promised Land."
It became India's fastest-selling book of its time. [citation needed] The book was also adapted into a movie named Hello, with Bhagat and Atul Agnihotri as writers. Bhagat would start his full time career as a novelist with his third novel, The 3 Mistakes of My Life, published in 2008.
The book was published in September 1929 with a first edition print-run of approximately 31,000 copies. [13] The success of A Farewell to Arms made Hemingway financially independent. [14] The Hemingway Library Edition was released in July 2012, with a dust jacket facsimile of the first edition. The newly published edition presents an appendix ...
Amy Adams is not shy about the realities of being a new mom.. The sunny actress is matter-of-fact about those often fraught early years as a mom, a topic she faces head-on in her new horror-comedy ...