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ISBN. 978-1-4116-2298-2. Atlanta Nights is a collaborative novel created in 2004 by a group of science fiction and fantasy authors, with the express purpose of producing an unpublishably bad piece of work, so as to test whether publishing firm PublishAmerica would still accept it. [1] It was accepted; after the hoax was revealed, the publisher ...
British. Rebecca " Becky " Sharp, later describing herself as Rebecca, Lady Crawley, is the main protagonist of William Makepeace Thackeray 's 1847–48 novel [note 1] Vanity Fair. She is presented as a cynical social climber who uses her charms to fascinate and seduce upper-class men. This is in contrast with the clinging, dependent Amelia ...
Ludwig II, Christian Jank. Neuschwanstein Castle (German: Schloss Neuschwanstein, pronounced [ˈʃlɔs nɔʏˈʃvaːnʃtaɪn]; Southern Bavarian: Schloss Neischwanstoa) is a 19th-century historicist palace on a rugged hill of the foothills of the Alps in the very south of Germany, near the border with Austria. It is located in the Swabia region ...
CARLA K. JOHNSON. August 6, 2024 at 3:43 PM. There are small signs of improvement in the mental health of U.S. teenagers, a government survey released Tuesday said, but the share of students ...
The Pevsner Architectural Guides are four series of guide books to the architecture of the British Isles. The Buildings of England series was begun in 1945 by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, with its forty-six original volumes published between 1951 and 1974. The fifteen volumes in The Buildings of Scotland series were completed between ...
ISBN. 0-241-11962-6 (Paperback edition) OCLC. 29357384. Answered Prayers is an unfinished novel by American author Truman Capote, published posthumously in 1986 in England and 1987 in the United States.
A Man In Full is a bitingly satirical novel (Juvenalian Satire) set in Georgia in the late 20th century. It tells the story of characters, black and white, from Georgia's various social and economic classes. These include Charles "Cap'm Charlie" Croker, a real estate mogul and member of Atlanta's high society who is suddenly facing bankruptcy ...
The Bonfire of the Vanities. The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City, and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate journalist ...