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Keats’s Reading Reading Keats Essays in Memory of Jack Stillinger


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English | ISBN: 3030795292 | 2022 | 388 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book explores John Keats’s reading practices and intertextual dialogues with other writers. It also examines later writers’ engagements with Keats’s poetry. Finally, the book honors the distinguished Keats scholar Jack Stillinger and includes an essay surveying his career as well as a bibliography of his major publications. The first section of the volume, "Theorizing Keats’s Reading," contains four essays that identify major patterns in the poet’s reading habits and responses to other works. The next section, "Keats’s Reading," consists of six essays that examine Keats’s work in relation to specific earlier authors and texts. The four essays in the third section, "Reading Keats," consider how Keats’s poetry influenced the work of later writers and became embedded in British and American literary traditions. The final section of the book, "Contemporary Poetic Responses," features three scholar-poets who, in poetry and/or prose commentary, discuss and exemplify Keats’s impact on their work.

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Jack The Great Seducer


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English | 2004 | ISBN: 0060520477, 0060757671 | EPUB | pages: 448 | 1.0 mb
Jack Nicholson is one of the longest-lasting and most recognized sex symbols of our time. This sizzling biography goes deep in-depth, relating exclusive interviews with past flames and flings, to shed light on the unique charisma and magnetism of one of America’s most respected and desired movie stars.

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Jack London A Life


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English | 2013 | pages: 334 | ISBN: 031219904X, 0312181191 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
Raised in poverty as an illegitimate child, Jack London dropped out of school to support his mother, working in mind-deadening jobs that would foster a lifelong interest in socialism. Brilliant and self-taught, he haunted California’s waterside bars, brawling with drunken sailors and learning about love from prostitutes. His lust for adventure took him from the beaches of Hawaii to the gold fields of Alaska, where he experienced firsthand the struggles for survival he would later immortalize in classics like White Fang and The Call of the Wild.

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Between the Dying and the Dead Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the Assisted Suicide Machine and the Battle to Legalise Euthanasia


Free Download Neal Nicol, "Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the Assisted Suicide Machine and the Battle to Legalise Euthanasia"
English | 2006 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 1904132723, 1904132820 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Jack Kevorkian is best known for inventing the ‘suicide machine’ and being an outspoken proponent of the right to die with dignity. He has revolutionised the way the world thinks about euthanasia. Until now his story has never been properly told, but in this fully-authorised biography Kevorkian lifts his self-imposed silence through his closest associates. In addition to his work on pioneering ‘living wills’ and the assisted suicide machine, he was nominated for a Nobel Prize for his work in pathology, and a Grammy for his music. Fluent in eight languages and with a genius IQ, Kevorkian’s personal story far exceeds his battle to legalise euthanasia.

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A Study Guide for Jack Kerouac’s On the Road


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English | 2017 | ISBN: 0787638277, 1375398776 | EPUB | pages: 56 | 0.5 mb
A Study Guide for Jack Kerouac’s "On the Road," excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes Description summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

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The Frenchman by Jack Beaumont [Audiobook]


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March 30, 2021 | English | ASIN: B08VW592NH | 11 hrs 32 mins | M4B & MP3 @126 kbps
628.75 to 637.6 MB | Unabridged | Retail
Narrator: Julian Pulvermacher
A gripping debut thriller based on the real-life experiences of a former French intelligence operative.

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The Diary of Jack the Ripper The Discovery, the Investigation, the Debate


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English | 2010 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 1562827049, 0671520997 | EPUB | 37,8 mb
The pages of The Diary of Jack the Ripper reveal the unimaginable – that over a century ago, the legendary serial killer at work in London’s Whitechapel kept a record of his bestial mutilations of women. The writer of the horrific journal is James Maybrick, a depraved drug-taking, womanising, 49-year-old Liverpool cotton merchant with a history of domestic violence. In this analysis of his diary, investigative author Shirley Harrison explains all about the origins of the text, the rigorous scientific analysis it has endured and reveals startling new information about Maybrick’s shadowy background. All this combines with a chilling confession scratched into a watch, ‘I am Jack. J Maybrick,’ provide powerful justification that Maybrick was Jack the Ripper. The diary itself is reproduced in full, so that you too can judge whether these are the deeply distributing words of Jack the Ripper himself, reaching out from across the abyss of more than a century.

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Jack Ruby The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin


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English | November 21st, 2023 | ISBN: 1641609125 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 7.48 MB
Jack Ruby changed history with one bold, violent action: killing accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV two days after the November 22, 1963, murder of President John F. Kennedy. But who was Jack Ruby-and how did he come to be in that spot on that day?

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J is for Jack-O’-Lantern A Halloween Alphabet (Holiday)


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English | 2009 | ISBN: 1585364436 | EPUB | pages: 40 | 3.6 mb
Who lit the first jack-o’-lantern? What creature of the night must return to his grave by dawn? And why do we holler "Trick or treat"? J is for Jack-O’-Lantern: A Halloween Alphabet invites you to come along on this A-Z adventure and celebration of all things that "go bump in the night." Poetry and prose combine to entertain and educate. H is for Haunted House A haunted house; you better beware. Only enter if you dare. Monsters lurking, looking mean- Just can’t wait to make you scream! Classic autumn games, jokes, and recipes (including gooey deviled egg eyeballs!) help round out the Halloween festivities. Atmospheric artwork blends just enough fun with fright to provide the perfect backdrop. One of Denise Brennan-Nelson’s favorite Halloween memories is of her daughters wearing homemade skunk costumes, since the girls are "Mommy’s little stinkers." Her other books include Willow and Buzzy the bumblebee. When she’s not visiting schools to speak to schoolchildren and teachers, Denise is at home in Howell, Michigan. Born in Hong Kong, Donald Wu grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. He studied illustration at the California College of the Arts. Donald’s current focus is in children’s book illustration, but he also has experience with portraiture and editorial artwork. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area.

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