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Author : Ben Hecht
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago written by Ben Hecht and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ben Hecht
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago written by Ben Hecht and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One Thousand and One Afternoons" were launched in June, 1921. They were presented to the public as journalism extraordinary; journalism that invaded the realm of literature, where in large part, journalism really dwells. They went out backed by confidence in the genius of Ben Hecht.
Author : Ben Hecht
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Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book 1001 Afternoons in Chicago written by Ben Hecht and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of 64 sketches of Chicago written by the author in 1921-1922 in a daily column for the Chicago daily news.
Author : Ben Hecht
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300253680
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Child of the Century written by Ben Hecht and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Hecht’s critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations of Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New York during the Second World War and after. “His manners are not always nice, but then nice manners do not always make interesting autobiographies, and this autobiography has the merit of being intensely interesting.”—Saul Bellow, New York Times Named to Time’s list of All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books, which deems it “the un-put-downable testament of the era’s great multimedia entertainer.”
Author : Paul Peditto
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780871298362
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book 1,001 Afternoons in Chicago written by Paul Peditto and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ben Hecht
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago written by Ben Hecht and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago', a timeless collection of sixty-four journalistic pieces by Ben Hecht, is an irresistible caricature of urban American life during the Jazz Age. With pen drawings by Herman Rosse, Hecht takes us on a journey through 1920s Chicago, from the opulence of Michigan Avenue to the darkest corners of society. With captivating characters, famous landmarks, and bars, Hecht's columns capture the absurdity and intensity of Chicago's people and culture.
Author : Roberts Ehrgott
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080326478X
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club written by Roberts Ehrgott and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago in the Roaring Twenties was a city of immigrants, mobsters, and flappers with one shared passion: the Chicago Cubs. It all began when the chewing-gum tycoon William Wrigley decided to build the world’s greatest ball club in the nation’s Second City. In this Jazz Age center, the maverick Wrigley exploited the revolutionary technology of broadcasting to attract eager throngs of women to his renovated ballpark. Mr. Wrigley’s Ball Club transports us to this heady era of baseball history and introduces the team at its crazy heart—an amalgam of rakes, pranksters, schemers, and choirboys who take center stage in memorable successes, equally memorable disasters, and shadowy intrigue. Readers take front-row seats to meet Grover Cleveland Alexander, Rogers Hornsby, Joe McCarthy, Lewis “Hack” Wilson, Gabby Hartnett. The cast of characters also includes their colorful if less-extolled teammates and the Cubs’ nemesis, Babe Ruth, who terminates the ambitions of Mr. Wrigley’s ball club with one emphatic swing.
Author : Ben Hecht
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book 1001 afternoons in Chicago written by Ben Hecht and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022618692X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book Afternoon Men written by Anthony Powell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and the strange drivers of human behavior. More explorations of relationships and vanity than plot-driven narratives, Powell’s early works reveal the stirrings of the unequaled style, ear for dialogue, and eye for irony that would reach their caustic peak in his epic, A Dance to the Music of Time. In Afternoon Men, the earliest and perhaps most acid of Powell’s novels, we meet the museum clerk William Atwater, a young man stymied in both his professional and romantic endeavors. Immersed in Atwater’s coterie of acquaintances—a similarly unsatisfied cast of rootless, cocktail-swilling London sophisticates—we learn of the conflict between his humdrum work life and louche social scene, of his unrequited love, and, during a trip to the country, of the absurd contrivances of proper manners. A satire that verges on nihilism and a story touched with sexism and equal doses self-loathing and self-medication, AfternoonMen has a grim edge to it. But its dialogue sparks and its scenes grip, and for aficionados of Powell, this first installment in his literary canon will be a welcome window onto the mind of a great artist learning his craft.
Author : Ben Hecht
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fantazius Mallare written by Ben Hecht and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FantazusMallare is a tortured artist who is slowly descending into madness. In a search for a muse and aided by a dwarf-monster, Goliath, Mallare tries to make sense of the world of reason versus that of insanity. Since its publication in 1924 and being banned in 1928 by the US Government, the book has achieved a cult status that strips the veneer of sanity, religion, lust and art. DigiCat presents to you the meticulously edited book with all the original black and white illustrations which earned it both its notoriety and praise. Excerpt: "FantaziusMallare considered himself mad because he was unable to behold in the meaningless gesturings of time, space and evolution a dramatic little pantomime adroitly centered about the routine of his existence. He was a silent looking man with black hair and an aquiline nose. His eyes were lifeless because they paid no homage to the world outside him. When he was thirty-five years old he lived alone high above a busy part of the town. He was a recluse. His black hair that fell in a slant across his forehead and the rigidity of his eyes gave him the appearance of a somnambulist. Twenty-twoHe found life unnecessary and submitted to it without curiosity. His ideas were profoundly simple. The excitement of his neighborhood, his city, his country and his world left him unmoved. He found no diversion in interpreting them. A friend had once asked him what he thought of democracy. This was during a great war being waged in its behalf. Mallare replied: "Democracy is the honeymoon of stupidity."
