The View From Pompeys Head

Author : Hamilton Basso
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The View from Pompey's Head written by Hamilton Basso and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1985 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Manhattan lawyer representing a large publishing house, Anson Page is returning to his hometown after fifteen years to investigate the mystery surrounding one of his client's authors, a major American novelist who lives on nearby Tamburlaine Island. The landmarks and people in Pompey's Head resurrect for Page the sweep of his past life. As he sets about resolving business matters, he collides headlong with the enduring power of lineage to determine belonging and dominance, exclusion and shame, and the realization that leaving does not mean escaping. The View from Pompey's Head spent forty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was translated into seven languages.

Author : Hamilton Basso
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Author : Hamilton Basso
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807123348
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The View from Pompey's Head written by Hamilton Basso and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweet, sleepy -- beautiful -- old Pompey's Head, South Carolina. Anson Page thought he'd ground it out of his life for good. Now a Manhattan lawyer representing a large publishing house, he's returning to his hometown after fifteen years to investigate the mystery surrounding one of his client's authors, a major American novelist who lives on nearby Tamburlaine Island. Both painfully familiar and irrevocably altered, the landmarks and people in Pompey's Head resurrect for Page the sweep of his past life. As he sets about resolving business matters, he collides headlong with the enduring power of lineage to determine belonging and dominance, exclusion and shame, and the realization that leaving does not mean escaping.A deft interlacing of recollection and suspense, The View from Pompey's Head is Hamilton Basso's most popularly acclaimed novel. When first published, it spent forty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was translated into seven languages.

Author : Hamilton Basso
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pompey's Head written by Hamilton Basso and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807145793
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of the Heart written by Elizabeth Spencer and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With charm and vivid detail, the acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Spencer acquaints readers with the places and people, the pleasures and heartaches, she has known in her life. From her idyllic childhood in small-town Mississippi onward, a questioning spirit and voracity for reading and writing shape Spencer's course: her formal and informal educations at Vanderbilt and in Rome, Florence, New York, and Montreal, and her break with the culturally rigid segregated society from which she sprang; her friendships with such great writers as Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, and Robert Penn Warren; and her own many remarkable literary successes. A deeply affecting memoir by an esteemed American author, Landscapes of the Heart reveals Spencer to be both a part of and forever apart from her beloved southern roots.

Author : Harry Skrdla
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146711233X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1955-07-25 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Author : Ingo Gildenhard
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783740779
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cicero, On Pompey's Command (De Imperio), 27-49 written by Ingo Gildenhard and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In republican times, one of Rome's deadliest enemies was King Mithridates of Pontus. In 66 BCE, after decades of inconclusive struggle, the tribune Manilius proposed a bill that would give supreme command in the war against Mithridates to Pompey the Great, who had just swept the Mediterranean clean of another menace: the pirates. While powerful aristocrats objected to the proposal, which would endow Pompey with unprecedented powers, the bill proved hugely popular among the people, and one of the praetors, Marcus Tullius Cicero, also hastened to lend it his support. In his first ever political speech, variously entitled pro lege Manilia or de imperio Gnaei Pompei, Cicero argues that the war against Mithridates requires the appointment of a perfect general and that the only man to live up to such lofty standards is Pompey. In the section under consideration here, Cicero defines the most important hallmarks of the ideal military commander and tries to demonstrate that Pompey is his living embodiment. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, the incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both AS and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis and historical background to encourage critical engagement with Cicero's prose and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.

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Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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