The Beautiful and Damned

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The Beautiful and Damned

First published in 1922, The Beautiful and the Damned followed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This Side of Paradise, thus securing his place in the tradition of great American novelists. Embellished with the author's lyrical prose, here is the story of Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife, Gloria. As they await the inheritance of his grandfather's fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and avarice. A devastating look at the nouveau riche and New York nightlife, as well as the ruinous effects of wild ambition, The Beautiful and the Damned achieved stature as one of Fitzgerald's most accomplished novels. Its distinction as a classic endures to this day. Pocket Book's Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. Special features include critical perspectives, suggestions for further read, and a unique visual essay composed of period photographs that help bring every word to life.

ISBN: 0743451503

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Rating: 3.75

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Novels 1942 52: The Moon is Down/Cannery Row/The Pearl/East of Eden

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Novels 1942 52: The Moon is Down/Cannery Row/The Pearl/East of Eden

This third volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck's writings shows one of America's most enduring popular writers continuing restlessly to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling.

ISBN: 1931082073

Author: John Steinbeck

Publisher: Library of America

Rating: 4.39

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Cannery Row

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Cannery Row

Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and people of a place, the cannery district of Monterey, California, which is populated by a mix of those down on their luck and those who choose for other reasons not to live "up the hill" in the more respectable area of town. The flow of the main plot is frequently interrupted by short vignettes that introduce us to various denizens of the Row, most of whom are not directly connected with the central story. These vignettes are often characterized by direct or indirect reference to extreme violence: suicides, corpses, and the cruelty of the natural world.

The "story" of Cannery Row follows the adventures of Mack and the boys, a group of unemployed yet resourceful men who inhabit a converted fish-meal shack on the edge of a vacant lot down on the Row.

Sweet Thursday is the sequel to Cannery Row.

ISBN: 014200068X

Author: John Steinbeck

Publisher: Penguin Books

Rating: 3.99

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The Steinbeck Centennial Collection: The Grapes of Wrath/Of Mice and Men/East of Eden/The Pearl/Cannery Row/Travels With Charley in Search of America (Boxed)

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The Steinbeck Centennial Collection: The Grapes of Wrath/Of Mice and Men/East of Eden/The Pearl/Cannery Row/Travels With Charley in Search of America (Boxed)

ISBN: 0147716756

Author: John Steinbeck

Publisher:

Rating: 4.46

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Dr. Desirable(Silhouette Desire, No. 1421)

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Dr. Desirable(Silhouette Desire, No. 1421)

ISBN: 0373764219

Author: Kristi Gold

Publisher: Silhouette Books

Rating: 3.50

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La Nuit de Valognes Le Visiteur Le Bataillon L Ecole du diable

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La Nuit de Valognes Le Visiteur Le Bataillon L Ecole du diable

ISBN: 2253153966

Author: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Publisher:

Rating: 3.87

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The Beautiful and the Damned: The Creation of Identity in Nineteenth Century Photography

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The Beautiful and the Damned: The Creation of Identity in Nineteenth Century Photography

The Beautiful and the Damned looks for the first time at the broad social and cultural context for the development of portrait photography in the nineteenth century, showing how social and celebrity portraiture on the one hand, and scientific photography on the other, were different facets of the nineteenth-century fascination with classification and ordering.Between 1860 and 1900, editions of celebrity portraits, as well as the vogue for the carte de visite, fuelled the fashion for collecting and classifying photographs of the face. In an age of rapid industrialization and the growth of the middle classes, the carte de visite became a means of conferring social status, and family albums -- which often incorporated photographs of royalty and public figures -- were used to position family members within society at large.

Photographic portraiture's rapid rise to popularity encouraged its diffusion to other spheres, and the portrait photograph was adopted by the new sciences and technologies to provide empirical evidence for theories of evolution, phrenology, racial types, insanity and criminality. A system of scrutiny or 'surveillance' of the face emerged.

The Beautiful and the Damned is a significant addition to an important new area of photographic history. Illustrated with 100 black-and-white images, this book also provides a comprehensive visual insight into the genre and features work by key figures such as Oscar Rejlander, Bassano, Eugene Atget and Julia Margaret Cameron.

ISBN: 0853318212

Author: Peter Hamilton

Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers

Rating: 3.60

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