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Hilarious. Incredible. Bizarre. Witty. Deliciously malicious! Where There's a Will is an absorbing collection of odd and curious wills from many countries and many times. Vindictive wills, revealing wills, wills written on nurses' petticoats, eggshells, tractor fenders and wills found in a bottle at sea included in the book reflect the full range of man's virtues and vices. The colorful individuals whose Last Will and Testament grace the pages of this book give more than their money away - they give themselves away. They use their wills to get back at obnoxious relatives, to maintain control beyond the grave, to reward, to punish, to defy those who say you can't take it with you. And to have the last word. Among the famous and the infamous whose wills are featured are: George Bernard Shaw, W.C. Fields, Patrick Henry, Janis Joplin, Napoleon, Jack Kelly, Howard Hughes, William Shakespeare, Ian Fleming, Billy Rose, Picasso, Marilyn Monroe, Aristotle Onassis. . . and many more. -
This book contains the sort of things one might expect to come up on QI...Such as... the worst computer ever invented, the shortest-lived newspaper, the least successful round the world cyclist and the shortest period of marital bliss. Great fun to dip into at random. -
The man with no name rode into San Miguel and saw the chance to make himself a fistful of dollars. He set two rival families against each other and managed to survive the bloodshed unscathed, while each side paid his hire. Then a massive shipment of Mexican gold arrived and violence exploded in the streets, the man with no name - the stranger, the Americano - came near to losing his life; that was when he ceased to be dangerous and became lethal...Cover art shows representation of Clint Eastwood as the Stranger in the 1964 film of the same name. -
Originally published over 300 years ago as The Compleat Housewife - and 100 years before the famous Mrs Beeton - Eliza Smith, drawing on her vast experience while 'constantly employed by fashionable and noble families' compiled this collection of over 600 recipes which had 'met with general approbation'. There are also remedies and cures for the 'benefit of every accomplished noblewoman' for every ailment from the bite of a mad dog to a case of pimples. This book was not only famous in Britain, but also in America where it has the distinction of being the first ever cookery book to be published there. N.B. Please exercise caution if you should decide to try any of the remedies mentioned; this is a 300 year old book and some of the recommendations and ingredients therein would definitely NOT be advisable to try. -
The cream of classic literati in Vogue articles and shorts. In this volume: Conversational Kleptomania and Patchwork, G.B. Stern; Rather Late For Christmas, Here We Stand and There Was No More Sea, Mary Ellen Chase; A Prologue To America, Thomas Wolfe; My Life Is An Open Book, Clifton Fadiman; Home To Truro, Robert Nathan; The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming, Ernest Hemingway; The World Within Us and I Remember Christmas In France, André Maurois; The Weather Of Our Soul and Red Mountain, Irwin Edman; Four Painters, Henrik Willem Van Loon; You're On The Air Now, What This Country Needs, My Friends, Is More Love and Decor and the Morons, Ilka Chase; Souvenir, Splendide Apartment, I Love You - I Love You - I Love You, Chile Con Amore and No Trouble At All, Ludwig Bemelmans; Brooklyn Is My Neighbourhood, Carson McCullers; Happy Land and Now At Last A House of My Own, Katherine Anne Porter; The China You Don't Know, Helena Kuo; The Old Home Town and Five Pretty Little Fables, William Saroyan; Churchill's Favourite Aunt, Oliver St. John Gogarty; Dinner With Turbot, Ford Madox Ford; Landscape - With Figures, Frederic Prokosch; Nehru of India, Krishnalal Shridharani; I Remember Christmas In Holland, Pierre Van Paassen; I Remember Christmas In Belgium,Robert Goffin; Humour - The Bomb-Proof Kind, Virginia Cowles; They're Human After All, Katharine Brush; Chungking's Broadway, Clare Boothe; Ten Answers on Japan, Wilfred Fleisher; They Never Got Into My Column, Major George Fielding Eliot; But Where Is Picasso? André Géry; Something To Remember You By, Sylvia Thompson; I Like The Circus, Paul Gallico; The Impossible Glory, Rebecca West; The Scars of London, Cecil Beaton; Gertrude Stein In France, Thérèse Bonney; Me And The French, Margaret Case Harriman; Murder In The Music Room, Samuel Chotzinoff; Art and Camouflage, Elliot Paul; Off-Stage Noises, Aline Bernstein; Sarah Bernhardt Left Them Kneeling, Laurette Taylor; File No. 113, Robert Simon; Do Men Like Witty Women? Stephen Leacock; In A Velvet Glove, Allene Talmey; Dry Tortugas, Archibald MacLeish; Southern Exposure, Ralph McGill; Waiter, Bring Me Anything; Edward Bosley Jnr; A Wit With A Whim of Iron, The House of Vanderbilt, The Mrs. Astor I Remember, We Have With Us This Evening and Fashions in Painting, Frank Crowninshield; Fanny - You Fool! and I Sing While I Cook, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; The Lady is An Engineer, Patricia Strauss; I Saw The Moscow Blitz, Margaret Bourke-White; The Wine-Diver, V. Shishkov; Now...Twenty Centuries Later, James Hilton; The Voice Of Africa, Stuart Cloete; Bucks County Auction, Josephine Herbst; Perennial Immortality and My Favourite Cooks, Lee Simonson; No Bed Of Roses, Isabel Paterson; Orson, The Wizard, Welles, J.P. McEvoy; Anything For A Laugh, Max Eastman; Thanks To Casey Jones, John Mason Brown; American Women...So Pretty, Jules Romains; Renaissance Profiles, Leo Lerman; The Infant Gourmet, Sheila Hibben; The Position of Women in Music, Sir Thomas Beecham; These Grapes Need Sugar, Rex Stout; Forty - When The Baby Was Born, Maddy Vegtel; Women of Fashion In Tehuantepec, Miguel Covarrubias; Raphaels Without Hands, The Passing of The Blops and Woman's Place In The Dark Room, M.F. Agha; Winston Churchill's American Mother, Millicent Fenwick; I Wanted To Draw and Embroidery, Ivy Low; Chautauqua Week, Vincent Sheean; I Remember Billy Mitchell, Major Alexander P. De Seversky; War On Our Road, Jan Spiess; What Makes An Orator? and I Remember Christmas In Austria, Leo Lania; Who's Loony Now, Alexander King. -
Pale Rider: Alan Dean Foster
$10.00A nameless stranger rides into the corrupt and explosive gold-rush town of Lahood, California. His arrival coincides with the prayer of a young girl who is hoping for a miracle to end the sudden and random violence in the community. Fifteen year-old Megan quietly recites from the Bible: "And I looked, and beheld a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death and Hell followed with him.' A story of confrontation in a lawless time, the nameless stranger becomes a catalyst for hope and retribution. A struggle between ruthless corporation gunmen and innocent independent miners takes on a new meaning with the appearance of the enigmatic horseman... A novelisation based the screenplay of the film Pale Rider by Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack. Follows the film almost exactly. The book contains stills from the film. -
The true and unforgettable story of the Gilbreth clan as told by two of its members. In this endearing and amusing memoir, siblings Frank Jr. and Ernestine capture the hilarity and heart of growing up in an oversized family. Mother and Dad are world-renowned efficiency experts, helping factories fine-tune their assembly lines for maximum output at minimum cost. At home, the Gilbreths themselves have twelve kids and Dad can prove demonstrably - well, almost! - that efficiency principles can apply to family life as well as the workplace. Made into a film (1950) with Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy as Dad and Mum Gilbreth and remade in 2003. (See the original, it's funnier!) -
The Shiralee: Darcy Niland
$10.00A shiralee is a swag, a burden - and Macauley tramps through the back towns of New South Wales, looking for work, with his swag and his shiralee - his four year old daughter, Buster, taken from her loose-living mother by Macauley in a fit of vengeful rage. Buster is a bundle of loyalty, fortitude and natural childishness, yet she is no joy to Macauley, who treats her with uncompromising firmness. She must go on walking with him; she must stop her chattering when he wants quiet; she must not complain. But he has a grudging affection for her, an affection which grows without his realising it - until it is threatened. Now, not only must he admit his love for his daughter, his shiralee, but he must also realise how many true friends he really has. Here are other very real Australian characters: shopkeepers, stock agents, publicans, shearers, ex-fighters - all set against the Australian bush background of the 1950s. Niland's first novel, filmed twice. -
Bride-to-be Sophie is on a quest to find her father before the big day. The only problem is - she's not sure who he is! After reading her mother's diary, she narrows it down to three great loves. So she invites them all - knowing her mother would not approve - and tries to conceal their presence...but it's not long until the secret's out!
