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Playwright Ambrose Deacon suffers from acute diffidence. The success of his one-hit Broadway play sends him to Hollywood where he meets moving picture moguls Herbert Ringrose and Ben Griesheimer and the screen goddess Imperia Starling. This is the start of his extraordinary adventures in Hollywood and he discovers that he doesn't know how to say No. One of the first comic novels about life in Hollywood. Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) was an American novelist and was one of the most influential literary figures of the 1910s and 1920s. He began his career in journalism as a reporter and later worked as its Paris correspondent. His first novel, Peter Whiffle (1922) is a first-person account of the salon and bohemian culture of New York and Paris, clearly drawn from Van Vechten's own experiences, and was immensely popular. -
Persuaded by a beautiful Russian Countess to help her flee her loathsome fiancè, Captain Jonathan Clark sails from San Francisco to Alaska, evading cunning rival Captain Portugee - who will unite with Clark to defeat the Russian menace, Prince Semyon. -
Geppetto is a lonely woodcarver who makes a boy puppet and wishes, with all his might, that the puppet was alive. As Geppetto sleeps, Pinocchio is given life by the Blue Fairy. There's a catch, though. Pinocchio is alive, but he won't be a real boy until he proves himself and to help him, the Cricket will be his conscience. In the morning, Geppetto is thrilled to see that his wish has come true and he does what any father would do. He sends Pinocchio off to school - and into trouble. Pinocchio must learn to be honest, brave and to think of others before he can become a real human boy. He has to learn exactly what it means to be human. Will he learn in time? With one colour plate and fantastic line drawings by A.H. Watson. -
Weddings, disappointments, Christmas, sea storms and exotic India are all involved in what seems to be a very dramatic narrative. First published in 1879 and with four editions between 1879 and 1880, a review from c. 1891/1892 states that: 'Miss Brodie's stories have that savour of religious influence and teaching which makes them valuable as companions of the home.' -
Us And Them: Patrick Cook
$15.00Aussie humour, in the best of traditions - Cook takes his place with O'Grady, Wep and Lumsden with this book of caricatures. He sees humanity as somewhat like Basil Fawlty - surrounded by social and technical enigmas that one can only survive through a display of style and therapeutic outbursts of temporary madness. Laughter IS good for the soul! -
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Book 3 of the Stories From History series. Contains William Of Normandy; Hereward The Wake; The Bridal Of Norwich; In The New Forest; Emperor And Pope; The Adventures Of Robert Guiscard; The First Crusade; Richard The Lionheart; More Adventures Of King Richard; Marco Polo; St. Thomas Of Canterbury; The Abbot Of Bury St. Edmonds; St. Francis; The Coming Of The Friars; On Pilgrimage; King John And The Barons; The Builder; The Prince Of Wales; Robert Bruce; William Tell; Merchants And Pirates; Six Brave Men; The Manor of Oakthorpe; Dick Whittington; Five Hundred Years Ago; For St. George And England; Saint Joan; Prince Henry Of Portugal; Moors And Christians; The Tale Of An Old Book. Handsomely illustrated with black and white plates and engravings. -
From the Great Fire of 1666 to the Blitz of the Second World War, from the building of the Tower of London to the building of Canary Wharf, London has always been much more than just a capital city. It's an eclectic, teeming, vital town which prompted Samuel Johnson to declare: 'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.' There's the seedy rather than the smart, the outcast rather than the established and the bizarre rather than the beautiful. Contributors include G.K. Chesterton, Daniel Defoe, Hilaire Belloc, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Michael Moorcock, Samuel Pepys, Edith Sitwell, H.G. Wells and many more. A view of London that spans the centuries, with such intriguing chapter titles as The Face On Waterloo Steps; London Molehills; Mobs, Marches, Riots and Affrays; Clubs, Taverns and Coffee Houses and 'When A Man Is Tired Of London'. -
Published in 1940, Daphne du Maurier turned from fiction to write the true stories of everyday English people who, while following the common round of their daily lives, have given their best to their country and done deeds of gallantry in their respective spheres in a time of war. The mother who triumphed over bereavement, the London grocer who settled labor disputes at the pithead - all were able to turn the difficulties of war time into opportunities to spread a spirit of victory on the Home Front.
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