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Author: Tom Cullen
Publisher: Dark Masters
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781909232433
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The seedy and beguiling Gerald Hamilton was the man who Isherwood modelled Mr. Norris on in Mr. Norris Changes Trains.
Author: Chuck Norris
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1414334494
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For the first time, Norris gives readers not only his favorite "facts about himself, but also the stories behind the facts and the code by which he lives his life.
Author: Joseph R. McElrath
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 0252030168
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Born in Chicago in 1870, Frank Norris led a life of adventure and art. He moved to San Francisco at fifteen, spent two years in Paris painting, and returned to San Francisco to become an internationally famous author. He died at age thirty-two from a ruptured appendix. During his short life, he wrote an inspired series of novels about the United States coming of age. The Octopus was a prescient warning about the threat of monopolies, and The Pit exposed the intrigues and dirty dealings at the Chicago grain exchange. Extensively reprinted, Norris's works have also found their way into popular consciousness through film (Erich von Stroheim's Greed), and even an opera based on his portrait of the huge, dumb, and murderous dentist, McTeague.Interest in this dynamic writer was wide and sustained, but Frank Norris and his family did biographers no favours. Norris burned most of his correspondence, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire devoured more, and his brother and widow dispersed his surviving papers as gifts. As a result, it was thought impossible to assemble enough material to surpass the single existing biography, published in 1932. Authors Joseph R. McElrath Jr. and Jesse S. Crisler, acknowledged as the leading experts on Norris, have spent have spent over thirty years overcoming these obstacles, devotedly amassing the material necessary to at last fashion a truly full-scale portrait of the artist. Anyone familiar with the breezier existing accounts of the man and hungering for the real story will agree that Frank Norris, A Life was worth the wait.
Author: Michael E. Schepis
Publisher: WestBow Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1449732712
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"J. Frank Norris was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in the first half of the twentieth century. This biography highlights some of the thousands of words and deeds of the man referred to as "The Texas Tornado", "The Fighting Parson", and most often simply "The Preacher." He is most well-known as the pastor of the first two mega churches in America. He survived several attempts on his life, was tried in court for perjury, arson, and murder, and spoke to millions in person and by radio. He possessed a rare combination of superior charisma, intellect, ability as a speaker, persuasive power, and leader. He was a pastor, evangelist, educator, author, publisher, world traveler, and as much as anything else he was a sensationalist. Many of his opponents hated or feared him. His friends admired and revered him. J. Frank Norris takes us from early in his career to the deepest tragedy and sorrow, and on to the triumph of becoming the friend of some of the most powerful men of his time. Throughout his life, he courageously opposed anti-Semitism and took up the cause of securing a homeland for the Jews in Palestine after World War II. His views on the Palestinian question were sought by President Truman. "The Preacher" answered the president in a document outlining the reasons for America to support a sovereign homeland state in Palestine for the Jews."--Inside jacket flap.
Author: Christopher Isherwood
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2013-11-19
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1466853328
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With The Memorial, Christopher Isherwood began his lifelong work of rewriting his own experiences into witty yet almost forensic portraits of modern society. Set in the aftermath of World War I, The Memorial portrays the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn between his desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice before dying in the war, and his envy for his father's great friend Edward Blake, who survived the war only to throw himself into gay life in Berlin and the pursuit of meaningless relationships. Published in 1932, when Isherwood was twenty-eight years old, The Memorial is the immediate precursor to the first volume of the famous Berlin Stories, but it stand in its own right as the first book in which Isherwood really found his literary voice.
Author: Ian Spector
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Published: 2010-06-28
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 1742530877
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Legend of Chuck Norris Lives On After the deadly duo of The Truth About Chuck Norris and Chuck Norris vs. Mr. T roundhouse-kicked bestseller lists, Ian Spector returns to complete the thrillogy that has become just as unstoppable, herculean, and legendary as Chuck Norris himself. Chuck Norris Cannot Be Stopped reveals 400 all-new facts about the roughest, toughest, and buffest man to ever stalk the face of the Earth. This third testament about the master of macho manliness uncovers such unknown facts as: * Jesus follows Chuck Norris on Twitter. * The reason we haven't found Osama Bin Laden is because Chuck Norris found him first. * When Chuck Norris tells time, time obeys. * A solar eclipse is the sun's attempt to hide from Chuck Norris. * Someone once put Chuck Norris on hold. That's where the term choke-hold comes from. * A man once broke every bone in his body to avoid Chuck Norris doing it for him. Brimming with brawn and full of fortitude, Chuck Norris Cannot Be Stopped contains everything you ever wanted to know about Chuck Norris but were too terrified to ask.
Author: Mary Norris
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2015-04-06
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0393246604
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Hilarious…This book charmed my socks off." —Patricia O’Conner, New York Times Book Review Mary Norris has spent more than three decades working in The New Yorker’s renowned copy department, helping to maintain its celebrated high standards. In Between You & Me, she brings her vast experience with grammar and usage, her good cheer and irreverence, and her finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice. Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Amazon, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal.
Author: Ian Spector
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008-11-25
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1101175060
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In November 2007, Gotham Books unleashed The Truth about Chuck Norris upon the world and changed publishing forever. Containing 400 farcical facts about pop culture icon Chuck Norris, the book burned through thirteen printings, roundhouse kicked the New York Times bestseller list, and left readers delighted (and a little bit terrified).... Now Ian Spector has returned to his voluminous vault to bring readers 200 new Chuck Norris facts alongside 200 facts about his longtime antagonist Mr. T, in a battle that pits foot against fist, beard against mohawk, and Delta Force against A-Team. Included in this fearsome tome are such startling observations as: ? There is nothing to fear but fear itself, and fear itself fears Chuck Norris. ? King Kong once challenged Godzilla to an arm-wrestling match. Mr. T won. ? The reason newborn babies cry is because they know they have just entered a world with Chuck Norris. ? The last man to make eye contact with Mr. T was Stevie Wonder. ? Chuck Norris is a man?s man?s man. ? Mr. T once beat a man to death with his own corpse. A hilarious tribute to two of the greatest humans who have ever lived, Chuck Norris vs Mr. T is the one book that can finally reveal what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object.
