In this study, the first to consider Luchino Visconti's entire oeuvre, Henry Bacon examines the films of one of Italy's preeminent filmmakers against the cultural, historical, and biographical contexts in which they were made. Through analysis of his achievements, Visconti also emerges as a twentieth century inheritor and renewer of the nineteenth-century narrative tradition, especially that of the novel and the opera.

Visconti: Explorations of Beauty and Decay

Bacon, Henry

Biographies & Memoirs

Cambridge University Press

In this study, the first to consider Luchino Visconti's entire oeuvre, Henry Bacon examines the films of one of Italy's preeminent filmmakers against the cultural, historical, and biographical contexts in which they were made. Through analysis of his achievements, Visconti also emerges as a twentieth century inheritor and renewer of the nineteenth-century narrative tradition, especially that of the novel and the opera.

Winner of Library Media Connection Editors' Choice Award. A laugh-out-loud funny book for beginning to intermediate reluctant readers. Two brothers who hate to read offer hilarious tips on how to get out of their daily reading requirement. Their outrageous plans involve shoestrings, bathroom breaks, and man-eating animals. Guaranteed to get kids giggling as they learn how to read. Kids from level one beginner readers to intermediate high-low readers will laugh out loud as they discover they, too, can read on their own.

I Hate Reading: How To Get Through 20 Minutes of Reading Without Really Reading

Children's Books

Bacon, Beth

Bacon, Arthur

Humor

Pixel Titles

Winner of Library Media Connection Editors' Choice Award. Two brothers who hate to read offer hilarious tips on how to get out of their daily reading requirement. Their outrageous plans involve shoestrings, bathroom breaks, and man-eating animals. Guaranteed to get kids giggling as they learn how to read. Kids from level one beginner readers to intermediate high-low readers will laugh out loud as they discover they, too, can read on their own.

I Hate Reading: How To Get Through 20 Minutes Of Reading Without Really Reading

Literature & Fiction

Practical and Experimental Religion: Or the Teachings and Tendencies of Universalism

History

BiblioLife

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

The Sacred Flora: Or Flowers From The Grave Of A Child (1844)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Kessinger Publishing

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Religion & Spirituality

The Pastor's Bequest: Selections from the Sermons.

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Visconti: Explorations of Beauty and Decay

Visconti: Explorations of Beauty and Decay

I Hate Reading: How To Get Through 20 Minutes of Reading Without Really Reading

I Hate Reading: How To Get Through 20 Minutes Of Reading Without Really Reading

Practical and Experimental Religion: Or the Teachings and Tendencies of Universalism

Practical and Experimental Religion: Or the Teachings and Tendencies of Universalism

The Sacred Flora: Or Flowers From The Grave Of A Child (1844)

The Sacred Flora: Or Flowers From The Grave Of A Child (1844)

The Pastor's Bequest: Selections from the Sermons.

The Pastor's Bequest: Selections from the Sermons.