Mike is a classic tale that has enchanted millions of readers worldwide. It brings the fierce, stunning landscape of the Great North to life—and tenderly evokes the love that blossoms between Sergeant Mike Flannigan and beautiful young Katherine Mary O'Fallon.

    When first published in mid-20th century, Orson Welles was cast as Borgia in the film version. Tyrone Power as Orsini.

    In the first hard pinch of the Civil War, five siblings of an established Confederate Virginia family learn that their father is the grandfather of Abraham Lincoln. The family's story, and the story of their descendants, is presented in this tale that includes both soldiers and civilians—complete with their boasting, ambition, and arrogance, but also their patience, valor, and shrewdness. The grandnephew of General James Longstreet, the author brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in history, and details war as it really is—a disease from which, win or lose, no nation ever completely recovers.

    This 1947 outing features Albion Hamlin, who comes to Boston in 1800 to defend a man accused of violating the Alien and Sedition Act. In a whirlwind of action, Hamlin is jailed, then escapes to Haiti in search of his client's daughter, Lydia Bailey, with whom he has fallen in love simply by gazing at her portrait. Roberts is known for his historical accuracy, so this should please fans of the genre.

    History of Armenia.

    His olfactory sense would make a hyena laugh, his sense of touch is inferior to that of a whirligig beetle. This unbalance, the author believes, was brought on in no small degree by the sort of clothes we wear, and the misconceptions attached to them. In our society, the naked body is believed to be incomplete--a body minus clothes. It is the packaged body that we take for the man and the woman. Regarding as we do our body coverings a utility or a convention, we generally ignore their powers to stimulate the nervous system.To better size up the causes of our sensual atrophy, the author sets out to examine the maze of prejudices and inhibitions that entrap the human body. He appraises woman's emotional need to reveal her charms, and the role of shame traditionally imposed on her. He comments on the American's infatuation with the female breast (a consequence, he suspects, of the national habit of drinking milk long after infancy); he draws attention to that little understood expedient of dress, the décolletage, especially its lesser known forms, the artful tear and the multiple windows for breasts, elbow tips and knee caps. Nor does he forget the codpiece, tabooed in our days of uncertain masculinity.A short review of deformations and mutilations, from ritual head flattening to the addiction to biting off one's lover's eyelashes, leads to another fascinating subject, usually passed over in silence, the enjoyment of discomfort. Hair shirts and assorted penitential garments are discussed as tools of self-gratification, and so is women's captive footgear--the stilts, portable pedestals and high-heeled shoes. For want of corsets and hobbleskirts, today, Mr. Rudofsky maintains, we seek sources of voluptuous sensations in multiple belts, straps, and playful riggings of cords and chains.Occasionally, agreeable fantasies are induced by fancy dress and by epidermal contact with garments symbolizing erotic savoir-faire. Yet, asks the author, has there ever been a psychiatrist known to employ sartorial therapy, that is, to prescribe disguises for his patients, to lessen their real or imagined sufferings? Although he is chary of prophesies on the post-paradisiacal Adam and Eve's full rehabilitation, he does hold out hope for a happier relationship between mind and body.Contents: 9 Foreword15 The birth of clothes25 Anatomy of modesty77 A portfolio of monsters93 The fashionable body125 The decorative arts151 Cut and dry goods175 Dress reform and reform dress199 Sartoriasis237 Garments for two246 Clothes and the artist282 Text references286 Index288 Photographers' credits

    Mr. Twigg's job is to add the correct amount of Vitamin X to the product, but because of a pesky headache, he makes a mistake as it's being packaged. Then there's a boy named Squirt, and a baby mole named General DeGaulle, the latter of which eats some the Bita-Vita with truly amazing results! All this makes for a delightful story that will charm any child from about age 7-8. Hardbound in light blue cloth, illustrated and lettered in red on the front cover and spine, the book measures approx. 6.5" x 8.5", the book has 141 pages. Extensively illustrated, and populated with the kind of charming characters as only Robert Lawson can create!

    

    A revealing an significant book.

    The first part of the trilogy introduces the Moorhouse family – Arthur, the successful business man and first of the family to move to Glasgow; David, the dashing and impulsive socialite; Bel, driven by ruthless social ambition; and Phoebe, the half-sister from the Highlands who grows up to be a great beauty. The second and third volumes follow the changing fortunes of the family, as their lives are touched by triumph and tragedy – in Glasgow at the height of the Victorian era, and in Vienna, glittering capital of the Hapsburg Empire.

    

    Historical novel based on the life of Princess Louise, sister of Rupert of the Rhine, betrothed to James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose.

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