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Great mischief by Pinckney, Josephine,author.; Taylor, Prentiss,illustrator.;
Timothy Partridge was an apothecary of Charleston who had a secret passion for the dark Satanic arts, and a mind obsessed with the problem of Good and Evil. He knew the ingredients of witches' brews, and had been brought up on legends of zombies and werewolves. So it would hardly be surprising if he were ridden by a hag, and scarcely more unusual for him to visit the Adversary's court. It seems that hags, especially blue-eyed hags, can be very attractive companions for lonely bachelors. When one of them looks over your garden wall on a summer's day, it is only natural to invite her in. Or so at least Timothy thought. That was just a part of the experience which changed the little man's life. And when the earthquake came to Charleston, and the ground yawned and belched forth fire at his feet, how was Timothy to know that it was not the Judgment Day?
Subjects: Satanism; Occult fiction; Fantasy fiction;
© 1948, The Viking Press,
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Rogues' gallery : the rise (and occasional fall) of art dealers, the hidden players in the history of art / by Hook, Philip,author.(CARDINAL)194814;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Renaissance and enlightenment. Agents and merchants: Dealing before 1700 ; Crooks and connoisseurs: the eighteenth century -- The nineteenth century. The art of speculation: William Buchanan ; Ernest Gambart and the Victorian art boom -- Modern times. Joseph Duveen: the salesman as artist ; The Wildenstein dynasty ; Selling the new: Paul Durand-Ruel ; The enrichment of Ambroise Vollard ; Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler: dealer as purist ; The fox and the shrimp: the Rosenberg brothers ; Terrorists and tastemakers: more French dealers ; From Cassirer to Berggruen: the Germans ; Gentlemen and players: the British -- Into the contemporary world. Peter Wilson and the invention of the modern art market ; The art of shopping: dealing in the USA ; Leo Castelli and the American dream ; The cutting edge.""Here for the first time is the history of art dealers, those extraordinary men and woman who, over centuries (and almost entirely out of the public eye), built their profession on a singular skill: identifying the intangible but infinitely desirable qualities that characterize the greatest works of art--and finding clients for whom those qualities are irresistible. Philip Hook's riveting narrative takes us from the early days of art dealing in Antwerp, where paintings were sold by weight, to the unassailable hauteur of contemporary galleries in New York, London, Paris, and beyond. Along the way, we meet a surprisingly wide-ranging cast of characters--from tailors, spies, and the occasional anarchist to scholars, aristocrats, and connoisseurs, some compelled by greed, some by their own vision of art--and some by the art of the deal. Among them are Joseph Duveen, who almost single-handedly brought the Old Masters to America; Paul Durand-Ruel, the Impressionists' champion; Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, high priest of Cubism; Leo Castelli, dealer-midwife to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art; and Peter Wilson, the charismatic Sotheby's chairman who made a theater of the auction room. Rogues' Gallery bursts with unforgettable anecdotes and astute judgments about art and artists, honed by Hook's more than forty years in the art market--making it essential reading for anyone interested in the hidden history of art."
Subjects: Art dealers.; Art;
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The fat artist : and other stories / by Hale, Benjamin,author.(CARDINAL)500542;
"The smart, witty collection from the prize-winning and bestselling author of The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, which The New York Times Book Review called "an absolute pleasure" explores the dark secrets under the surface of contemporary American lives. As he brilliantly accomplished in The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, Benjamin Hale's The Fat Artist and Other Stories holds a mirror to the world, pairing absurdity with philosophical musings on the human condition to expose the power of the secret self. From a man's illicit tryst cut short by his estranged son's homecoming, a prostitute dominatrix about to be caught with a dead US congressman, to a performance artist whose grotesque weight gain becomes an art world phenomenon, Hale's deliberate prose, dark humor, and unforgettable characters explore the secrets beneath the surface of contemporary American lives. In The Fat Artist and Other Stories, Hale openly embraces the grotesque side of human nature and the unnerving intersection between life and death, art and ridicule, consumption and creation"--
Subjects: Short stories.; Fiction.;
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The new heavens and new earth : political religion in America. by Strout, Cushing.(CARDINAL)144731;
Includes bibliographical references.Foreword -- Introduction -- The Puritan paradox -- The city on the hill, the garden in the wilderness, and the Glorious Revolution -- The Great Awakening and the rising generation -- Calvinist Whigs and the Spirit of '76 -- Disestablishment in Virginia: a symbiotic alliance -- Disestablishment in a 'compound republic" -- Popular revivals, the art of associating, and majority tyranny -- Peculiar people of the land -- The sin of slavery -- The art of associating: the abolitionist sect -- Day of vengeance -- A people's contest and the judgments of the Lord -- The power of worldliness -- The social gospel and the aristocracy of manufactures -- The great crusade for prohibition, women suffrage, and the war -- A Catholic native son in a "Puritan civilization" --Crisis theology from the crash to the bomb -- The winding wall of separation and the new pluralism -- Modern prophets in Babylon --The new secularism and the new pluralism -- Appendix: A note on the ages of converts in the Great Awakening.
Subjects: Church and state; Religion and politics;
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The Ezekiel option [large print] / by Rosenberg, Joel C.,1967-(CARDINAL)351665;
When Russia's richest oil baron is killed, Moscow suddenly teeters on the verge of political chaos. Tehran races to complete its nuclear arsenal. Washington finds herself dangerously divided from her European allies. And in the dead of night, in the hills overlooking Jerusalem, a senior White House advisor uncovers a chilling ancient conspiracy as real as the morning's headlines. Woven through the writings of the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel, more than 2,500 years old, are eerily prescient descriptions of modern countries then unborn, modern alliances then unformed, and an imminent day of unspeakable terror. Now, with the clock ticking down to war, two Americans are caught in the crossfire, wondering, Is the last judgment at hand?
Subjects: Christian fiction.; Fiction.; Large print books.;
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The short stories of Ernest Hemingway / The Hemingway Library Edition / by Hemingway, Ernest,1899-1961,author.(CARDINAL)136982; Hemingway, Seán,editor.; Hemingway, Ernest,1899-1961.Art of the short story.; Hemingway, Ernest,1899-1961.Judgment of Manitou.; Hemingway, Ernest,1899-1961.Untitled Milan story.; Hemingway, Ernest,1899-1961.Up in Michigan.; Hemingway, Ernest,1899-1961.Very short story.; Hemingway, Ernest,1899-1961.Indian camp.(CARDINAL)628476; Hemingway, Ernest,1899-1961.Cat in the rain.; Hemingway, Ernest,1899-1961.Three-day blow.; Hemingway, Ernest,1899-1961.Soldier's home.; Hemingway, Ernest,1899-1961.Big two-hearted river.(CARDINAL)631889;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-545) and index.
Subjects: Short stories.; Fiction.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Nostradamus [videorecording] : 2012 / by Hollister, Sarah.; Lurie, James(James Harrison)(CARDINAL)825082; Podhoretz, Jim.; Weitzman, Larry.(CARDINAL)838136; 1080 Entertainment (Firm); Arts and Entertainment Network.(CARDINAL)225081; History (Television network)(CARDINAL)558042; New Video Group.(CARDINAL)219113;
MARCIVE 12/2/11Great seer -- Mayan doomsday -- Egyt and coming disaster -- Alchemy and famine -- Masons and Aquarius -- Ticking time bombs -- Hopi predictions -- Bible code -- A new dawn.Executive producer, Ken Ashe ; producers Sarah Hollister, Larry Weitzman ; director of photography, Michael Bowie.Narrator, James Lurie.It's a year that many have prophesied will bring a catastrophic end to life as we know it. Whatever is in store, many believe that 2012 will mark a major shift in the history of our planet. A detailed, historical investigation of this chilling prophecy that casts the doomsday warning in a frighteningly modern context. December 21, 2012 is bearing down on us with alarming speed. Whether or not we are able to collectively heed the warnings and affect a course to avert disaster may be the defining moment of the modern age.DVD; Dolby Digital stereo.Not rated.
Subjects: Biographical television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Historical television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Nostradamus, 1503-1566.; Nostradamus, 1503-1566.; Disasters.; Judgment Day.; Prophecy.;
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The Last Judgment : Michelangelo and the death of the Renaissance / by Connor, James A.(CARDINAL)767398;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-213) and index.Prologue. Standing in the Sistine -- Introduction. The dying Pope -- The great commission -- Clement's brainstorm -- Pope Julius's tomb -- The altar wall -- Colors -- The children of Savonarola -- Vittoria Colonna -- Sol Invictus -- Saints, martyrs, and angels -- The outer orbit : the naked and the dead -- The damned -- The censorship of the end of the world -- The last days of Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Subjects: Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.; Art and society; Counter-Reformation; Renaissance;
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The optickal illusion : a novel / by Halliburton, Rachel,author.(CARDINAL)679321;
"It is 1797 and in Georgian London, nothing is certain anymore: the future of the monarchy is in question, the city is aflame with conspiracies, and the French could invade any day. Amidst this feverish atmosphere, the American painter Benjamin West is visited by a dubious duo comprised of a blundering father and vibrant daughter, the Provises, who claim they have a secret that has obsessed painters for centuries: the Venetian techniques of master painter Titian. West was once the most celebrated painter in London, but he hasn't produced anything of note in years, so against his better judgment he agrees to let the intriguing Ann Jemima Provis visit his studio and demonstrate the techniques from the document. What unravels reveals more than West has ever understood--about himself, the treachery of the art world, and the seductive promise of greatness."--Inside dust jacket.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; West, Benjamin, 1738-1820; Painters;
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Kahlil Gibran: wings of thought : the people's philosopher / by Ghougassian, Joseph P.,author.; Gibran, Kahlil,1883-1931,author.(CARDINAL)145300; Philosophical Library, Inc.,publisher.(CARDINAL)873572;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-236)."Kahlil Gibran, known in Arabic as Gibran Khalil Gibran, was born January 6, 1883, in Bsharri, Lebanon, which at the time was part of Syria and part of the Ottoman Empire. He was the youngest son of Khalil Sa'd Jubran, a tax collector eventually imprisoned for embezzlement, and Kamila Jubran, whose father was a clergyman in the Maronite Christian Church. In 1885, Gibran emigrated with his mother and siblings to the United States, where they settled in the large Syrian and Lebanese community in Boston, Massachusetts. It was there that Gibran learned English and enrolled in art classes. His mother supported the family as a seamstress and by peddling linens. At the age of 15, Gibran was sent by his mother to Beirut, Lebanon, to attend a Maronite school. He returned to Boston in 1902. In that year and the one that followed, Gibran's sister, Sultana, half-brother, Bhutros, and mother died of tuberculosis and cancer, respectively. His remaining living sister, Marianna, supported herself and Gibran as a dressmaker. In 1904, Gibran began publishing articles in an Arabic-language newspaper and also had his first public exhibit of his drawings, which were championed by the Boston photographer Fred Holland Day. Gibran modeled for Day, who was known for his photographs of boys and young men. It was through Day that Gibran's artwork attracted the attention of a woman nine years his senior named Mary Haskell, who ran an all-girls school. Haskell became Gibran's lifelong patron, paying for him to study art at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1908. There, Gibran met the sculptor August Rodin, who reportedly once called him "the William Blake of the twentieth century." Gibran's hundreds of drawings and paintings remain highly regarded. Haskell also enabled Gibran's move to New York City in 1911, where he settled in a one-room apartment in bohemian Greenwich Village. At a lunch in the Village, Gibran met Alfred Knopf, who would become his publisher. In 1918, Gibran's book of poems and parables The Madman was published. In 1923, Knopf published what would become Gibran's most famous work, The Prophet. Though not met with critical praise or early success--the book was never reviewed by the New York Times, for example, and sold only twelve hundred copies in its first year--the book became a phenomenon. The Prophet has now sold more than ten million copies, making Gibran one of the best-selling poets in the world. Three years later, Gibran published Sand and Foam (Alfred A. Knopf), a book of poems and aphorisms. The Biblically inspired The Prophet was especially popular in the 1960s. About this, the translator and Middle East historian Juan Cole said, "Many people turned away from the establishment of the Church to Gibran. He offered a dogma-free universal spiritualism as opposed to orthodox religion, and his vision of the spiritual was not moralistic. In fact, he urged people to be non-judgmental." Gibran was active in a New York-based Arab American literary group called the Pen League, a subset of the Mahjar movement, whose members promoted writing in Arabic and English. Throughout his life he would publish nine books in Arabic and eight in English, which ruminate on love, longing, and death, and explore religious themes. He died of cirrhosis of the liver on April 10, 1931, in New York City." -- Biogrpahy from:
Subjects: Biographies.; Gibran, Kahlil, 1883-1931; Mysticism in literature.; Lebanese American authors; Arab American authors; Authors, Arab; Authors, Arab; Authors, Lebanese; Mystics;
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