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A Walk in the Night by Alex La Guma Born in Cape Province, South Africa, in 1925, Alex La Guma belonged to a working- class family in the Jeff Jung...
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What distinguishes La Guma's work is that it shows real people waging a bloody contest with the forces of oppression: they celebrate their few short moments of victory, credibly enough, in sex, cheap Cape wines and stupid fights with one an...
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A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson, has been praised by the New York Times bestseller. A division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc published this book in 1998. It has a total of two hundred seventy-six pages and costs twent...
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The book I read Walk Two Moons is about a thirteen year old girl named Salamanca Tree Hiddle who is traveling from Ohio to Idaho for her mother's birthday. She is traveling with her gram and gramps in hope of bringing her mother back. On ...
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SOURCE: “Mahfouz: A Great Novel and a Wanting Translation,” in Third World Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 1, 1992, pp. 187–89. In the following review, El-Enany discusses the various translation problems in Palace Walk. Naguib Mahfouz became...
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Aida Overton Walker dazzled early-twentieth-century theater audiences with her original dance routines, her enchanting singing voice, and her penchant for elegant costumes. One of the premiere African American women artists of the turn of ...
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An American photographer, Walker Evans (1903-1975) was best known for his photographs of American life between the world wars. Everyday objects and people--the urban and rural poor, abandoned buildings, storefronts, street signs, and the l...
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George Walker won fame at the turn of the twentieth century as the comedy half of the African American team of Williams and Walker. Up-to-date costuming, quick urban wit, and the character of the strutting dandy became the trademarks of hi...
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WALKER, JAMES R. (1849–1926) was a physician with the Indian Service of the United States government who became an important scholar of Native American religion. He was born near Richfield, Illinois, on March 4, 1849. He joined the ...
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Walker Percy (1916-1990) won the National Book Award for fiction in 1961 for his first published novel, The Moviegoer. In five subsequent novels and numerous essays, he explored his chosen theme of "the dislocation of man in the modern age...
About 92 pages (27,710 words) in 10 products

The two volumes of poetry published by Anna Louisa Walker (later Mrs. Harry Coghill) represent the smaller portion of her literary output, which also includes five "triple-decker" (three-volume) novels, a book of children's plays, a novell...
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Along with poets such as Ted Hughes, Jon Silkin, Peter Redgrove, R. S. Thomas, and Seamus Heaney, Ted Walker has contributed much to the revitalizing of British nature poetry. Ranging over the Sussex seacoast of his birth and drawing his s...
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Joseph Reddeford Walker (1798-1876) was a fur trapper and was one of the first Americans partaking in open fur trade with the Spanish of Santa Fe. Joseph Reddeford Walker was born in Virginia shortly before his parents migrated to Roane Co...
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U.S. sports official, university chancellor, educator, and track coach, LeRoy Tashreau Walker (born 1918) became the first African American elected to serve as president and chief executive officer of the United States Olympic Committee in...
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Running, always running. He has been running since he left that house, that one faithful night. He believes that he did the right thing, but not the police, the police believe that he murdered his little brother. He, on the other hand, beli...
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Story and Main Idea This book is about the dangerous and brave work of smokejumpers. They fight fires that regular fire stations can't fight. They are a great help in the U.S.A. Most of the fires they fight start out in hot dry forests. T...
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The Walkman became one of the most successful audio products of the postwar period, and like the Victrola before it, any personal portable cassette player was called a "walkman," regardless of manufacturer. The portable perso...
About 20 pages (5,977 words) in 2 products

[Wall Around A Star, a] sequel to Farthest Star continues the adventures of a few humans and aliens as they fight among themselves while trying to solve the mystery of Cuckoo, an obviously artificial world many millions of miles in diameter...
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Authenticity exists for the human being to obtain; yet it is a very rare accomplishment. Attempts to be authentic emerge in "The Wall" and define whether someone exists as genuine and real. In Jean-Paul Sartre's "The Wall," Pablo mu...
About 261 pages (78,135 words) in 11 products

The Berlin wall was a symbol of life behind the Iron Curtain for nearly 28 years. It was a rigorously guarded barrier to keep citizens of East Germany under the Communist German Democratic Republic. In The Fall of the Berlin Wall, William ...
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A rest stop at Wall Drug in South Dakota is a passport to a truly egalitarian social setting. It is a place that not only relieves highway tedium but enables friendly interaction with other people from all walks of life, none of which coul...
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Wall Street is known to most as a worldwide symbol of high finance and investment even before the American civil war; for it has been the location of some of the chief financial institutions of the U.S.A and was recognized as the finan...
About 33 pages (9,780 words) in 3 products

Someone glancing at the front page of The Wall Street Journal for the first time might be deceived. Unlike other newspapers, the Journal does not have, with one exception, multiple-column headlines or any photographs. It does not look like...
About 23 pages (6,896 words) in 1 product

Publishing under the pseudonym "Sarban," John W. Wall earned a reputation as an author of stylish neo-Gothic fantasy, primarily from his three short novels or novellas, Ringstones (1951), The Sound of His Horn (1952), and The Doll Maker (1...
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The American chemist Wallace Hume Carothers (1896-1937) was an experimentalist in the organic and industrial branches. His researches into polymerization led to the invention of nylon, the first truly synthetic fiber. Artificial fibers, in...
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Since his comedic cameo as Diane Keaton's former husband in Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979), the short, balding, lisping, seemingly always rumpled Wallace Shawn has made an indelible mark on American movie culture. William Goldman's The Pri...
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