Air-bird in the Water: The Life and Works of Pearl Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes)Harding traces Craigie's crowded external and inner life and her connections with such important people as George Moore, Lord and Lady Curzon, and Jennie Churchill, and with literature, journalism, theater, politics, and religion at the turn of the century. The author also analyzes and evaluates Hobbes's numerous works (novels, short stories, plays, lectures, journalistic essays), linking Craigie's life with her work. |
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... least two hours , like old friends , about Pearl Craigie and many other literary interests that we shared . When I said that I felt that Mrs. Colby's estimate of Hobbes's works might have been biased by a personal dislike of their ...
... least two hours , like old friends , about Pearl Craigie and many other literary interests that we shared . When I said that I felt that Mrs. Colby's estimate of Hobbes's works might have been biased by a personal dislike of their ...
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... ) in the hope that through it and through other works that it may evoke , Pearl Craigie and at least some of her vanished works will live again . Acknowledgments In each case in which permission was known to 16 AIR - BIRD IN THE WATER.
... ) in the hope that through it and through other works that it may evoke , Pearl Craigie and at least some of her vanished works will live again . Acknowledgments In each case in which permission was known to 16 AIR - BIRD IN THE WATER.
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... studies of modern English life , they are the truth . - ( Second emphasis added ) A still more confident prophecy can be made about Hobbes's works — her - novels and at least two of her plays for 24 AIR - BIRD IN THE WATER.
... studies of modern English life , they are the truth . - ( Second emphasis added ) A still more confident prophecy can be made about Hobbes's works — her - novels and at least two of her plays for 24 AIR - BIRD IN THE WATER.
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... least two of her plays for it is not only their truth about human nature and the English life of her time that is sure to appeal to today's readers , but also their engrossing plots , interesting characters , elegant style , and rare ...
... least two of her plays for it is not only their truth about human nature and the English life of her time that is sure to appeal to today's readers , but also their engrossing plots , interesting characters , elegant style , and rare ...
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... least when viewed superficially , was like a pleasant fairy tale . Beautiful , wealthy , accomplished , and charming , young Pearl Richards was apparently destined to shine in fashionable society and to be extraordinarily happy ; and ...
... least when viewed superficially , was like a pleasant fairy tale . Beautiful , wealthy , accomplished , and charming , young Pearl Richards was apparently destined to shine in fashionable society and to be extraordinarily happy ; and ...
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18871891 | 53 |
1892 | 66 |
18921893 | 81 |
18981900 | 246 |
19001901 | 265 |
1901 | 281 |
19011902 | 298 |
19021903 | 317 |
1903 | 343 |
1903 Continued | 363 |
1904 | 376 |
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Page 25 - Why look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my loudest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a Pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.