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  • Collection: Christmas in the Works of Stanley Weintraub

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Bernard Shaw: 1914 - 1918
Journey to Heartbreak
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973

p. 81

At Christmas London shops were full, and Christmas trees were plentiful at Covent Garden. Stocks of food were high, and rationing not even in the…

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p. 102

....At Christmas leave-time he [T.E. Lawrence] had the hut to himself, and divided his time between reading T.S. Elliot, correcting proofs, and sampling a holiday assortment of delicacies delivered by Gunter´s from an anonymous donor whom…

Lawrence of Arabia: The Literary Impulse
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975

p. 112

....[Lawrence´s] next venture in translation was self-aborted. Cape had offered him...Sturly by Pierre Custor....On Christmas Day, 1923, he…

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Silent Night
To be published in November 2001
New York/London: Free Press/Simon and Schuster

...along the front lines late in December 1914, to the dismay of the generals, opponents in the West laid down their arms and celebrated Christmas…

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The last Great Cause:
Intellectuals and the Spanish American War
New York: Weybright and Talley Books, 1968

p. 25

Of the twenty-one Englishmen originally with the French battalion, only five remained to join the new British company, and, on…

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Reggie:A Portrait of Reginald Turner
New York: George Braziller, 1965

p. 114

It appeared on November 30, 1901, and was the best publicity the novel [Cynthia´s Damages] received, but sales did not pick up, and Reggie mourned in a pre-Christmas…

Whistler: A Biography
New York: Weybright and Talley, 1988

p. 42

One of the great culinary events of 1857 for Whistler [was]...gala Christmas dinner conceived by Tom Armstrong and composed of all the foods they had dreamed of in bad…

Beardsley: A Biography
New York: George Braziller, 1967
p. 14

Beardsley also designed the programs for some of [his school´s] entertainments. His most ambitious achievement was....for the Christmas musical The Pay of the Pied Piper, performed…

Aubrey Beardsley: Imp of the Perverse
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976
p. 252

Christmas 1897 came to Menton, and Beardsley complained of the "horrid pseudo-Christmas gaiety spread over this un-french town"....A rare…

Four Rossettis:A Victorian Biography
New York: Weybright and Talley, 1977
p. 213

Recalling the Christmas of 1874, Dr. Hake described Gabriel as "much unstrung" silent on his walks with Watts and himself along the boulders fringing Selsey Bay.…
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