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Private Shaw and Public Shaw: A dual portrait of Lawrence of Arabia and George Bernard Shaw
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…
....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…
Reggie:A Portrait of Reginald Turner
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…
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…
Shaw: An Autobiography 1856-1898
Shaw:An Autobiography 1856 - 1898
New York: Weybright and Talley Books, 1969
p. 225
....In my boyhood in the 1860s there were two theatres in Dublin. The Royal, in Hawkins-street, was nobly spacious, lofty, beautifully proportioned, and in…
New York: Weybright and Talley Books, 1969
p. 225
....In my boyhood in the 1860s there were two theatres in Dublin. The Royal, in Hawkins-street, was nobly spacious, lofty, beautifully proportioned, and in…
Silent Night: The Christmas Truce of 1914
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…
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…
The last Great Cause: Intellectuals and the Spanish American War
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…
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…
The Stanley Tree 1
One by one the children left for college. The books continued to be produced, often from afar. They married....and their spouses (Judy, Carie Lee, and Bruce) took turns decorating additional matchbox books: The London Yankees, The Unexpected Shaw,…
The Stanley Tree 2
Inevitably, the tree had to get bigger, to hold Disraeli, The Last Great Victory, Uncrowned King, and now MacArthur´s War, Dear Young Friend, and The Importance of Being Edward.
The Story of the Stanley Tree
In the later 1960´s, Mark, David and Erica, Stanley Weintraub´s children, wanted to persuade their father to let them put up a tree at Christmas. Until then he had been unwilling. With the encouragement of their mother, they developed a strategy. The…