Vain

Author : Alan Greenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816682171
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love in Vain written by Alan Greenberg and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Johnson was undoubtedly the most outstanding of the Mississippi Delta blues musicians and also one of the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but his short life remains steeped in mystery and wrapped in some of the most enduring legends of modern music. "Love in Vain" is Alan GreenbergOCOs remarkable, highly acclaimed, and genre-defying screenplay and is widely considered to be one of the foremost books on Robert JohnsonOCOs life and legacy and an extraordinary exercise in American mythmaking. Newly revised and complete with extensive historical notes on JohnsonOCOs life and the culture of the Mississippi Delta and blues music during the 1930s, "Love in Vain" is at once a classic of music writing and a screenplay whose reputation lies firmly in the realm of great American literature. "

Author : Colin Channer
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0345425529
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waiting in Vain written by Colin Channer and published by One World. This book was released on 1999-07-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Fire--Jamaican-born, charming, poetic, and talented--a man who's vowed to never play "love-is-blind" games again. Then he meets Sylvia, a beautiful magazine editor who keeps her passions under lock and key. Together they must choose between the love in their lives and the love of their lives. From the galleries of Soho to the brownstones of Brooklyn, from the nightclubs of London to the streets of Kingston, Jamaica, Channer takes us on a wild, soul-searching ride as Fire and Sylvia try to connect, disconnect, and reconnect amid conflicting desires and wounds from the past. But through intricate love triangles, skewed priorities, and crushing personal tragedies, Fire, Sylvia, and their friends must learn that some things in life are worth fighting for. If not, you're simply waiting in vain.

Author : J. M. Dupont
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571328849
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love in Vain written by J. M. Dupont and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 'Crossroads Blues' to 'Sweet Home Chicago', 'Hellhound on My Trail' to 'Come On In My Kitchen', Robert Johnson wrote some of the most enduring and formative songs of the original blues era, songs that would go on to help shape the birth of rock'n'roll in the 1960s. Beloved of Clapton, Dylan and the Stones, Robert Johnson remains one of the most iconic and mythologised figures in popular music (and the first of many to die at the age of 27). Born in the in the South in Mississippi, Johnson made his way to the urban North as a travelling musician, but it was only when he returned to the South that he recorded the twenty-nine songs, in two sessions, which would create his legacy.Exploring the stories and legends that surround his life and death - his childhood, his womanising, his pact with the devil at the crossroads - Mezzo and DuPont have produced a fittingly creative and beautiful depiction of this most extraordinary life.

Author : Stephen L. Carter
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0786731192
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God's Name In Vain written by Stephen L. Carter and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America faces a crisis of legitimacy. It's a crisis that dramatizes the separation of church and state. A crisis that, in the messages sent by our culture, marginalizes religion as a relatively unimportant human activity that plays an unimportant role in the national debate. Because the nation chooses to secularize the principal points of contact between government and people (schools, taxes, marriage, etc.), it has persuaded many religious people that a culture war has been declared. Stephen Carter, in this sequel to his best-selling Culture of Disbelief, argues that American politics is unimaginable without America's religious voice. Using contemporary and historical examples, from abolitionist sermons to presidential candidates' confessions, he illustrates ways in which religion and politics do and do not mesh well and ways in which spiritual perspectives might make vital contributions to our national debates. Yet, while Carter is eager to defend the political involvement of the religious from its critics, he also warns us of the importance of setting some sensible limits so that religious institutions do not allow themselves to be seduced, by the lure of temporal power, into a kind of passionate, dysfunctional, and even immoral love affair. Lastly, he offers strong examples of principled and prophetic religious activism for those who choose their God before their country.

Author : Robert Leckie
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book None Died in Vain written by Robert Leckie and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-paced, compulsively readable one-volume narrative of the American Civil War, by the author of the acclaimed saga of World War II, Delivered from Evil.

Author : Dumitru Țepeneag
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564784216
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vain Art of the Fugue written by Dumitru Țepeneag and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The reader discovers new satisfactions with such a book. Far from the insipid savors generated by a passive fascination, the text stirs up the joys of an endless activity." Le Monde

Author : Carolyn Hennesy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1599905981
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pandora Gets Vain written by Carolyn Hennesy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After capturing jealousy from a priestess in Crete, Pandy, Alcie, Iole and Dido are off to Egypt in search of the second of seven evils, vanity. But the goddess Hera is still up to her old tricks, and throws as many obstacles as she can into Pandy's path. A storm at sea, a group of talking dolphins, and the most unusual circus ever formed all feature in this action-packed follow-up. Look for the other exciting books in the Pandora series: Pandora Gets Jealous, Pandora Gets Heart, Pandora Gets Lazy, and Pandora Gets Angry!

Author : Jim Huang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962580475
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Died in Vain written by Jim Huang and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery experts introduce you to personal favorites: obscure classics, up-and-coming new writers, great books that unaccountably disappeared and lesser-known titles by bestselling authors. ... This book takes you beyond the bestsellers, beyond the familiar, with essays recommending over 100 mystery novels.

Author : Hartzell Spence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258202828
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vain Shadow written by Hartzell Spence and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane Hervey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910263020
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vain Shadow written by Jane Hervey and published by . This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'For man walketh in a vain shadow ... he keepeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them' - these words are spoken at the funeral service for old Colonel Winthorpe who does not bequeathe much except worldly goods to any gathered there - except his granddaughter, Joanna. This novel is concentrated on the four days which attend his death; on the many proprieties and pretenses which shroud its reality (the arrangements, his immediate and permanent disposition, the formalities from the church to the crematorium, and finally the less mortal remains - the will). The Colonel leaves a widow whose marriage to him had been loveless to begin with and joyless to the end; three sons of middle age. None mourn him but his presence is everywhere as they drink his port, usurp his chair. Only Joanna is left with the desire and capacity to live more fully.