Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thayer Fremont-Smith, Samuel H. Fyock, 3rd, Richard M. Hoffman, Thomas D. Jones, George L. MacDonald, Jr., Ronald J. Messer, W. Jost Michelson, Edward Rosenthal, L. John Volkert, William B. Volmer, Donald F. Weber, Franklin M. Yoffe...
...Check, Joseph F. Crelore William E. Crosby, 3rd, James E. Donaghy, Joseph J. Giampa, Lawrence S. Halpern, Ragan A. Henry, William M. Hickey, Jr., Thomas D. Jones, Thomas A. Kahrl, George L. MacDonald, William G. Markos, Paul J. Murphy, George N. Nager, Richard M. Oehmler, Stannard B. Pfahl, Jr., Samuel F. Quarterone, Sherin L. Samuels, John F. Schereschewsky, Joseph J. Stein, Peter Summers, Irvin W. Templeton, Arthur W. Ticknor, Donald F. Weber, George F. Zinninger...
...When Samuel Richardson wrote the first modern English novel, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, a 1740 tearjerker about an innocent serving maid and her lecherous master, most of London enjoyed a good cry. But the plight of Pamela Andrews, often fighting with her back to the bedroom wall, seems to have given Richardson's friend and fellow-novelist, Henry Fielding (Tom Jones), a hearty laugh instead, or at least the idea for a bawdy satire. Within six months, he pseudonymously penned An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, a short but exact parody* written, like Pamela...
...great delusion began innocently enough in 1691 in the little town of Salem Village along Massachusetts' north shore. To escape the gloom of a dreary New England winter, the young girls of the neighborhood began to gather in the evening at the home of the local minister, the Reverend Samuel Parris, who had several children of his own. The chief object of their attentions was the Reverend's servant, an aged West Indian Negro woman named Tituba. To those impressionable children from austere Puritan households, Tituba told romantic stories of the colorful land of her birth. All through the winter...
This book belongs to the cozy tradition of bedside belles-lettres. The selections, picked well off the main highroad of English literature, range from stormy thrillers to sunny farce, from the thunder of Samuel Johnson's prose to the lightning of Aldous Huxley's. They include little-known works by little-read writers as well as little read works by well-known writers: Maria Edgeworth, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, George Meredith, Thomas Love Peacock, William Hazlitt, Virginia Woolf. Few readers will like all of these stories, but almost everybody will be entertained...