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Originally published in 1897.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:II. PROFESSOR AND CANON, 1866-1884FOR seventeen years Stubbs had been a country parson ; now for eighteen he was to be an Oxford Professor. In neither case did the post exhaust his activities. AtNavestock, with all his earnest parochial work, he was able to lay deep foundations of learning, to show the firstfruits of his historical study, and to actively fulfil the duties of Lambeth Librarian. At Oxford duties even more engrossing, if not wider, beset him ; and while he was still Professor he was also at one time a country vicar, and later he was Canon of S. Paul's.Before he had well settled down in Oxford the death of his friend Dr. Shirley, who had been a fellow contributor to the Rolls Series and shared his interests in medieval history, left vacant the chair of Ecclesiastical History. Many expected that Stubbs, the foremost ecclesiastical historian in the land, would be appointed to fill the post.S. Giles's Road East, Oxford,November 28 (1866). My Dear Freeman,—Thanks for your long letter, which I have been expecting so long. It is very sad indeed about Shirley, but I imagine there has been little hope for the last month. I should like, you may be sure, to go back to Christ Church, but I see no symptoms of it for the present. I suppose Lord Derby will have no difficulty in putting in a good Divinity scholar like Liddon : the character of the chair has been hitherto rather Divinity than History—Shirley as we know was accidentally a good appointment, but it was very like an accident altogether. Plumptre is talked about, but I do hope that it will not be so. The Parkers have asked us to meet you at dinner on Thursday and we shall be glad indeed to see you. I have just got homefrom poor old Navestock, where I have been wishing the people good-bye, and am very t... ... Read more

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Publisher: London, ConstablePublication date: 1906Subjects: Stubbs, William, 1825-1901Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Methuen in 1895 in 296 pages; Subjects: Great Britain; Bishops; Statesmen; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography / Political; Biography & Autobiography / Religious; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Religion / Christianity / Anglican; Religion / Christianity / Denominations; ... Read more

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For much of the first half century after statehood, West Texas remained a frontier wilderness and - unlike the expanding cities in East and Central Texas - sparsely populated with Anglo-American settlements. The scarce rainfalls, freezing blue northers, dusty winds, and scorching heat waves dissuaded many Texans from homesteading west of the U.S. Army's frontier fort system. For decades, only the hardiest attempted to forge their brand of civilization on the West Texas plains. Yet as the nineteenth century advanced so did the westward line of settlement. Cattle ranching ensured the rise of schools, churches, and towns as the great ranches of West Texas fed the nation's ever-growing demand for beef. William Curry Holden's examination of the social and economic evolution of what is perhaps America's harshest frontier was first published during the Great Depression. Since then, Alkali Trails has become an essential and most accessible source for professional and lay historians of the American West. ... Read more

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Dry but informative
This book was a bit of a dry read, but if you live in the West Texas area, then it will be very informative for those looking to brush up their Texas History. It focuses more on certain events, happenings, trends, and cultures than it does on specific people and the sole major events that took place. A good type of narrative to learn about West Texas, it is indeed. ... Read more

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Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Step right up and read stories both salacious and miraculous!

Only fifteen dollars for the Grand Tour of Tented! That's three fins to meet the Great Masturbator! Three Lincolns to explore a post-apocalyptic future where every clown has his very own catamite! Yes, my friends, these stories are guaranteed to amaze, beguile, and captivate. That's the ABC's, my boy. Stay close, you might learn something.

We have acrobats ready to assume positions, knife-throwers blade in-hand, tasty treats like sticky cotton candy, and a Hall of Mirrors to reflect your deepest desires!

Featuring performances by these talented artistes:

Gavin Atlas * Steve Berman * 'Nathan Burgoine * Tom Cardamone * Dale Chase * Hank Edwards * Garland * William Holden * R. Jackson * Daniel M. Jaffe * Matt Kailey * Sean Meriwether * Jay Neal * Ralph Seligman * Dusty Taylor * Cage Thunder ... Read more

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And On the Midway...
Wheeler, Jerry, ed. "Tented: Gay Erotic Tales from under the Big Top ", Lethe Press, 2010.

And on the Midway...

Amos Lassen

I must admit that I approached this book with great apprehension. The idea of a book of sex stories is interesting but I questioned whether or not it could be done. To my surprise it has been done and very well. Some of the writers included here are some of my favorites--Gavin Atlas, Steve Berman, Hank Edwards, Sean Meriwether and others. I have never thought of the circus as a place where there would be a lot of sexual behavior but part of the fun of being alive is learning something new every day. I do remember reading my friend William Maltese's anthology "Circusex" but here the difference is the number of authors included.
The authors included here give us some unforgettable characters and I kind of felt as if this could be compared to a Fellini film in which we get a fashion show of characters that are totally different. Here our characters all share a love for sex and are quite good at it. But it is not how good they are at sex that distinguishes them--they are just fascinating and I say that about all of them. There is not one dull character here be it a vampire, a clown or an acrobat.
Lethe Press never fails when it comes to publishing fun anthologies and this is one of their best--at least until the next one comes along.

And On the Midway...
Wheeler, Jerry, ed. "Tented: Gay Erotic Tales from under the Big Top ", Lethe Press, 2010.

And on the Midway...

Amos Lassen

I must admit that I approached this book with great apprehension. The idea of a book of sex stories is interesting but I questioned whether or not it could be done. To my surprise it has been done and very well. Some of the writers included here are some of my favorites--Gavin Atlas, Steve Berman, Hank Edwards, Sean Meriwether and others. I have never thought of the circus as a place where there would be a lot of sexual behavior but part of the fun of being alive is learning something new every day. I do remember reading my friend William Maltese's anthology "Circusex" but here the difference is the number of authors included.
The authors included here give us some unforgettable characters and I kind of felt as if this could be compared to a Fellini film in which we get a fashion show of characters that are totally different. Here our characters all share a love for sex and are quite good at it. But it is not how good they are at sex that distinguishes them--they are just fascinating and I say that about all of them. There is not one dull character here be it a vampire, a clown or an acrobat.
Lethe Press never fails when it comes to publishing fun anthologies and this is one of their best--at least until the next one comes along.

Under The Big Tops...(snicker)
When you think of circus erotica, you almost expect the book to be called "Big Tops."I think of William Maltese's Circusex.Tented falls more in line with the latter. I'm glad that editor Jerry Wheeler chose to avoid the obvious puns here.In fact, most of the authors included in this anthology did too.

Those who enjoy the sex won't be disappointed, although most of those hot intense scenes do become predictable after a while and are nothing new, other than one hot and sticky scene involving a cotton candy machine. What makes this collection work is the array of characters.You probably immediately think of (and expect) clowns when you think of a circus.Tented doesn't disappoint there, but the one clown story is definitely different. Other story tellers visit the roustabouts, the fun house, and even vampires.In fact, it is the characters that really drive each story and are much more interesting than the actual sex.

For example, the first story takes place in the old west.A man is somewhat mourning his dead lover and friend who has been shot; he seeks companionship from a circus roustabout. In another story, a dark and mysterious circus barker seeks out human flesh, and a bit more, when the circus comes into town.The book is not without its humor either as we join some porno fluffers on the set of a circus porn movie.

Kudos to Wheeler and the authors for at least giving us something new!I much preferred the dark fantasy circus over the loud bright colors and calliope you'd expect from such a genre. And thanks to Lethe Press for a much more interesting cover, no headless shirtless hunks here.But this one for the strong characterization and interesting plots.Yes, the sex is there but is more like the midway freakshow you have to walk by to get to the good stuff! ... Read more

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Anthony Holden doesn't pull any punches in his choice of biographical subjects. Having already taken on the Prince of Wales, Laurence Olivier, and Tchaikovsky, this time Holden has gone for no less than the Bard himself. Dismissing claims that there is nothing left to say about the poet and playwright, Holden's bold study argues that, on the contrary, the archives are rich with traces of Shakespeare as husband, father, actor, dramatist, poet, and Stratford lad made good. Holden also argues that "if each generation recreates Shakespeare in its own image," then we need a new version for the 21st century. He obliges with a racy, incident-packed account of the glovemaker's son who rose to subsequent immortality via the stage of Elizabethan London. In addition to poring over the established evidence, Holden makes some controversial but intriguing claims. Not only was Shakespeare a covert Catholic who spent his so-called lost years as a budding actor in Catholic households in Lancashire under the name of "Shakeshafte" but he also suffered from sexually transmitted diseases, experienced a nervous breakdown, fathered an illegitimate son via his middle-aged landlady, and sailed close to the political wind with what Holden sees as his residual Catholic and "republican instincts." It's all very entertaining--if at times far out on its own interpretative limb--and a lively and refreshing approach to the Bard as an Elizabethan man behaving badly. William Shakespeare: The Man Behind the Genius may not be for all time, but it resonates richly with our times. --Jerry Brotton ... Read more

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Enlightening New Shakespeare Biography
Anthony Holden's biography of William Shakespeare is comprehensive and full of new and interesting information.Holden provides the best explaination, based on evidence, I have ever seen about what Shakespeare was doing during the "Lost Years" and how he came to be in London.I learned many new things from this book, and I am already well versed in Shakespeare.

excellent - should be on every English student's shelf
Somewhat to my surprise, this is a first-rate popular biography of a genius about whom we know practically nothing. Not that this has stopped any number of amateur sleuths from the Baconians to Eric Sams from trying to find clues in the poems and plays. Holden's is by far the liveliest and most readable. He doesn't make the mistake Anthony Burgess did of spraying his own personality over Shakespeare in the usual tom-cat fashion; nor is he bonkers, excessively academic or portentous. If you want to discover as much as can be known or surmised about the Bard, especially the early years, then Holden's book is fascinating. His thesis that the SHakespeares all closet Catholics, and that the young WS was sent as a teenager to recusant Lancashire to teach at Sir Thomas Hesketh's house as good an explanation as any of how the "rude groom" acquired polish and knowledge of how aristocratic families lived. His gloss on his marriage, the untimely death of his son Hamnett and his growing interest in his daughters all substantiated by apt quotations.

A wonderful piece of detective-work. Alongside Joanthan Bates's The Genius of Shakespeare it's a great new addition to the modern enthusiast's library.

Painful Reading
I found the book to be extremely hard to get through, wordy and boring.The entire book focuses on direct quotations from all of Shakespeare's works with little focus as to why the quotations were included in the text.The book gives the reader little of his personal life, personality, or political views, but focuses only on hundreds of people that he knew and met throughout the years giving detailed explanations of names, and their backgrounds.I found the book to be very boring, with little content on Shakespeare as a person; the book featured only comments on his hundreds of works.If you are EXTREMELY well versed with Shakespeare's works, this is a good pick for you.If you have some to little knowledge, pick something else.For the student who needs interesting information on him as a person, choose another book.I found it to be dry, repetative and only in depth on quotations from thousands of plays.

One word more
Some of the other reviews incite me to add yet a few more words.Holden does NOT blur fact and fiction.He consistentlylables speculation and inference, identifies sources, outlines opposing views, gives reasons for his choices, and qualifies his conclusions.His reading of the plays, while brief, reaches deeply into the heart of Shakespeare's works.This is a responsible and valuable book.

The Essential Biography
This is the essential preface to any first reading of the collected works of Shakespeare.It's the perfect introduction for the student -- and a rich summing up for an experienced reader or theater person.Despite Holden's previous oeuvre of front-table bookstore products about Prince Charles, Princess Di, Olivier, the Oscars, etc., this is a serious (though very readible) biography, which makes full use of a vast resource of scholarship.Tossing -- or, rather, kicking -- aside any nonsense about the plays and poems being the work of some mystery author, Holden presents Shakespeare's chronology with clarity, rich color and carefully examined detail.He relates the plays to what is known or can be reasonable inferred about the succeeding periods of Shakespeare's life and the developing stages of his thought.He does not idealize or fantasize. And he places the works in the context of the theatrical history of the period.The reader comes away enriched with a profound feeling for the qualities that Shakespeare's admirers so value.The plays become more accessible in the process, as does Shakespeare scholarship.A very valuable book. ... Read more

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PREFACE
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CONTENTS; CHAPTHR I; TOE CHURCH ANn l·tS PROSPBC'rB IN TAB FIFTD CENTUR~'; CHArTER 11; 'fHE EMf'l)(E AND Tn:c EA8TEn:-; Cacnen, 4Gl-628; CHAPTER III; THE CRGnen IN ITALY~ ·161-590; CHAPTER IV; PAGE; CHRJSTJA!'iI1'Y l~ GAeL FROM THE SIXTH TO 'IDE EwnTB; CE~TljRY 41; CHAPTER V; 'fH15 PO):TlFICATE OF GnEGORY TOE GREAT; CHAPTER VI; CO~TROVERSY AND TnE CATnOLICISM OF S~"'lN; CHAPTER VIr; 60; ,2; TnF enUReH A:-I'D THE lIo~Ol'nELITE CO~TROV)cHSY H3; CHAPTER YIII; Tny CHURCH IN ABIA; ClIAPTEH IX; THE CHtiRClI IN AFRICA; 93; 103 CHAPTER X; THE ClIORCrr I=' THE '"ESTERN ISLE!i; CHAPTER XI; THE CON'EltSrO~ OF SfAV!) Axn KOJtTH~fEN; CHAPTER XII; PnOGRess OF THE CHURCH I!I: nEm{~"; CHAM'JI: ... Read more

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Publisher: PutnamPublication date: 1887Subjects: Great BritainBiography ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Church history; ... Read more

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Extracts From The Writings Of Robert Of Gloucester, Matthew Paris, Etc. ... Read more

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Publisher: London MacmillanPublication date: 1914Subjects: Warwickshire (England) -- Description and travelNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more