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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812: To Which Are Added an Account of the Resurrection Men in London, and a Short History of the Passing of the Anatomy ActCollege, as stated above. A few extracts from the Diary were printed in the se of Sir Astley Cooper.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important ...

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The Diary of a Resurrectionist 1811-1812, - to which are added an account of the resurrection men in London and a short history of the passing of the anatomy act is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation o...

The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812 - To which are Added an Account of the Resurrection Men in London... is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical w...

In this luminous biography, Blake Bailey shows us the conflicted soul of a writer of timeless fiction. Though Cheevers groundbreaking work would earn him fame, it never wholly offset his anxieties and desperate loneliness.

The fascinating biography of the author of "The Lost Weekend"--a writer whose life and work encapsulated what it meant to be an addict and a closeted gay man in mid-century America, and who is ripe to be rediscovered.

Excerpt: ...of bodies for dissection was an offence liable to punishment. The jury found all the defendants not guilty of the charge of conspiracy, but they pronounced Davies and Blundell guilty of possession of the body, with knowledge of the illegal disinterment. The defendants were brought up Pg 98 for judgment in London in May, 1828. Mr. Justice Bayley, in passing sentence, said that “, there were degrees of guilt, and in this case th...

Charles Jackson's novel The Lost Weekend-the story of five disastrous days in the life of an alcoholic-was published in 1944 to triumphant success. Although he tried to escape its legacy, Jackson is often remembered only as the author of this thinly veiled autobiography. In Farther & Wilder, the award-winning biographer of Richard Yates and John Cheever goes deeper, exploring Jackson's life-from growing up in the scandal-plagued village of New...

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The Diary of Resurrectionist 1811-1812 to which are Added an Account of the Resurrection Men in London and a Short History of the Passing of the Anatomy Act. First published in 1896.

Here, for his centennial, is the definitive two-volume edition of the stories and novels of John Cheever. The first volume, Collected Stories and Other Writings, combines the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection The Stories of John Cheever with seven selections-here restored to print-from Cheever's first book, The Way Some People Live (1943) and seven additional stories first published in periodicals between 1930 and 1953. The second, Complete No...

Excerpt from The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812: To Which Are Added an Account of the Resurrection Men in London, and a Short History of the Passing of the Anatomy Act College, as stated above. A few extracts from the Diary were printed in the se of Sir Astley Cooper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an im...

Meet the Baileys: Burck, a prosperous lawyer once voted the American Legion's "Citizen of the Year" in his tiny hometown of Vinita, Oklahoma, his wife Marlies, who longs to recapture her festive life in Greenwich Village as a fetching young German immigrant, fresh off the boat, their addled son Scott, who repeatedly crashes the family Porsche, and Blake, the younger son, trying to find a way through the storm. "You're gonna be just like me, " ...

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