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Offenhauser

The Legendary Racing Engine and the Men Who Built It

By: Gordon Eliot White

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Offenhauser

The Legendary Racing Engine and the Men Who Built It

By: Gordon Eliot White

From the 1920s to through 1980, the Offenhauser and its descendants filled the grids and won race after race across the U.S. In the 1950s, entire Indy grids were made up exclusively of Offy-powered racers. Original hardcover received much acclaim, winner of the 1996 Thomas McKean Memorial award.

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Motorbooks

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0760319189

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9780760319185

Offenhauser

The Legendary Racing Engine and the Men Who Built It

By: Gordon Eliot White

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The Legendary Racing Engine and the Men Who Built It

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T.S. Eliot

An Imperfect Life

By: Lyndall Gordon

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An Imperfect Life

By: Lyndall Gordon

Consists of the author's earlier two books on Elliot, Eliot's early years and, Eliot's new life, revised and updated throughout with important new material.

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760

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393320936

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9780393320930

The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

By: Lyndall Gordon

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The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

By: Lyndall Gordon

Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography "The most brilliant and incisive new book on Eliot." —Colm Tóibín, Irish Times Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, T.S. Eliot was considered the greatest English-language poet of his generation. His poems The Waste Land and Four Quartets are classics of the modernist canon, while his essays influenced a school of literary criticism. Raised in St. Louis, shaped by his youth in Boston, he reinvented himself as an Englishman after converting to the Anglican Church. Like the authoritative yet restrained voice in his prose, he was the epitome of reserve. But there was another side to Eliot, as acclaimed biographer Lyndall Gordon reveals in her new biography, The Hyacinth Girl. While married twice, Eliot had an almost lifelong love for Emily Hale, an American drama teacher to whom he wrote extensive, illuminating, deeply personal letters. She was the source of “memory and desire” in The Waste Land. She was his hidden muse. That correspondence—some 1,131 letters—released by Princeton University’s Firestone Library only in 2020—shows us in exquisite detail the hidden Eliot. Gordon plumbs the archive to recast Hale’s role as the first and foremost woman of the poet’s life, tracing the ways in which their ardor and his idealization of her figured in his art. For Eliot’s relationships, as Gordon explains, were inextricable from his poetry, and Emily Hale was not the sole woman who entered his work. Gordon sheds new light on Eliot’s first marriage to the flamboyant Vivienne; re-creates his relationship with Mary Trevelyan, a wartime woman of action; and finally, explores his marriage to the young Valerie Fletcher, whose devotion to Eliot and whose physical ease transformed him into a man “made for love.” This stunning portrait of Eliot will compel not only a reassessment of the man—judgmental, duplicitous, intensely conflicted, and indubitably brilliant—but of the role of the choice women in his life and his writings. And at the center was Emily Hale in a love drama that Eliot conceived and the inspiration for the poetry he wrote that would last beyond their time. She was his “Hyacinth Girl.

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382

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324002816

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9781324002819

The Private Life Of Doctor Crippen

By: Richard Gordon

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The Private Life Of Doctor Crippen

By: Richard Gordon

Doctor Crippen's murder of his wife ranks among the most notorious crimes of the twentieth century. Richard Gordon skilfully recreates the chilling atmosphere of the murder - and how it shook respectable society to the core. Using the character as his case study, Gordon also reveals the conflicting suavity and savagery of the Edwardian age.

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House of Stratus

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0755147146

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9780755147144

George Eliot’s Originals and Contemporaries

Essays in Victorian Literary History and Biography

By: Gordon S. Haight

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George Eliot’s Originals and Contemporaries

Essays in Victorian Literary History and Biography

By: Gordon S. Haight

Gathers 14 of Gordon S. Haight's essays on the life and work of Victorian authors and artists, among them George Eliot, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, George Meredith, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, and G.F. Watts.

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250

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Springer

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1349126500

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9781349126507

Big Ten Football, Its Life and Times, Great Coaches, Players, and Games

By: Mervin D. Hyman,Gordon S. White

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Big Ten Football, Its Life and Times, Great Coaches, Players, and Games

By: Mervin D. Hyman,Gordon S. White

Presents stories and anecdotes about the great coaches, players, and games in this famous college-football conference over its eighty-year history.

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380

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0025580701

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9780025580701

Outsiders

Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

By: Lyndall Gordon

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Outsiders

Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

By: Lyndall Gordon

Prodigy, visionary, 'outlaw,' orator and explorer. As society's outsiders, the exceptional subjects of this study inspired a new breed of women—and one another. Finalist of the PROSE Award for Best Book in Literature by the Association of American Publishers Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. In Outsiders, award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon shows how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman's reputation was her security, each of these women lost hers. They were unconstrained by convention, writing against the grain of their contemporaries, prophetically imagining a different future. We have long known the individual greatness of each of these writers, but in linking their creativity to their lives as outcasts, Gordon throws new light on the genius they share. All five lost their mothers in childbirth or at a young age. With no female role model present, they learned from books—and sometimes from an enlightened mentor. Crucially, each had to imagine what a woman could be in order to invent a voice of her own. The passion in their own lives infused their fiction. Writing with passionate intelligence of her own, Gordon reveals that these renegade writers inspired a new breed of women who wished to change a world locked in war, violence, exploitation, and sexual abuse. Gordon's biographies have always shown the indelible connection between life and art: an intuitive, exciting and revealing approach that has been highly praised. In Outsiders, she crafts nuanced portraits of Shelley, Brontë, Eliot, Schreiner and Woolf, naming each of these writers as prodigy, visionary, 'outlaw,' orator, and explorer, and shows how they came, they saw, and they left us changed. Today, following the tsunami of women's protest at widespread abuse, we do more than read them; we listen and live with their astonishing bravery and eloquence.

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JHU Press

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1421429454

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9781421429458

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The Private Life Of Doctor Crippen

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George Eliot’s Originals and Contemporaries

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