Enough Rope

Author : Dorothy Parker
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780593466353

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Enough Rope by Dorothy Parker Pdf

Now available as a stand-alone edition, the famous humorist’s debut collection—a runaway bestseller in 1926—ranges from lighthearted self-deprecation to acid-tongued satire, all the while gleefully puncturing sentimental clichés about relations between men and women. Known as the wittiest woman in America and a founder of the fabled Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker was also one of the Jazz Age’s most beloved poets. Her verbal dexterity and cynical humor were on full display in the many poems she published in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Life and collected in her first book in 1926. The poems in Enough Rope range from lighthearted self-deprecation to acid-tongued satire, all the while gleefully puncturing sentimental clichés about the relations between men and women. Unfortunate Coincidence By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying— Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.

Author : Lawrence Block
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0060559675

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Enough Rope by Lawrence Block Pdf

Enough Rope, a collection of superb stories, establishes the extraordinary skill, power, and versatility of contemporary Grand Master Lawrence Block. Block's beloved series characters are on hand, including ex-cop Matt Scudder, bookselling burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, and the disarming duo of Chip Harrison and Leo Haig. Here, too, are Keller, the wistful hit man, and the natty attorney Martin Ehrengraf. Keeping them company are dozens of other refugees from Block's dazzling imagination, all caught up in more ingenious plots than you can shake a blunt instrument at. Half a dozen of Block's stories have been short-listed for the Edgar Award, and three have won it outright. All the tales in Block's three previous collections are here, along with two dozen new stories. Some will keep you on the edge of the chair. Others will make you roll on the floor laughing. Enough Rope is an essential volume for Lawrence Block fans, and a dazzling introduction for others to the wonderful world of Block magic!

Author : Elaine May
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0573623538

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Not Enough Rope by Elaine May Pdf

Author : Allen I. Holub
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015035266512

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Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot by Allen I. Holub Pdf

C and C++ programmers who are looking for innovative ways to improve their code will find them in this first-of-its-kind reference. Holub has put together an indispensable set of guidelines, tips, and techniques that readers can use immediately to create elegant, efficient code in any C or C++ program.

Author : Andrew Denton
Publisher : Dogwise Publishing
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Biography
ISBN : 0733322417

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The Best of Enough Rope by Andrew Denton Pdf

This is a collection of interviews that have appeared on the 'Enough Rope' program on ABC. This is a collection of the best interviews, plus some new interviews from the upcoming series.

Author : Barbara Nadel
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1848664265

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Enough Rope by Barbara Nadel Pdf

Private investigator and ex-soldier Lee Arnold and superintendent Paul Venus are by no means friends, but when Venus' son Harry is kidnapped and ransom demands arrive from an address in Arnold's patch in east London, the superintendent doesn't know who else to turn to. Arnold and his partner Mumtaz Hakim soon find themselves chasing leads into several of the East End's uneasily coexisting communities. Mumtaz uncovers a link to one of the area's powerful Bangladeshi families, whose property empire has always seemed suspicious, while Arnold suspects the involvement of more old-fashioned East End gangsters, and wonders if some of the nastier rumours about Venus himself might be true. And neither Mumtaz nor Lee like the look of the children of the super-rich, arriving in droves in the trendy parts of Hoxton and Shoreditch and living in luxury just a stone's throw from grinding urban poverty. The truth, however, is stranger and more dangerous than either Arnold or Hakim imagine. Enough Rope is a powerful and thrilling novel of London's ever-evolving dark side.

Author : Arthur Vivian Watkins
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015066091623

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Enough Rope by Arthur Vivian Watkins Pdf

"Report of the Select Committee to Study Censure Charges, United States Senate, Eighty-third Congress, second session, pursuant to the order on S. Res. 301 and amendments, a resolution to censure the Senator from Wisconsin, Mr. McCarthy": P. [215]-285.

Author : David Rohde,Kristen Mulvihill
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101445396

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A Rope and a Prayer by David Rohde,Kristen Mulvihill Pdf

The compelling and insightful account of a New York Times reporter's abduction by the Taliban, and his wife's struggle to free him. Invited to an interview by a Taliban commander, New York Times reporter David Rohde and two Afghan colleagues were kidnapped in November 2008 and spirited to the tribal areas of Pakistan. For the next seven months, they lived in an alternate reality, ruled by jihadists, in which paranoia, conspiracy theories, and shifting alliances abounded. Held in bustling towns, they found that Pakistan's powerful military turned a blind eye to a sprawling Taliban ministate that trained suicide bombers, plotted terrorist attacks, and helped shelter Osama bin Laden. In New York, David's wife of two months, Kristen Mulvihill, his family, and The New York Times struggled to navigate the labyrinth of issues that confront the relatives of hostages. Their methodical, Western approach made little impact on the complex mix of cruelty, irrationality, and criminality that characterizes the militant Islam espoused by David's captors. In the end, a stolen piece of rope and a prayer ended the captivity. The experience tested and strengthened Mulvihill and Rohde's relationship and exposed the failures of American effort in the region. The tale of those seven months is at once a love story and a reflection of the great cultural divide-and challenge-of our time.

Author : Alex Tresniowski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982114046

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The Rope by Alex Tresniowski Pdf

From New York Times bestselling author Alex Tresniowski comes a “compelling” (The Guardian) and “riveting” (The New York Times Book Review) true-crime thriller recounting the 1910 murder of ten-year-old Marie Smith, the dawn of modern criminal detection, and the launch of the NAACP. In the tranquil seaside town of Asbury Park, New Jersey, ten-year-old schoolgirl Marie Smith is brutally murdered. Small town officials, unable to find the culprit, call upon the young manager of a New York detective agency for help. It is the detective’s first murder case, and now, the specifics of the investigation and daring sting operation that caught the killer is captured in all its rich detail for the first time. Occurring exactly halfway between the end of the Civil War in 1865 and the formal beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in 1954, the brutal murder and its highly-covered investigation sits at the historic intersection of sweeping national forces—religious extremism, class struggle, the infancy of criminal forensics, and America’s Jim Crow racial violence. History and true crime collide in this “compelling and timely” (Vanity Fair) murder mystery featuring characters as complex and colorful as those found in the best psychological thrillers—the unconventional truth-seeking detective Ray Schindler; the sinister pedophile Frank Heidemann; the ambitious Asbury Park Sheriff Clarence Hetrick; the mysterious “sting artist,” Carl Neumeister; the indomitable crusader Ida Wells; and the victim, Marie Smith, who represented all the innocent and vulnerable children living in turn-of-the-century America. “Brisk and cinematic” (The Wall Street Journal), The Rope is an important piece of history that gives a voice to the voiceless and resurrects a long-forgotten true crime story that speaks to the very divisions tearing at the nation’s fabric today.

Author : Ryan Adams
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781933354743

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Infinity Blues by Ryan Adams Pdf

Athough most well-known around the globe for his musical works, Ryan Adams is also a talented fiction writer and poet. Here, for the first time, his non-musical writing is revealed. Adams's work rings of an emotional authenticity that provides perhaps an even deeper insight into the man than the songs that have resonated with his hundreds of thousands of fans the world over.

Author : Rhonda S. Pettit
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 083863818X

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A Gendered Collision by Rhonda S. Pettit Pdf

As documented in her poetry and fiction, Parker's modernism moves beyond a narrow set of aesthetic principles; it carries the remnants from a collision of competing values, those of nineteenth-century sentimentalism, and twentieth-century decadence and modernism. Her works display the intense dynamic in which early twentieth-century literature and art were created."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Lisa Robinson
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780525579991

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Madame Saqui by Lisa Robinson Pdf

A stunning picture book biography about the tightrope walker who dazzled Paris as she danced across the sky with impeccable balance and unparalleled skill during the French Revolution. In revolutionary France, a girl named Marguerite Lalanne longed to perform above large crowds on a tightrope, just like her acrobatic parents. Sneaking off to the fairgrounds for secret tightrope walking lessons, Marguerite finessed her performance skills, ultimately performing for crowds as a young rope dancer. And eventually, Marguerite would perform as Madame Saqui, waltzing and pirouetting across- and never falling off- countless ropes above adoring crowds. A nouvelle chérie de Paris, Madame Saqui cemented her place in circus history, winning the adoration of the French people and royalty alike, including Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. This remarkable biography unveils the inspiring story of a trailblazing woman who revolutionized the circus world-- without ever missing a step.

Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393345049

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The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith Pdf

"Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing...bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night." —The New Yorker For two years, Walter Stackhouse has been a faithful and supportive husband to his wife, Clara. She is distant and neurotic, and Walter finds himself harboring gruesome fantasies about her demise. When Clara's dead body turns up at the bottom of a cliff in a manner uncannily resembling the recent death of a woman named Helen Kimmel who was murdered by her husband, Walter finds himself under intense scrutiny. He commits several blunders that claim his career and his reputation, cost him his friends, and eventually threaten his life. The Blunderer examines the dark obsessions that lie beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary people. With unerring psychological insight, Patricia Highsmith portrays characters who cross the precarious line separating fantasy from reality.

Author : Peter Lamont
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1560256613

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The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick by Peter Lamont Pdf

Explores one of the most successful hoaxes of all time from the mystical East, and why people were so easily fooled.

Author : Jennifer Speake,John Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780198734901

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The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs by Jennifer Speake,John Simpson Pdf

"First published as The concise Oxford dictionary of proverbs, edited by John Simpson, 1982"--Title page verso.