Nascut el 1887 en el si duna família de lalta burgesia nord-americana, John Reed va trencar aviat amb el seu entorn i va acabar participant activament en la lluita social del seu temps. I ho va fer amb la seva millor arma: una ploma àgil,...
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"..Villa was an outlaw for twenty-two years. When he was only a boy of sixteen,.. he killed a government official.. that in itself would not have outlawed him long in Mexico, where human life is cheap; but once a refugee he committed the unpardonable...
The stirring eyewitness account of an epochal revolution.// By one of the great reporters of all time.// âThe authenticity of [John Reedâs] writing on the revolution gained from its being a first-hand, eyewitness accoun...
Collected Lies and Love Poems, selects from a sequence of sonnets written from 2008-2015. Reed, the author of five previous books (three novels and two "stunts") lends his voice and eclectic abilities to this singular work, which, in addition...
In Dickenss Hyperrealism, John R. Reed examines certain features of Dickenss style to demonstrate that the Inimitable consciously resisted what came to be known as realism in the genre of the novel. Dickens used some techniques associated with realism,...
This book contains historical photographs from the Russian Revolution. John Reed was on an assignment for The Masses, a magazine of socialist politics, when he was reporting the Russian Revolution. Although Reed states that he had "tried to see events...
In this hip supernatural tale, a blonde, surgicallcy-enhanced MTV VJ named Thing finds herself unemployed when ratings on her show fall. Thing loses herself in the New York party scene, where her mind is anesthetized by a continuous flow of pink cocktails...
John Reed writes the story of Red October and the Russian Revolution from a first-hand standpoint since he was present reporing for a radical American journal. He recounts conversations and arguments, details political events and speculates on various...
American journalist John 'Jack' Reed writes, on the scene, describing the Mexican Revolution of 1914. He gives an excellent and realistic account of the Mexican Indians and peons that have suffered under a brutal dictatorship. He writes about the...
Presents an account of the Russian Revolution. This work gives a record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. It also includes verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders and the chance comments...
âNothing Whatever To Grumble Atâ? . well, hardly ever! There are one or two grumbles in Johnâs story, itâs true, but the few youâll find pale into insignificance...
This reference book provides an encyclopaedic guide to every song by Schubert for solo voice and piano, 600 in all, including different versions, unfinished songs and variants.