Victor Duruy
Victor Duruy , 1811-94, French historian. He was a professor at Reims and Paris, and as minister of public instruction (1863-69) under Napoleon III he encouraged the adoption of the principle of free obligatory elementary education. His best-known work is his Histoire des Romans (7 vol., 1870-85; tr., 8 vol., 1883), but he also wrote other popular histories, notably of Greece and France. He was elected to the French Academy in 1884.
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Henry James Authors Hawks' Win Over Bullets; Guard Scores Career- High 26 in OT Victory
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/25/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...was stop a journeyman player named Henry James, who by the end of the night had...Wilkins in the team record books. James scored a career-high 26 points...human wall Howard threw in front of James before he made his incredible shot...
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A dramatic trip into the world of Henry James; Author, Author by David Lodge (Secker, [pounds sterling]16.99).
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 9/6/2004; 700+ words
; ...reason they all want to be Henry James, and the results lie...remainder bin. Ironically, James had been offered - and...among the critics, proud author frying with anxiety down...subject's advice to young authors ("Dramatise! Dramatise...Fenimore Woolson, with whom James enjoyed a ...
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Beyond sensation Henry James: an author for whom a spade was seldom a spade. And for whom the fleshy carapace of the human soul was, frankly... well, must we? So why, asks Jonathan Heawood, is this prim, circumlocutory Victorian novelist all the rage among a new generation of writers?
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 6/13/2004; ; 700+ words
; In 1898 Henry James went to the movies and saw...It's no accident that James is the second most filmed...Countless British and American authors have incorporated Jamesian...The standard perception of James as a long-winded aesthete...
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A portrait of author Henry James.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 10/12/2004; 635 words
; ...Byline: By Ira Lightman Author, Author by David Lodge...pounds 16.99) Author Henry James (1843-1916) had early...have read to the end. James wrote them in his mid...style of a novel about James. While he was finishing...
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Henry James times two: Pair of authors provide novelizations of noted writer's life
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 4/10/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...as appreciative cries of "Author, author!" Lodge has cleverly...novelist with the failure of James as a playwright to give his...insight into the character of James in a sympathetic but revealing way. The Henry James of "Author, Author" is...
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Q&A: Cisco engineer on LANs, NAC, network design; Cisco network engineer and author James Henry Carmouche discusses trends and challenges in campus LAN, security and NAC deployments.(network access control)(local area network)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Network World; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Byline: Phil Hochmuth James Henry Carmouche might have already built and tested the network you will soon be deploying. As technical marketing engineer in Cisco...
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Handing over power in James's What Maisie Knew. (author Henry James)
Magazine article from: Style; 6/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; Henry James's What Maisie Knew is, in Paul Theroux...including, of course, Maisie's parents), James reveals the moral limitations of nineteenth-century family law. James criticizes such law by focusing on the adults...
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Otra vuelta de tuerca, 1898. (Henry James, autor estadounidense)(TT: The Turn of the Screw, 1898) (TA: Henry James, North American author)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 11/1/1998; 700+ words
; ...de la novela corta, el gnero que Henry James llam the Shapely nouvelle, en contrate...cambio la novela corta surge ante James como femenina, torneada, hermosa...el sentido de "un nuevo giro", James justifica desde el comienzo el nombre...
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Books that made a difference to James Frey: the Oprah's Book Club author has a soft spot for literary bad boys (Bret Easton Ellis, Henry Miller, Baudelaire). But where would he be without Lao-tzu?(reading room)(Tao Te Ching; Tropic of Cancer; Paris Spleen; Crossing; Rules of Attraction)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: O, The Oprah Magazine; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...subject, the cover, the author, a review I have seen...friend--I read it. James Frey is the author of A Million Little Pieces...RELATED ARTICLE: James Frey's Bookshelf Tao...Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller This novel/memoir...
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Henry James In search of the real Henry James BOOKS & IDEAS
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...have been "The Year of Henry James." This was because 2004...and Lodge's own "Author, Author" - as well as...is writing a thesis on James. Both Toibin's and...starting points the facts of Henry James's life, and while they...
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Henry James
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Henry James The American author Henry James (1843-1916) was one of the major novelists of the late 19th...largely with the impact of Europe and its society on Americans. Henry James, the son of a theologian and the brother of the philosopher...
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Finn, Henry James
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Finn, Henry James (1785–1840), actor. Born in Cape Breton, he was educated...Montgomery; or, The Falls of Montmorency (1825). He may also have been the author of The Indian Wife (1830), which made Sobersides a major character...
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James, Henry, Jr.
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
James, Henry, Jr. (1843–1916), son of Henry James, Sr., was born in New York...of their own. Accordingly, Henry was privately educated by tutors...world of art and affairs. The author himself during this period was...
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James, Henry (Jr.)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
James, Henry [Jr.] (1843–1916), author. The famous expatriate novelist was also a passionate playgoer...The High Bid (1908), but none was commercially viable. James also wrote numerous essays on the theatre, many of them...
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Henry Steele Commager
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Henry Steele Commager Henry Steele Commager (born 1902...much fame as a textbook author and as an editor of books...public issues of his day. Henry Steele Commager was born...October 25, 1902, the son of James Williams and Anne Elizabeth...
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