The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America

History

James, Wilson

Americas

Picador

The Works of James Wilson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ...: Being His Public Discourses Upon Jurisprudence and the ... Lectures as Professor of Law, 1790-2

James De Witt Andrews

Franklin Classics Trade Press

American Government: Institutions and Policies, Enhanced (Looseleaf) w/online access

CENGAGE.Custom

Plant Paradigm

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

James Wilson

Dark Clue

Inspired by the Victorian sensation novel, James Wilson's first novel, The Dark Clue, is a portrait of the age in all of its staggering extremes, as inventive and multifaceted as the oil paintings of J. M. W. Turner, the elusive genius who lies at the thriller's heart. When Walter Hartright -- the sheltered, upright character from Wilkie Collins's classic mystery novel The Woman in White -- is hired to write a biography of England's great Romantic landscape artist, he discovers the "dark clue" hidden deep within Turner's brilliant paintings. Obsessed with reconstructing a life that is shrouded in mystery, Walter seeks help from a Dickensian assemblage including the visionary John Ruskin, the haughty aristocrats, the desperate, and the criminal. Soon enough, Walter uncovers evidence of unspeakable depravity, but can the truth behind Turner's myth be freed from a rapidly expanding web of conspiracy? Only Walter's capable and loving Halcombe can hope to rescue him from the harrowing downward spiral that follows. James Wilson's first book, The Earth Shall Weep, established him as a groundbreaking historian and evocative storyteller. His debut novel plumbs the myth of creative genius, offering a startling commentary on truth seeking and recording history. In the tradition of John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman and Charles Palliser's The Quincunx, The Dark Clue is a masterful fiction debut from one of the original voices of our time.

THE DARK CLUE

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Faber and Faber

This is it. Too late to change my mind. The engine's flexing its muscles, giving a horsy snort. Even if I ran, I couldn't make it back now...Opening with a desperate pilgrimage to the dying Weimar Republic in 1927, "The Woman in the Picture" tells the story of English film-maker Henry Whitaker during the inter-war years. On his return to Britain, Henry begins his career - first as assistant to the legendary director Arthur Maxted, and then as one of the country's foremost documentary-makers. But all the while he yearns to create a feature film of his own - a work of art that will give his life meaning. Interwoven with Henry's narrative is the present-day quest of his daughter, Miranda, to understand what happened to her mother, a refugee Henry met and married in Germany at the end of the war. Did Henry - as his daughter has always supposed - drive Romana to suicide? Or do Miranda's half-repressed childhood memories hint at an altogether more complex and extraordinary truth? With great narrative skill and his rare gift for language, James Wilson brilliantly draws these two strands together, in a rich and impassioned novel about love, war, art, consequence, and guilt.

The Woman in the Picture

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Faber&Faber

Consolation

Literary

American Government Instructor's Guide with Lecture Notes

john diIilio

Houghton/Mifflin

Illustrated with colour photographs, a title from the THREATENED CULTURES series. Looks at the plight of the native American people who are forcing the rest of the USA to take notice of their rights to their own customs, languages and lands.

Native Americans (Threatened Cultures)

Hodder Wayland

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