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This is the story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivago's love for the tender and beautiful Lara: pursued, found, and lost again, Lara is the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times.

• Russkiĭ zhrebiĭ : novorossiĭskai͡a povestʹ
• Novorossii͡a : t͡sikl stikhotvoreniĭ.

• Русский жребий : новороссийская повесть
• Новороссия : цикл стихотворений.

• Flash-Forward 1Spearman Meets the King 1 2A Nobel Invitation 5 3No Coase for Concern 11 4Investigation of a Theft 19 5Visiting Professor 29 6West to Texas 37 7An All-Nighter 43 8The Artist Has a Visitor 47 9The Scene of the Crime 57 10Spearman Gets the News 73 11The Academical Village 97 12Dining Protocol in the Academy 107 13A Doctor's House Call 119 14A Conference of Detectives 133 15Art and Economics 141 16It All Began with Adam... 161 17Office Hours: In Three Acts 179 18The Hiring Squad 201 19 Surprise at Sotheby's 217 20Trip to the Travis 231 21Class Action 249 22An Artist's Eulogy 259 23Lost & Found 269 24An Arresting Development 277 25The Death Effect 281 26The Bell Curve 297 27 A Late Night Visit 309 28 Doing Good by Doing Well 317 Acknowledgments 341.
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Henry Spearman, the balding economics professor with a knack for solving crimes, returns in The Mystery of the Invisible Hand--a clever whodunit of campus intrigue, stolen art, and murder. Having just won the Nobel Prize, Spearman accepts an invitation to lecture at Monte Vista University. He arrives in the wake of a puzzling art heist with plans to teach a course on art and economics--only to be faced with the alleged suicide of womanizing artist-in-residence Tristan Wheeler. When it becomes clear that Wheeler had serious enemies and a murderer is in their midst, Henry Spearman is on the case. Was Wheeler killed by a jilted lover, a cuckolded husband, or a beleaguered assistant? Could there have been a connection between Wheeler's marketability and his death? From the Monte Vista campus in San Antonio to the halls of Sotheby's in New York, Spearman traces the connections between economics and the art world, finding his clues in monopolies and the Coase conjecture, auction theory, and the work of Adam Smith. What are the parallels between a firm's capital and an art museum's collection? What does the market say about art's authenticity versus its availability? And what is the mysterious "death effect" that lies at the heart of the case? Spearman must rely on his savviest economic insights to clear up this artful mystery and pin down a killer.
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• September 8, 1865
• William H. Herndon's first letter to his wife Anna
• Ten yarns as the story of Abraham Lincoln & the Civil War
• My angel mother
• Hasty pudding
• Live as I have taught you
• More than common
• Rob Africa of her children
• Good thing they did
• More painful than pleasant
• He desires to ride into office
• Here the old lady stopped
• Abe know'd my voice
• William H. Herndon's second letter to his wife Anna
• Their humble but worthy home
• Which mother? --Photographs
• Primary sources
• House lights
• William H. Herndon's notes-September 8, 1865
• Acknowledgements.

On Sept. 8, 1865, Abraham Lincoln's longtime friend and law partner, William H. Herndon, visited the martyred President's aged stepmother, Mrs. Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln. Herndon's notes are integrated into a fictional recreation of their afternoon together. The selected events in the life of Abraham Lincoln are real. The accounts are preferably first person. License was taken to convert these moments in the life of Lincoln into ten stories told from a rocking chair.

First published in London in 1927, "The Somme" and its companion, "The Coward", constitute the only published literary achievements of A. D. Gristwood, a reluctant accountant turned even more reluctant infantryman in the London Rifle Brigade who later fell under the tutelage of H. G. Wells. Heavily autobiographical and much influenced by Wells's guidance, Gristwood's tales of World War I combat are rife with acts of unheroic self-preservation and colored with the fear, bitterness, and hopelessness that defined the author's wartime experience. "The Somme" centers on a futile attack in 1916 during the Somme campaign on the Western Front. The uncourageous behavior of wounded protagonist Tom Everitt both in and out of combat reflects Gristwood's assessment of the weak mettle of British forces at this stage of the war. In "The Coward", a soldier commits an act of self-mutilation to escape combat duty, an offense punishable by death, and is haunted first by fear of discovery and later by self-loathing. This first reissue of "The Somme, Including Also The Coward" marks the only edition available outside of the United Kingdom and includes a new introduction by Hugh Cecil detailing the author's biography and putting his work into a broader historical and literary context.
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An autobiographical novel of World War I experiences in the German ranks, "Zero Hour" equates duty with camaraderie and finds a balance between bitterness and hawkishness. The war is experienced here through the keen eyes of Hans Volkenborn, a well-bred officer-candidate whose youthful enthusiasm turns to angst and disillusion. The sole comfort of his experience is fellowship with his comrades, but even that abates over time. Grabenhorst recalls specifics of battlefield actions on the Western Front with a visceral language that resonates still today. Of particular historical importance are accounts of combat in the Ypres campaign in 1917, and the futile clashes in the woods of Aveluy in northern France the following summer as German hopes for victory faded. But the novel's greatest success is a vivid description of shell shock, the result of being briefly buried alive by a mortar round. The condition ultimately engulfs Volkenborn's ailing psyche and leaves him tormented, isolated, and blinded at the war's end. "Zero Hour" was first published as Fahnenjunker Volkenborn in Germany in 1928 and was translated into English under the current title in the following year. This reissued edition features a new introduction by Robert Cowley and a new afterword by Casey Clabough to place the novel in its proper literary and historical contexts.
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