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The horse without a head
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The horse without a head
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In France, a headless toy horse becomes a pawn between a ruthless gang of train robbers and the town's honest police inspector. Soon ten Paris slum kids find themselves in the middle of a battle between the robber gang and French police, but the kids have a secret weapon: a special whistle that brings a hundred dogs to the rescue!
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Pen and ink drawings
Manuscripts
Four original pen and ink drawings by Lute Pease. The drawings include "A Shocking Comeback" (showing a boy with an axe and pants reading "Allies," a headless turkey with a sign reading "give it back...", and a turkey head with a tag reading "Constantinople"); "When the Premiership was Vacant" (showing a lion with his tail caught in a door reading "Pressing European Problems" with an apparent George V painting a sign reading "Wanted Quick A New Keeper"); "We'll 'Emancipate' Him" (showing robbers labeled "Lenine" and "Kemal" referring to a traveler marked "Balkans"); and "Vampiring" (showing an apparent Uncle Sam writing "Internal Revenue Business" in a ledger while being attacked by a winged elephant labeled "Republican Job Raid"). The drawings appear to date from the early 1920s.
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The Golden Lotus : a translation from the Chinese original of the novel, Chin pʻing mei
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A saga of ruthless ambition, murder, and, famously, Chinese erotica, The Golden Lotus (also known as The Plum in the Golden Vase) has been called the fifth Great Classical Novel in Chinese Literature and one of the Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel. Admired in its own time for its literary qualities and biting indictment of the immorality and cruelty of its age, this Chinese classic has also been denigrated for its sexual frankness. It centers on Ximen Qing, a young, dissolute, and politically connected merchant, and his marriage to a fifth wife, Pan Jinlian, literally "Golden Lotus." In her desire to influence her husband and, through him, control the other wives, concubines, and entire household, she uses sex as her primary weapon. The Golden Lotus lays bare the rivalries within this wealthy family while chronicling its rise and fall.
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Horses Without Shoes
Manuscripts
The collection constitutes the literary archive of New Mexico author N. Howard (Nathan Howard) "Jack" Thorp. It includes original manuscripts of Thorp's stories, as well as songs, correspondence, a diary, photographs and related publications.
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Reviews and essays: various drafts
Manuscripts
Includes the following pieces published in various publications: Orwell's Fiction, Madder Music by P. De Vries, My Oxford by A. Thwaite, My Cambridge by R. Hayman, Baggage Punch, Monsignor Quixote by G. Greene, God's Grace by B. Malamud, A Traveller's Life by E. Newby, Pieces of Hate essay for collection, Souls and Bodies by D. Lodge, Fortune's Hostages by C. Moorehead, O Beloved Kids by R. Kipling, The Fetishist by M. Tournier, V S Naipaul Telegraph, Huckleberry Finn by M. Twain, Yorkshire Ripper Sunday Times, W H Hudson by R. Tomalin, Creation by G. Vidal, The Daniells by M. Archer, Going to Extremes by J. McGinnis, A Season in Paradise by B. Breytenbach, Saki Complete Works, African Trio by G. Simenon, Man and the Natural World by K. Thomas, Northwest Passage by W. de Roos, V.S. Pritchett 27 April.
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Bodley Head (Firm). Agreements
Manuscripts
The collection is comprised primarily of the manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera of Paul Theroux. His works are often semi-autobiographical and are based on his experiences living and traveling around the world. He is noted for his rich, sometimes ironic, description of people and places. The material comprises almost his entire career as a writer and includes multiple drafts of various works from working notebooks to printed galleys. The collection includes novels (1967-2016), short story collections (1972-2014), non-fiction and travel books (1972-2016), and shorter works including reviews, articles, short stories, plays, and lectures (1960-2015); the collection also includes Theroux's working and travel notebooks (1968-2014). The collection also contains professional papers and business correspondence (1963-2015), with publishers, agents, other authors and reader's letters; included in this material are letters from, among others, Eve Auchincloss, Peter De Vries, Margaret Drabble, Nadine Gordimer, Graham Greene, Blanche C. Gregory, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., Houghton Mifflin Company, V.S. Naipaul, Jonathan Raban, Oliver Sacks, Muriel Spark, Stephen Spender, William Styron, and Auberon Waugh. There is also a smaller amount of family material and personal correspondence (1939-2015), with family and friends; this correspondence includes Eugene Theroux, Alexander Theroux, Peter Theroux, Marcel Theroux, Louis Theroux, Anne Theroux, and various other family members. The ephemera consists of photographs, printed material and magazines (1941-1915).
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