#david s garnett

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Time in Eclipse by David S. Garnett. 1974, cover art uncredited.

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Deaths In 2023

January

1: Fred White (67, American drummer, Earth Wind & Fire)

3: Alan Rankine (64, Scottish musician/producer, The Associates)

6: Gianluca Vialli (58, Italian football player/manager)

10: Jeff Beck (78, English guitarist, The Yardbirds/The Jeff Beck Group/Beck Bogart & Appice)

11: Yukihiro Takahashi (70, Japanese singer/drummer, Yellow Magic Orchestra)

12: Robbie Bachman (69, Canadian drummer, Bachman Turner Overdrive)

Lisa-Marie Presley (54, American singer/songwriter, daughter of Elvis, mother of Riley Keough)

16: Gina Lollobrigida (95, Italian actress)

18: David Crosby (81, American singer/songwriter, The Byrds, Crosby Stills Nash & Young)

27: Sylvia Sims (89, English actress, ‘Ice Cold In Alex’)

28: Barrett Strong (81, American singer/songwriter, co-wrote ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine’/‘Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone’

Tom Verlaine (73, American musician/songwriter/producer, Television)

Lisa Loring (64, American actress, ‘The Addams Family’)

February

2: Calton Coffie (68, Jamaican singer, Inner Circle)

3: Paco Rabanne (88, Spanish fashion designer)

8: Burt Bacharach (94, American songwriter, co-wrote ‘Walk On By’/‘Anyone Who Had A Heart’/‘A House Is Not A Home’/‘Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head’)

10: Hugh Hudson (86, film director, ‘Chariots Of Fire’)

12: David Jolicoeur a.k.a. Trugoy The Dove (54, American rapper, De La Soul)

15: Raquel Welch (82, American actress)

16: Chuck Jackson (85, American soul singer, ‘Any Day Now’/‘I Keep Forgettin’’)

18: Barbara Bosson (83, American actress, ‘Hill Street Blues’)

19: Richard Belzer (78, American actor, ‘Homicide: Life On The Street’/’Law And Order: Special Victims Unit’)

Dickie Davies (94, British television personality, ‘World Of Sport’)

23: John Motson (77, English football commentator, ‘Match Of The Day’)

March

2: Steve Mackey (56, English bassist/producer, Pulp)

Wayne Shorter (89, American jazz saxophonist, Weather Report)

3: Carlos Garnett (84, Panamanian jazz saxophonist)

Tom Sizemore (61, American actor, ‘Saving Private Ryan’)

5: Gary Rossington (71, American guitarist, Lynyrd Skynyrd)

8: Topol (87, Israeli actor, ‘Fiddler On The Roof’/’Flash Gordon’)

10: Junior English (71, Jamaican reggae singer)

12: Dick Fosbury (76, American high jumper)

13: Jim Gordon (77, American drummer, Traffic/Derek & The Dominoes)

14: Bobby Caldwell (71, American singer/songwriter)

15: Greg Perry (singer/songwriter/producer)

16: Fuzzy Haskins (81, American singer, Parliament/Funkadelic)

17: Lance Reddick (60, American actor, ‘The Wire’/’Oz’/’John Wick’ films)

23: Keith Reid (76, English songwriter, Procol Harum)

Peter Shelley (80, English singer/songwriter/producer, ‘Gee Baby’/’Love Me Love My Dog’)

28: Paul O’Grady a.k.a. Lily Savage (67, English comedian)

Ryuichi Sakamoto (71, Japanese musician/composer, Yellow Magic Orchestra, composed theme to ‘Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence’)

29: Charles Sherrell a.k.a. Sweet Charles (80, American bass player/singer, The JBs, ‘Yes, It’s You’)

April

5: Booker T. Newberry III (67, American singer, Sweet Thunder, ‘Love Town’)

6: Paul Cattermole (46, English singer, S Club 7)

8: Michael Lerner (81, American actor, ‘Barton Fink’)

12: Jah Shaka (75, Jamaican sound system operator)

13: Dame Mary Quant (93, English fashion designer)

14: Mark Sheehan (46, Irish guitarist, The Script)

16: Ahmad Jamal (92, jazz pianist)

17: Ivan Conti (76, jazz drummer, Azymuth)

22: Barry Humphries a.k.a. Dame Edna Everage (89, Australian comedian/actor)

Len Goodman (78, English TV personality)

25: Harry Belafonte (95, American musician/actor/civil rights leader)

27: Wee Willie Harris (90, English rock & roll singer)

Jerry Springer (79, English-born, American TV host)

28: Tim Bachman (71, Canadian guitarist, Bachman-Turner Overdrive)

May

1: Gordon Lightfoot (84, Canadian singer/songwriter, ‘If You Could Read My Mind’)

3: Linda Lewis (72, English singer/songwriter, ‘Rock-A-Doodle-Doo’)

18: Jim Brown (87, American football player/actor, ‘The Dirty Dozen’)

19: Pete Brown (82, poet/singer/lyricist, ‘Sunshine Of Your Love’/’White Room’/’I Feel Free’)

Andy Rourke (59, English bass player, The Smiths)

24: Bill Lee (94, American jazz musician/composer, Spike’s dad, scored ‘She’s Gotta Have It’/‘School Daze’/’Do The Right Thing’

Tina Turner (84, American-born, Swiss singer/actress, ‘River Deep Mountain High’/’Nutbush City Limits’/’What’s Love Got To Do With It?’)

26: Reuben Wilson (88, American jazz organist, ‘Got To Get Your Own’)

June

1: Cynthia Weil (82, songwriter, ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’’/’Here You Come Again’)

6: Tony McPhee (79, English guitarist, The Groundhogs)

12: Treat Williams (71, American actor, ‘Hair’/’Prince Of The City’)

14: John Hollins (76, English football player, Chelsea/Arsenal/England)

15: Glenda Jackson (87, English MP/actress, ‘Women In Love’/’Sunday Bloody Sunday’)

27: Julian Sands (65, English actor, ‘A Room With A View’)

29: Alan Arkin (89, American actor, ‘Catch 22’/’Little Miss Sunshine’)

30: Lord Creator (87, Trinidad-born, Jamaican singer/songwriter, ‘Kingston Town’)

July

3: Vicki Anderson a.k.a. Myra Barnes  (83, American soul singer, Carleen’s mum)

Mo Foster (78, English songwriter/musician/producer)

5: George Tickner (76, American guitarist, Journey)

16: Jane Birkin (76, French/English actress/singer, ‘Je t’aime … moi non plus’, banned by the BBC in 1969)

21: Tony Bennett (96, American singer, ‘I Left My Heart In San Francisco’)

22: Vince Hill (89, English singer, ‘Edelweiss’)

24: Trevor Francis (69, English football player, Birmingham City/England)

26: Randy Meisner (77, musician/songwriter, Poco/The Eagles, ‘Take It To The Limit’)

Sinead O’Connor (56, Irish singer, ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’/songwriter, ‘Mandinka’)

30: Paul Reubens a.k.a. Pee-Wee Herman (70, American actor/comedian)

31: Angus Cloud (25, American actor, ‘Euphoria’)

 August

4: John Gosling (75, English keyboard player, The Kinks)

7: DJ Casper (58, DJ/artist/songwriter, ‘Cha Cha Slide’)

William Friedkin (87, American film director, ‘The French Connection’/’The Exorcist’)

9: Robbie Robertson (80, Canadian musician/songwriter/singer, The Band)

Sixto Rodriguez (81, American singer/songwriter, subject of 2012 documentary ‘Searching For Sugar Man’

13: Clarence Avant (92, owner of Sussex Records/Tabu Records, film producer, ‘Jason’s Lyric’)

Magoo (50, American rapper, Timbaland & Magoo)

16: Jerry Moss (88, music executive, the ‘M’ in A&M Records)

17: Bobby Eli (77, guitarist, MFSB/songwriter, ‘Love Won’t Let Me Wait’)

Gary Young (70, American drummer, Pavement)

19: Ron Cephas Jones (66, American actor, ‘This Is Us’)

24: Bernie Marsden (72, English guitarist, Whitesnake/songwriter, ‘Here I Go Again’/’Fool For Your Loving’)

29: Jamie Crick (57, English radio broadcaster, Jazz FM)

31: Gayle Hunnicutt (80, American actress, ‘Dallas’)

September

1: Jimmy Buffett (76, American singer/songwriter, ‘Margaritaville’)

4: Gary Wright (80, American singer/songwriter, ‘Dream Weaver’/’Love Is Alive’)

Steve Harwell (56, American singer/rapper, Smash Mouth)

8: Mike Yarwood (82, English comedian/impressionist)

13: Roger Whittaker (87, Kenyan-born English singer/songwriter, ‘Durham Town’)

16: Sir Horace Ove (86, Trinidadian-born, English film director, ‘Pressure’)

Irish Grinstead (43, American R&B singer, 702)

25: David McCallum (90, Scottish actor, ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’/’N.C.I.S.’/musician)

28: Michael Gambon (82, English actor, ‘Harry Potter’ movies)

30: Russell Batiste Jr. (57, American drummer, The Meters)

October

2: Francis Lee (79, English football player, Manchester City/England)

8: Burt Young (83, American actor, ‘Rocky’)

11: Rudolph Isley (84, American singer, The Isley Brothers/songwriter, ‘That Lady’)

12: Michael Cooper (71, Jamaican musician, Inner Circle/Third World)

14: Piper Laurie (91, American actress, ‘Carrie’/’The Hustler’)

19: DJ Mark The 45 King (62, DJ/musician/producer, ‘The 900 Number’)

20: Haydn Gwynne (66, English actress, ‘Drop The Dead Donkey’)

21: Sir Bobby Charlton (86, English footballer, Manchester United/England)

24: Richard Roundtree (81, American actor, ‘Shaft’)

28: Matthew Perry (54, American-Canadian actor, ‘Friends’)

November

12: Anna Scher (78, founder of the Anna Scher Children’s Theatre)

19: Joss Ackland CBE (95, English actor, ‘White Mischief’)

22: Jean Knight (80, American soul singer, ‘Mr. Big Stuff’)

25: Terry Venables (80, English footballer, Chelsea/Tottenham Hotspur/England manager)

26: Geordie Walker (64, English guitarist, Killing Joke)

29: Sticky Vicky (80, Spanish dancer and illusionist)

30: Shane MacGowan (65, English-born Irish singer, The Pogues/songwriter, ‘Fairytale Of New York’)

December

1: Brigit Forsyth (83, Scottish actress, ‘Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?’)

5: Denny Laine (79, English musician, The Moody Blues/Wings, songwriter, ‘Mull Of Kintyre’)

7: Benjamin Zephaniah (65, English poet/writer/actor, ‘Peaky Blinders’)

8: Ryan O’Neal (82, American actor, ‘Love Story’/’Barry Lyndon’/’Paper Moon’)

Nidra Beard (71, American singer, Dynasty)

11: Andre Braugher (61, American actor, ‘Homicide: Life On The Street’/’Brooklyn Nine-Nine’/’Glory’)

Richard Kerr (78, English singer/songwriter, ‘Mandy’)

15: Bob Johnson (79, singer/songwriter/musician, Steeleye Span)

16: Colin Burgess (77, Australian drummer, AC/DC)

17: Amp Fiddler (65, singer/songwriter/producer)

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Civil War Tales - The Battle of Rich Mountain

Rich Mountain and Laurel Hill were two strategic peaks in the Allegheny Mountains. Between these peaks, the Parkersburg-Staunton turnpike, leading from the Shenandoah Valley, passed through the town of Beverly.  Here, the road forked. The left fork led to Parkersburg on the Ohio River. The right fork followed a northwest route as it passed through Philippi to Grafton. The route to Grafton offered easy access to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, leading to the Ohio River at Wheeling. Rich Mountain and Laurel Hill's strategic importance was not lost on the Confederates or the Federals.  Following the Battle of Philippi, General Richard S. Garnett replaced Colonel George Porterfield as commander of Confederate forces in Northwestern Virginia.  He immediately ordered the fortification of Rich Mountain and Laurel Hill to protect this vital supply route from the Federals. Garnett placed 3,500 troops at Laurel Hill, the point at which he expected an assault.   The position was very well fortified and covered every approach to Laurel Hill.  Garnett sent Colonel Jonathan M. Heck to fortify Rich Mountain. Colonel Heck entrenched at the western base of Rich Mountain. Breastworks on each side of the turnpike were constructed.  The area in front of the breastworks was cleared in preparation for a frontal attack by the federals, affording a clear field of fire. In the meantime, reinforcements arrived at Laurel Hill. Garnett sent the Twentieth Virginia, commanded by Colonel John Pegram, to reinforce Camp Garnett. Outranking Colonel Heck, Pegram assumed command at Camp Garnett.  At his disposal was a force numbering 1,300 men. McClellan’s original plans called for a movement on Richmond through the Kanawha Valley.  After numerous consultations, McClellan opted for a movement against Garnett.  On July 9, he moved his base of operations to Roaring Creek Flats, two miles west of Camp Garrett, and sent General Thomas A. Morris to keep the Confederates occupied at Laurel Hill. The Rich Mountain Battlefield For five days, from July 7 to July 11, 1861, Morris’ forces engaged in a series of minor skirmishes with Garnett’s men in and around the small town of Belington. These skirmishes, although minor, accomplished the desired effect of keeping Garnett from reinforcing Pegram at Rich Mountain. McClellan, meanwhile, was hesitant to order a frontal assault on Camp Garnett.  Although there was a high probability of success, casualties would likely be high. He did not have to make that decision thanks to 21-year-old David Hart. Hart arrived, seeking permission to visit his father’s home atop Rich Mountain.  He was taken to General William S. Rosecrans for interrogation. Hart told Rosecrans of an old road, hardly used, that would lead around the left flank of the Confederates and to a dirt road a short distance from the Hart home. Rosecrans took this information, along with Hart, to General McClellan.  It took some convincing, but McClelland finally agreed to Rosecrans’ plan.  At dawn, the brigade, led by Colonel Frank Lander and composed of 1,900 Indiana and Ohio troops, left camp on a challenging march to the Hart farm.  The soldiers made their way through brush and thickets and crossed ravines.  Heavy rains fell from six that morning until eleven o’clock. The march took much longer than expected. Finally, shortly after eleven, the column reached the dirt road that led to the Hart farm. As the column began moving along the dirt road, Rosecrans was unaware of two things.  When he did not hear the firing he expected, McClellan became concerned and recalled the flank attack.  He sent Sergeant David Wolcott of the First Ohio Cavalry to recall the column.  Confederate pickets, however, captured Wolcott, and Rosecrans did not receive the message.  Colonel Pegram knew the Federals were executing a flank march.  To guard against such a maneuver, Pegram placed two companies near the summit, almost two miles to his rear the previous night, to fortify the position.  When he learned of the Federal plans, he sent two more companies and an artillery piece to reinforce the summit, increasing the Confederate force to three hundred men.  This left Pegram one thousand men at Camp Garnett to face General McClellan.  McClelland, with four thousand troops, could have easily overwhelmed Pegram. Assuming the troops had been defeated at Rich Mountain, McClellan ordered his line back to Roaring Creek Flats. General William Rosecrans Meanwhile, after passing the crest of the hill and about a quarter mile from the Hart farm, the Federal column began to take fire from enemy pickets. Sergeant James Taggart fell, and Captain Christopher Miller was severely wounded. The Confederate column opened fire as the Federals emerged into open ground. The Federals commenced the attack. The Confederates put up a gallant defense, but it was not enough.  Rosecrans ordered a charge down the hill toward the Hart farm as the Nineteenth Ohio provided a covering volley.  After a second volley by the Nineteenth, the entire force charged, and the overpowered Confederates ran. The brief battle was over. Rosecrans did not pursue so his troops could prepare for a counterattack, which never came.   Colonel Pegram was on his way to Hart Farm to check on the battle's progress when he encountered retreating men. Pegram tried to rally the men but was unsuccessful. As he made his way to Camp Garrett, Pegram fell from his horse and suffered a minor injury. When he arrived at the camp, he consulted with his officers. With Federals at his front and rear, Pegram abandoned Camp Garnett. Because of his injuries, Pegram relinquished command to Colonel Heck, who issued orders for the retreat. It was a rainy night as the column retreated. The movement was led by Captain R.D. Lilley of the 25th Virginia and accompanied at the front by map maker of the 25th Virginia, Jedediah Hotchkiss (destined to become one of Stonewall Jackson’s chief aides).   Before the retreat was completed, Pegram decided to resume command.  Word was sent up the line to halt the column until Pegram came to the front.  However, the men led by Captain Lilley and Hotchkiss never got the message and continued to Beverly.  Lilley continued the retreat through Huttonsville to Cheat Mountain. Hearing of the defeat at Rich Mountain, Garnett knew he was in a precarious position at Laurel Hill.  Leaving his tents up and fires burning, Garnett quietly slipped away and moved south on the Parkersburg- Staunton turnpike.  When informed erroneously that the Federals blocked his path at Beverly, Garnett changed to a northeasterly route into the Cheat River Valley to avoid them. General McClellan headquarters. Meanwhile, Pegram led his column to a point three miles south of Leadville (near present-day Elkins).  Pegram received some disturbing news:  Garnett had retreated from Laurel Hill.  Pegram’s troops were hungry, exhausted, and demoralized.  He saw surrender as the only option.  At midnight, he sent a message to McClellan asking for terms of surrender. Pegram’s force surrendered its arms at Beverly, and McClelland issued orders for delivering food and provisions to Pegram’s famished command, consisting of five hundred sixty men, including 33 officers. Garnett, meanwhile, was having problems.  His ruse had been discovered. General Thomas A. Morris had begun a pursuit with his Indiana brigade.  The poor roads slowed travel to a crawl. The Confederates chopped down trees to slow the federal advance.  In addition, heavy rains turned the road into mud, slowing the advance and bogging down the wagon trains.  Equipment left behind easily showed the direction of the march. With the rains swelling the streams, the Confederates crossed the Cheat River at Kaler’s Ford. On July 13, 1863, the Federals finally caught up with the Confederates at Shaver’s Fork of the Cheat River and began their attack.  From there, the conflict continued through the first and second crossings of Corrick’s Ford. The battle raged as the Seventh Indiana, led by Colonel Dumont, crossed the river and made a charge on the Confederate battery.  The Southerners, low on ammunition, retreated.  Garnett, hearing the battle raging, rode back to Corrick’s Ford.  Upon seeing his men in retreat, he attempted to rally them.  He made an inviting target on horseback, and soon, a bullet struck Garnett.  He fell from his horse, becoming the first General killed in the Civil War. Under Federal guard, Garnett’s body was transferred to relatives in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was buried. He was later re-interred next to his wife in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. McClellan chose not to pursue. Nine days later, on July 22, 1861, following the Union disaster at First Bull Run the previous day, McClellan was recalled to Washington, and General Rosecrans assumed command in Western Virginia. The events in Philippi, Rich Mountain, Laurel Hill, and Corrick’s Ford were instrumental in the decision to elevate McClelland to command of the Army of the Potomac.  Federal control of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Parkersburg-Staunton turnpike made it more difficult for Confederates to supply their units.  Leaders meeting for the Wheeling conventions could now breathe a bit easier knowing Western Virginia was under Union control.  It would not be long before a new state was born. Pete Chacalos taught science for more than 30 years at Wheeling Park High School. Jack Wills "Battle of Rich Mountain." e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia. 28 March 2013. Web. 27 November 2017. Rich Mountain Revisited, Dallas B. Shaffer Volume 28, Number 1 (October 1966), pp. 16-34 http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh28-1.html Ibid Jack Wills "Battle of Rich Mountain." e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia. 28 March 2013. Web. 27 November 2017. Katherine Hart Frame, David Hart and the Hart family in the American Civil War, http://www.richmountain.org/history/davhart.html Ibid Union Victory in Spite Of Itself At Rich Mountain, http://civilwardailygazette.com/union-victory-in-spite-of-itself-at-rich-mountain Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Vol. II, No. 1, Reports of Brigadier General William S. Rosecrans Rich Mountain Revisited, Dallas B. Shaffer Volume 28, Number 1 (October 1966), pp. 16-34 http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh28-1.html Ibid Ibid Ibid Rich Mountain Revisited, Dallas B. Shaffer Volume 28, Number 1 (October 1966), pp. 16-34 http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh28-1.html Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Vol. II, No. 1, Reports of Major General George B. McClellan Mathew W. Lively, Robert S. Garnett – First General Killed in the Civil War, https://www.civilwarprofiles.com/robert-s-garnett-first-general-killed-in-the-civil-war/ Read the full article

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David S. Garnett: Spegel i skyn (Mirror In the Sky). Delta Science Fiction 27. Cover by Harry Bergman (?). Delta, Sweden, 1975.

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for my purposes, the referenced texts E.M. Forster made in his book, The Aspects of the Novel.

William George Clark. Gazpacho: Or Summer Months in Spain. —. Peloponnesus: Notes of Study and Travel. —. The Works of William Shakespeare - Cambridge Edition. —. The Present Dangers of the Church of England. John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress. Walter Pater. Marius the Epicurean. Edward John Trelawny. Adventures of a Younger Son. Daniel Defoe. A Journal of the Plague Year. —. Robinson Crusoe. —. Moll Flanders. Max Beerbohm. Zuleika Dobson. Samuel Johnson. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. James Joyce. Ulysses. —. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. William Henry Hudson. Green Mansions. Herman Melville. Moby Dick. —. "Billy Budd". Elizabeth Gaskell. Cranford (followed by My Lady Ludlow, and Mr. Harrison's Confessions). Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre. —. Shirley. —. Villette. Sir Walter Scott. The Heart of Midlothian (part of the Waverley Novels). —. The Antiquary (part of the Waverley Novels). —. The Bride of Lammermoor (part of the Waverley Novels). George Meredith. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. —. The Egoist. —. Evan Harrington. —. The Adventures of Harry Richmond. —. Beauchamp's Career. Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace. Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov. William Shakespeare. King Lear. Henry Fielding. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. —. Joseph Andrews. Henry De Vere Stacpoole. The Blue Lagoon (part of a trilogy; followed by The Garden of God and The Gates of Morning). Clayton Meeker Hamilton. Materials and Methods of Fiction. George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss. —. Adam Bede. Robert Louis Stevenson. The Master of Ballantrae. Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The Last Days of Pompeii. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations. —. Our Mutual Friend. —. Bleak House. Laurence Stern. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Virginia Woolf. To the Lighthouse. T. S. Eliot. The Sacred Wood.

One Thousand and One Nights. Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights. Charles Percy Sanger. The Structure of Wuthering Heights. Johan David Wyss. The Swiss Family Robinson. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love. Arnold Bennett. The Old Wives' Tale. Anthony Trollope. The Last Chronicle of Barset. Jane Austen. Emma. —. Mansfield Park. —. Persuasion. H. G. Wells. Tono-Bungay. —. Boon. Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary. Percy Lubbock. The Craft of Fiction. —. Roman Pictures. André Gide. The Counterfeiters. Homer. Odyssey. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native. —. The Dynasts. —. Jude the Obscure. Anton Chekhov. The Cherry Orchard. Oliver Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield. David Garnett. Lady Into Fox. Alexander Pope. The Rape of the Lock. Norman Matson. Flecker's Magic. Samuel Richardson. Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded. Anatole France. Thaïs. Henry James. The Ambassadors. —. The Spoils of Poynton. —. Portrait of a Lady. —. What Maisie Knew. —. The Wings of the Dove. Jean Racine. Plays.

I. A. Richards.

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Audio Books/Audible Collection

Updated 11/01/2021

On Juneteenth Annette Gordon-Reed Acquired on October 26, 2021

Peril Bob Woodward, Robert Costa Acquired on September 22, 2021

Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Acquired on August 24, 2021

Naturalist Edward O. Wilson Acquired on August 10, 2021

The Talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith Acquired on August 10, 2021

Yearbook Seth Rogen Acquired on June 21, 2021

Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Acquired on June 15, 2021

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer Acquired on April 21, 2021

Little Women Louisa May Alcott Acquired on April 21, 2021

Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë Acquired on April 21, 2021

This Is the Fire Don Lemon Acquired on March 16, 2021

A Promised Land Barack Obama Acquired on February 23, 2021

The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka, Susan Bernofsky - translator Acquired on February 8, 2021

My Own Words Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Hartnett, Wendy W. Williams Acquired on October 22, 2020

The Zealot and the Emancipator H. W. Brands Acquired on October 21, 2020

Rage Bob Woodward Acquired on September 14, 2020

Great Books David Denby Acquired on August 5, 2020

The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X, Alex Haley Acquired on July 3, 2020

Talking to Strangers Malcolm Gladwell

God Is Not One Stephen Prothero Acquired on July 3, 2020

The Underground Railroad (Television Tie-in) Colson Whitehead Acquired on June 22, 2020

The Great War and Modern Memory Paul Fussell Acquired on June 1, 2020

With the Old Breed E. B. Sledge Acquired on June 1, 2020

The Hunger Games: Special Edition Suzanne Collins Acquired on May 15, 202

The Return of the King J. R. R. Tolkien Acquired on May 15, 2020

The Two Towers J. R. R. Tolkien Acquired on May 15, 2020

The Fellowship of the Ring J. R. R. Tolkien Acquired on May 15, 2020

Beneath a Scarlet Sky Mark Sullivan Borrowed on January 15, 2020

Warlight Michael Ondaatje Acquired on December 10, 2019

Surprised by Joy C. S. Lewis Acquired on November 26, 2019

The Bully Pulpit Doris Kearns Goodwin Acquired on October 31, 2019 More actions

The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros Acquired on September 30, 2019

In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez Acquired on September 30, 2019

The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition Margaret Atwood, Valerie Martin - essay Acquired on September 30, 2019

The Secrets We Kept Lara Prescott Acquired on September 30, 2019

Raising Your Spirited Child, Third Edition Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Acquired on September 19, 2019

The Strenuous Life Ryan Swanson Acquired on August 28, 2019

Frankenstein Mary Shelley Acquired on June 17, 2019

If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin Acquired on June 6, 2019

A Mind of Her Own Paula McLain Acquired on March 7, 2019

The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas Acquired on March 7, 2019

Crime and Punishment (Recorded Books Edition) Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett - translator Acquired on March 7, 2019

East of Eden John Steinbeck Acquired on January 22, 2019

Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens Acquired on January 14, 2019

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Acquired on November 27, 2018

Becoming Michelle Obama Acquired on November 27, 2018

Day 13: Heart Center Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 15: Soul Nourishment Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 17: Vital Rest Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 16: You're In Control Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 11: Inner Peace Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 12: Reflection Walk Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 10: In Your Hands Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 8: Fulfilled and Fearless Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 1: Settling Down Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 7: Inner Landscape Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 3: All About Intention Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 2: Eyes Open Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Fear Bob Woodward Acquired on September 21, 2018

Pride and Prejudice (AmazonClassics Edition) Jane Austen Acquired on August 20, 2018

Day 20: Awaken the Senses Aaptiv Acquired on August 20, 2018

Day 19: A Fire Inside Aaptiv Acquired on August 20, 2018

Day 18: Mantra Moments Aaptiv Acquired on August 20, 2018

Day 14: Bated Breath Aaptiv Acquired on August 20, 2018

Day 9: Into The Deep Aaptiv Acquired on August 20, 2018

Day 6: Sweet Escape Aaptiv Acquired on August 20, 2018

Day 5: Point of Focus Aaptiv Acquired on August 20, 2018

Day 4: New Breath Aaptiv Acquired on August 20, 2018

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Acquired on August 20, 2018

Night Elie Wiesel Acquired on August 20, 2018

Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare, Edith Nesbit Acquired on August 20, 2018

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[basketball-lifer]

Kobe Bryant: The Greatest Laker of All-time

Originally published on Facebook, on December 2, 2015

NBA Finals Game 7: Boston Celtics v Los Angeles Lakers

LOS ANGELES - JUNE 17: Kobe Bryant #24 of the Los Angeles Lakers celebrates after winning over the Boston Celtics in Game Seven of the 2010 NBA Finals on June 17, 2010 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2010 NBAE (Photo by Nathaniel S Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)In 1996, a young Kobe Bean Bryant was drafted by the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets straight out of high school and was immediately traded to the Los Angeles Lakers (a trade that would be a monumental blessing for the franchise in years to come, considering the fact that Shaq had also signed with the Lakers that very same season) 

His impact on his team and the league would be significant to say the least. Despite scoring a record 31 points in 1996-97 Rookie All-Stars game, he would not be awarded Rookie All-Star MVP award because of AI’s all-round performance in leading East Rookie All-Stars to victory that night but that was more than enough to get the attention of seasoned Basketball pundits not to write him off

So today is the day when Kobe announced that 2015-16 will be his last season in the NBA, many of us have been struck with the thought that what makes this player one of NBA’s greats as well as the greatest Laker in franchise history?

Simply, he’s the only Laker to lead his team to 2 NBA Championships in 2008-09 & 2009-10 seasons. The latter championship was won by defeating a star studded cast of Boston Celtics led by Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen with Coach Doc Rivers at the helm

Unlike Lakers Dynasties of the past, with the exception of Minneapolis Lakers led by George Mikan, every Laker team won a championship whilst having at least 2 power-houses on the floor. I’ll start with 1971-72 Lakers:

Team Chamberlain-West

When Wilt had joined the Lakers in 1968-69 season, he was welcomed by Jerry West and Elgin Baylor as his team mates. Both West and Baylor had had unsuccessful runs at the NBA Finals thanks to Red Auerbach’s Boston Celtics with Bill Russell at its core

Elgin due to his injuries retired at the start of 1971-72 season. No one expected an ageing team minus Baylor to be able to make it to the Final round of the playoffs, let alone win a championship BUT West and Chamberlain not only led their team to a championship against New York Knicks but also set monumental records such as winning 33 consecutive games in a season (which remains to this day) and winning the most games in a season, 69-13 (a record that was broken by 1995-96 Chicago Bulls), to name a few

Despite what was accomplished by the team, had it not been for the duo of West-Chamberlain (All-Stars, future Hall of Famers, future 50 Greatest Players of all-time); this record-breaking championship drive would not have been possible at all

Showtime Lakers

Many will argue that Kareem and/or Magic is/are the greatest Laker(s) of all-time. Many will point out the fact that a rookie Magic Johnson was able to fill in as a center (despite being a point guard) for an injured Abdul Jabbar in the crucial game 6 of 1979-80 Finals, not just against any team but the team of Philadelphia 76ers led by Dr. J

But we need to remember that Magic was in a team of All-Star veterans which included the likes of Jamaal Wilkes, Spencer Haywood; players who were senior to him in experience and let’s not forget that Abdul Jabbar (another senior, a legend) was out for 2 games in the best of 7 series i.e. he was with Magic in games 1, 2 and 3 that allowed Lakers to gain a 3-2 advantage. The title clinching game was one by a team of vets with Magic as their ‘jewel in the crown’ whereas the 2009 & 2010 titles were won by a team of youngsters who lacked championship or play-off experience similar to that of Kobe

With regards to Showtime Lakers’ 1985, ‘87 & ‘88 titles, they defeated their bitter rivals, the Boston Celtics, at Boston Garden (something unimaginable at the time) but both teams were at par with one another in terms of talent. If there were Bird, McHale and Parish on one side then there were Magic, Kareem and Worthy on the other unlike in 2010 finals, a super-star Kobe was up against Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen (all 3 being All-Stars with tremendous amount of playoffs experience)

Shaq-Kobe era

In 1996-97 season, Shaquille O’Neal signed with the Los Angeles Lakers but that didn’t result in an immediate championship run. The Lakers, despite adding 2 time NBA Champion (w/ Houston Rockets) Robert Horry and veteran Celtic Rick Fox, were still struggling to move beyond Conference Semi-Finals because of giants like Stockton and Malone’s Utah Jazz followed by Robinson & Duncan’s San Antonio Spurs

With the addition of 3-point Champion Glenn Rice, 3 time NBA Champion (w/ Chicago Bulls) Horace Grant & hiring of Phil Jackson (8 time NBA Champion, twice as a player with New York Knicks and 6 times as Head Coach of Chicago Bulls) as Head Coach for the team, did the franchise’s fortunes turn-around

Coach Phil’s signature Triangle Offense & Defense strategies, proved as successful for the Lakers as they did for Chicago Bulls in the 90s but like all strategies, key components are needed for their flawless execution and this particular team had a huge experienced talent i.e. Playoffs, Finals and otherwise

If Shaq was the X-Factor, the team would had been a championship contender in the late 90s rather than see itself get sidelined by Jazz and Spurs

Why not Mikan?

What George Mikan was to the BAA/NBA in the 50s is what Dr. J was to the league in the 70s and Michael Jordan was in the 90s. He was NBA’s 1st Superstar, someone who helped popularize the game and the league when American sports scene was dominated by Boxing, Baseball and Pro Football (NFL)

He is without a doubt the 1st greatest Laker to make his mark on the league and the sport of Basketball. He’s the league’s 1st ever ‘BIG Man’ to set foot on the court but worth noting are the facts that he:

competed in a league that only had 11 teams

didn’t have a direct competitor in any of the rival teams at the time. The only big man who came close to him was Power Forward Bob Petit of St. Louis Hawks. By the time Bill Russel and Wilt Chamberlain entered the league, Mikan was coaching Minneapolis Lakers

Bryant’s Laker Legacy

Kobe Bryant is a David in the Lakers’ world of Goliaths. He is not 6’9” (rather a shooting guard team leader similar to but not like Michael Jordan) which makes him unlikely to benefit from his height similar to Mikan, Chamberlain, Kareem and Shaq (he is shorter than Magic and Worthy) and/or weight/strength similar to Chamberlain and Shaq (again). He made history by leading a much younger and much in-experienced team to 2 consecutive NBA championships without support from a fellow legend/superstar on the court. He proved himself to be the X-Factor which West, Chamberlain, Kareem, Magic and Shaq struggled to do so

Thanks to his leadership in 2008-09 & 2009-10 seasons, the Lakers franchise is only 1 championship away from tying Boston’s record of 17 Championships

[thefoxhuntingman]

Even the briefest outlines of Old Bloomsbury’s history is incomplete without a mention of the complex emotional relationships of its members. Duncan Grant was in love at various times with Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes, Adrian Stephen, David Garnett, and finally Vanessa Bell, with whom he spent most of his life amidst other affairs. Roger Fry’s love for Vanessa was only briefly reciprocated; Clive Bell’s flirtation with his sister-in-law and brief affair with Molly MacCarthy adversely affected both the Bell and MacCarthy marriages. Lytton Strachey and Sydney Waterlow proposed to Virginia Stephen at various times; Lytton was briefly accepted then declined, to the relief of both. Despite these diverse affairs, there were no divorces in Bloomsbury. Old friends remained friends, which made the Memoir Club possible.

S. P. Rosenbaum, The Bloomsbury Group Memoir Club

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Hawaii Five-0 - Episode 9.24 - Hewa ka lima - Press Release

Joey Lawrence Returns as Hacker Aaron Wright “Hewa ka lima” – Fugitive hacker Aaron Wright (Joey Lawrence) resurfaces to ask Five-0 for help when his co-workers at the NSA, which he has been working for, are all murdered. Also, Junior speaks at the parole hearing of the drunk driver who killed his sister, on HAWAII FIVE-0, Friday, May 10 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. (“Hewa ka lima” is Hawaiian for “The hand is at fault”) CHEAT TWEET: #H50 fans, @JoeyLawrence is back! This time he asks McG and Five-0 for help! Aaron Wright better watch out for Jerry! @JorgeGarcia @HawaiiFive0CBS 5/10 9pm http://bit.ly/2GxrWGS REGULAR CAST: Alex O’Loughlin (Steve McGarrett) Scott Caan (Danny “Danno” Williams) not in the episode Chi McBride (Lou Grover) Ian Anthony Dale (Adam Noshimuri) Jorge Garcia (Jerry Ortega) Meaghan Rath (Tani Rey) Beulah Koale (Junior Reigns) Taylor Wily (Kamekona) Dennis Chun (Sgt. Duke Lukela) Kimee Balmilero (Noelani Cunha) RECURRING CAST: Joey Lawrence (Aaron Wright) Shawn Mokuahi Garnett (Flippa) Clifton Powell (Percy Grover) Shawn Thomsen (Pua Kai) GUEST CAST: José Zúñiga (Flores) Howard W. Bishop (Kinross) Jeffrey Omura (Palani) Karen Lew (Chairperson) David S. Jung (Daniel) Gabriel Kennedy (Tim) Brandon Caban (Front Desk Guard) Pacer Lee (Security Guard) Anthony Camper (NSA Agent) John Janocko (Lead Gunman) Paul Costa (Troy) WRITTEN BY: Paul Grellong & Sean O’Reilly DIRECTED BY: Peter Weller / source: CBS

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Hawaii Five-0 - Episode 9.24 - Hewa ka lima - Press Release

FUGITIVE HACKER AARON WRIGHT RESURFACES TO ASK FIVE-0 FOR HELP WHEN HIS CO-WORKERS AT THE NSA, WHICH HE HAS BEEN WORKING FOR, ARE ALL MURDERED, ON “HAWAII FIVE-0,” FRIDAY, MAY 10 Joey Lawrence Returns as Hacker Aaron Wright “Hewa ka lima” – Fugitive hacker Aaron Wright (Joey Lawrence) resurfaces to ask Five-0 for help when his co-workers at the NSA, which he has been working for, are all murdered. Also, Junior speaks at the parole hearing of the drunk driver who killed his sister, on HAWAII FIVE-0, Friday, May 10 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. (“Hewa ka lima” is Hawaiian for “The hand is at fault”) CHEAT TWEET: #H50 fans, @JoeyLawrence is back! This time he asks McG and Five-0 for help! Aaron Wright better watch out for Jerry! @JorgeGarcia @HawaiiFive0CBS 5/10 9pm http://bit.ly/2GxrWGS REGULAR CAST: Alex O’Loughlin (Steve McGarrett) Scott Caan (Danny “Danno” Williams) Chi McBride (Lou Grover) Ian Anthony Dale (Adam Noshimuri) Jorge Garcia (Jerry Ortega) Meaghan Rath (Tani Rey) Beulah Koale (Junior Reigns) Taylor Wily (Kamekona) Dennis Chun (Sgt. Duke Lukela) Kimee Balmilero (Noelani Cunha) RECURRING CAST: Joey Lawrence (Aaron Wright) Shawn Mokuahi Garnett (Flippa) Clifton Powell (Percy Grover) Shawn Thomsen (Pua Kai) GUEST CAST: José Zúñiga (Flores) Howard W. Bishop (Kinross) Jeffrey Omura (Palani) Karen Lew (Chairperson) David S. Jung (Daniel) Gabriel Kennedy (Tim) Brandon Caban (Front Desk Guard) Pacer Lee (Security Guard) Anthony Camper (NSA Agent) John Janocko (Lead Gunman) Paul Costa (Troy) WRITTEN BY: Paul Grellong & Sean O’Reilly DIRECTED BY: Peter Weller SOURCE:CBS

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100 Best First Lines of Novels

Call me Ishmael. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)

A screaming comes across the sky. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (trans. Gregory Rabassa) (1967)

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (trans. Constance Garnett) (1877)

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (1939)

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. 1984 by George Orwell (1949)

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)

I am an invisible man. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)

The Miss Lonelyhearts of the New York Post-Dispatch (Are you in trouble?—Do-you-need-advice?—Write-to-Miss-Lonelyhearts-and-she-will-help-you) sat at his desk and stared at a piece of white cardboard. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West (1933)

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1885)

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested. The Trial by Franz Kafka (trans. Breon Mitchell) (1925)

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino (trans. William Weaver) (1979)

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. Murphy by Samuel Beckett (1938)

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (1951)

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)

This is the saddest story I have ever heard. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (1915)

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much depended upon what they were then doing;—that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;—and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost:—Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,—I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (1759–1767)

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850)

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. Paul Clifford by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1830)

One summer afternoon Mrs. Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (1966)

It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. City of Glass by Paul Auster (1985)

Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)

124 was spiteful. Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)

Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (trans. Edith Grossman) (1605)

Mother died today. The Stranger by Albert Camus (trans. Stuart Gilbert) (1942)

Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu. Waiting by Ha Jin (1999)

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)

I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (trans. Michael R. Katz) (1864)

Where now? Who now? When now? The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett (trans. Patrick Bowles) (1953)

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. “Stop!” cried the groaning old man at last, “Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.” The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein (1925)

In a sense, I am Jacob Horner. The End of the Road by John Barth (1958)

It was like so, but wasn't. Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers (1995)

—Money . . . in a voice that rustled. J R by William Gaddis (1975)

Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)

All this happened, more or less. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)

They shoot the white girl first. Paradise by Toni Morrison (1998)

For a long time, I went to bed early. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (trans. Lydia Davis) (1913)

The moment one learns English, complications set in. Chromos by Felipe Alfau (1990)

Dr. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature. The Debut by Anita Brookner (1981)

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain / By the false azure in the windowpane; Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (1911)

Ages ago, Alex, Allen and Alva arrived at Antibes, and Alva allowing all, allowing anyone, against Alex's admonition, against Allen's angry assertion: another African amusement . . . anyhow, as all argued, an awesome African army assembled and arduously advanced against an African anthill, assiduously annihilating ant after ant, and afterward, Alex astonishingly accuses Albert as also accepting Africa's antipodal ant annexation. Alphabetical Africa by Walter Abish (1974)

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis (1952)

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1952)

It was the day my grandmother exploded. The Crow Road by Iain M. Banks (1992)

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)

Elmer Gantry was drunk. Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis (1927)

We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall. Tracks by Louise Erdrich (1988)

It was a pleasure to burn. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)

A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1951)

Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (1939)

I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull; He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our selves, and write our Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call'd me. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)

In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street. Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson (1988)

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1872)

It was love at first sight. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)

What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings? Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things by Gilbert Sorrentino (1971)

I have never begun a novel with more misgiving. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham (1944)

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person. Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler (2001)

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton (1904)

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

You better not never tell nobody but God. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)

“To be born again,” sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, “first you have to die.” The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (1988)

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963)

Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden. The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace (1987)

If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. Herzog by Saul Bellow (1964)

Francis Marion Tarwater's uncle had been dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk to finish digging his grave and a Negro named Buford Munson, who had come to get a jug filled, had to finish it and drag the body from the breakfast table where it was still sitting and bury it in a decent and Christian way, with the sign of its Saviour at the head of the grave and enough dirt on top to keep the dogs from digging it up. The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor (1960)

Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me. The Tin Drum by GŸnter Grass (trans. Ralph Manheim) (1959)

When Dick Gibson was a little boy he was not Dick Gibson. The Dick Gibson Show by Stanley Elkin (1971)

Hiram Clegg, together with his wife Emma and four friends of the faith from Randolph Junction, were summoned by the Spirit and Mrs. Clara Collins, widow of the beloved Nazarene preacher Ely Collins, to West Condon on the weekend of the eighteenth and nineteenth of April, there to await the End of the World. The Origin of the Brunists by Robert Coover (1966)

She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James (1902)

In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1929)

“Take my camel, dear,” said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass. The Towers of Trebizon by Rose Macaulay (1956)

He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (1900)

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley (1953)

On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen. Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban (1980)

Justice?—You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis (1994)

Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash. Crash by J. G. Ballard (1973)

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (1948)

“When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets,” Papa would say, “she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.” Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (1983)

In the last years of the Seventeenth Century there was to be found among the fops and fools of the London coffee-houses one rangy, gangling flitch called Ebenezer Cooke, more ambitious than talented, and yet more talented than prudent, who, like his friends-in-folly, all of whom were supposed to be educating at Oxford or Cambridge, had found the sound of Mother English more fun to game with than her sense to labor over, and so rather than applying himself to the pains of scholarship, had learned the knack of versifying, and ground out quires of couplets after the fashion of the day, afroth with Joves and Jupiters, aclang with jarring rhymes, and string-taut with similes stretched to the snapping-point. The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth (1960)

When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon. The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley (1978)

It was just noon that Sunday morning when the sheriff reached the jail with Lucas Beauchamp though the whole town (the whole county too for that matter) had known since the night before that Lucas had killed a white man. Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner (1948)

I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as “Claudius the Idiot,” or “That Claudius,” or “Claudius the Stammerer,” or “Clau-Clau-Claudius” or at best as “Poor Uncle Claudius,” am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point of change where, some eight years ago, at the age of fifty-one, I suddenly found myself caught in what I may call the “golden predicament” from which I have never since become disentangled. I, Claudius by Robert Graves (1934)

Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is women. Middle Passage by Charles Johnson (1990)

I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1953)

The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1922)

I will tell you in a few words who I am: lover of the hummingbird that darts to the flower beyond the rotted sill where my feet are propped; lover of bright needlepoint and the bright stitching fingers of humorless old ladies bent to their sweet and infamous designs; lover of parasols made from the same puffy stuff as a young girl's underdrawers; still lover of that small naval boat which somehow survived the distressing years of my life between her decks or in her pilothouse; and also lover of poor dear black Sonny, my mess boy, fellow victim and confidant, and of my wife and child. But most of all, lover of my harmless and sanguine self. Second Skin by John Hawkes (1964)

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. Scaramouche by Raphael Sabatini (1921)

Psychics can see the color of time it's blue. Blown Away by Ronald Sukenick (1986)

In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (1940)

Once upon a time two or three weeks ago, a rather stubborn and determined middle-aged man decided to record for posterity, exactly as it happened, word by word and step by step, the story of another man for indeed what is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal, a somewhat paranoiac fellow unmarried, unattached, and quite irresponsible, who had decided to lock himself in a room a furnished room with a private bath, cooking facilities, a bed, a table, and at least one chair, in New York City, for a year 365 days to be precise, to write the story of another person—a shy young man about of 19 years old—who, after the war the Second World War, had come to America the land of opportunities from France under the sponsorship of his uncle—a journalist, fluent in five languages—who himself had come to America from Europe Poland it seems, though this was not clearly established sometime during the war after a series of rather gruesome adventures, and who, at the end of the war, wrote to the father his cousin by marriage of the young man whom he considered as a nephew, curious to know if he the father and his family had survived the German occupation, and indeed was deeply saddened to learn, in a letter from the young man—a long and touching letter written in English, not by the young man, however, who did not know a damn word of English, but by a good friend of his who had studied English in school—that his parents both his father and mother and his two sisters one older and the other younger than he had been deported they were Jewish to a German concentration camp Auschwitz probably and never returned, no doubt having been exterminated deliberately X * X * X * X, and that, therefore, the young man who was now an orphan, a displaced person, who, during the war, had managed to escape deportation by working very hard on a farm in Southern France, would be happy and grateful to be given the opportunity to come to America that great country he had heard so much about and yet knew so little about to start a new life, possibly go to school, learn a trade, and become a good, loyal citizen. Double or Nothing by Raymond Federman (1971)

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (1988)

He—for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it—was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters. Orlando by Virginia Woolf (1928)

High, high above the North Pole, on the first day of 1969, two professors of English Literature approached each other at a combined velocity of 1200 miles per hour. Changing Places by David Lodge (1975)

They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1966)

The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1895)

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Jordan was a shooting guard who was also capable of playing as a small forward (the position he would primarily play during his second return to professional basketball with the Washington Wizards), and as a point guard. Jordan was known throughout his career for being a strong clutch performer. With the Bulls, he decided 25 games with field goals or free throws in the last 30 seconds, including two NBA Finals games and five other playoff contests. His competitiveness was visible in his prolific trash-talk and well-known work ethic. As the Bulls organization built the franchise around Jordan, management had to trade away players who were not "tough enough" to compete with him in practice. To help improve his defense, he spent extra hours studying film of opponents. On offense, he relied more upon instinct and improvisation at game time. Noted as a durable player, Jordan did not miss four or more games while active for a full season from 1986–87 to 2001–02, when he injured his right knee. He played all 82 games nine times. Jordan has frequently cited David Thompson, Walter Davis, and Jerry West as influences. Confirmed at the start of his career, and possibly later on, Jordan had a special "Love of the Game Clause" written into his contract (unusual at the time) which allowed him to play basketball against anyone at any time, anywhere.

Jordan had a versatile offensive game. He was capable of aggressively driving to the basket, as well as drawing fouls from his opponents at a high rate; his 8,772 free throw attempts are the ninth-highest total of all time. As his career progressed, Jordan also developed the ability to post up his opponents and score with his trademark fade away jump shot, using his leaping ability to "fade away" from block attempts. According to Hubie Brown, this move alone made him nearly unstoppable. Despite media criticism as a "selfish" player early in his career, Jordan's 5.3 assists per game also indicate his willingness to defer to his teammates. After shooting under 30% from three-point range in his first five seasons in the NBA, including a career-low 13% in the 1987–88 season, Jordan improved to a career-high 50% in the 1994–95 season. The three-point shot became more of a focus of his game from 1994–95 to 1996–97, when the NBA shortened its three-point line to 22 ft (6.7 m) (from 23 ft 9 in (7.24 m)). His three-point field-goal percentages ranged from 35% to 43% in seasons in which he attempted at least 230 three-pointers between 1989–90 and 1996–97. For a guard, Jordan was also a good rebounder (6.2 per game).

In 1988, Jordan was honored with the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year Award and became the first NBA player to win both the Defensive Player of the Year and MVP awards in a career (since equaled by Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, and Kevin Garnett; Olajuwon is the only player other than Jordan to win both during the same season). In addition, he set both seasonal and career records for blocked shots by a guard, and combined this with his ball-thieving ability to become a standout defensive player. He ranks third in NBA history in total steals with 2,514, trailing John Stockton and Jason Kidd. Jerry West often stated that he was more impressed with Jordan's defensive contributions than his offensive ones. He was also known to have strong eyesight; broadcaster Al Michaels said that he was able to read baseball box scores on a 27-inch television clearly from about 50 feet away.

Jordan is one of the most marketed sports figures in history. He has been a major spokesman for such brands as Nike, Coca-Cola, Chevrolet, Gatorade, McDonald's, Ball Park Franks, Rayovac, Wheaties, Hanes, and MCI. Jordan has had a long relationship with Gatorade, appearing in over 20 commercials for the company since 1991, including the "Be Like Mike" commercials in which a song was sung by children wishing to be like Jordan.

Nike created a signature shoe for him, called the Air Jordan. One of Jordan's more popular commercials for the shoe involved Spike Lee playing the part of Mars Blackmon. In the commercials Lee, as Blackmon, attempted to find the source of Jordan's abilities and became convinced that "it's gotta be the shoes". The hype and demand for the shoes even brought on a spate of "shoe-jackings" where people were robbed of their sneakers at gunpoint. Subsequently, Nike spun off the Jordan line into its own division named the "Jordan Brand". The company features an impressive list of athletes and celebrities as endorsers. The brand has also sponsored college sports programs such as those of North Carolina, Cal, Georgetown, and Marquette.

Jordan also has been associated with the Looney Tunes cartoon characters. A Nike commercial shown during 1992's Super Bowl XXVI featured Jordan and Bugs Bunny playing basketball. The Super Bowl commercial inspired the 1996 live action/animated film Space Jam, which starred Jordan and Bugs in a fictional story set during the former's first retirement from basketball. They have subsequently appeared together in several commercials for MCI. Jordan also made an appearance in the music video of Michael Jackson's "Jam" (1992).

Jordan's yearly income from the endorsements is estimated to be over forty million dollars. In addition, when Jordan's power at the ticket gates was at its highest point, the Bulls regularly sold out both their home and road games. Due to this, Jordan set records in player salary by signing annual contracts worth in excess of US $30 million per season. An academic study found that Jordan's first NBA comeback resulted in an increase in the market capitalization of his client firms of more than $1 billion.

Most of Jordan's endorsement deals, including his first deal with Nike, were engineered by his agent, David Falk. Jordan has described Falk as "the best at what he does" and that "marketing-wise, he's great. He's the one who came up with the concept of 'Air Jordan.'"

In June 2010, Jordan was ranked by Forbes magazine as the 20th-most powerful celebrity in the world with $55 million earned between June 2009 and June 2010. According to the Forbes article, Jordan Brand generates $1 billion in sales for Nike. In June 2014, Jordan was named the first NBA player to become a billionaire, after he increased his stake in the Charlotte Hornets from 80% to 89.5%. On January 20, 2015, Jordan was honored with the Charlotte Business Journal's Business Person of the Year for 2014. In 2017, he became a part owner of the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball.

Forbes designated Jordan as the athlete with the highest career earnings in 2017. From his Jordan Brand income and endorsements, Jordan's 2015 income was an estimated $110 million, the most of any retired athlete. As of April 2017, his current net worth is estimated at $1.31 billion by Forbes. Jordan is the third-richest African-American as of 2017, behind Oprah Winfrey and Robert F. Smith.

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NBA All star 2021 u nedelju 7. marta u Atlanti

NBA All-Star 2021 održaće se u nedelju 7.marta u State Farm Areni u Atlanti, domu Atlanta Hawksa. U skladu sa aktuelnim  epidemiološkim uslovima, planetarna godišnja proslava Lige prvi put će se odigrati tokom jedne večeri.

NBA je juče objavila dodatne detalje u vezi sa kolektivnom podrškom NBA porodice Istorijski crnim koledžima i univerzitetima (HBCU) i obojenim zajednicama na koje COVID-19 ima posebno poguban efekat. Kao što je ranije najavljeno, NBA porodica , uz podršku partnera AT&T, MTN DEW®, State Farm® i Taco Bell®, zajednički će pružiti više od 3 miliona dolara početne podrške HBCU zajednici preko organizacija  Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), UNCF (United Negro College Fund) i  Direct Relief’s Fund for Health Equity. 

Novčanim prilozima i podizanjem svesti, NBA porodica će unaprediti kako hitan tako i dugoročan rad i tradiciju ovih organizacija i institucija sa ciljem obrazovne, finansijske i zdravstvene ravnopravnosti. Tokom prošle godine podaci o javnom zdravlju jasno su pokazali kumulativni efekat istorijskih rasnih i ekonomskih nejednakosti u SAD, jer je uticaj pandemije na zajednice obojenih i pretežno crnačke institucije daleko teži. HBCU zajednicu, u okviru koje se obrazuje 20% crnaca u zemlji (svega tri procenta od ukupnih koledža u Sjedinjenim Državama), COVID-19 je naročito pogodio, zbog drastičnog pada u finansiranju i upisu.

Tokom All-Star noći HBCU će biti predstavljeni kroz specijalne performanse i jedinstvene sadržaje, a NBA porodica će nastaviti napore za obrazovanje i podizanje svesti kroz važna saopštenja o javnom zdravlju i bezbednosti.

2021 NBA ALL-STAR GAME STORYLINES 

NBA Royalty 

The last three players to win consecutive MVPs are All-Stars: LeBron, Steph and Giannis 

LeBron James 

James’ streak began in his second NBA season (2004-05)  

James set the record for starts last year with 16,  passing Kobe 

No other player has started more than 13 consecutive All-Star  Games  

Chris Paul  

CP3’s teams as an All-Star: New Orleans, LA Clippers, Oklahoma City and Phoenix 

First-Time All-Stars  

LaVine and Randle are  both in their seventh seasons, drafted six picks apart in 2014  

Zion Williamson  

1. Kobe:          19 years, 169 days in 1998  

2. LeBron:       20      years, 52 days in 2005  

3. Magic:         20 years, 173 days in 1980 

4. Zion:           20      years, 244 days on day of 2021 ASG 

International Players  

5 Starters: Milwaukee’s Giannis  Antetokounmpo (Greece); Dallas’ Luka Dončić (Slovenia); Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid (Cameroon); Brooklyn’s Kyrie Irving (Australia); and Denver’s Nikola Jokić (Serbia) 

 4 Reserves: Utah’s Rudy Gobert  (France); Indiana’s Domantas Sabonis (Lithuania); Philadelphia’s Ben Simmons (Australia); and Orlando’s Nikola Vučević (Montenegro) 

Giannis Antetokounmpo 

Named an All-Star Game starter for the fifth  consecutive year 

Highest scoring average in All-Star Game history (27.3     ppg) 

Triple 7s 

Curry: Selected to  start the All-Star Game for the seventh time, matching Rick Barry for the Warriors’ franchise record 

Irving: 2014 All-Star  Game MVP – second youngest to win award, behind LeBron 

George: Made record  nine 3-pointers and scored 41 points in 2016 ASG   

Utah Jazz 

First Jazz teammates to  make consecutive All-Star teams since John Stockton and Karl Malone (1989-97) 

Brooklyn Nets 

The NBA record for most  All-Stars from one team in a year is four, shared by many and last accomplished by the 2017-18 Warriors 

Spirit of St. Louis 

Both won state  championships at Chaminade 

Former NBA All-Star David Lee also attended Chaminade 

Defense Strategy 

Gobert: two-time Defensive Player of the Year and four-time All-Defensive First Team 

Simmons: Last season he was All-Defensive First Team and led NBA in steals  

Of the 26 All-Stars this season, Gobert and Simmons are two of the three averaging fewer than 20 points (along with Chris Paul) 

NBA G League Influence 

Rudy Gobert is the second  NBA G League veteran to be selected as an NBA All-Star multiple times,  joining Milwaukee’s Khris Middleton (two ASG selections for both players) 

Team LeBron head coach  Quin Snyder served as head coach of the San Antonio Spurs’ NBA G League affiliate from 2007-10, winning Coach of the Year in 2008-09  

Remembering 2003 

Only double-overtime  game in All-Star history – West 155, East 145 

Michael Jordan played  his final All-Star Game (20 points)  

Rookie Yao Ming played his first ASG

Kevin      Garnett (37 points) was the MVP 

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Fredric March α:31 de agosto de 1897 Ω: 14 de abril de 1975

Frederic March (Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel: Racine, de Wisconsin, 31 de agosto de 1897 - Los Ángeles, 14 de abril de 1975) fue un actor estadounidense ganador de dos premios Ósca Nacido en Racine, Wisconsin, fue al Winslow Elementary School, al Racine High School y a la Universidad de Wisconsin donde fue miembro de la fraternidad Alpha Delta Phi. Comenzó su carrera en la banca, pero en 1920 empezó a trabajar como extra en películas rodadas en Nueva York, usando el apócope de su madre, Marcher. En 1926, apareció en algunas obras de Broadway y, poco después, firmó un contrato con la Paramount Pictures. Su primer título cinematográfico de cierto relieve y donde ya adquiere un papel protagonista, le llegó en 1929, de manos de la directora Dorothy Arzner que le otorgó un personaje de relieve en la película La loca orgía. Su buena interpretación le abrió de par en par las puertas del éxito. March consiguió una candidatura a los Óscar en 1931 por The Royal Family of Broadway, en el que interpretaba un papel inspirado en el actor John Barrymore. La estatuilla la ganaría una año después por El hombre y el monstruo, y por segunda vez en 1946 por Los mejores años de nuestra vida. En 1954, March presentaría la 26ª edición de la ceremonia. March fue uno de los pocos actores que consiguieron resistir un contrato de larga duración con los estudios y fue capaz de actuar por libre y escoger papeles para otras películas que no fueran de la Paramount. Al mismo tiempo, estuvo trabajando en Broadway y Hollywood, hecho que explica que su carrera en la pantalla no fuese tan prolífica como podría haber sido. March, de todas maneras, ganó dos premios Tony al mejor actor: en 1947 por la obra Years Ago, escrita por Ruth Gordon; y en 1957 por la producción de Broadway de Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night. Además, March tuvo el honor de ser el primero que interpretó el personaje de Willy Loman en la obra de su amigo Arthur Miller, La muerte de un viajante (1951). Posteriormente, March interpretó a Willy Loman en la producción cinematográfica que Columbia Pictures realizó en 1951 dirigida por László Benedek. Cuando a March se le diagnosticó el cáncer de próstata en 1972, parecía que su carrera estaba acabada. Aun así, March regaló al público una última interpretación maestra en The Iceman Cometh (1973) junto a Robert Ryan al que también se le había diagnosticado un cáncer terminal. Fredric March moriría en Los Ángeles, California, a la edad de 77 años. Tiene una estrella en el Paseo de la Fama de Hollywood situada en el 1616 de Vine Street.   

FILMOGRAFIA The Great Adventure (1921), de Kenneth S. Webb. Paying the Piper (1921), de George Fitzmaurice. The Education of Elizabeth (1921), de Edward Dillon. The Devil (1921), de James Young. El pelele (The Dummy) (1929), de Robert Milton. La loca orgía (The Wild Party) (1929), de Dorothy Arzner. El misterioso crimen del estudio (The Studio Murder Mystery) (1929), de Frank Tuttle. Paris Bound (1929), de Edward H. Griffith. Jealousy (1929), de Jean de Limur. Footlights and Fools (1929), de William A. Seiter. The Marriage Playground (1929), de Lothar Mendes. Sarah and son (1930), de Dorothy Arzner. Paramount on Parade (1930), de Dorothy Arzner. La fascinación del bárbaro (Ladies Love Brutes) (1930), de Rowland V. Lee. Fiel a la marina (True to the Navy) (1930), de Frank Tuttle. Manslaughter (1930), de George Abbott. Laughter (1930), de Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast. The Royal Family of Broadway (1930), de George Cukor y Cyril Gardner. Honor entre amantes (Honor Among Lovers) (1931), de Dorothy Arzner. El ángel de la noche (Night Angel) (1931), de Edmund Goulding. Redimida (My Sin) (1931), de George Abbott. El hombre y el monstruo (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) (1931), de Rouben Mamoulian. Strangers in Love (1932), de Lothar Mendes. Tuya para siempre (Merrily We Go to Hell]) (1932), de Dorothy Arzner. La llama eterna (Smilin' Through) (1932), de Sidney Franklin. El signo de la cruz (The Sign of the Cross) (1932), de Cecil B. DeMille. Tonight Is Ours (1933), de Stuart Walker. El águila y el halcón (The Eagle and the Hawk) (1933), de Stuart Walker. Una mujer para dos (Design for Living) (1933), de Ernst Lubitsch. Mi vida entera (All of Me) (1934), de James Flood. La muerte de vacaciones (Death Takes a Holiday) (1934), de Mitchell Leisen. En mala compañía (Good Dame) (1934), de Marion Gering. El burlador de Florencia (The Affairs of Cellini) (1934), de Gregory La Cava. Las vírgenes de Wimpole Street (The Barretts of Wimpole Street) (1934), de Sidney Franklin. Les Misérables (1935), de Richard Boleslawski. Ana Karenina (1935), de Clarence Brown. Vivamos de nuevo (We Live Again) (1935), de Rouben Mamoulian. EL ángel en tinieblas (The Dark Angel) (1935), de Sidney Franklin. María Estuardo (Mary of Scotland) (1936), de Leslie Goodwins y John Ford. El caballero Adverse (Anthony Adverse) (1936), de Michael Curtiz y Mervyn LeRoy. March en Ha nacido una estrella (1937). Ha nacido una estrella (A star is born) (1937), de Jack Conway y William A. Wellman. La reina de Nueva York (Nothing Sacred) (1937), de William A. Wellman. Corsarios de Florida (The Buccaneer) (1938), de Cecil B. DeMille. La fugitiva de los trópicos (Trade Winds) (1938), de Tay Garnett. Se ha perdido una millonaria (There goes my heart) (1938) de Norman Z. McLeod. Susana y Dios (Susan and God) (1940), de George Cukor. La vida empieza hoy (Bedtime Story) (1941) de Alexander Hall. Me casé con una bruja (I Married a Witch) (1942), de René Clair. The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944), de Irving Rapper. Los mejores años de nuestra vida (The Best Years of Our Lives) (1946), de William Wyler. La verdadera historia de Cristobal Colón (Christopher Columbus) (1949), de David MacDonald. La muerte de un viajante (Death of a Salesman) (1951), de László Benedek. La torre de los ambiciosos (Executive Suite) (1954), de Robert Wise. Fugitivos del terror rojo (Man on a Tightrope) (1954), de Elia Kazan. Horas desesperadas (The Desperate Hours) (1955), de William Wyler. El hombre del traje gris (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit) (1956), de Nunnally Johnson. Alejandro el magno (Alexander the Great) (1956) de Robert Rossen. En la mitad de la noche (Middle of the Night) (1959), de Delbert Mann. Herencia del viento (Inherit the Wind) (1960), de Stanley Kramer. Vivir es lo que importa (The Young Doctors) (1961), de Phil Karlson. Siete días de mayo (Seven Days in May) (1964), de John Frankenheimer. Un hombre (Hombre) (1967), de Martin Ritt. Tic, tic, .tic (Tick...tick...tick...) (1970), de Ralph Nelson. The Iceman Cometh (1973), de John Frankenheimer.