Over 66 years, Vanderbilt (1794–1877) devoted himself to one business: transportation. These corrections, amid an extraordinary wealth of learning and insight about a great man and his times, can be found in the meticulously researched and brilliantly written The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. He left it to his son William to damn the public, and the irresistible potato chip myth - the crusty Commodore sends back fried potatoes as insufficiently thin and salty, and the equally crusty Saratoga Springs chef says, “I’ll give him thin and salty” - is belied by the fact that the chip got to the restaurant ahead of the Commodore. Vanderbilt made the New York Central (founded by others) great, but Commodore was the press’s salute to a shipping mogul. He remarked, “The public? The public be damned!” And he inadvertently caused the potato chip to be invented. His nickname, “Commodore,” referred sardonically to his beginnings sailing a one-man Staten Island ferry. People know four things about Cornelius Vanderbilt: He founded the New York Central Railroad.
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It’s enough to make you think about God and fate and luck and all kinds of deep stuff.Įxcept, this time, Mr. I have no idea how they ended up with shops beside each other on the same street in Western Massachusetts. Malik, and perhaps a madeleine?” And then Mr. Malik will say next: “Manna from heaven.” And then my grandmother will say, “Will you join me for tea, Mr. I’ve seen this ritual many times before - it happens every Thursday afternoon at 4:15, regular as the changing of the guard. Malik the bag and the vase from last week’s arrangement. “And I have here some ginger-pear scones, made by my own hands,” she says as she gives Mr. Gran flashes him her twinkliest smile and reaches under the counter for an empty blue vase and a bag of scones. Wilson, I have brought for you some alstroemeria, freesia, and a few orchids - all arranged by my own hands.” He bows his head slightly as he places the bouquet by the cash register. Wilson,” even though my grandfather died before I was born. Malik.” He’s from Pakistan, so he’s just as bad, calling her “Mrs. Malik for eight years, and she still calls him “Mr. Do you see how British she is? She’s known Mr. Malik, what have you brought for us this week?” my grandmother asks. Malik gives me a smile, nearly dazzling me with his white teeth. A dark head peeks out from behind the flower arrangement, and Mr. I get to work frosting more cupcakes, and the door bursts open with a jingle and an explosion of pink and purple flowers. Rossetti's Portraits of Elizabeth Siddal: A Catalogue of the Drawings and Watercolours. "Dante Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal." Burlington Magazine (1903). Dante Gabriel Rossetti: his Family-letters, with a Memoir by William Michael Rossetti. Lewis and Mark Samuels Lasner collected her works and published them in 1978. Elizabeth's brother-in-law William Michael Rossetti had printed all fifteen of her poems piecemeal by 1906. Rossetti placed a manuscript of poems in her coffin. Their daughter was stillborn on May 2, 1861, and Elizabeth committed suicide by opium overdose on February 11, 1862. Clement's Church, Hastings, and honeymooned in Paris and Boulogne. She sought him out again several years later, however, and they were wed on May 23, 1860, at St. Illness then struck, leading her to stop painting, and her engagement with Rossetti fell away in 1858. In time, she modelled for Deverell, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt, then became Rossetti's mistress, and by 1852 began painting for herself and won the financial support of John Ruskin. She caught the eye of a pre-Raphaelite painter, Walter Howell Deverell, as she worked in a bonnet store in Cranbourne Alley, London. She had a very ordinary upbringing, distinguished only by her personal beauty, but it was enough. Elizabeth Siddal(l) was born on July 25, 1829, in Holborn, London, the child of Charles Crooke Siddall and Elizabeth Elenor Evans Siddall. I figured this and The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime would make for some fun reading. I recently read all the Sherlock Holmes stories, and I was hungry for more-so I was delighted to discover this wicked little anthology from Penguin Classics. American millionaires, watch out! English lords, lock up your paintings! Ladies everywhere, keep an eye on those diamonds! Raffles, Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, Simon Carne, Captain Gault, and many other scoundrels and ruffians tried their luck on the other side of the law, and many managed to make a very dishonest living out of it. Forget Sherlock Holmes, if you can-Victorian literature produced some great criminals as well! A. Hunt, Clint Murchison, Roy Cullen and Sid Richardson. This is a portrait of capitalism as white-knuckle risk taking, yielding fruitful discoveries for the fathers, but only sterile speculation for the sons-a story that resonates with today's economic upheaval. In The Big Rich, Bryan Burrough sketches out the colorful stories behind Texas 'Big Four' oilmen: H.L. Decline sets in as rising production costs and cheaper Middle Eastern oil erode profits, and a feckless, feuding second generation squanders family fortunes on debauchery and reckless investment-H.L.'s sons' efforts in 1970 to corner the silver market bankrupted them and almost took down Wall Street. Their second acts as garish nouveaux riches with strident right-wing politics are entertaining, if less dramatic. The saga begins heroically in the early 20th-century oil boom, with wildcatters roaming the Texas countryside drilling one dry hole after another, scrounging money and fending off creditors until gushers of black gold redeem them. Hunt, Roy Cullen, Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson, along with their cronies, rivals, families and, in Hunt's case, bigamous second and third families. ) profiles the Big Four oil dynasties of H.L. Special correspondent Burrough (coauthor, Barbarians at the Gate Capitalism at its most colorful oozes across the pages of this engrossing study of independent oil men. Once your return is received and inspected, we will send you an email to notify you that we have received your returned item. Any item that is returned more than 30 days after delivery Any item not in its original condition, is damaged or missing parts for reasons not due to our error CD, DVD, VHS tape, software, video game, cassette tape, or vinyl record that has been opened There are certain situations where only partial refunds are granted (if applicable) Please do not send your purchase back to the manufacturer. To complete your return, we require a receipt or proof of purchase. We also do not accept products that are intimate or sanitary goods, hazardous materials, or flammable liquids or gases. Perishable goods such as food, flowers, newspapers or magazines cannot be returned. Several types of goods are exempt from being returned. It must also be in the original packaging. To be eligible for a return, your item must be unused and in the same condition that you received it. If 30 days have gone by since your purchase, unfortunately we can’t offer you a refund or exchange. Through Ava’s stumblings, the 28-year-old Dolan reveals herself to be a precocious talent, skilled at detailing an expatriate’s experience teaching a language course and learning how to fall in love. She opted to write Ava as simultaneously vulnerable and closed off, observant and blind to her own shortcomings. “I looked at Ava’s limitations and asked, how can I realistically navigate these dynamics?” Dolan recalled while speaking to Observer. While writing her debut novel Exciting Times, Irish author Naoise Dolan faced a major challenge with her 22-year-old narrator, Ava: How could she create a character who’s simultaneously engaging and emotionally repressed? As Ava navigates a love triangle between herself, a lawyer named Edith, and a banker named Julian, her failure to adequately examine and communicate her desires leads her into anxious, hurtful situations. In addition to the title tale, this volume includes five stories by Charles Perrault, the noted French author and compiler of fairy tales. Now this new edition of Beauty and the Beast will continue to captivate young audiences with its timeless appeal. The story's fame has spread around the world in recent years via a classic animated film and a popular Broadway musical. That charming eighteenth-century tale of the transformative power of love has enchanted generations of readers and listeners to the present day. It was long ago and far away that a French governess told her little pupils a wonderful story called Beauty and the Beast, about a pretty girl's love for a gentle but physically repulsive creature. He suffered doubts all his life, especially when his wife died. This is a man whose faith went through enormous testing, and in fact Lewis never reached the certainty and ease of mind that he was looking for. He starts on the lowest step and gives us confidence to climb the next step. He then leads us up a ladder of logical thinking. You can almost see him smoking his pipe, rocking in his chair, exclaiming "who would have thought!" when he presents his case. When you read Lewis' work, you can hear his voice. His prose is a pleasure to read, warm, personal and measured, while sparkling with wit and just a hint of irony. This is why you will see colloquialisms used and the conversational style of the writing. Prior to 1943, these words were only heard as informal radio broadcasts. This book is in fact an initial foundation of the beliefs common to all Christians at all times. Lewis leads all the Christian religions to common ground. Atheists proudly point to their facile rebuttals as an example of how the 'best' logic that Christianity can muster is really no logic at all. Christians proudly point to it as an irrefutable argument for their faith. Mere Christianity is, if not the most successful apologetic book for Christianity, certainly one of the most discussed. The narrator describes the relationship he and the prisoner had by comparing themselves with two ships that pass one by another but never say a word. ShipsĮven though the narrator saw the prisoner every day in the yard, he never made an attempt to talk with him and decided to maintain a safe distance. When the narrator describes the prisoner, he tells about him that he has lips like clay, a comparison which has the role of accentuating the idea that the prisoner sentenced to death was already seen as being a dead man, a man who had no hope left. Because of this, the soft sound a watch makes is brutal and agonizing. For him, what goes unnoticed by the others, namely the passing of time, is a painful reminder of the things that will eventually happen. The ticking of a wrist watch is compared to the sound a hammer blow makes for the inmate who is sentenced to death. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. |