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Ben Hecht
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never…
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She was crying on the couch. All right. Let her. But she was crying because she wanted something.... His hands grabbed her head and straightened her face until their eyes…
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Collection of 64 sketches of Chicago written by the author in 1921-1922 in a daily column for The Chicago daily news.
Originally published in 1922, this collection of short stories offers a witty and insightful portrait of life in Jazz Age Chicago. Hecht, a journalist and screenwriter, captures the sights, sounds…
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American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, novelist, the Shakespeare of Hollywood, who received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some 70 films. His novel, Gargoyles…
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.
From the glittering opulence of Michigan Avenue to the darkest ruminations of an escaped convict, from captains of industry to immigrant day laborers, this book captures 1920s Chicago in all…
Comedy / Characters: 17 males, 5 females Set Requirements: Interior
An irresistible comedy with thrills and derring do set in the news room. Hildy wants to break away from journalism…
Contrary to popular belief, solutions that can remake the US into the land of economic opportunity for all already exist. Over the past ten years, Ben Hecht has watched leaders…
Adina Hoffman
A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayist.
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Ben Hecht’s The Front Page, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Sherwood Anderson, the writer, and I were eating lunch in the back room of a saloon. Against the opposite wall sat a red-faced little man with an elaborate mustache and…
Julien Gorbach
Provides a biography of a great twentieth century writer that treats his activism during the 1940s as the central drama of his life. The book details the story of how…
Ben Hecht,Maxwell Bodenheim
This book
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has been considered important throughout the human history. It has been out of print for decades.So that this work is never forgotten we have…
Ben Hecht,Simon Arrow
A novel of satanic decadence, Fantazius Mallare is the tale of a deranged recluse. In his world of hallucination and twisted eroticism, Mallare needs a woman to worship him; he…
Ben Hecht’s critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations of Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New York during the…
Marilyn Monroe
Written at the height of her fame but not published until over a decade after her death, this autobiography of actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) poignantly recounts her…
Maxwell Bodenheim
Minna and Myself by Maxwell Bodenheim has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps…
Charles MacArthur,Ben Hecht
Musical comedy Book and Lyrics by Adolph Green and Betty Comden
Music by Cy Coleman
Based on a play by Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur and also a play by…
Jeff Edmondson,Nancy L. Zimpher
Chronicles the development of a framework for collective impact in education through the perspectives of its founders and lessons learned from pioneering sites.
Ben Hecht,Rey Ramsey
While technology has transformed the face of the for-profit sector and how it operates, nonprofit managers have been slow to embrace the digital age. This book is both a call…
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Menahem
The articles in this volume were originally published in Hebrew in Shenaton Hamishpat Haivri and address Jewish law, both in its own context and in the context of contemporary jurisprudence…
This book is an anthology of passages from the rabbinical literature that address the phenomenon of controversy in Jewish law, affording the English-speaking reader the opportunity for a first-hand encounter…
This book opens windows onto Jewish legal culture, by offering fourteen exploratory essays, each of which focuses on an aspect of Jewish law, broadly understood. Each chapter is a self-contained…
