Ferns of the Vicinity of New York

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90 species of true fern allies covered in detail. 85 full-page drawings, 13 keys, etc.

Ferns of the vicinity of New York;: Being descriptions of the fern-plants growing naturally within a hundred miles of Manhattan island

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Ferns of the vicinity of New York;: Being descriptions of the fern-plants growing naturally within a hundred miles of Manhattan island
John Kunkel Small
Manufacturer: The Science Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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For travelers looking to avoid the crowd, this guide will help them discover the unique "must-see" attractions of the Last Frontier State. Go beyond the usual tourist attractions to discover such hidden treasures as Starrigavan Estuary, Valdez Museum, or Harding Lake. Whatever you do when you get to Alaska, get off the interstate-and take this book with you!

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An interesting supplimental guide.......2002-03-22

The Off the Beaten Path Alaska guide is almost the counter guide for the main off the shelf tour guides like Foders. Yes, a lot of it is akin to advertising, but it opens up some of the possible opportunities and can give you a starting off place to learn more. The book was useful for looking at in small pieces - the narrative is rather plodding and seemingly unorganized - at least it's hard to find things quickly in it. But at the same time, if you are looking at Alaska as that once in a lifetime visit, then it presents the opportunities that are out there, especially those not covered in as much detail in the mainstream guides. Sure, many of the things listed are way out of most of our budgets, but I found myself contemplating trying to find some alternatives to side trips that I hadn't thought about. And it shows that it's written by someone on knows and lives the area - the description of travel opportunities often fall more in travelogue than guide book realm. Personally, as someone who is looking at visiting Alaska and hoping to go above the Arctic Circle, I got some ideas and had my options partially laid out. I now know what I might want to explore as options. I would never make this my only guide book - but it is good for what it tries to do. I do wish the maps were better and the text and maps corresponded more readily. Peruse it before you go - it's for planning ahead, not referring to on the trip.

A comprehensive look at travel in Alaska.......2002-01-16

There are tours and travel opportunities to fit every traveler and every pocketbook in this book. Where most travel books on Alaska provide sketchy descriptions and outdated contact information we found the information in Alaska Off the Beaten Path to be solid.
We enjoyed Melissa's first person accounts and descriptions too. I followed her directions and found giant sea lions right where she said they'd be, in the harbor in Kodiak.
We carried it with us everywhere and haver recommended it to friends who plan to visit Alaska in the future.

Off the Beaten Path? Try how to spend the most money in AK.......2001-10-20

this book is full of overpriced advertisements and we found this book completely irritating in a 6 week trip to Alaska. If you want to spend $3500 on a kayak trip this may be the book for you.

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Abraham Lincoln has long dominated the pantheon of American presidents. From his lavish memorial in Washington and immortalization on Mount Rushmore, one might assume he was a national hero rather than a controversial president who came close to losing his 1864 bid for reelection. In Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory, Barry Schwartz aims at these contradictions in his study of Lincoln's reputation, from the president's death through the industrial revolution to his apotheosis during the Progressive Era and First World War.

Schwartz draws on a wide array of materials—painting and sculpture, popular magazines and school textbooks, newspapers and oratory—to examine the role that Lincoln's memory has played in American life. He explains, for example, how dramatic funeral rites elevated Lincoln's reputation even while funeral eulogists questioned his presidential actions, and how his reputation diminished and grew over the next four decades. Schwartz links transformations of Lincoln's image to changes in the society. Commemorating Lincoln helped Americans to think about their country's development from a rural republic to an industrial democracy and to articulate the way economic and political reform, military power, ethnic and race relations, and nationalism enhanced their conception of themselves as one people.

Lincoln's memory assumed a double aspect of "mirror" and "lamp," acting at once as a reflection of the nation's concerns and an illumination of its ideals, and Schwartz offers a fascinating view of these two functions as they were realized in the commemorative symbols of an ever-widening circle of ethnic, religious, political, and regional communities. The first part of a study that will continue through the present, Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory is the story of how America has shaped its past selectively and imaginatively around images rooted in a real person whose character and achievements helped shape his country's future.

Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory.

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Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory.
Barry Schwartz
Manufacturer: see notes for publisher info
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000M4CQJC

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Great book for great people.......2000-03-19

This book is extraordinary if I do say so myself! Cary Henderson is my grandfather. He was diagnosed with AD soon after I was born. I have no memory of him not having it. It has gotten so bad no that a I feel like he is living, but not really here all the way. He is holding on, though. The pictures taken by Nancy Andrews are artistic and creative-wonderfully displayed. My grandma and aunt have put so much work and time in this book and it has really paid off. I am proud of them and think it's great that people can put themselves in someone's shoes that has AD. This book is interesting and will keep your attention until it's over. I reccomend this book to anyone.

An excellent book by a very special man.......1999-03-23

This book gave me some small insight into what my grandmother, who has alzheimers, must be going through. From the description of why he's afraid of the dark to the small joys of daily life and unquestioning company of his dog, Smith-Henderson has given a treasure to those of us baffled by this disease. My aunt is now using the book for a project in medical school, and I am encouraging my family to read it, so they might also have an idea of what people with alzheimer's face daily.

Moving, enlightening book into world of Alzheimer's patient.......1999-03-10

I have worked in nursing homes with Alzheimer's patients and received excellent staff training in relating to these people. But nothing equals the insights into the feelings so powerfully shared by Mr. Henderson. I'm giving it to a friend whose spouse has just been diagnosed and will recommend it to professionals still in the caregiving field.

A wonderful journal on how it feels to have Alzheimer's........1999-01-20

As the spouse of a man with this horrendous disease, I was very moved by this excellent journal of text and photos which allows one to "see it from the other side" as much as possible. In some moments of clarity for him, I shared excerpts of the book with my husband. His reaction was "he sure knows". Having ordered a copy for everyone in our family, perhaps I helped create the current back order situation! Kudos and thank you to all involved in the process of this book.

This is a must-read for friends and family of those with AD........1998-12-15

Before you read further, you should know that I am the agent who represents this book.

I am writing to tell you the importance of this book and the impact it has had on people. Four years ago, when this project was nothing more than a Washington Post article, three doctors from the University of Virginia wrote to the Hendersons, telling them that "it is rare that we get such an eloquent description of the daily struggles and triumphs which challenge Alzheimer's victims."

The director of the Duke University Medical Center Family Support Program wrote that this work "will probably do more to change the way people think about Alzheimer's than anything written to date."

When the photographs and text appeared at the Freedom Forum's Newseum in Arlington, VA, visitors were simply effusive with their praise.

Please judge for yourself. For more information on the book, please log onto the Washington Post website, where the book is featured.

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PARTIAL VIEW AN ALZHEIMER'S JOURNAL
SMITH HENDERSON CARY
Manufacturer: SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY PRESS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: B000PGKGQC

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World-famous ornithologist Tom Roberts has included detailed descriptions of over 660 species in this first complete account of the avifauna of Pakistan. Illustrated with over 40 full colour plates, numerous maps, and over 100 black-and-white drawings made by the author himself, this comprehensive two-volume study provides regional background information about zoogeographic influences upon bird distribution, the main ecological zones, migration patterns, breeding status, and the relationship between birds and man.

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Erudite and accessible study.......2001-02-06

This is a terrific book, the product of years of loving study of the birds of Pakistan. The author includes many of his own observations, but he has also combed the literature. If some 19th century official found a nest of a particular species, Roberts knows about it. The result is a finely nuanced account of each species, its features, and its behaviors. The author is also very knowledgable about Pakistani plants, insects, agriculture, and ecology, erudition that makes the accounts of the individual species more detailed and convincing. His mastery of the older literature means that he has been able to trace changes in distribution and populations. This is a deeply learned book, valuable not just for people in Pakistan but also in areas sharing the same species. There is also a very thorough bibliography.

The only weakness of the book is that the plates are a little scanty, so a good field guide is also needed.

An extremely useful book, even for relative amateurs like me.

An Ornithological Masterpiece.......2000-09-21

The two volumes, "The Birds of Pakistan" written by T.J Roberts is the only complete book covering the avifauna of the region and is a landmark in the field of ornithology. Pakistan's incredibly diverse environment from the highest mountains on earth to burning deserts, rich plains, endless rivers and 1050 km coastline supports 668 species of resident and migrant birds. This monumental book covers all the 668 species believed to occur in Pakistan. Every specie information is presented in detail with illustrations and distribution maps all drawn by the author himself. This first volume ( Regional Studies and Non-Passeriformes ) contains detailed descriptions of 347 nonpasseriformes together with information about zoogeographic influences upon bird distribution, the main ecological zones, migration patterns, and contributions of early ornithologists. The volume contains 23 plates, 68 illustrations, and 285 distribution maps. A must for every birdwatcher who is interested in the avifauna of Pakistan and the neighbouring countries.

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Great Book

Excellent Window Treatment Resource

Short Only On Instructions

A great book for beginners

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Windows with Style: Do-it-yourself window treatments
The Editors of Creative Publishing international , and The Home Decorating Institute
Manufacturer: Creative Publishing international
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The Encyclopedia of Window Fashions

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-Demonstrates over 20 custom-made looks that can be made for a fraction of the cost.

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Great Book.......2007-04-30

This book is great! I purchased it because I mainly wanted an easy way to make hobbled roman shades. I found articles on the net that tell you how to make roman shades but I did not feel that they explained the process well enough. So after purchasing this book Windows with Style: Do-it-yourself window treatments, I made the roman shades for my daughters bedroom, living room, and bathroom. It was easy. The calculations were easy to figure out. Every thing will come out right if you can use a ruler and do simple math. The projects can be done with a variety of fabrics. The alternative window projects like the shoji window screen and the hanging window planter are great too. I made the shoji window screen for my zen-themed bedroom and the hanging window planter for my kitchen. This gave me a convenient place to put my herb garden. Although many of the other projects in this book are of no use to me because they are not my style, I feel that I did get what I wanted and more from this book. Five Stars!

Excellent Window Treatment Resource.......2007-04-11

Very good resource for just about any kind of window decor you could possibly want.

Short Only On Instructions.......2006-11-25

I got four books in an effort to teach myself to properly sew drapes and curtains. This particular book was a learning experience in that I don't think that a window treatment could possibly exist that isn't included in here.

This book taught me what everything is called, generally how it's put together, what types of window treatments are best for certain areas, like small windows, or dormers. It was extremely interesting and educational.

I have to say upfront that if you are new to sewing, you will get lost fast in this book. I would say it is good for the intermediate or expert seamstress. There are beautiful color photos of each project, but there are little steps omitted, so it is not a 1-2-3 type of book. However, if you are already a fairly good sewer, you should have no problem with it.

I was impressed by the number of shades, roman, roller, and such that are included in this book. There is also a section on frosting glass and making Shoji screens. There just doesn't seem to be anything left out concerning the windows.

Overall, this book is very worthwhile for the learning experience. And I look forward to using it to make some shades when I am done with my drapes!

A great book for beginners.......2006-02-13

Having bought a new home in the fall, I was desperate for custom window treatment ideas and not interested in the local store offerings. Not having sewn for 25 years, I was cautious about getting in "over my head." This how-to book was full of "doable" ideas. I created shades for a guest bath and two bedrooms and am now working on the master bedroom. My ultimate goal is a newly constructed sunroom and even though the book doesn't seem to contain exactly what I am looking for, it provided me with great practice projects and something to show for it.

outdated.......2002-03-13

The ideas in this book are almost laughable. The projects that are shown wouldn't even look good with different fabrics. If you are into lots of ruffles and pouffy things everywhere, then this is for you. If you are into simpler window treatments with exquisite fabrics that complement a room, this isn't for you.

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Windown With Style - Do-it-yourself Window Treatments
By The Editors
Manufacturer: Creative Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WI4966

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Gardeners know that structure is one of the most important elements in a successful garden design. Height is one way to add structure to a landscape. You can plant trees and shrubs, of course, but you also can use easy-to-grow perennials.

Giant Perennials is a fully illustrated guide to adding drama and scale to any garden using plants that grow to about 5 feet. Easy to use and featuring a handy, extended fold-over flap showing plant size, growing conditions, blooming time, flower or foliage, and height and spread, Giant Perennials includes:

A directory with more than 100 spectacular plants for every type of garden condition
Suggestions on where, how and what to plant with giant perennials
Advice on selection and cultivation
A separate chapter on designing with giant perennials, complete with planting schemes
Planting for damp or dry conditions, sun or shade
Using color, foliage, and seasonal features
Giant perennials in containers
Practical tips on getting started, routine care, propagation, and controlling pests and diseases.

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Very helpful photos - missing symbol descriptions.......2005-08-24

I liked the fact that most of the plants in this book are shown FULL GROWN with full color photographs. Photographs of full grown plants and groups of full grown plants are very, very helpful when planning a garden or landscape. I also appreciated that each plant description indicated if the plant would need to be staked for support.
Don't buy this book without the dust jacket! The meaning for the symbols at the top of each plant description are not in the book. They are only on the dust jacket! Also, the directory pages were color coded but I couldn't find a key to determine what the color coding meant. I had to guess.

Bold and beautiful plants.......2003-09-19

This is a fairly basic book that will help new, or fairly new gardeners select and grow large perennials. Perennials - flowers that bloom year after year - are the backbone of many gardens. However many people with small city lots hesitate to grow larger perennials, fearing they might appear out-of-scale with the size of the property. I was one of those people until I got tempted by lupins, red hot pokers and foxgloves. (Too bad, I thought, if passers-by couldn't see the house for the flowers. In fact the larger flowers make a dramatic statement and draw attention rather than hiding the house.)

So I was encouraged when the writer mentioned that she also grew large perennials on a very small lot. The perennials described in the book usually reach a height of five feet or more, and are often placed at the back of the border so they don't hide smaller plants. The writer is knowledgeable on the topic of larger perennials and the first 40 pages discuss where and how to plant, plant care, propagation, and pests and diseases.

The remaining 100 pages are a plant directory of tall perennials, nicely illustrated with color photographs. The description of each plant has all the information the gardener needs about height, spread, light requirements, and soil and drainage preferences. The writer also gives suggestions for combination plantings and offers advice on topics such as staking requirements and how to keep pets at bay.

Buy this book for someone who is fairly new to gardening. It may encourage them to take a step towards bolder and more structural plantings.

Basic guidelines to planting for all occasions.......2003-05-17

Filled cover to cover with spectacular full-color photographs, Giant Perennials: Star Performers For The Garden by gardening expert Susan Berry showcases a wide variety of beautiful and hardy plants to spruce up one's garden. Basic guidelines to planting for all occasions round out this eye-catching guide especially designed for those looking to choose the right sort of perennial to match the tone of their overall garden environment. Also available in a paperback edition Giant Perennials is a splendid and enthusiastically recommended addition to personal, professional, garden club, and community library Gardening & Horticultural reference collections.

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Nutrients for Neuropathy

Good Reference

Nutrients for Neuropathy

EXCELLENT!

SOOOOOOOOOO Good

Nutrients for Neuropathy (The Numb Toes Series, Vol 3)
John A. Senneff
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Nutrients for Neuropathy.......2007-05-14

Good, but a bit too technical for the average layman (I am an R.N.)

Good Reference.......2006-11-10

This is an excellent book. The author,who has neuropathy, puts together a good listing of clinical trials involving vitamins and minerals, mostly in Europe and Asia. He successfully tries to be objective - he is not a medical person, and does not pretend to be one. Listing of clinical trial results does not take a medically trained person and so this doesn't bother me. Towards the end he does list a couple of vitamin and mineral programs that he put together as recommendations. Again, these are based on the clinical trial results.

Nutrients for Neuropathy .......2005-10-14

Some more usual information for neuropathy sufferers laid out in an easy to understand and follow format. This book in the series does not have so many other personal case histories as the other two publications and was not as useful to me.

EXCELLENT!.......2005-04-25

This book, gave me the knowlege to go to my Dr and tell him I was not going to take anymore perscriptions as no matter what i had been taking, including, neurontin, messed my brain up even though it might have helped with the pain. I noticed how so many said vitamin B was such a help and I am now using vitamins to combat my problem. Thank you for putting the book together and giving us hope that we are not alone in this fight within our own bodies. The Dr's comment with a smile was"Congratulations, you've graduated! You don't need to come back for six months"

SOOOOOOOOOO Good.......2003-01-14

A great book. A must for all who have neuropathy. Very Glad I bought it. Thanks Linda

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At Eternity's Gate

a rich understanding of suffering, faith, and creativity

We can now see van Gogh's art as he intended

Magnificent

Great book!!!!!

At Eternity's Gate: The Spiritual Vision Of Vincent Van Gogh
Kathleen Powers Erickson
Manufacturer: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
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Few images in modern art have so captured the attention of the public as Van Gogh's Starry Night, a painting that reveals all the light and glory hidden in an ordinary evening sky. In this very readable study of Van Gogh, essentially a spiritual biography, Kathleen Erickson explores the intense spirituality of the painter, from his early religious training and evangelical missionary work to the crisis that occurred when the church rejected his more radical way of following Christ. Erickson argues (against many Van Gogh scholars) that the artist's mature work reflects not a rejection of Christ so much as a rejection of a dogmatic church, seeing instead in the famous images of his art a profound connection to Christian symbols. Throughout, she helps us to discover the source of the power in Van Gogh's stars and sunflowers. --Doug Thorpe

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At Eternity's Gate.......1999-12-03

I have always viewed Van Gogh's art with a feeling of sadness thinking he was a man driven insane and living a meager existence without much choice. I now enjoy his paintings so much more having read a new perspective about his life. I see his work as full of life and hope and believe he lived a life according to his convictions. He was a man who took his stand against a tide he didn't agree with. I am refreshed.

a rich understanding of suffering, faith, and creativity.......1999-10-02

Erickson does van Gogh a considerable service by returning to the voluminous letters he wrote, in order to help the reader see the roots and meaning of his devotion. She views van Gogh as essentially a mystic inspired by the Gospels and by the writings of John Bunyan and Thomas a Kempis. Their words and images were internalized and remained with the artist in spite of his break with organized Christianity. . . . Erickson provides yet another corrective by carefully reconstructing the etiology of van Gogh's mental disturbances that resulted in an extended hospitalization after the celebrated event in which he severed a part of his own ear and presented it to a local prostitute. By returning to van Gogh's letters and utilizing a finely tuned clinical understanding, Erickson plausibly concludes that the artist suffered from epileptiform illness with attendant depression. She thus provides an alternative view to the varied and sometimes poorly researched conclusions that have led previous scholars and clinicians to arrive at a wide variety of diagnostic hypotheses. . . . Erickson offers a portrait of van Gogh as a visionary struggling to find the means to express his felt spiritual experience. In so doing, she provides us with an enlarged and richly nuanced understanding of the interdependence of suffering, faith, and the act of creation.

We can now see van Gogh's art as he intended.......1999-10-02

The conventional view of Vincent van Gogh is that he was a great painter who lost his faith and, finally, lost his sanity as well. . . . But now, thanks to Kathleen Powers Erickson, such interpretations are no longer tenable. Erickson has performed an invaluable service to the disciplines of art history and spiritual Vincent van Gogh corrects numerous misconceptions about this complex man and clarifies the nature of his artistic calling. . . . By illuminating van Gogh's life, Erickson has allowed it, in turn, to illuminate his canvases. Paintings which were formerly "works of art" now seem more like icons; Erickson has enabled us to see beyond their painterly surfaces and glimpse the spiritual forces that inspired them. The paintings become, in a sense, windows that are transparent to the divine reality behind them. More than just a series of magnificent paintings, the works of Vincent van Gogh, after Erickson, now appear as the artist had intended - a visual record of the human soul trying to understand its Creator, while struggling with its afflictions along the earthly road of trials, and making its way, at last, through eternity's gate and into the Celestial City. It is a magnificent trip, and Erickson is a worthy guide along its path

Magnificent.......1999-07-09

This book was magnificent!I thought the first chapter was hard to go through but after that, Erickson repayed her debt.I've never read such an outstanding book.The reason why I liked this book is because I liked how she talked about every detail.This book should get an award!

Great book!!!!!.......1999-07-01

It is very hard to do biographies at all. Many other authors who write about Vincent Van Gogh are usually vauge, and you can't follow through. This book is the exact opposite.

At Eternity's Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent van Gogh.: An article from: Church History

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At Eternity's Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent van Gogh.: An article from: Church History
Daniel A. Siedell
Manufacturer: American Society of Church History
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Church History, published by American Society of Church History on December 1, 1999. The length of the article is 1101 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: At Eternity's Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent van Gogh.
Author: Daniel A. Siedell
Publication: Church History (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1999
Publisher: American Society of Church History
Volume: 68 Issue: 4 Page: 1030

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When John Millington Synge and Molly Allgood fell in love, he was thirty-five, she nineteen. Neither knew that he had Hodgkin's disease, of which he was to die in three years. Synge had already achieved recognition as a playwright--translations of two of his plays had been performed in Berlin and Prague--and he was codirector, with Yeats and Lady Gregory, of the Irish National Theatre Society. Molly had started her acting career the year before, in the newly opened Abbey Theatre, with a walk-on part in Synge's Well of the Saints. She had been promoted from crowd scenes to bit parts to lead roles in Riders to the Sea and The Shadow of the Glen. She was still only a member of the company, however, while Synge was a director, whose codirectors disapproved of fraternization. Synge and Molly also faced the disapproval of two widowed mothers. Barring an occasional holiday trip or company road tour, they could seldom be alone together, except on secret afternoon meetings for long walks in the country. Hence their hundreds of letters.

Molly's letters do not survive; they apparently were destroyed when Synge died. But his letters convey her mercurial charm, her openness, her love of life, her impulsiveness, and her temper--as violent as his own. What they convey of him (when he is not reproving her or remonstrating with her, as he does in the early months of their relationship) is the love of nature, the poetic language, the bittersweet irony, the elemental quality of emotion, that we know from the plays. His concern for his craft is seen as he struggles with The Playboy. ("Parts of it are not structurally strong or good. I have been all this time trying to get over weak situations by strong writing, but now I find it won't do, and I am at my wit's end.") Synge was quite unperturbed by the violent outrage and near-riots the play provoked. ("Now we'll be talked about. We're an event in the history of the Irish stage," he wrote cheerily.)

As his illness progresses, following operations in 1907 and 1908, there is great poignancy in the gradual abating of references to marriage plans and in the shift of salutation from "Dearest Changeling" to "My dearest child."

After Synge's death his friends and biographers discreetly avoided mention of Molly, who under her stage name of Maire O'Neill became one of the leading actresses of the Irish theater and lived until 1952. His letters to her have not been published before, except for the few quoted in Greene and Stephens' 1959 biography. A primary source for the study of Synge and the Irish theater movement, the letters include poems inspired by Molly and extensive information about Abbey Theatre business.

In addition to a biographical introduction, Ann Saddlemyer has included a map of the Wicklow and Dublin areas and numerous photographs of both Synge and Molly.

LETTERS TO MOLLY: JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE TO MAIRE O'NEILL, 1906-1909. Edited by Ann Saddlemyer.

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LETTERS TO MOLLY: JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE TO MAIRE O'NEILL, 1906-1909. Edited by Ann Saddlemyer.
John Millington. Synge
Manufacturer: Belknap Press,
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N783TK

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LETTERS TO MOLLY: JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE TO MAIRE O'NEILL, 1906-1909
Ann (editor) Saddlemyer
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000RB4EDQ

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