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When Wyatt Earp's brother Virgil needs help with his private detective agency, he turns to Clint Adams. Soon the Gunsmith is convince Earp's latest lady client is anything but a straight shooter.

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Forgotten Lawman
Having read numerous books and articles about Wyatt Earp, Tombstone and the Gunfight behind the O.K. Corral, I agree with the author that Virgil Earp deserves much more historical recognition than he has been given. This book is an easy read and provides an excellent biographical history of the Earp family leading up to the Tombstone years. It also presents strong evidence that Virgil, not Wyatt, was viewed by his contemporaries as the chief law enforcement officer during those turbulant times. His life did not end after Tombstone and the book provides a much needed glimpse into the final years of this often forgotten lawman.

Best-written book about Virgil Earp!
Coupled with great writing and actual documentation of facts, I highly recommend this book to anyone who desires to learn and understand this well-written book, "Virgil Earp: Western Peace Officer." ... Read more

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This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains three important works by Roman poet Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro): his masterpiece THE AENEID, THE ECLOGUES, and THE GEORGICS.Both original Latin and English translations are included in this edition.

In THE AENEID, Virgil tells the tale of Aeneas, a refugee from Troy who wandered westward, dallying with Dido in Carthage before slipping away to found Rome.Virgil based his work on and was heavily influenced by the ILIAD and the ODYSSEY of Homer.

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An excellent template for business biographys
An excellent presentation of the life and work of an important figure in the history of automotive styling in the U.S. It was written with extensive support of the Exner family which gave the author access to many drawings and to their memories of key aspects of Exner's life. It shows that there was much more to Exner than the Ghia show car.

A major strength of the book is the insights it gives into the corporate/industry environment that automobile stylists operated in during the post-war period. The conflicts between engineering, manufacturing, and styling departments at several manufacturers are shown clearly. The book also shows how and why people moved among companies in a close knit industry. The placing of credit or blame for sales success or failure on the stylists - especially a new department head - by top management is another aspect of the industry that is presented well.

The latter portions of the book covering Exner's work after he left Chrysler is as interesting as his work for the auto manufacturers. We need more books like this about important figures in the history of the auto industry

Well written, and very informative
Whether a Chrysler fanatic, or if you just are interested in the history of American Automotive design, this book is a great addition to the auto enthusiast library.

Virgil Exner:Visioneer:The Official Biography of Virgil M. Exner, Designer Extradinaire
Overviews of the Exner story and some fascinating details have appeared in such publications as "Collectible Automobiles" and other enthusiast publications over the past fifteen years.This book does an excellent job of bringing that information together.For someone with an interest in automotive design but not much knowlege of Exner, I would recommed this book highly.For someone who already knows the outlines of Exner's career, the book is less satisfying.While the infomation about Exner the person is one of the book's positive features, the material about Exner the designer merely whets the appetite for more.Part of what is lacking is more development of the context.If one parks a 1955 Chrysler, designed under Exner's command, next to a 1955 Buick, done under the command of the legendary Harley Earl, the surface development of the Chrysler is clearly more sophisticated.The book doesn't show the difference, nor does it show why the 1957 cars were so revolutionary, though the book does correctly point out that the '57 cars redefined the American automobile's proportions.Moreover, the book refers to Exner's influence on the 1970s Detroit cars without really exploring that influence.Key elements of, say, the 1973 Chevrolet Monte Carlo are philosophically the same as the themes in the aborted 1962 cars designed during Exner's tenure. Besides more development of the context in which Exner's work appeared, more graphic information about the evolution of the completed Exner designs would enhance the book.

My hero!
I seem to be reading about my heros, this year. First, the material made available recently, again, by artist and writer Jack Kirby, and now, the long-neglected Virgil Exner. Though not, exactly, a thing of design beauty itself, the book paints Exner as a fine man as well as a fine designer. It also shows a hint of his early-'60s work for Chrysler Corporation that never made it to production.

Good Book on a Great Designer
Virgil Exner has to be ranked as one of the great automotive designers of all time.This is a fairly comprehensive story of his life and his work.Most of the time the book is quite readable, although some errors in spelling and grammar show up.There is very little written information on Exner, so this book fills a critical need.If you are a Mopar fan, and just a fan of great automotive design, this is a must-have book. ... Read more

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Robert Fitzgerald's magnificent translation of Virgil's epic poem was a major literary event at its releasein 1983; today it is an acknowledged masterpiece.Profoundly poetic yet gloriously accessible, this is the best way to experience a work that has remained a centerpiece of Western civilization for 2,000 years.Fitzgerald's rendering speaks directly to the modern listener, inviting us to share the excitement, adventure, and human tears as Aeneas, the warrior hero, escapes from the burning city of Troy, embarks on a long and perilous journey, and eventually, triumphantly establishes a new nation: Rome. ... Read more

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Outstanding rendering of this classic
Ravenscroft has a wonderfully dramatic voice and brings this classic alive. I have listened to a number of audio files of classics, and Ravenscroft is the best. ... Read more

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"The Man Who Returned" (1934) by Edmond Hamilton; "Spider Mansion" (1942) by Fritz Leiber; "A Question of Etiquette" (1942) by Robert Bloch; "The Sea Witch" (1937) by Nictzin Dyalhis; "The Strange High House in the Mist" (1931) by H. P. Lovecraft; "The Drifting Snow" (1939) by August Derleth; "The Body-Masters" (1935) by Frank Belknap Long; "Pigeons from Hell" (1938) by Robert E. Howard. ... Read more

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Old Fashioned and Uneven
Pyramid Books published three paperback anthologies of stories from _Weird Tales_ in the early 1960s: _The Unexpected_ (1961), _Weird Tales_ (1964), and _Worlds of Weird_ (1965). All three credit Leo Margulies as the editor. But according to _The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction_ (1995), Sam Moskowitz ghost edited the last two. This seems likely. The first book consists of more modern-- and generally better-- stories. The latter two books are more old fashioned and uneven in quality. But perhaps they come a bit closer to giving the reader the flavor of the magazine during its golden years.

_Weird Tales_ (1964) consists of eight stories published between 1931 and 1942. The stories are: Edmond Hamilton's "The Man Who Returned," Fritz Leiber's "Spider Mansion," Robert Bloch's "A Question of Etiquette," Nictzin Dyalhis's "The Sea Witch," H.P. Lovecraft's "The Strange High House in the Mist," August W. Derleth's "The Drifting Snow," Frank Belknap Long's "The Body Masters," and Robert E. Howard's "Pigeons From Hell". Only the Leiber and the Bloch were not purchased by Farnsworth Wright, the greatest editor of _Weird Tales_.

Let us dispense with several stories straightaway. The Howard is absolutely awful-- from its ridiculous title to its silly plot to its purple prose to its blatant racism. The Derleth is less offensive, but it is little more than a stock variation of a vampire story. The Long is a heavy-handed science fiction satire of the sort that became obsolete after the thirties. The Bloch is mildly amusing but trite and fairly predictable. The other four stories, however, deserve a bit more attention.

Nictzin Dyalhis was a chemist and short story writer who sold a small handful of stories to _Weird Tales_ over the years. I believe that he has been somewhat overrated as an author, but "The Sea Witch" is still a good story-- a pleasant romance with well-rounded characters.

I am not a keen admirer of H.P. Lovecraft, especially his dream stories. But "The Strange High House in the Mist" is one of his better yarns; and the sights that you will see through the leaded bulls-eye windows will stay with you, even if they slip away from the mind of the hero. It is a sort of companion piece to "The Terrible Old Man".

The plot of the Hamilton story is outlandish and unbelieveable if you stop to think about it. But it is still a nicely done character study. It begins where a lot of Edgar Alan Poe stories end. A man returns from the grave. But he then discovers that his life was not what he thought it to be.

"Spider Mansion," like "Pigeons From Hell," is an Old Dark House story. Most ODH tales are patently ridiculous, and so it is here. But this dish is served up with panache and style and a poker face. Leiber actually gets away with his nonsense. This is the most entertaining story in the anthology.

How much you will enjoy this book will depend on how much affection you have for what was billed as "the unique magazine". If you have a weakness for ghosties and ghoulies and things that go bump in the night, for cemeteries and haunted houses, for slavering batrachian monsters in shuttered rooms, and for eldrich horrors waiting in jungle temples for luckless travelers... Well then, you may find that this book will provide you with a pleasant hour or two. ... Read more

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This book examines the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the past two millennia. It focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity pro- and anti-Augustan readings, studies Dryden's 1697 Royalist translation, and also naive American translation. It scrutinizes nineteenth-century philology's rewriting or excision of troubling readings, and covers readings by both supporters and opponents of fascism and National Socialism. Finally it examines how successive ages have made the Aeneid conform to their upbeat expectations of this poet. ... Read more

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This guide offers a complete account of the historical setting and significance of The Aeneid, and discusses Virgil's use of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, as well as the most celebrated episodes in the poem, including the tragedy of Dido and Aeneas' visit to the underworld. The volume examines Virgil's psychological and philosophical insights, and analyzes the poem's status as the central classical work of European culture. The guide to further reading has been updated and will prove an invaluable resource. First Edition Hb (1990): 0-521-32329-0 First Edition Pb (1990): 0-521-31157-8 ... Read more

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Virgils Epische Technik (1903) was a great pioneering work of abiding importance, which has never been superseded. Richard Heinze provides a remarkable insight into the problems Virgil faced. He identifies certain themes now accepted as central to Virgil's epic vision, among them the subordination of event to emotion; the way in which the poet justifies Aeneas' unheroic flight from Troy; the role of prophecy; and the virtues that make Dido uniquely worthy of Aeneas' love.

Heinze was a man of refined literary judgment who wrote in a clear and unpretentious style. This translation from the German is a basic text for students as well as for scholars: published for the first time in paperback, it now includes a helpful Index of passages cited from the Aeneid. ... Read more

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Double Bass Drum Freedom is the final word on double bass drumming. Much-lauded drummer Virgil Donati lays out everything he knows about playing the bass drum, shedding light on how to integrate the pedals with the drum kit. The included audio CD demonstrates examples in the book. ... Read more

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Lots of area history.
I liked the fact of the amount of history in the book. The way the writer describes some of the scenery, it feels like you are there. Allie did not like Wyatt....she was a little snip. I would have like to have known what happened to Morg's wife and some of the others. And somethings she would not tell..... Overall I found it very interesting.

Waters'Anti-Earp Screed
Reading this tripe, you can see why Virgil Earp's widow, Allie, threatened to shoot Frank Waters on sight. For the enlightenment of the three people who don't know the story, Waters paid court to Allie Earp, pumping her for information.Allie had a bone topick with Wyatt Earp and Waters ran with it. This collection of distortion and outright lies is the result.Waters no doubt gleaned the balance of his (mis)information from the Tombstone Nugget's pages or, most likely out of his own prejudices.Do bear in mind that the book was written during the height of the revisionist movement in the history of the "old west", and hatchet jobs on the notables of the time were common.The Earps were certainly not a bunch of altar boys, but they were definitely not the murdering pimps Waters makes them out to be. Maybe he was hired by the descendants of the McLowreys, some of whom still hold a grudge.
This book would make good fire starter.

Dennis Hanisch

The Earp Brothers of Tombstone
I find Fred Waters to be like so many other writers who try to make a name for themselves (as well as a buck) by taking cheap shots at and writing tawdry yellow sheet propaganda about an American icons.

These hacks take the easy but foul route when writing so called histories of the famous. It's easy to slander an icon (especially a dead one) by taking an opposite slant on the person's accepted character. (Accepted by those who knew him personally, that is). In this way you not only get attention to yourself (some people are like vultures and want to hear dirt), and it diminishes someone whose height and fame you will never achieve. All the while making a living off the fame of the person you are destroying. Dead icons cannot defend themselves, so it is also an act of cowardice. These people are literary leeches of the worst kind.

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp has been a life long study of mine (60 years now).I have read just about every book, article and slanderous rag that has his name in it. I find most to be trash, worthy of nothing more than tossing into the garbage heap. Most are not worth the time or effort to read. Fred Waters book is such a book. Fiction is fiction. If a library decides to stock this book they should put it in the fiction section.

Wyatt Earp was a man, a real man, a man's man. He was neither saint nor demon. He was a man of his times when real men were men and they did things they had to do. Things that few men today would have neither the stomach nor the nerve to do. They sometimes made friends along the way and they sometimes made enemies along the way. It is to be expected that the friends would aggrandize Wyatt while his enemies would play him down. However few of them then or now would have had the guts to face him down.

Any student of Wyatt Earp should stick to writers who tell the story as it was told by people who knew the man. One such writer is Glenn G. Boyer. While I have never met this man face to face, his works have been the most trustworthy and envied of all the works about Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp. Mr. Boyer tells the good when Wyatt done good and he tells the bad when Wyatt done bad. One thing for certain Fred Waters would not have had the nerve to let Wyatt read the first draft of his book had Wyatt been alive at the time he wrote it.

A PACK OF LIES, BASED ON IRREFUTABLE AUTHORITY

"Aunt Allie" was a dead-honest original, and didn't deserve to have Frank Waters misuse the authority of her name to unload on an unsuspecting public this duplicitous melange of lies about her life, especially that part lived with the Earps.

Allie denounced this book in her own inimitable profane manner. In my possession are the letters of Hildreth Halliwell, Aunt Allie's grand niece, saying only that Allie threatened to "sue" Waters. (She actually threatened to kill him.) As Hildreth went on to say, "I get so mad every time I think of what Frank Waters wrote after spending hours with Aunt Allie I go berserk . . . he published a lot of lies . . . "

I make that clear in my Epilogue to I MARRIED WYATT EARP and did on two other occasions while Waters was still alive, thus giving him an opportunity to sue me for libel if he chose. Naturally he didn't.

Before Frank realized what I knew for sure, I visited him when he was writer-in-residence at Colorado State U. at Ft. Collins, in 1966, ten years before my I MARRIED WYATT EARP was published. I asked him what Aunt Allie had said about his book. He said, "She said it was the truth." I still have extensive notes from that meeting." He naturally said that, but it wasn't true, of course.

This book certainly is a "travesty" as Bruce Trinque comments in an adjoining review, and it is far worse than that. Of course Bruce is referring to Frank Waters' initial title, TOMBSTONE TRAVESTY. Travesty is mild, however, this book is an outrage. It is my opinion that principle requires that it no longer be published.

In sum, Waters' book is garbage, although many passages are pure gold. The book's value is as a source for the more knowledgeable to attempt to separate the gold from the garbage. It certainly is a curiosity. But it isn't a dependable memoir.

Libelous at best or worst
The author must have had a no-so-hidden agenda to debunk the man and the myth of Wyatt Earp. I have read a number of books on the Earp brothers, especially the Tombstone days. I have also read the transcript or at least what is reported to be the transcript of Judge Spicer's ruling on the murder charges brought against the Earps as a result of THE gunfight. The author in my opinion has badly and intentionally distorted the facts. I threw away my copy of this book. ... Read more

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Pretty Darn Good!
This is as good an account of Confederate guerilla activities in the Eastern Theater of operations as I have run across. For me, this book helped me understand 3 things:

1)The war was intensely continuous. It never stopped. Most historians focus on the major battles being as they were the key tests of strength between North and South. But the war was not made up of 15 or 20 segmented, key events. It was not a sometimes thing. It was brutally constant. These people were angry with each other, killing angry, and went out of their way to make their point as often as possibly.

2)The North's battle plan was exceedingly difficult to execute. Virginia's topography was not suited to a clean advance. Holding territory taken was difficult. Supply lines had to be thin, extended and vulnerable. The land itself had to be worth many divisions to Southern forces. And they took maximum advantage of the terrain.

3)The South fought a campaign of terror and was damn good at it. Both sides fought to win. Both sides fought to intimidate. The South was exceptional at this through the summer of 1864 but then the tide changed and when it did it was a tidal wave of unimagined proportions.


It is amazing how small some of these bands were that descended from the mountains to attack their enemy and then disappear. They snatched couriers to learn of Union movements and plans, destroyed bridges and railroad service, attacked sleeping camps and captured supply trains and prisoners by the thousands. They attacked in the evening, at noon, in the morning and at night. They even captured three Union generals from their beds, almost without firing a shot.

This is a good book, one worth reading. It drives home the intensity and continuous nature of this conflict. You will not be disappointed.

Dense History
This is an incredibly dense historical account of Confederate guerrilla warfare in the areas of northern and western Virginia.The author obviously did his homework with hundreds of quotes and references.The book was so detailed as to occasionally lose the reader.A map certainly would have helped.I got the feeling that every single guerrilla attack was accounted for in this book.

On the strong side were some amusing and touching accounts of individuals and incidents.On the weak side was the page after page of oh-so-so similar accounts of attacks.The book also centered on the Virginia area guerrillas with hardly a mention of those in Missouri and Kansas.

The author's theory, that the Civil War - or at least Lee's surrender - was delayed by at least months by the work of the guerrillas is well-substantiated in the book.However, I think the author would have been better served to apend more time on the larger picture and overview and less time on every derailment on the B&O Railroad.

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In 1986, reviewing recent work on the Bucolics, William S. Anderson wrote, "Van Sickle’s Design, has produced the most persuasive portrait of the Eclogues, arguing cogently for what he calls an 'ideological order'." The Design of Virgil’s Bucolics argues that Virgil composed his ten eclogues as parts of a system: the Book of Bucolics conceived as aconcerted whole. The report of frequent theatre presentations showed that Virgil caught attention with dramatic flair, masking an ideological program that grew to encompass motifs of a returning Golden Age and new myth, providing cover for the Caesarist regime, casting the poet as a prophet, and laying groundwork for the Georgics and Aeneid. An extensive new Introduction to this second edition reviews developments and shortfalls in recent work on the Bucolics. ... Read more

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Charles Rowan Beye'’s critically acclaimed interpretive introduction to the epic poetry and poets of Ancient Greece, Rome, and Assyria is here reprinted in an expanded second edition with a new preface, new chapter on Gilgamesh, and an Appendix of Further Reading 1993–2005. For centuries the beginnings of the literary history of the West were defined by the Hebrew Bible - —what most people call the Old Testament - and Homer's epic poems, the Iliad and Odyssey. These texts were once naively imagined to have come about in splendid isolation either as a miracle of divine creation or the spontaneous combustion of the '“Greek genius.'” The mighty stream of words down over the millennia to our own time are so many generations of offspring still somehow beholden to their initial begetters. Thus do we construe Western Literature. -from Chapter 8: Gilgamesh

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The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic - ISBN 0865165467
The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Myth Revisited - ISBN 0865165270

For over 30 years Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has produced the highest quality Latin and ancient Greek books. From Dr. Seuss books in Latin to Plato's Apology, Bolchazy-Carducci's titles help readers learn about ancient Rome and Greece; the Latin and ancient Greek languages are alive and well with titles like Cicero's De Amicitia and Kaegi's Greek Grammar. We also feature a line of contemporary eastern European and WWII books.

Some of the areas we publish in include:

Selections From The Aeneid
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Texts Supporting Wheelock's Latin
Classical author workbooks: Vergil, Ovid, Horace, Catullus, Cicero
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An informative and interpretive introduction to classic epic poetry written for readers of all backgrounds
Distinguished Professor of Classics Emeritus Charles Rowan Beye presents Ancient Epic Poetry: Homer, Apollonius, Virgil With A Chapter On The Gilgamesh Poems, an informative and interpretive introduction to classic epic poetry written for readers of all backgrounds including students, non-specialists, and scholars. Now in an expanded second edition with a new preface, a new chapter about the mythic figure of Gilgamesh, and an updated appendix of further reading, Ancient Epic Poetry familiarizes readers with history, tradition, backgrounds, philosophies, and much more pertinent to a more thorough understanding of ancient epic works. Highly recommended, especially for college library and classical poetry reference and literary criticism shelves.
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