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Harrison Ford Masculinity and Stardom in Hollywood


Free Download Virginia Luzón-Aguado, "Harrison Ford: Masculinity and Stardom in Hollywood"
English | ISBN: 1788310926 | 2020 | 328 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Harrison Ford is known for such iconic roles as Han Solo, Indiana Jones and Rick Deckard – but his career of 50 years (and counting) encompasses a plethora of other thought-provoking roles. His off-screen persona has been no less intriguing. Covering a wide timespan, this book assesses Harrison Ford as ‘star’ from the difficult Hollywood studio years where he began, his blockbusters of the 1980s, through to the impact of ageist culture on his artistry of recent years.

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Tony Harrison Plays 2 The Misanthrope; Phaedra Britannica; The Prince’s Plays


Free Download Tony Harrison, "Tony Harrison Plays 2: The Misanthrope; Phaedra Britannica; The Prince’s Plays"
English | 2014 | pages: 312 | ISBN: 0571210465, ASIN: B00MSYS05S | EPUB | 0,3 mb
This second collection of Tony Harrison’s poetry for the stage contains his adaptations of Molière, Racine and Victor Hugo. Included are the plays The Misanthrope, Phaedra Britannica and The Prince’s Plays.

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The Buildings of Peter Harrison Cataloguing the Work of the First Global Architect, 1716-1775


Free Download John Fitzhugh Millar, "The Buildings of Peter Harrison: Cataloguing the Work of the First Global Architect, 1716-1775"
English | 2014 | pages: 245 | ISBN: 0786479620 | PDF | 50,8 mb
Perhaps the most important architect ever to have worked in America, Peter Harrison’s renown suffers from the destruction of most of his papers when he died in 1775. He was born in Yorkshire, England in 1716 and trained to be an architect as a teenager. He also became a ship captain, and soon sailed to ports in America, where he began designing some of the most iconic buildings of the continent. In a clandestine operation, he procured the plans for the French Canadian fortress of Louisbourg, enabling Massachusetts Governor William Shirley to capture it in 1745. This setback forced the French to halt their operation to capture all of British America and to give up British territory they had captured in India. As a result, he was rewarded with commissions to design important buildings in Britain and in nearly all British colonies around the world, and he became the first person ever to have designed buildings on six continents. He designed mostly in a neo-Palladian style, and invented a way of building wooden structures so as to look like carved stone-"wooden rustication." He also designed some of America’s most valuable furniture, including inventing the coveted "block-front," and introducing the bombe motif. In America, he lived in Newport, Rhode Island, and in New Haven, Connecticut, where he died at the beginning of the War of Independence.

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George Harrison The Reluctant Beatle


Free Download George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle by Philip Norman
English | October 24th, 2023 | ISBN: 1398513407 | 560 pages | True EPUB | 36.21 MB
From the premiere Beatles biographer-author of the New York Times bestseller John Lennon: The Life and the million-copy selling Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation-a rare and revealing portrait of George Harrison, the most misunderstood and mysterious Beatle, based on decades-long research and unparalleled access to inside sources.

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George Harrison The Reluctant Beatle [Audiobook]


Free Download George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5KVYR3H | 2023 | 16 hours and 22 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 459 MB
Author: Philip Norman
Narrator: David Holt

Unprecedented in scope, this rich biography captures George Harrison at his most multi-faceted: devoted friend, loyal son, master guitar player, brilliant songwriter, cocaine addict, serial philanderer, global philanthropist, student of Indian mysticism, self-deprecating comedian, and, ultimately, iconic artist and man beloved by millions. Despite being hailed as one of the best guitarists of his era, George Harrison, particularly in his early decades, battled feelings of inferiority. He was often the butt of jokes from his bandmates owing to his lower-class background and, typically, was allowed to contribute only one or two songs per Beatles album out of the dozens he wrote. Now, acclaimed Beatles biographer Philip Norman examines Harrison through the lens of his numerous self-contradictions. Compared to songwriting luminaries John Lennon and Paul McCartney he was considered a minor talent, yet he composed such masterpieces as "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Here Comes the Sun," and his solo debut album "All Things Must Pass" achieved enormous success, appearing on many lists of the 100 best rock albums ever.

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