A lively history of the Watch and Ward Society--New England's notorious literary censor for over eighty years. "Banned in Boston" is the first-ever history of the Watch and Ward Society--once Boston's unofficial moral guardian. An influential watchdog organization, bankrolled by society's upper crust, it actively suppressed vices like gambling and prostitution, and oversaw the mass censorship of books and plays. A spectacular romp through the Puritan City, here Neil Miller relates the scintillating story of how a powerful band of Brahmin moral crusaders helped make Boston the most...
A lively history of the Watch and Ward Society--New England's notorious literary censor for over eighty years. "Banned in Boston" is the first-...
Life is a marathon, a long drawn out battle with many ups and downs. Life can become a marathon for those individuals, and anyone connected with them, who enter the London Marathon every year. "Life is a Marathon" is a humorous fictional story of seven wildly different yet somehow connected individuals from the same small town who take the plunge and enter the London Marathon for the first time. You will find someone you can relate to amongst an obsessive runner, an overweight jilted wife, an overworked young mum, a powerful middle-aged business man, a gym junkie, a fun loving party queen and...
Life is a marathon, a long drawn out battle with many ups and downs. Life can become a marathon for those individuals, and anyone connected with them,...
Life is a marathon, a long drawn out battle with many ups and downs. Life can become a marathon for those individuals, and anyone connected with them, who enter the London Marathon every year. "Life is a Marathon" is a humorous fictional story of seven wildly different yet somehow connected individuals from the same small town who take the plunge and enter the London Marathon for the first time. You will find someone you can relate to amongst an obsessive runner, an overweight jilted wife, an overworked young mum, a powerful middle-aged business man, a gym junkie, a fun loving party queen and...
Life is a marathon, a long drawn out battle with many ups and downs. Life can become a marathon for those individuals, and anyone connected with them,...
Baron Von Stupor is his name, or so he thinks. For the past year the eccentric patient has been living in a mental asylum, struggling to understand himself in a world that doesn't understand him. While he yearns to be able to live a normal life, his long days of checkers and psychological therapy is doing nothing more than despond him further. To make matters worse, Stupor has found a new bully in the egomaniacal William Lanzendorf, who prefers to treat this minimum-security mental hospital like his own penitentiary. Whenever the hateful security manager feels slighted, the cameras turn away...
Baron Von Stupor is his name, or so he thinks. For the past year the eccentric patient has been living in a mental asylum, struggling to understand hi...