Gordon aiken (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 317 pages. 8.98x5.98x0.87 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Canadians took politics seriously in the years following Confederation and Gordon Aiken's novel about pioneer Muskoka and the fledgling nation's capital shows why.Unique events in the Dominion's second election, in 1872, inspired Aiken to write about Muskoka's returning officer, Richard Bell, who refused to declare Liberal candidate A.P. Cockburn elected, even though he got the most votes. Consequent ground-breaking events included Bell's summons to give an accounting of himself to the House of Commons, the first and only time an MP would be elected to parliament by members of the Commons itself, and reforms in Canadian election law including introduction of the secret ballot.Privately published as Returning Officer in 1982, and long since out of print, this Blue Butterfly edition is re-titled No Return. Completely reset and redesigned, with added maps and period photographs, this new edition also features J. Patrick Boyer's afterword, 'Gordon Aiken's Quest and the Genesis of No Return.'The political intrigues woven into Gordon Aiken's rich tale of local and national affairs from 140 years ago will resonate with readers today, if its essential plots and human ambitions were simply updated by new technology and a fresh cast of characters to re-enact timeless dramas of mismatched lovers, a local judge fighting the newspaper editor, lumber barons playing both sides to keep their timber licences, and contractors changing political sides to win road jobs (or what today are termed 'infrastructure projects').Aiken, Member of Parliament for the same district a century later, wrote with deep understanding about Muskoka and its people and acute knowledge of parliamentary politics. No Return tells of one man's struggle to support his chosen party, maintain his independence, confound his enemies, and hold his family together under duress.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnGordon Aiken was a soldier, lawyer, judge, writer, and for 15 years Member of Parliament for Parry Sound-Muskoka - the same region in which the events of this novel took place a century earlier. He was author of The .

Draft script for the 1980 television film. A well-to-do woman with high social standing falls for a construction worker with a gambling addiction. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Ruth Gordon, and Garson Kanin. 132 leaves, with last page of text numbered 131. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2nd printing ; xv, 352 pp. ; illustrated ; (portraits) ; 22 cm. ; LCCN: 37-20307 ; LC: PS558.G4; Dewey: 810.822 ; OCLC: 2553812 ; "Biographical sketches and notes": p. 321-348. ; pictorial green cloth ; authors featured are Conrad Potter Aiken, Clara Lundie Askew, Bill Arp, Myrta Lockett Avary, Maude Barragan, J M Barron, Charles J Bayne, Daniel Garnett Bickers, Logan Edwin Bleckley, John T Boifeuillet, Agnes Cochran Branblett, Hennie I. Burke, Warren A Candler, Margaret Davis Cate, Joseph Ha rris Chappell, Thomas Holley Chivers, Betty Reynolds Cobb, Ellis Merton Coulter, Francis Potter Daniels, Will Allen Dromgoole, William T Dumas, Harry Stillwell Edwads, Lawton B Evans, Herbert M Franklin, John B Gordon, Francis Robert Goulding, Henry Woodfin Grady, John Temple Graves, Agnes Kendrick Gray, James A hall, Betsy Hamilton, Christine Park Hankinson, Will N Harben, Corra Harris, Joel Chandler Harris, Paul Hamilton Hayne, William Hamilton Hayne, Clarence L Haynie, Daniel Whitehead Hicky, Benjamin H Hhill, Nelle Womack Hines, Clark Howell, Charles W Huner, Louise Prudden Hunt, Henry Rootes Jackson, Thornwell Jacobs, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Charles Colcock Jones, Sara Singleton King, Lucian Lamar Knight, Marie de La Coste, John Basil Lamar, Sidney Lanier, Octavia Walton Le Vert, Constance Deming Lewis, Robert Loveman, Margaret McGarvey, Carlyle McKinley, Wightman Fletcher Melton, Olin Miller, Abby Crawford Milton, Margaret Mitchell, Roselle Mercier Montgomery, Minnie Hite Moody, Will D. Muse, Ernest Neal, Louie D Newton, Marie Conway Oemler, Thaddeus Oliver, George F Pierce, James Henry Reddick, Thomas W Reed, Loula Kendall Rogers, Mildred Lewis Rutherford, Abram Joseph Ryan, Anderson M Scruggs, Nelson M Shipp, Carrie Bell Sinclair, Johnny Spencer, Frank Lebby Stanton, Alexander H Stephens, Margaret Price Stillman, Jessie Gertrude Thomas, Ralph Methven Thomson, Ella May Thornton, William Tappan Thompson, Francis Orray Ticknor, Lida Wilson Turner, Thomas E Watson, Ouida C Wells, Charles Wesley, Gertrude Capen Whitney, Francis P Wightman, Richard Henry Wilde, and Augusta Evans Wilson ; portraits of Frank Stanton, General James Oglethorpe, Margaret Mitchell, Corra Harris, Henry W Grady, and Harry Stillwell Edwards ; intended for use by female college students in Georgia, this literary collection contains a large number of contributions from women authors in Georgia, making it a rather desirable book for women's studies collections ; "Free School Book Record" for Hart County, Georgia's Goldmine School, shows race of student required to be filled in; included on front endpaper ; VG. Book.…