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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458730719
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book The King of Ragtime (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E.L. Doctorow
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307762947
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Ragtime written by E.L. Doctorow and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.
Author : Larry Karp
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147662383X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Brun Campbell written by Larry Karp and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At fifteen, Sanford Brunson Campbell (1884-1952) became enchanted with the new sounds of ragtime and ran away from his rural Kansas home, hopping a train to Sedalia, Missouri, determined to take piano lessons from a black musician he had never met. Scott Joplin nicknamed his white protege "The Ragtime Kid." A composer and entertainer at the dawn of the ragtime era, "Brun" was a prime mover in the ragtime revival of the 1940s and helped establish Joplin's prominence as one of America's most innovative composers. Campbell's own legacy was tarnished by his inability to tell a straight story and he was often dismissed as a liar and a clown. Based on his memoirs, musical compositions and correspondence with music industry notables, this first comprehensive biography of Campbell reveals an engaging storyteller and a devotee wholly dedicated to a musical genre that had been largely forgotten. His firsthand account of life as an itinerant pianist in the Midwest provides a unique picture of life a century ago.
Author : Larry Karp
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1615951083
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)
Download or read book The Ragtime Kid written by Larry Karp and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brun Campbell, a 15-year-old piano fool, gets to play Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" one 1898 afternoon in Oklahoma City. It's destiny calling. Though he tries for ragtime lessons, he's told no— "Ragtime is colored music." So Brun runs away from the family home in El Reno, Oklahoma, to Sedalia, Missouri, to persuade Joplin to take him on as a pupil. What Brun doesn't expect is to trip over the body of a young woman—he thinks at first she's a log and thoughtlessly picks up a couple of items before he rushes away...
Author : Barbara Cleverly
Publisher : C & R Crime
ISBN 13 : 1472110897
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Ragtime in Simla written by Barbara Cleverly and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simla 1922. The summer capital of the British Raj is fizzing with the energy of the jazz age. Commander Joe Sandilands is looking forward to spending a month here in the cool of the Himalayan hills as the guest of Sir George Jardine, the Governor of Bengal. When Joe's travelling companion, a Russian opera singer, is shot dead at his side in the back of the Governor's car on the road up to Simla, he finds himself plunged into a murder investigation. Confronted by the mystery of an identical unsolved killing a year before, Joe realizes that Sir George's hospitality comes at a price. Behind the sparkling façade of social life in Simla he finds a trail of murder, vice and blackmail. Someone in this close-knit community has a secret and the nearer Joe comes to uncovering it, the nearer he comes to his own death.
Author : David Dutkanicz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486171671
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book A First Book of Ragtime written by David Dutkanicz and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These rollicking, easy-to-play ragtime favorites include "Maple Leaf Rag," "The Entertainer," "Tiger Rag," and other melodies by such favorites as Scott Joplin, James Scott, Joseph Lamb, and Eubie Blake. All songs available as downloadable MP3s.
Author : Stephen Costanza
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534410376
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)
Download or read book King of Ragtime written by Stephen Costanza and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning, rhythmic picture book biography of African American composer Scott Joplin, whose ragtime music paved the way for jazz. There was something special about Scott Joplin… This quiet kid could make a piano laugh out loud. Scott, the son of a man who had been enslaved, became a king—the King of Ragtime. This celebration of Scott Joplin, whose ragtime compositions paved the way for jazz, will captivate audiences and put a beat in their step, and the kaleidoscope-like illustrations will draw young readers in again and again.
Author : Larry Karp
Publisher : Poisoned Pen Press
ISBN 13 : 9781590583265
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (832 download)
Download or read book The Ragtime Kid written by Larry Karp and published by Poisoned Pen Press. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brun Campbell, a 15-year-old piano-playing fool, hears Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” played one 1898 afternoon in Oklahoma City. It’s destiny calling. Asking for ragtime lessons, he’s told, “No, Ragtime is colored music.” So Brun runs away from the family farm to Sedalia, Missouri, to persuade Joplin to take him on as a pupil. What Brun doesn’t expect is to trip over the body of a young woman. He thoughtlessly picks up a couple of items before he rushes away from the murder scene. When Edward Fitzgerald, a man who befriended Brun his first night in town, is arrested for the woman’s murder, Brun is certain he’s innocent. But if the boy shows anyone the things he pocketed at the scene—things he now knows belonged to Scott Joplin—he’ll point the finger at the composer...and himself. Brun decides to get Fitzgerald, Joplin, and himself off the hook by finding the real killer, but for that he eventually needs some help from Dr. Overstreet, the alcoholic town mayor; and John Stark, a man pushing sixty, who’s been employing Brun at his music store. Sedalia is rife with suspects, some of them opportunists bent on stealing Joplin’s music. And then there are the girls and women—mysteries to Brun—like a teenager seized with religious fever, a couple of mischievous prostitutes, and an attractive, ambitious young woman with a hint of scarlet in her past, who further complicate his pursuit of the killer.
Author : Loren D. Estleman
Publisher : Thorndike Western I
ISBN 13 : 9781410470102
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Ragtime Cowboys written by Loren D. Estleman and published by Thorndike Western I. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles, 1921: Ex-Pinkerton Charlie Siringo is living in quiet retirement when Wyatt Earp knocks on his door and asks him to track down his missing horse. Horse thievery turns into a deeper mystery as Siringo and another ex-Pinkerton, the young Dashiell Hammett, follow clues from the streets of Los Angeles to Jack London's farm -- until they discover a conspiracy masterminded by the notorious and powerful Joseph P. Kennedy. These ragtime cowboys chase the truth in a compelling tale of the Old West and early Hollywood.
Author : Carol J. Binkowski
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786490799
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Joseph F. Lamb written by Carol J. Binkowski and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph F. Lamb (1887-1960) composed with enthusiasm and was influenced by a variety of sources, all kinds of music, cultures, traditions and the everyday. Although he is considered one of classic ragtime's "big three"--along with Scott Joplin and James Scott--he did not fit the usual profile. He was musically self-taught, held a corporate job, and composed in his spare time, yet wrote piano rags Joplin enthusiastically championed and returned to composing and well-deserved recognition long after the end of the ragtime era. This biography focuses on his music and his world, and is drawn from family and research sources. It includes a foreword by two of Lamb's children.
Author : Barbara Cleverly
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 161695003X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)
Download or read book The Last Kashmiri Rose written by Barbara Cleverly and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a land of saffron sunsets and blazing summer heat, an Englishwoman has been found dead, her wrists slit, her body floating in a bathtub of blood and water. But is it suicide or murder? The case falls to Scotland Yard inspector Joe Sandilands, who survived the horror of the Western Front and has endured six sultry months in English-ruled Calcutta. Sandilands is ordered to investigate, and soon discovers that there have been other mysterious deaths, hearkening sinister ties to the present case. Now, as the sovereignty of Britain is in decline and an insurgent India is on the rise, Sandilands must navigate the treacherous corridors of political decorum to bring a cunning killer to justice, knowing the next victim is already marked to die.
Author : Larry Karp
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1615951059
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)
Download or read book First, Do No Harm written by Larry Karp and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past comes rearing up to bite the next generation when a son digs too deep into his family's past.... Martin Firestone can't figure why his father, the eccentric painter Leo Firestone, is throwing a fit. All Martin did was tell his dad he'd been accepted to medical school. Then, Leo tells Martin a story about his own father, Dr. Samuel Firestone, an extraordinarily gifted doctor and a living legend in the small city of Hobart, NJ, but a man with a serious character flaw. During the summer of 1943, while Leo worked as Samuel's extern, he witnessed some highly questionable behavior. Illegal abortions, supplying heroin to an addict, black-market pharmaceuticals, babies sold to adoptive parents—all in a day's work for Samuel Firestone, M.D. When Leo decided his father was covering up a murder, he and his girlfriend, stage-struck Harmony, followed a trail of clues into the Fleischmann Scrapyard. There, they ran afoul of old Oscar Fleischmann, Samuel's longtime nemesis. By the time Leo realized he and Harmony were in far over their sixteen-year-old heads, it was too late to call off the investigation. But there are loose threads in Leo's story. Martin picks them up, and sixty years after the fact, goes snooping in Hobart. And like his father, he comes away with a whole lot more junk than he'd bargained for.
Author : Larry Karp
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1615951075
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)
Download or read book The Ragtime Fool written by Larry Karp and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1951, and ragtime is making a comeback. In Sedalia, Missouri, plans are underway for a ceremony to honor Scott Joplin. Brun Campbell, the old Ragtime Kid, learns of a journal Joplin kept and wants to show it to Sedalia's movers and shakers, hoping to persuade them to set up a ragtime museum. Unfortunately for Brun, author/historian Rudi Blesh is determined to publish the journal. But Joplin's old friend wants to suppress the material. Even worse, two Sedalia Klansmen are hot after the journal and don't care if they have to kill someone to get it. In the middle of this imbroglio is Alan Chandler, a 17-year-old pianist in love with ragtime. If Alan can stay alive, he may be able to prevent catastrophe and learn what it really means to be Black in 1950s America.
Author : Larry Karp
Publisher : Worldwide Library
ISBN 13 : 9780373263660
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (636 download)
Download or read book The Music Box Murders written by Larry Karp and published by Worldwide Library. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Music Box Murders by Larry Karp released on Oct 25, 2000 is available now for purchase.
Author : Larry Karp
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1615951067
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)
Download or read book The King of Ragtime written by Larry Karp and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1916, and time's running out for Scott Joplin. Before he dies, he wants to provide for his wife and to secure his place in musical history. He's written a musical drama. His young piano student, Martin Niederhoffer, who works as a bookkeeper at Waterson, Berlin, and Snyder Music Publishers, convinces him to try to get Irving Berlin to publish and produce the work. The next day, Niederhoffer walks into his office and finds Joplin crouched over the blood-soaked body of a young man. He hustles his teacher away; unfortunately, the two are seen leaving the building. Nell Stark, daughter of Joplin's first publisher, John Stark, hides Joplin and Niederhoffer from the police and summons her father from St. Louis to help sort out the mess. After Berlin flatly denies ever having received Joplin's play, young Niederhoffer breaks cover and engages the services of hit man Footsie Vinny, who gives Berlin a five-day deadline to come up with the manuscript. And just when things couldn't get worse, Niederhoffer's girlfriend, Birdie, is kidnapped....
Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007494211
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Accursed written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eerie tale of psychological horror sees the real inhabitants of turn-of-the-century Princeton fall under the influence of a supernatural power.
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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458731332
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book The King of Ragtime (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition) written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
