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Letters from Vladivostock, 1894-1930

Eleanor Lord Pray, Birgitta Ingemanson and Patricia D. Silver

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In 1894, Eleanor L. Pray left her New England home to move with her merchant husband to Vladivostok...

The Liverpool Encyclopedia

Arnie Baldursson and Gudmundur Magnusson

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In this huge landmark book, authors Arnie Baldursson and Gudmundur Magnusson have chronicled the...

The Physics Devotional: Celebrating the Wisdom and Beauty of Physics

Clifford A. Pickover

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This is an inspirational new title from Clifford Pickover, author of the hugely successful The Math...

Kim

Rudyard Kipling and Zohreh T. Sullivan

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The text-that of the 1901 Sussex Edition-is fully annotated and accompanied by three maps that help...

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen, Donald Gray and Mary A. Favret

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The text is that of the 1813 first edition, accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory...

Selected Poems

James K. Baxter and Paul Millar

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James K. Baxter (1926-1972) is one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable poets, yet he has been...

P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters

P.G. Wodehouse

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"Wodehouse said letters make "a wonderful oblique form for an autobiography," and Sophie Ratcliffe's...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Mrs Lowry & Son (2019) in Movies

Sep 10, 2019 (Updated Sep 10, 2019)

It's Grim Up North

Biographical drama about the artist Lowry (he of matchstalk this-and-that fame); based on a stage play and it really does show. Middle-aged clerk Lowry works by day, tends to his clinging, unsympathetic mother in the evenings, and paints at night. Not entirely unlike a variation on Steptoe and Son, only without any jokes.

Well-played, naturally, and well-staged, naturally, but the scenes of the two of them in a small room together, with her crushing his dreams and obsessed with petty social concerns, quickly become repetitive: the brief sequences with Lowry articulating his thoughts on his art, occasionally recreating his paintings, are much more interesting. Watchable but a bit dull; doesn't really do Lowry's art justice.