Jean M Arthur

Timberline and a Century of Skiing on Mt. Hood connects today's skiers and snowboarders to the early Northwest skiers on their "skees imported from Norway." Through use of anecdotes, photography and ski memorabilia, the book traces the history of Mt. Hood's skiers and snowboarders, and the technical...

*Includes pictures. *Includes Arthur's own quotes about her life and career. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "I guess I became an actress because I didn't want to be myself.” – Jean Arthur “It's a strenuous job every day of your life to live up to the way you look on the screen.” – ...

The enfant terrible of French letters, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) was a defiant and precocious youth who wrote some of the most remarkable prose and poetry of the nineteenth century, all before leaving the world of verse by the age of twenty-one. More than a century after his death, the ...

The luminous star of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Shane, and other classic films was, as the subtitle aptly puts it, "the actress nobody knew". Jean Arthur (1900-91) kept her personal life private, disdained the Hollywood publicity machine, and was called "difficult" because of her perfectionism an...

Blonde, vivacious Jean Arthur is best remembered today for her unizue, childlike voice and for the handful of classic Thirties and Forties movies she made for directors Frank Capra and George Stevens, such as You Can't Take It With You, Mr. Smith Goes to

A COLLECTOR OF AMBROSES AND OTHER RARE ITEMS features four tales of SF and fantasy, including the title story, in which three unscrupulous book collectors encounter a true "Completist"; "The Boy in the Iron Mask," which touches on the contamination of reality by dreams; "The Slaves of Moxon and Othe...

Wallace Fowlie's prose translations accompany the original French texts in this, the first complete bilingual edition of Rimbaud's work in prose and poetry."This handsome edition, which makes France's most remarkable poet readily available in the U.S., may well be a literary landmark comparable to B...