Placename, ultimately named for businessman John Jacob Astor , in the 1840s the wealthiest person in the United States and, as a hotel name, his great-grandson William Waldorf Astor .The name was first used for Fort Astoria, built in 1811 at the mouth of the Columbia River for John Jacob Astor’s Pacific Fur Company.
Partially autobiographical book by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and an associate, Aniela Jaff
Compilation of all of Kafka’s short stories
The Boys of Summer may refer to one of several literary and musical works: The Boys of Summer (book), a 1972 book by Roger Kahn“The Boys of Summer” (song), a 1984 song by Don Henley, also covered by DJ Sammy and The Ataris“Boys of Summer” (The Wire), an episode of The WireBoys of Summer (comics), …
Memoir on cricket written by the Trinidadian Marxist intellectual C. L. R. James, which he described as “neither cricket reminiscences nor autobiography”. It mixes social commentary, particularly on the place of cricket in the West Indies and England, with commentary on the game, arguing that what happened inside the “Boundary Line” in cricket affected life beyond it, as well as the converse
English post-punk music group, first active between 1979 and 1983 as participants in the so-called cassette culture of the late 1970s and early 1980s in the UK. During this first period the band released three cassette albums: Video Rideo , The Uncle of the Boot and Sinclair’s Luck on English and German record labels, and contributed to a number of compilation albums
Andersonville is a novel by MacKinlay Kantor concerning the Confederate prisoner of war camp, Andersonville prison, during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The novel was originally published in 1955, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year. Source:Wikipedia
