Bøger af Jane Allen

The Impassioned Collector follows Arthur Bradshaw, over a span of fifty years. It perfectly balances its historical moments with moments of the familial and personal. It journeys across the globe, from South Africa to America to Wales, and from youth to adulthood to death.Jane Allen portrays a unique family, the Bradshaws, through world-wide upheaval and individual death. It centres on the sprawling grounds of The Grange. Despite any travelling this is its centre: heart-warming, pastoral, magnificent.

Do your thoughts really matter? Do the words you say in your mind make any difference at all in what you experience in your life? The answer is an unequivocal Yes! The timeless classic "As A Man Thinketh" has been rewritten to help the average person understand its lessons. "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he." Psalms 23:7 "As A Man Thinketh" was first published in 1903. James Allen described this work as an essay about "the power of thought, and particularly with the use and application of thought to happy and beautiful issues. [James Allen] tried to make the book simple, so that all can easily grasp and follow its teaching, and put into practice the methods which it advises. It shows how, in his own thought-world, each man holds the key to every condition, good or bad, that enters into his life, and transform his circumstances." Jane Allen felt the early 1900's language made the timeless concepts difficult to understand, and put them into language that can be easily understood int he 21st century.

A lost literary gem of Hollywood in the 1930s, I Lost My Girlish Laughter is a thinly veiled send-up of the actors, producers, writers, and directors of the Golden Age of the studio system.Madge Lawrence, fresh from New York City, lands a job as the personal secretary to the powerful Hollywood producer Sidney Brand (based on the legendary David O. Selznick). In a series of letters home, Western Union telegrams, office memos, Hollywood gossip newspaper items, and personal journal entries, we get served up the inside scoop on all the shenanigans, romances, backroom deals, and betrayals that go into making a movie.    The action revolves around the production of Brand''s latest blockbuster, meant to be a star vehicle to introduce his new European bombshell (the real-life Marlene Dietrich). Nevermind that the actress can''t act, Brands'' negotiations with MGM to get Clark Gable to play the male lead are getting nowhere, and the Broadway play he''s bought for the screenplay is reworked so that it is unrecognizable to its author. In this delicious satire of the film business, one is never very far from the truth of what makes Hollywood tick and why we all love it.

The biography of actress Anna Maria Pierangeli, from her early life in Italy to her death at 39. Discovered by Vittorio De Sica, she soon after starred in her first film, ""Domani e Troppo Tardi"" (Tomorrow Is Too Late), and began a meteoric rise to fame in Italy before moving to Hollywood in 1950.