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Like Coburn, McQueen was a close friend of Lee’s who at one time had trained with him on a regular basis. As for the role of Cord, Lee originally hoped that he could get Steve McQueen on board. Instead, Lee was to play various martial artists who would encounter Cord and teach him kung fu and other valuable lessons along the way. Bruce Lee expected to have a starring role in The Silent Flute, but he had no intention of playing the main protagonist, who was supposed to be a white character. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a new modern-day, star-crossed romance about what it really means to love your country-and yourself-from the acclaimed author of We Are the Ants and Brave Face, Shaun David Hutchinson. 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Bleak House: Looking on Darkness which the Blind Do See. ![]() Though the legal profession criticised Dickens's satire as exaggerated, this novel helped support a judicial reform movement, which culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s. ![]() Jarndyce, along with Ada Clare and Richard Carstone. This legal case is used by Dickens to satirise the English judicial system, and he makes use of his earlier experiences as a law clerk, and as a litigant seeking to enforce copyright on his earlier books. Esther Summerson describes her childhood and says she is leaving for the home of a new guardian, Mr. At the centre of Bleak House is the long-running legal case, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which came about because someone wrote several conflicting wills. ![]() The novel has many characters and several sub-plots, and the story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. Bleak House is one of Charles Dickens's major novels, first published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Edwards Award honoring her significant and lasting contribution to writing for teens.She has received the Coretta Scott King Award for both Copper Sun and Forged by Fire and was awarded the Charlotte Huck Award for Stella by Starlight. ![]() OL12488W Page_number_confidence 94.80 Pages 406 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200827172541 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1014 Scandate 20200826184613 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781416906995 Tts_version 4. Draper is a three-time New York Times bestselling author and a recipient of the Margaret A. Urn:lcp:novemberblues0000drap:lcpdf:048268e1-9962-42c4-a1a8-4c1b73206a3e November Blues is a 2007 young adult novel by American writer Sharon M. 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