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  Harold Robbins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harold Robbins (originally Harold Rubin) (May 21, 1916–October 14, 1997) was an American author.
Robbins made his first million at the age of twenty by selling sugar for the wholesale trade.
Harold Robbins has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6743 Hollywood Boulevard.
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 Harold Robbins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Harold Robbins (originally Harold Rubin) (May 21, 1916 - 1997) was an American author.
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 Encyclopedia: Harold Robbins
New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture.
It was loosely based on the life of Howard Hughes, taking the reader from New York to California, from the prosperity of the aeronautical industry to the glamour of Hollywood.
The Carpetbaggers is the title of a 1961 bestselling novel by Harold Robbins, which was adapted into a 1964 movie of the same title.
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 Harold Robbins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Harold Robbins was born Harold Rubin in New York City, the son of well-educated Russian and Polish immigrants.
Robbins was educated at the George Washington High School and after leaving off the school he worked at several jobs.
Robbins married at a young age and moved to Hollywood where he worked for Universal Pictures, first as a shipping clerk.
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 Alibris: Harold Robbins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Thirty-four years ago, Harold Robbins enthralled millions of readers with what is arguably the most popular novel ever written--The Carpetbaggers, a story of family conflict and turbulence set in the early days of Hollywood.
Harold robbins gives us a star-studded world of beautiful people, luxurious fantasy, unending desire...the story of a brilliant young man, a rebel, a fighter, and whose every American dream can true.
This posthumous Harold Robbins novel is set in Las Vegas and focuses on the illegitimate son of Howard Hughes who grows up to be security chief in a casino.
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 Harold Robbins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Born in New York City, Harold Robbins spent his childhood in anorphanage.
Robbins made hisfirst million at the age of twenty by selling sugar for the wholesale trade.
Harold Robbins has a Star on the Hollywood Walk ofFame at 6743 Hollywood Blvd.
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 Harold Robbins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Robbins his first million at the age of by selling sugar for the wholesale trade.
As a long time fan of Harold Robbins, I've read most of his more popular novels, but not The Betsy, which is the precursor to The Stallion.
As soon as I saw that this book was copyrighted by "the estate" of Harold Robbins, I knew I was in trouble.
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 Harold Robbins - netlexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Bei seinem Debüt zeigt sich bereits die kräftige Sprache Robbins, die ihn zu einem der meistverkauften Autoren spannender Unterhaltungsliteratur machen und dafür sorgen, dass seine Bücher von Hollywood verfilmt werden, jedoch von Literaturkritikern verachtet werden.
Harold Robbins verkaufte Auflagen, sie werden weltweit auf über 750.000.000 Stück geschätzt, was ihn zu dem Ausspruch verleitete, er sei der beste Schriftsteller der Welt.
Harold Robbins war fünfmal verheiratet und seit 1982 aufgrund eines Hüftleidens an den Rollstuhl gefesselt, was ihn aber nicht minder produktiv als Schriftsteller machen sollte.
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 E! Online News - Novelist Harold Robbins Dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Robbins' literary life was made on sex, power and money, and while he rarely earned critical respect, he was one of the world's best-selling authors, his steamy works translated into more than 30 languages and adapted into such films as The Carpetbaggers and The Betsy and the TV miniseries 79 Park Avenue.
Robbins was rising through the managerial ranks at Universal Pictures when he wrote Never Love a Stranger to win a $100 bet that he could come up with a better story than those the studio was buying.
Robbins was writing his life's legend right up to the end.
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 Dagbladet - nyheter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Forfatteren Harold Robbins rakk å selge 750 millioner bøker før han døde i går.
Robbins slo igjennom i 1948 med romanen «Never Love a Stranger», som han skrev for å vinne et veddemål, og bekreftet sitt ry med «The Carpetbaggers»; fra 1961, en historie om moderne forretningsfolk på toppnivå.
Den siste tiden var han rammet av en hjernelidelse som gjorde det umulig for ham å skrive, og han døde på et sykehus i byen Palm Springs i går av komplikasjoner i hjerte og lunger.
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 Harold Robbins
Nach diesem Muster erschienen bis zu seinem Tode zahlreiche Romane alle zu Bestsellern wurden.
Harold Robbins verkaufte Auflagen werden auf über 750.000.000 Stück geschätzt was ihn dem Auspruch verleitete er sei der beste der Welt.
Harold Robbins war fünfmal verheiratet und 1982 aufgrund eines Hüftleidens an den Rollstuhl was ihn aber nicht minder produktiv als machen sollte.
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 Harold Robbins
Harold Robbins (originally Harold Rubin) (May 21, 1916–October 14 1997) was an American author.Born in New York City, Harold Robbins spent his childhood in an orphanage.
From 1982 he was obliged to use a wheelchair because of hip trouble, but continued writing.He spent a great deal of time in France and Monte Carlo until his death on October 14, 1997 from respiratory heart failure.
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 Harold Robbins - Author Information, Books, and News
Several posthumously published Robbins novels are based on his unfinished works.
Comment: Published by the estate of Harold Robbins based on stories he left behind.
Comment: Written by his estate based on Harold Robbin’s notes.
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 Salon | Media Circus
For nearly 50 of those years, from the publication of "Never Love A Stranger" in 1948 to this year's "Tycoon," he was a phenomenally successful author.
His chronicles of the sexual and financial peccadilloes of the rich and the restless and the often clunky films made from them earned him a fortune he did his best to spend emulating the extravagant lifestyles of his characters.
It was 'Harold Rubin,' but he didn't think 'Rubin' looked right on a book cover, typographically.
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 Harold Robbins
Robbins is known for his best-selling, steamy novels that revolved around sex, money and power.
HAROLD ROBBINS, MASTER OF THE STEAMY JET-SET NOVEL, AT 81 (Denver Rocky Mountain News)
HAROLD ROBBINS, MASTER OF THE STEAMY JET-SET NOVEL, AT 81.(News/National/International) (Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO))
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 The Pirate by Harold Robbins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
In The Pirate, Harold Robbins reached into the exotic, sensual world of the Middle East - into the passionate, violent realm of one indomitable man! The Pirate was the wealthiest sheikh of all Islam.
Badyr Al Fay's origins were as mysterious as the shifting desert sands, but his cunning mind had forged a vast economic empire.
At the pinnacle of his power, as a storm of politics, betrayal and terrorism gathered around him, he would risk everything to gain his ultimate dream - a prince's golden throne...
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 Harold Robbins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Harold Robbins summed up his career best in a 1971 ITV documentary: "I'm...
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 Harold Robbins
An orphan who never discovered the identity of his parents, Robbins was a prolific though critically under-appreciated author.
All told, his books sold more than 50 million copies; they involved complex plots focused on the jet set and their financial and sexual hijinks.
Before turning to writing, Robbins had worked for Universal Pictures (1940–57), beginning as a clerk and rising to executive director of budgets and planning.
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 A Stone for Danny Fisher Summary Study Guide
After he had written the three novels Never Love a Stranger (1948), A Stone for Danny Fisher, and 79 Park Avenue (1955), Robbins came to see them as forming a trilogy which he calls The Depression in Neiu York.
These are parallel stories involving different characters but all illustrating the struggle for survival of the lower middle classes during the Depression.
Even the name of the hero is Frankie Kane, the name Robbins received when he was, like his hero, a foundling, but.....
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 A Stone for Danny Fisher Summary Study Guide
When Danny returns to New York after failing to throw a fight for bookie Maxie Fields, Robbins saves him from the consequences of his earlier action quite arbitrarily.
In much the same way, Robbins later kills off Danny's daughter — and with the same purpose — to show that it is an unreasoning fate that guides "life among the lowly" (as Harriet Beecher Stowe subtitled Uncle Tom's Cabin).
Of course, Danny is just a teen-ager at the time of the fight and only about twenty when his daughter dies; however, Robbins's portrait of Danny's world is effective and realistic just.....
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Toronto to Sydney that made Harold Robbins seem like Shakespeare...
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Daniel Petrie, and Harold Robbins' Body Parts (1999), produced by Roger Corman.
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 Sin City by Harold Robbins Detailed Book Review
In retaliation he rapes her and flees to Asia before eventually returning to SIN CITY only to learn he sired a child with Morgan.
Five years have passed since Harold Robbins died and he still is cranking out tales as a prolific ghostwriter.
The latest Robbins tale, SIN CITY, is perhaps “his” best novel in many years including when the author lived.
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 Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
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 Die UNERSÄTTLICHEN -- von harold Robbins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
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 Never Enough by Harold Robbins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
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Never Enough is a novel chronicling the rise of David Shea, a man who learned early that on your rise to the top you use any means possible.
Second hand availability for Harold Robbins's Never Enough
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 Harold Robbins Quotes and Quotations compiled by GIGA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Harold Robbins Quotes and Quotations compiled by GIGA
- The Carpetbaggers, (used pseudonym of Harold Rubin)
I was on my third cup of coffee when the telephone began to ring.
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 Biography - Harold Robbins : Fact, Fiction, And Fantasy on VHS Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Biography - Harold Robbins : Fact, Fiction, And Fantasy on VHS Video
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 No Amaras a UN Extrano/Never Love a Stranger - Harold Robbins ( ISBN 8401321700 )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
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