Author : William Hazlitt
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 2022-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752584181
Reprint of the original, first published in 1864. Now first edited, and the text carefully revised. With some account of the author, and a few notes.
Author : Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Songs (Medium voice) with piano
ISBN :
Author : American Film Institute
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1464 pages
File Size : 49,27 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Films
ISBN : 9780520215214
Author : Lucasta Miller
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 36,10 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Haworth (England)
ISBN : 9780224037457
"This book has as its subject the manipulation of a reputation." "Its starting point is Charlotte Bronte's attempt to manage her own and her sisters' public image in the face of Victorian prejudice against their passionate novels. Their first biographer, Mrs. Gaskell, transformed their story of literary ambition into one of the great legends of the nineteenth century, a dramatic tale of three lonely sisters playing out their tragic destiny on top of a windswept moor. Lucasta Miller reveals where this image came from and how it took such a hold on the popular imagination." "Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without some sort of Bronte 'biography' appearing."
Author : Dana A. Williams
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 31,46 MB
Release : 2005
Category : African Americans in literature
ISBN : 0814209947
""In the Light of Likeness - transformed" by Dana A. Williams looks critically at the work of contemporary African American author Leon Forrest. Not only does she bring to the critical table a well-known but as yet understudied modernist author - an important endeavor in and of itself - but she also explores Forrest's novels' cultural dialogue with black ethnic culture and other African American authors, as well as provides in-depth readings of his prose and interpretations of his narrative style." "Forrest's highly experimental narrative style, his reinterpretation of modernism, and his transformations of black cultural traditions into literary aesthetics often pose challenges of interpretation for the reader and the scholar alike. As the first single-authored book-length study of Forrest's novel, this book offers readers pathways into his fiction. What this culturalist approach to the novels reveals is that Forrest's fiction was foremost concerned with investigating ways for the African American to survive in the contemporary moment. Through a variety of characters, the novels reveal the African American's art of transformation - the ability to find ways to make the wretchedness of the past work in positive ways."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : W.Stebbing
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,83 MB
Release : 1931
Category : History
ISBN : 5873930368
Author : R. T. Raichev
Publisher : C & R Crime
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1780336381
It promised to be the perfect holiday every modern convenience, exotic terraced gardens complete with an 'English' folly, thirty-eight varieties of ice-cream, cocktails with names like 'Widow's Wink' and 'Mumbay Mule'. Antonia and Hugh Payne never seriously imagined they would encounter anything worse than extravagance in this idyllic setting... But an uninvited guest at the garden party given in their honour makes Antonia Darcy his confidante. Not only does he claim to have witnessed the strangling of beautiful, wayward Marigold Leighton, he also insists it was their host Roman Songhera, the 'uncrowned king of Goa', who had committed the murder. 'You are the kind of woman who lets her imagination run riot', the Hon. Mrs Depleche warns Antonia - but then the murder witness mysteriously disappears and later turns up dead. And so, rather reluctantly, Antonia and Major Payne decide to set aside their pleasure-filled days, and investigate. Praise for R.T. Raichev's Previous Novels 'Fascinating and surreal.' Lady Antonia Fraser 'Clever and complex.' Francis Wyndham 'Splendidly oldfashioned sleuthery ... skilfully probes the surface smoothness of country houses ...couldn't put it down.' Hugh Massingberd 'This auspicious first in a new mystery series from Raichev... Agatha Christie fans will find much to like in this traditional whodunit.' Publishers Weekly
Author : T. S. Eliot
Publisher : HMH
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 39,22 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0544358457
The collected dramatic works of the Nobel Prize winner, from Murder in the Cathedral to The Elder Statesman. T. S. Eliot’s plays—Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, The Cocktail Party (which won a Tony Award for its Broadway production), The Confidential Clerk, and The Elder Statesman—are brought together for the first time in this volume. They summarize the Nobel Prize winner’s achievements in restoring dramatic verse to the English and American stages, an effort of great significance both for the theater and for the development of Eliot’s art. Between 1935, when Murder in the Cathedral was first produced at the Canterbury Festival, and 1958, when The Elder Statesman opened at the Edinburgh Festival prior to engagements in London and New York, Eliot had given three other plays to the theater. His paramount concerns can be traced through all five works. They have been said to be closely related, marking stages in the development of a new and individual form of drama, in which the poet worked out his intention “to take a form of entertainment, and subject it to the process that would leave it a form of art.” What Mark Van Doren said, in reviewing Murder in the Cathedral, is true of all these plays: “Mr. Eliot adapts himself to the stage with dignity, simplicity, and skill.”
Author : Raymond A. Anselment
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874133387
This study analyzes a series of complex, ambivalent literary responses to the decades of civil turmoil in seventeenth-century England that simultaneously demanded public commitment and prompted private withdrawal. From their various perspectives the Royalist writers raised in the humanist tradition are shown to appreciate anew the value of patient fortitude.
Author : Barbara Monajem
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1460310969
England, 1804 Tired of being paraded before every eligible bachelor, Peony Whistleby decides it’s time to find her true love—through the ancient custom of rolling naked in the dew on May Day morning. But the magic goes awry when she is caught in the act—and by an entirely unsuitable man. And yet, the way his eyes linger upon her flesh ignites a sensual craving that can only be satisfied by his touch…Book one of the May Day Mischief duet.
