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Author : Edwin Paxton Hood
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 11,77 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Anecdotes
ISBN :
Author : Edwin Paxton Hood
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 11,77 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Anecdotes
ISBN :
Author : Edwin Paxton Hood
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 33,86 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Anecdotes
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Author : Edwin Paxton Hood
Publisher :
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 29,34 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Anecdotes
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Author : Andre Bernard
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 2000-09-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0446931268
From Hank Aaron to King Zog, Mao Tse-Tung to Madonna, Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes features more than 2,000 people from around the world, past and present, in all fields. These short anecdotes provide remarkable insight into the human character. Ranging from the humorous to the tearful, they span classical history, recent politics, modern science and the arts. Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes is a gold mine for anyone who gives speeches, is doing research, or simply likes to browse. As an informal tour of history and human nature at its most entertaining & instructive, this is sure to be a perennial favorite for years to come.
Author : Edwin Paxton Hood
Publisher :
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 1870
Category : Anecdotes
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Author : Edwin Paxton Hood
Publisher :
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 1870
Category : Anecdotes
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Author : Shawn Callahan
Publisher : Pepperberg Press
Page : pages
File Size : 48,43 MB
Release : 2016-03-20
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ISBN : 9780992338558
Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0191066524
This is the ultimate anthology of theatrical anecdotes, edited by lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition, and covering every kind of theatrical story and experience from the age of Shakespeare and Marlowe to the age of Stoppard and Mamet, from Richard Burbage to Richard Briers, from Nell Gwynn to Daniel Day-Lewis, from Sarah Bernhardt to Judi Dench. Players, playwrights, prompters, producers—they all feature. The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes provides a comprehensive, revealing, and hugely entertaining portrait of the world of theatre across four hundred years. Many of the anecdotes are humorous: all have something pertinent and illuminating to say about an aspect of theatrical life—whether it is the art of playwriting, the craft of covering up missed cues, the drama of the First Night, the nightmare of touring, or the secret ingredients of star quality. Edmund Kean, Henry Irving, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren—the great 'names' are all here, of course, but there are tales of the unexpected, too—and the unknown. This is a book—presented in five acts, with a suitably anecdotal and personal prologue from Gyles Brandreth—where, once in a while, the understudy takes centre-stage and Gyles Brandreth treats triumph and disaster just the same, including stories from the tattiest touring companies as well as from Broadway, the West End and theatres, large and small, in Australia, India, and across Europe.
Author : Walter Gratzer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780198609407
A collection of fascinating stories, entertainingly told, revealing the human face of science. Eurekas and Euphorias encompasses some 200 anecdotes brilliantly illustrating scientists in all their shapes: the obsessive and the dilettantish, the genial, the envious, the preternaturally brilliant and the slow-witted who sometimes see further in the end, the open-minded and the intolerant, recluses and arrivistes. Told with wit and relish by Walter Gratzer, here are stories to delight, astonish, instruct, and most especially, entertain the general reader, scientist and non-scientist alike.
Author : Edwin Paxton Hood
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Anecdotes
ISBN :