Common Sense about the Shaw
Author : Harold Owen
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 1915
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN :
thinandbeautiful.com
Author : Liane Shaw
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
Release : 2009-09-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1926739140
Book Description
Seventeen-year-old Maddie has always felt a hole in her life, but she has finally found a way to fill it with her quest to mold her body into her ideal, thinnest shape. When she comes across the world of "thinspiration" websites, where young people encourage each other in their mission to lose weight, she quickly becomes addicted. Finally, she has found a place where she is understood and where she can belong. Maddie becomes a part of a group of friends who call themselves the GWS, "Girls Without Shadows", on the pro-anorexia website thinandbeautiful.com. Here she finds the respect and support she feels she doesn't get from her family and friends in the so-called real world. Now in a rehab facility where they are trying to fix a problem she doesn't think she has, Maddie is forced to keep a diary tracing how she arrived at this point. Angry that she is barred from accessing her online friends, Maddie refuses to believe she needs help. Will a tragedy change her mind?
Common Sense about the War
Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 1914
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN :
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Common Sense about the War
Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Essays
ISBN :
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Artemis Fowl
Author : Eoin Colfer
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 2009-08-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1423132173
Book Description
Twelve-year-old Artemis is a millionaire, a genius-and above all, a criminal mastermind. But Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren't the fairies of the bedtime stories-they're dangerous!
The Manchurian Candidate
Author : Richard Condon
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 36,87 MB
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0795335067
Book Description
The classic thriller about a hostile foreign power infiltrating American politics: “Brilliant . . . wild and exhilarating.” —The New Yorker A war hero and the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Sgt. Raymond Shaw is keeping a deadly secret—even from himself. During his time as a prisoner of war in North Korea, he was brainwashed by his Communist captors and transformed into a deadly weapon—a sleeper assassin, programmed to kill without question or mercy at his captors’ signal. Now he’s been returned to the United States with a covert mission: to kill a candidate running for US president . . . This “shocking, tense” and sharply satirical novel has become a modern classic, and was the basis for two film adaptations (San Francisco Chronicle). “Crammed with suspense.” —Chicago Tribune “Condon is wickedly skillful.” —Time
Common Sense
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 1920
Category :
ISBN :
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George Bernard Shaw in Context
Author : Brad Kent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1316432165
Book Description
When George Bernard Shaw died in 1950, the world lost one of its most well-known authors, a revolutionary who was as renowned for his personality as he was for his humour, humanity, and rebellious thinking. He remains a compelling figure who deserves attention not only for how influential he was in his time, but for how relevant he is to ours. This collection sets Shaw's life and achievements in context, with forty-two scholarly essays devoted to subjects that interested him and defined his work. Contributors explore a wide range of themes, moving from factors that were formative in Shaw's life, to the artistic work that made him most famous and the institutions with which he worked, to the political and social issues that consumed much of his attention, and, finally, to his influence and reception. Presenting fresh material and arguments, this collection will point to new directions of research for future scholars.
Henry Irving's Waterloo
Author : W. D. King
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 32,31 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520333322
Book Description
In this creative study of history and popular culture, W. D. King ingeniously illustrates how a long-forgotten instance in theatre history can reveal the very process of historical change itself. Late in the nineteenth century, Henry Irving, the leading actor-manager of the English stage, was scathingly attacked by George Bernard Shaw for his popular performance in Conan Doyle's play, A Story of Waterloo. Shaw's review was one of the first onslaughts in a war against the old guard of the English stage, against Victorianism, against England and Empire itself. King's depiction of this event and its aftermath illuminates the period's crucial values and cultural issues, and is presented in a manner that is both convincing and highly entertaining. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.
Bernard Shaw on the American Stage
Author : L. W. Conolly
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 2022-08-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3031042417
Book Description
Bernard Shaw on the American Stage is the first comprehensive study of the production of Bernard Shaw’s plays in America. During his lifetime (1856-1950), Shaw was America’s most popular living playwright; productions of his plays were outnumbered only by Shakespeare. Forty-four of Shaw’s plays were staged in America before his death, eight more posthumously. Eleven of the productions were world premieres. Bernard Shaw on the American Stage tells the story of the fifty-two premieres, which, apart from a few fragments, is his total dramatic oeuvre. The book also includes, again for the first time, production data and concise overviews of dozens of the most notable American revivals of the plays, from the 1890s to the beginning of the 2020 pandemic. Illustrations—production photographs, programmes, theatre buildings, playbills, actors’ studio portraits— inform the study throughout.
