 | The Essential Theatre
Publication Date: December 14, 2009| ISBN-10: 0495807974 | ISBN-13: 978-0495807971| Edition: 10 Whether you are a theatre major looking forward to a career in the arts, or a non major interested in an overview to help you better appreciate theatre as an audience member, THE ESSENTIAL THEATRE is a welcome and helpful resource. Written by highly respected theatre historians, the text has earned its reputation as one of the most comprehensive, authoritative surveys of the theatre. Its vibrant treatment of theatre practice--past and present--catalogs the origins of theatre through postmodern...
 |  | Chelsea Horror Hotel: A Novel
Publication Date: May 10, 2001Dee Dee Ramone doesn't quite know what he's getting himself into when he and his wife Barbara move into the squalid Chelsea Hotel with their dog Banfield. He spends most of his time trying to score drugs and walking Banfield, with whom he can magically communicate. Meanwhile, he can't stand his neighbors and shies away from violence, but wishes everyone were six feet under. He also thinks that the room he's staying in is the very room where his old friend Sid Vicious stabbed Nancy Spungen, and begins having nightmares of Nancy emerging from the bathroom with a k...
|  | Softly and Tenderly (A Songbird Novel)
Publication Date: January 4, 2011| Series: A Songbird Novel (Book 2) Maybe in the wide-open country she can learn to breathe again. Happily married and owner of two successful boutiques, Jade longs to begin a family with her husband, Max. But when she discovers that Max has an illegitimate son—who he wants her to help raise—Jade’s life is turned upside down. She flees to her childhood home, a rambling Iowa farmhouse, with enough room to breathe. There— while her mother’s health grows fragile, and the tug of her first love grows stronger—Jad...
|  | Nantucket Nights: A Novel
Release Date: May 12, 2009The ties between women can run as deep as the ocean--but so can their secrets.For 20 years, Kayla, Antoinette and Val have performed their own special summer ritual. Once a year, the old friends put aside their daily, separate lives to drink champagne, swap stories and swim naked under the Nantucket stars. But on one of those bonding nights, one of their trio swims out from the shore and doesn't return. After the surviving friends emerge from their grief, they realize that the repercussions of their loss go far beyond their little circle, and they begin to uncover l...
|  | Southern Ghosts: Season of the Lights
Publication Date: July 21, 2005Southern Ghosts is a ghostly tale of terror that the author experienced as a young boy. He came face to face with the darker side of the unkown and found that the dreams and secret things of the night are not all just our mind playing tricks. This story is definately a nail-biter and will make you wonder if what was in your dreams, may actually be in your house, lurking in the dark. Southern Ghosts is a true story based on actual events that happened to the author and his family in a small rural community in Northern Alabama. The author was 15 at the time of th...
|  | Midnight Mass: & Other Great Vampire Stories
Publication Date: September 1999From the horrifying to the humorous, some of today's finest authors share stories about one of mankind's oldest imagined evils, the vampire. The contents of this original audio production include "Bite Me Not, or Fleur de Fur" by Tanith Lee, "Food Chain" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, "Moonlight in Vermont" by Esther Freisner, "Madeleine" by Barbara Hambly, "Victims" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, "Seat Partner" by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and "Midnight Mass" by F. Paul Wilson. --This text refers to an alternate Audio Cassette edition....
|  | The Winter King (The Arthur Books #1)
Publication Date: May 1996In Dark Age Britain, a land from which Arthur has been banishedand Merlin has disappeared, a child-king sits unprotected on thethrone, and it is up to Arthur, a courageous and honorable man, topreserve the lonely embers of civilization in a barbaric world. 100,000first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. ...
|  | The Selected Poems of D. H. Lawrence (Poetry Library, Penguin)
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|  | Performance and Politics in Popular Drama: Aspects of Popular Entertainment in Theatre, Film and Television, 1800-1976
Publication Date: March 31, 1980Since the beginning of the nineteenth-century, many forms of theatre have been called 'popular', but in the twentieth-century the term 'popular drama' has taken on definite political overtones, often indicating a repudiation of 'commercial theatre'. Does this mean that political theatre is or tries to be more attractive to more people than commercial theatre? Does it conversely mean that commercial theatre has no political effects? The articles in this book were submitted as papers for a conference on the theme of 'popular' theatre, film and television. Contri...
|  | The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Release Date: March 29, 2005The old, converted vegetable shop where Tillie lives is more like a madhouse than a home. Tillie's mother, Beatrice, is bitter and cruel, yet desperate for her daughters' love. Her sister, Ruth, suffers epileptic fits and sneaks cigarettes every chance she gets. In the midst of chaos, Tillie struggles to keep her focus and dreams alive. Tillie -- keeper of rabbits, dreamer of atoms, true believer in life, hope, and the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds. ...
|  | Homer's Odyssey
Publication Date: December 1, 1978This is the long-awaited work on Homer's Odyssey by one of our foremost teachers and scholars of the classics--John H. Finley, Jr. Already, generations of students at Harvard have benefited from his knowledge and understanding of Homer's words and world. Now his thoughts on the Odyssey are woven together in this remarkable volume.Finley begins by arguing the unity of design in the Odyssey, and shows the connection between the actions of three main characters: Telemachus' maturity brings Penelope to her long-delayed decision for remarriage, which, by producin...
|  | The Art of Naming
Publication Date: September 1988"...clarifies unfamiliar modes of thought...in the language of 16th century poetry..." ...
|  | Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: Backward Glances and New Visions, 1969-1979 (Southern Literary Studies)
Publication Date: June 14, 2011| Series: Southern Literary Studies The years 1969 and 1979 bookend a volatile decade in American history. As an articulate witness to the era of the Vietnam War, Watergate, Jimmy Carter, and the national ''malaise,'' Robert Penn Warren produced a phenomenal body of work, securing his place in the canon of American poetry.Volume five of Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: Backward Glances and New Visions, 1969-1979 includes Warren's letters to friends, family, peers, editors, inquiring scholars, and critics--recording the details of his personal and profess...
|  | Plato's Penal Code: Tradition, Controversy, and Reform in Greek Penology (Clarendon Paperbacks)
Publication Date: February 17, 1994| Series: Clarendon Paperbacks This book assesses Plato's penal code within the tradition of Greek penology. Saunders provides a detailed exposition of the emergence of the concept of publicly controlled, rationally calculated, and socially directed punishment in the period between Homer and Plato. He outlines the serious debate that ensued in the fifth century over the opposition by philosophers to popular judicial assumptions, and shows how the philosophical arguments gradually gained ground. He demonstrates that Plato advanced the most radical of the phi...
|  | Tangled Sheets
Release Date: January 1, 2005From Michael Thomas Ford, the critically acclaimed author of Last Summer and Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me, comes this sizzling collection of fantasies culled from more than a decade of his best erotic work. These stories of heat, lust, desire, need, and transformation-an Olympian bacchanal, a chance meeting in the men's room, an S&M-fueled "coaching" session, a police officer who'll do what it takes to get a confession-are as incredibly hot as they are exquisitely crafted. There's "Becoming Al," an "X-rated Flannery O'Connor story" that takes place on the stage a...
|  | The Last Days of Pompeii
Release Date: November 20, 2000This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1921 edition by the Macmillan Company, New York. ...
|  | Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee, No. 4)
Release Date: June 27, 1995From the author of A Purple Place for Dying and The Deep Blue Good-by comes the republication of the bestseller starring Travis McGee, a real American hero. Reissue. ...
|  | Michael Jordan: Basketball Skywalker (Sports Achievers Biographies)
Publication Date: March 1999| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Minnesota Vikings (NFL Today (Creative Education Hardcover))
Publication Date: January 2000| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Winter Olympics (100 Unforgettable Moments in Sports)
Publication Date: September 1996| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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