Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486264769
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
A dramatic comedy combines high comedy with social commentary in deflating misconceptions about love and warfare.
Arms and the Man
Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486264769
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
A dramatic comedy combines high comedy with social commentary in deflating misconceptions about love and warfare.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486264769
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
A dramatic comedy combines high comedy with social commentary in deflating misconceptions about love and warfare.
Arms and the Man
Author: William Lowther
Publisher: Novato, Calif. : Presidio Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Chronicles the life and death of Dr. Gerald Bull, inventor of the supergun and one of the greatest weapons experts in the world, who was murdered when he became involved in weapons dealing in the Middle East.
Publisher: Novato, Calif. : Presidio Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Chronicles the life and death of Dr. Gerald Bull, inventor of the supergun and one of the greatest weapons experts in the world, who was murdered when he became involved in weapons dealing in the Middle East.
Arms and the Man
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004206949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
These essays honor Dennis Showalter, a pioneer in the field of military history and a mentor to an entire generation of scholars. The essays themselves are written by some of the best-known and most highly-respected scholars in the field. They span the globe and cover a wide range of military history topics from the ancient world to the present day. As a group, this book represents not only a collection in honor of a great scholar, but a collection of some of the highest-quality cutting-edge scholarship in the field today. It will be of interest to anyone who wants to understand the history of warfare. Contributors are William J. Astore, Mary Kathryn Barbier, Jeremy Black, Robert M. Citino, Kelly DeVries, Richard L. DiNardo, Robert A. Doughty, Holger H. Herwig, Eugenia C. Kiesling, Robert McJimsey, Michael S. Neiberg and Dennis Showalter.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004206949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
These essays honor Dennis Showalter, a pioneer in the field of military history and a mentor to an entire generation of scholars. The essays themselves are written by some of the best-known and most highly-respected scholars in the field. They span the globe and cover a wide range of military history topics from the ancient world to the present day. As a group, this book represents not only a collection in honor of a great scholar, but a collection of some of the highest-quality cutting-edge scholarship in the field today. It will be of interest to anyone who wants to understand the history of warfare. Contributors are William J. Astore, Mary Kathryn Barbier, Jeremy Black, Robert M. Citino, Kelly DeVries, Richard L. DiNardo, Robert A. Doughty, Holger H. Herwig, Eugenia C. Kiesling, Robert McJimsey, Michael S. Neiberg and Dennis Showalter.
"Arms, and the Man I sing . . ."
Author: Arvid Løsnes
Publisher: University of Delaware
ISBN: 1611490030
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This study referred to as a "preface" is given this designation because its basic aim is not to offer an up-to-date overall assessment of Dryden's translation of Virgil's Æneid but, rather, to provide a relevant basis for such an assessment ?thus allowing for a wide range of readership. The relevance of this approach rests on two basic premises: that of R. A. Brower, who maintains "that no translation can be understood or properly evaluated apart from the conditions of expression under which it was made," supported by Dryden's expressed intention "to make Virgil speak such English, as he wou'd himself have spoken, if he had been born in England, and in this present age," together providing a genuinely relevant basis for an understanding of Dryden's translation, "the conditions of expression" here allowing the inclusion of all the possible implications this phrase includes.
Publisher: University of Delaware
ISBN: 1611490030
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This study referred to as a "preface" is given this designation because its basic aim is not to offer an up-to-date overall assessment of Dryden's translation of Virgil's Æneid but, rather, to provide a relevant basis for such an assessment ?thus allowing for a wide range of readership. The relevance of this approach rests on two basic premises: that of R. A. Brower, who maintains "that no translation can be understood or properly evaluated apart from the conditions of expression under which it was made," supported by Dryden's expressed intention "to make Virgil speak such English, as he wou'd himself have spoken, if he had been born in England, and in this present age," together providing a genuinely relevant basis for an understanding of Dryden's translation, "the conditions of expression" here allowing the inclusion of all the possible implications this phrase includes.
The Man with Two Arms
Author: Billy Lombardo
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1590206029
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
“Undoubtedly modern America’s finest literary tribute to the baseball since Bernard Malamud’s novel The Natural” (Chicago Tribune). Henry Granville, a baseball fanatic and high school teacher, spends hours in the basement with his young son Danny, introducing him to balls of all shapes and sizes. He even turns the basement into an indoor stadium. Danny quickly distinguishes himself from his peers, most conspicuously by his ability to throw perfectly with either arm—a feat virtually unheard of in baseball. But he also possesses a visionary gift that not even he understands. Danny becomes a superior athlete, skyrocketing through the minor leagues and into the majors where he experiences immediate success, breaking records held for decades. When a journalist, a former student of Henry’s and hungry for a national breakout story, exaggerates the teacher’s obsession and exposes him to the world as a monster, all hell breaks loose and the pressures of media and celebrity threaten to disrupt the world that Henry and Danny have created. A baseball novel—and much more—The Man with Two Arms is a story of the ways in which we protect, betray, forgive, love, and shape each other as we attempt to find our way through life. “Magical realism meets baseball in [this] debut novel . . . [A] Roy Hobbs-like narrative.” —Chicago Magazine “Sings with joy and tragedy . . . An amazing debut, as a lyrical paean to the national pastime and as a touching exploration of the life of a boy becoming a man both blessed and burdened with a unique and extraordinary talent.” —Flagpole
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1590206029
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
“Undoubtedly modern America’s finest literary tribute to the baseball since Bernard Malamud’s novel The Natural” (Chicago Tribune). Henry Granville, a baseball fanatic and high school teacher, spends hours in the basement with his young son Danny, introducing him to balls of all shapes and sizes. He even turns the basement into an indoor stadium. Danny quickly distinguishes himself from his peers, most conspicuously by his ability to throw perfectly with either arm—a feat virtually unheard of in baseball. But he also possesses a visionary gift that not even he understands. Danny becomes a superior athlete, skyrocketing through the minor leagues and into the majors where he experiences immediate success, breaking records held for decades. When a journalist, a former student of Henry’s and hungry for a national breakout story, exaggerates the teacher’s obsession and exposes him to the world as a monster, all hell breaks loose and the pressures of media and celebrity threaten to disrupt the world that Henry and Danny have created. A baseball novel—and much more—The Man with Two Arms is a story of the ways in which we protect, betray, forgive, love, and shape each other as we attempt to find our way through life. “Magical realism meets baseball in [this] debut novel . . . [A] Roy Hobbs-like narrative.” —Chicago Magazine “Sings with joy and tragedy . . . An amazing debut, as a lyrical paean to the national pastime and as a touching exploration of the life of a boy becoming a man both blessed and burdened with a unique and extraordinary talent.” —Flagpole
Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant
Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Man and Superman
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 1531277225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Mr. Whitefield has recently died, and his will indicates that his daughter Ann should be left in the care of two men, Roebuck Ramsden and Jack Tanner. Ramsden, a venerable old man, distrusts John Tanner, an eloquent youth with revolutionary ideas, saying "He is prodigiously fluent of speech, restless, excitable (mark the snorting nostril and the restless blue eye, just the thirty-secondth of an inch too wide open), possibly a little mad". In spite of what Ramsden says, Ann accepts Tanner as her guardian, though Tanner doesn't want the position at all. She also challenges Tanner's revolutionary beliefs with her own ideas. Despite Tanner's professed dedication to anarchy, he is unable to disarm Ann's charm, and she ultimately persuades him to marry her, choosing him over her more persistent suitor, a young man named Octavius Robinson.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1531277225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Mr. Whitefield has recently died, and his will indicates that his daughter Ann should be left in the care of two men, Roebuck Ramsden and Jack Tanner. Ramsden, a venerable old man, distrusts John Tanner, an eloquent youth with revolutionary ideas, saying "He is prodigiously fluent of speech, restless, excitable (mark the snorting nostril and the restless blue eye, just the thirty-secondth of an inch too wide open), possibly a little mad". In spite of what Ramsden says, Ann accepts Tanner as her guardian, though Tanner doesn't want the position at all. She also challenges Tanner's revolutionary beliefs with her own ideas. Despite Tanner's professed dedication to anarchy, he is unable to disarm Ann's charm, and she ultimately persuades him to marry her, choosing him over her more persistent suitor, a young man named Octavius Robinson.
Arms and the Woman
Author: Helen Margaret Cooper
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807842560
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Although the themes of women's complicity in and resistance to war have been part of literature from early times, they have not been fully integrated into conventional conceptions of the war narrative. Combining feminist literary criticism with the emergi
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807842560
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Although the themes of women's complicity in and resistance to war have been part of literature from early times, they have not been fully integrated into conventional conceptions of the war narrative. Combining feminist literary criticism with the emergi
The Man of Destiny
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Napoleon is the famous central character in this novel by the renowned George Bernard Shaw. Through the writing, Shaw is able to deliver a devastating opinion of the English from the perspective of Napoleon. We also get a glimpse into the life of this major historical figure just at the point when he became truly great and knew it.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Napoleon is the famous central character in this novel by the renowned George Bernard Shaw. Through the writing, Shaw is able to deliver a devastating opinion of the English from the perspective of Napoleon. We also get a glimpse into the life of this major historical figure just at the point when he became truly great and knew it.
The Man With No Arms and Other Stories
Author: Glenn Busch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473118174
Category : People with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
In this absorbing book Glenn Busch captures with compelling authenticity the intimate stories of nine people who live daily with the reality of a disability. They speak candidly of growing up, the importance of work, family, relationships, parenthood, of wanting to be treated like everyone else in a world that still chooses to see them as different.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473118174
Category : People with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
In this absorbing book Glenn Busch captures with compelling authenticity the intimate stories of nine people who live daily with the reality of a disability. They speak candidly of growing up, the importance of work, family, relationships, parenthood, of wanting to be treated like everyone else in a world that still chooses to see them as different.