Author: Augustin Filon
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
'Garrick's Pupil' is a romance novel. Seventeen year old actress Esther Woodville arrives in London for her theatre performances, where she becomes acquainted with Lady Vereker. Both ladies are known to the hedonistic young Lord Mowbray, who has been making advances to Esther. Lady Vereker on the other hand is his former lover and wants to win him back. Meanwhile Esther is having her portrait done by the famous painter Sir Joshua Reynolds. His young assistant Francis Monday, an orphan taken in by Sir Joshua, oddly resembles Lord Mowbray, and can't help but steal glances at Esther...
Garrick's Pupil
Author: Augustin Filon
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
'Garrick's Pupil' is a romance novel. Seventeen year old actress Esther Woodville arrives in London for her theatre performances, where she becomes acquainted with Lady Vereker. Both ladies are known to the hedonistic young Lord Mowbray, who has been making advances to Esther. Lady Vereker on the other hand is his former lover and wants to win him back. Meanwhile Esther is having her portrait done by the famous painter Sir Joshua Reynolds. His young assistant Francis Monday, an orphan taken in by Sir Joshua, oddly resembles Lord Mowbray, and can't help but steal glances at Esther...
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
'Garrick's Pupil' is a romance novel. Seventeen year old actress Esther Woodville arrives in London for her theatre performances, where she becomes acquainted with Lady Vereker. Both ladies are known to the hedonistic young Lord Mowbray, who has been making advances to Esther. Lady Vereker on the other hand is his former lover and wants to win him back. Meanwhile Esther is having her portrait done by the famous painter Sir Joshua Reynolds. His young assistant Francis Monday, an orphan taken in by Sir Joshua, oddly resembles Lord Mowbray, and can't help but steal glances at Esther...
David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity
Author: Leslie Ritchie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108475876
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Explores how David Garrick - actor, newspaper proprietor and part-owner of Drury Lane Theatre - mediated his own celebrity.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108475876
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Explores how David Garrick - actor, newspaper proprietor and part-owner of Drury Lane Theatre - mediated his own celebrity.
Pleasure Me
Author: Monica Burns
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101478764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
From the author of Assassin's Honor, a bold and sexy new historical romance. Youth and beauty are a courtesan's greatest assets. Concerned, at forty-one, that she is no longer desirable, Lady Ruth Attwood is uncertain whether to be offended or flattered when a younger man makes her an unusual offer. In need of funds, she agrees. But then she does the unthinkable-she falls in love...
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101478764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
From the author of Assassin's Honor, a bold and sexy new historical romance. Youth and beauty are a courtesan's greatest assets. Concerned, at forty-one, that she is no longer desirable, Lady Ruth Attwood is uncertain whether to be offended or flattered when a younger man makes her an unusual offer. In need of funds, she agrees. But then she does the unthinkable-she falls in love...
Shadowland
Author: Peter Straub
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 0593818199
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
“As if Harry Potter was written for grown-ups, Peter Straub’s Shadowland delivers carnage, blood, pain, fairy tales, and flashes of joy and wonder, just like real magic.”—Grady Hendrix You have been there...if you have ever been afraid. Come back. To a dark house deep in the Vermont woods, where two friends are spending a season of horror, apprenticed to a Master Magician. Learning secrets best left unlearned. Entering a world of incalculable evil more ancient than death itself. More terrifying. And more real. Only one of them will make it through.
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 0593818199
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
“As if Harry Potter was written for grown-ups, Peter Straub’s Shadowland delivers carnage, blood, pain, fairy tales, and flashes of joy and wonder, just like real magic.”—Grady Hendrix You have been there...if you have ever been afraid. Come back. To a dark house deep in the Vermont woods, where two friends are spending a season of horror, apprenticed to a Master Magician. Learning secrets best left unlearned. Entering a world of incalculable evil more ancient than death itself. More terrifying. And more real. Only one of them will make it through.
Captain
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Ungoverning Dance
Author: Ramsay Burt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199321930
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Ungoverning Dance examines recent contemporary dance in continental Europe. Placing this in the context of neoliberalism and austerity, it argues that dancers are developing an ethico-aesthetic approach that uses dance practices as sites of resistance against dominant ideologies. It attests to the persistence of alternative ways of thinking and living.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199321930
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Ungoverning Dance examines recent contemporary dance in continental Europe. Placing this in the context of neoliberalism and austerity, it argues that dancers are developing an ethico-aesthetic approach that uses dance practices as sites of resistance against dominant ideologies. It attests to the persistence of alternative ways of thinking and living.
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
The Lost Tools of Learning
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher: Fig
ISBN: 1610612353
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Publisher: Fig
ISBN: 1610612353
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
The Spectator
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Outlines for the Study of English Classics
Author: Albert Franklin Blaisdell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description