Author: Noël Coward
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472503325
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The third volume of Coward's plays contains some of his best work from the thirties. Design for Living is about a triangular alliance between two men and a woman, based on friends of Coward's, which he waited to write "until she and he and I had arrived by different roads in our careers at a time and a place when we felt we could all three play together with a more or less equal degree of success." Cavalcade was Coward's most ambitious stage project, set during the Boer War, which cost £30,000 in its day and which includes scenes of the relief of the sinking of the Titanic and the coming of the Jazz Age. Conversation Piece is a musical comedy that Noël wrote for the Parisian star Yvonne Printemps and includes the song "I'll Follow My Secret Heart". Also in the volume are three short plays from Tonight at 8.30 including Hands Across the Sea, a gentle satire of colonials and London Society; Still Life which became the film Brief Encounter and Fumed Oak a suburban comedy about a 'worm who turns'.
Coward Plays: 3
Author: Noël Coward
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472503325
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The third volume of Coward's plays contains some of his best work from the thirties. Design for Living is about a triangular alliance between two men and a woman, based on friends of Coward's, which he waited to write "until she and he and I had arrived by different roads in our careers at a time and a place when we felt we could all three play together with a more or less equal degree of success." Cavalcade was Coward's most ambitious stage project, set during the Boer War, which cost £30,000 in its day and which includes scenes of the relief of the sinking of the Titanic and the coming of the Jazz Age. Conversation Piece is a musical comedy that Noël wrote for the Parisian star Yvonne Printemps and includes the song "I'll Follow My Secret Heart". Also in the volume are three short plays from Tonight at 8.30 including Hands Across the Sea, a gentle satire of colonials and London Society; Still Life which became the film Brief Encounter and Fumed Oak a suburban comedy about a 'worm who turns'.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472503325
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The third volume of Coward's plays contains some of his best work from the thirties. Design for Living is about a triangular alliance between two men and a woman, based on friends of Coward's, which he waited to write "until she and he and I had arrived by different roads in our careers at a time and a place when we felt we could all three play together with a more or less equal degree of success." Cavalcade was Coward's most ambitious stage project, set during the Boer War, which cost £30,000 in its day and which includes scenes of the relief of the sinking of the Titanic and the coming of the Jazz Age. Conversation Piece is a musical comedy that Noël wrote for the Parisian star Yvonne Printemps and includes the song "I'll Follow My Secret Heart". Also in the volume are three short plays from Tonight at 8.30 including Hands Across the Sea, a gentle satire of colonials and London Society; Still Life which became the film Brief Encounter and Fumed Oak a suburban comedy about a 'worm who turns'.
Author:
Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738190308
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738190308
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Foreign Quarterly Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane].
Author: John George Cochrane
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Metamorphoses of Fat
Author: Georges Vigarello
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231159765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Tracing the link between changing attitudes toward body size and modern conceptions of class, society, and self.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231159765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Tracing the link between changing attitudes toward body size and modern conceptions of class, society, and self.
Constantinople
Author: Théophile Gautier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Istanbul (Turkey)
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Istanbul (Turkey)
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The Némirovsky Question
Author: Susan Rubin Suleiman
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030017196X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Note on Translations and Citations -- Introduction: A Writer Reborn . . . and Debated -- PART I: IRÈNE -- 1. The "Jewish Question" -- 2. Némirovsky's Choices, 1920-1939 -- 3. Choices and Choicelessness, 1939-1942 -- PART II: FICTIONS -- 4. Foreigners and Strangers: Némirovsky's Jewish Protagonists -- 5. Portraits of the Artist as a Young Jewish Woman -- PART III: DENISE AND ELISABETH -- 6. Orphans of the Holocaust: Two Lives -- 7. Gifts of Life: A Mother and Her Daughters -- Notes
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030017196X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Note on Translations and Citations -- Introduction: A Writer Reborn . . . and Debated -- PART I: IRÈNE -- 1. The "Jewish Question" -- 2. Némirovsky's Choices, 1920-1939 -- 3. Choices and Choicelessness, 1939-1942 -- PART II: FICTIONS -- 4. Foreigners and Strangers: Némirovsky's Jewish Protagonists -- 5. Portraits of the Artist as a Young Jewish Woman -- PART III: DENISE AND ELISABETH -- 6. Orphans of the Holocaust: Two Lives -- 7. Gifts of Life: A Mother and Her Daughters -- Notes
The Strange M. Proust
Author: Andre Benhaim
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351540319
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
The strange M. Proust - the narrator, the author, and the embodiment of A la Recherche du Temps perdu - is now so canonical a writer that his very strangeness is easily overlooked. His book made of other books, his epic composed of extraordinary miniatures, his orderly structure where every law is subverted, his chronology where time can be undone and his geography where places can superimpose: in these, and many other ways, Proust continues to astonish even readers who have engaged with him for their entire careers. In this book, arising from the Princeton symposium of 2006, major critics come together to offer provocative readings of a work which is at the same time classical and unusual, French and foreign, familiar and strange. The book is dedicated to the memory of Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007), whose keynote address was one of his last major lectures. Other contributors include David Ellison, Anne Simon, Eugene Nicole, Joseph Brami, Raymonde Coudert, Christie McDonald, Michael Wood and Antoine Compagnon.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351540319
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
The strange M. Proust - the narrator, the author, and the embodiment of A la Recherche du Temps perdu - is now so canonical a writer that his very strangeness is easily overlooked. His book made of other books, his epic composed of extraordinary miniatures, his orderly structure where every law is subverted, his chronology where time can be undone and his geography where places can superimpose: in these, and many other ways, Proust continues to astonish even readers who have engaged with him for their entire careers. In this book, arising from the Princeton symposium of 2006, major critics come together to offer provocative readings of a work which is at the same time classical and unusual, French and foreign, familiar and strange. The book is dedicated to the memory of Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007), whose keynote address was one of his last major lectures. Other contributors include David Ellison, Anne Simon, Eugene Nicole, Joseph Brami, Raymonde Coudert, Christie McDonald, Michael Wood and Antoine Compagnon.
The Exile's Song
Author: Sally McKee
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300224699
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The extraordinary story of African American composer Edmond D d , raised in antebellum New Orleans, and his remarkable career in France In 1855, Edmond D d , a free black composer from New Orleans, emigrated to Paris. There he trained with France s best classical musicians and went on to spend thirty-six years in Bordeaux leading the city s most popular orchestras. How did this African American, raised in the biggest slave market in the United States, come to compose ballets for one of the best theaters outside of Paris and gain recognition as one of Bordeaux s most popular orchestra leaders? Beginning with his birth in antebellum New Orleans in 1827 and ending with his death in Paris in 1901, Sally McKee vividly recounts the life of this extraordinary man. From the Crescent City to the City of Light and on to the raucous music halls of Bordeaux, this intimate narrative history brings to life the lost world of exiles and travelers in a rapidly modernizing world that threatened to leave the most vulnerable behind.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300224699
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The extraordinary story of African American composer Edmond D d , raised in antebellum New Orleans, and his remarkable career in France In 1855, Edmond D d , a free black composer from New Orleans, emigrated to Paris. There he trained with France s best classical musicians and went on to spend thirty-six years in Bordeaux leading the city s most popular orchestras. How did this African American, raised in the biggest slave market in the United States, come to compose ballets for one of the best theaters outside of Paris and gain recognition as one of Bordeaux s most popular orchestra leaders? Beginning with his birth in antebellum New Orleans in 1827 and ending with his death in Paris in 1901, Sally McKee vividly recounts the life of this extraordinary man. From the Crescent City to the City of Light and on to the raucous music halls of Bordeaux, this intimate narrative history brings to life the lost world of exiles and travelers in a rapidly modernizing world that threatened to leave the most vulnerable behind.
A First French Reading Book. Containing Fables, Anecdotes, Inventions, Discoveries, Natural History, French History, with Grammatical Questions and Notes and a Copious Etymological Dictionary
Author: William Smith
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385499712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385499712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.