Author: Charles Pettit
Publisher: New York : Boni & Liveright
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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This novel is mentioned in: Lorenz Hart : a poet on Broadway, by Frederick Nolan, p. 118. Nolan describes the novel's plot this way: "Li-Pi Tchou ... and his wife Chee-Chee flee Peking, because the young man, about to succeed his father, doesn't care to meet the usual conditions of employment." Hart wanted to make a musical of it. -- dm.
Author: Dominic Symonds
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199929483
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 355
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Rodgers and Hart contributed dozens of hits to the Great American Songbook. We'll Have Manhattan focuses on the first twelve years of their collaboration (1919-1931), documenting their little-known early work and providing a critical and analytical commentary on their developing practice and its influence on the American musical.
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Languages : en
Pages : 972
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Author: Gary Marmorstein
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416594264
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545
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Lorenz Hart, together with Richard Rodgers, created some of the most beautiful and witty songs ever written. Here is the story of the strikingly unromantic life of this songwriting genius. His lyrics spin with brilliance and sophistication, yet at their core is an unmistakable wistfulness. Rodgers and Hart, who wrote approximately thirty Broadway musicals and dozens of songs for Hollywood films, were an odd couple. Rodgers was precise, punctual, heterosexual, handsome, and eager to be accepted by society. Hart was barely five feet tall, alcoholic, homosexual, and more comfortable in a bar or restaurant than anywhere else. His lyrics are all the more remarkable considering that he never sustained a romantic relationship, living his entire life with his mother, who died only months before his own death at 48. Biographer Marmorstein superbly portrays the life of this exuberant yet troubled artist.--From publisher description.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
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Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Pages : 534
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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Author: Shih-shan Henry Tsai
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791426876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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This book is the first on Chinese eunuchs in English and presents a comprehensive picture of the role that they played in the Ming dynasty, 1368-1644. Extracted from a wide range of primary and secondary source material, the author provides significant and interesting information about court politics, espionage and internal security, military and foreign affairs, tax and tribute collection, the operation of imperial monopolies, judiciary review, the layout of the palace complex, the Grand Canal, and much more. The eunuchs are shown to be not just a minor adjunct to a government of civil servants and military officers, but a fully developed third branch of the Ming administration that participated in all of the most essential matters of the dynasty. The veil of condemnation and jealousy imposed on eunuchs by the compilers of official history is pulled away to reveal a richly textured tapestry. Eunuchs are portrayed in a balanced manner that gives due consideration to able and faithful service along with the inept, the lurid, and the iniquitous.
