Drama History category: 1664 books
by Marshall B. Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
Every nation is the invention of its writers. America is no exception. The United States is a state of mind and spirit created, in part, by the books that have emerged from the American experience - as truly as its politics have been shaped by history. We are all, in some fashion, the spiritual heirs...
London
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields....
American Sketches
Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
What are the roots of creativity? What makes for great leadership? How do influential people end up rippling the surface of history?
In this collection of essays, Walter Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald...
by Christopher Frayling
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Craftsmanship has again become fashionable in high places, just as it did in the last few recessions.
The concept of craftsmanship has never been as relevant and timely as it is today. Assailed on all sides by – among many other tendencies - flexible working, short-termism, portfolio careers,...
by Jonathon Young, Kevin Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In this psychological thriller set in a fictionalized 1930s Vancouver, Alex Braithwaite, a troubled but passionate theatre critic, believes he has found the legendary Stanley Lee, director of the infamous avant-garde theatre The Empty Space.” Alex becomes convinced that this man’s radically...
by Ulysses S. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1990
Twenty years after Appomattox, stricken by cancer and facing financial ruin, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his *Personal Memoirs *to secure his family’s future. in doing so, the Civil War’s greatest general won himself a unique place in American letters. His character, intelligence, sense of purpose,...
Scents and Sensibility
Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This lively, accessible book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting an extensive range of well-known and unfamiliar texts in intriguing and imaginative new ways that make us re-think literature's relation with the senses. Concentrating on aesthetic and decadent...
A Coney Island Reader
Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, José Martí, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E. E. Cummings, Djuna Barnes, Colson Whitehead, Robert Olen Butler, and Katie Roiphe--this...
Theatre of Fear & Horror: Expanded Edition
The Grisly Spectacle of the Grand Guignol of Paris, 1897-1962
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
"Bloodcurdling shrieks, fiendish schemes, deeds of darkness, mayhem and mutilation—we all have a rough idea of what Grand Guignol stands for. But until now it has been hard to find out much more about it than that. According to the American theater historian Mel Gordon, no major history of the theater...
The Rhetorical Short Story
Best American Short Stories on War and the Military, 1915-2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In The Rhetorical Short Story, Purcell examines over ninety short stories as rhetorical artifacts of nearly a century of American history. The words of over seventy-five authors present a pastiche of American voices, from the early days of the Great War to the ongoing conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan....
by Various, Susan Imbarato
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1994
Four journeys by early Americans Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, and Dr. Alexander Hamilton recount the vivid physical and psychological challenges of colonial life. Essential primary texts in the study of early American cultural life, they are now conveniently collected in...
Contested Commonwealths
Essays in American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
United States historian William Pencak presents thirteen of his essays, written beginning in 1976. Some deal with colonial and revolutionary crowds and communities in Massachusetts - the impressment riot of 1747, the popular uprisings of the 1760s and 1770s, and Shays' Rebellion. Others examine popular...
From Battlefields Rising
How The Civil War Transformed American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
When Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in April of 1861, Walt Whitman declared it "the volcanic upheaval of the nation"--the bloody inception of a war that would dramatically alter the shape and character of American culture along with its political, racial, and social landscape. Prior...
Commanding Voices of Blue & Gray
General William T. Sherman, General George Custer, General James Longstreet, & Major J.S. Mosby, Among Others, in Their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The agony and anguish of the War Between the States affected all aspects of American life. Many quarters suffered, but one in particular seemed to prosper in the postwar aftermath: the publishing industry. Though the success of Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant (as published by Mark Twain) is a...