Drama History category: 1664 books
by Katharine Graham
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
As a fitting epilogue to a life intimately linked to Washington, D.C., Pulitzer Prize winner Katharine Graham, the woman who transformed The Washington Post into a paper of record, left behind this lovingly collected anthology of writings about the city she knew and loved, a moving tribute to the...
Charles Dickens
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Award-winning Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. Here she tackles the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England, Charles Dickens;...
A Dybbuk
and Other Tales of the Supernatural
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1997
Cover art by noted artist Maurice Sendak. Major New York production of A Dybbuk scheduled for 1997. The volume also includes never-before-translated tales by S. Ansky.
Friedrich Schiller: Briefe, Dramen, Theoretische Aufsätze, Gedichte, Erzählungen, Historiografische Schriften und mehr
Biografie + Übersetzungen und Nachdichtungen + Rezensionen (Die Räuber, Wilhelm Tell, Maria Stuart, Die Jungfrau von Orleans, Wallenstein, Don Karlos, Geschichte des dreißigjährigen Kriegs..)
Language: German
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Diese Sammlung wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), war ein deutscher Dichter, Philosoph und Historiker. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Dramatiker und Lyriker. Viele seiner Theaterstücke gehören zum Standardrepertoire...
by The New Yorker Magazine, Elizabeth Bishop, Truman Capote
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
This engrossing anthology assembles classic New Yorker pieces from a complex era enshrined in the popular imagination as the decade of poodle skirts and Cold War paranoia—featuring contributions from Philip Roth, John Updike, Nadine Gordimer, and Adrienne Rich, along with fresh analysis of the 1950s...
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
"The amateur emigrant", written by Robert Louis Stevenson between 1879 and 1880, is an account of the trip that the writer do ' from Scotland to California to visit his Californian future wife seriously ill. Stevenson went by ship from Glasgow and decided to travel third class, to see how...
ULTRAS
The A-Z of Europes Most Feared Soccer Hooligans
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
They used to call it the English disease. Football Hooliganism was rampant on the terraces of English clubs through the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s and is still very much alive today but on a different level. Over the last decade Europe's football clubs have took on the mantle and brought new levels of...
by August Strindberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
August Strindberg is considered the father of modern Swedish literature. Here are collected three of his finest plays, written during what he called his 'Inferno period', a period just following a series of psychotic episodes, they are full of wild imagery, intense and powerful characters and touch...
by John Turner
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
A collection of poems that endeavors to take you through the journey of life; as it was in the past, as it is in the present, and as it believes it will be, in the future.
by Debbie Bowman Shea
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Summoned by the call of the copper mines in Butte, Montana, Irish immigrants left a struggling Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century in search of a better life. Around the mines peppering the hills of the mining city, these determined sons and daughters of Eire built strong Irish neighborhoods...
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Greil Marcus once said to an interviewer, "There is an infinite amount of meaning about anything, and I free associate." For more than four decades, Marcus has explored the connections among figures, sounds, and events in culture, relating unrelated points of departure, mapping alternate histories...
by Adam Bradley, Andrew DuBois, Henry Louis Gates
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
by William Tecumseh Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1990
Hailed as prophet of modern war and condemned as a harbinger of modern barbarism, William Tecumseh Sherman is the most controversial general of the American Civil War. “War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it,” he wrote in fury to the Confederate mayor of Atlanta, and his memoir is filled...
Thomas Jefferson: Writings (LOA #17)
Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1984
The most comprehensive one-volume selection of Jefferson ever published. Contains the "Autobiography," "Notes on the State of Virginia," public and private papers, including the original and revised drafts of the Declaration of Independence, addresses, and 287 letters.
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