Marion Meade: 17 books
Dorothy Parker
What Fresh Hell Is This?
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1989
Marion Meade's engrossing and comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most captivating women
In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both the charm and the dark side of Dorothy Parker, exploring her days of wicked wittiness at the Algonquin Round Table...
The Last Days of Dorothy Parker
The Extraordinary Lives of Dorothy Parker and Lillian Hellman and How Death Can Be Hell on Friendship (A Penguin Classics Special)
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Dorothy Parker biographer Marion Meade shares insight into the last days in the life of Dorothy Parker—the horrible and the hilarious—including her colorful friendship with Lillian Hellman, and the bizarre afterlife of Parker’s remains from a file cabinet on Wall Street to a small burial site...
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
In her exuberant new work, BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers--Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber--whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors embodied the spirit of the 1920s.
Capturing the jazz...
by Marion Meade
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In the early 1970s, the national conversation regarding feminism was very different. Public discussions of womanhood—single life, marriage, workplace harassment, rights, gripes—were often channeled through movement spokeswomen and always refracted through the lens of talking to men about men....
Stealing Heaven
The Love Story of Heloise and Abelard
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Based on the true story of tragic love in twelfth-century France, this “garrulous, bustling” novel offers “the grand old tale, updated for feminist focus” (Kirkus Reviews).
In twelfth century France, two of Europe’s greatest minds met and fell in love. It was a love forbidden by the...
Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
An American icon, Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton is easily acknowledged as one of the greatest filmmakers in early cinema and beyond. His elaborate slapstick made audiences scream with laughter. But, his stone face hid an internal turmoil. In BUSTER KEATON: CUT TO THE CHASE, biographer Marion Meade...
by Marion Meade
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
“A psychologically nuanced, tough-minded portrait” of the New York filmmaker and his relationships with Mia Farrow and Soon-Yi Previn (Publishers Weekly).
Writer, director, actor, humorist. Woody Allen stands as one of our era’s most celebrated artists. Starting in the 1950s, Allen began...
Madame Blavatsky
The Woman Behind the Myth
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The life and times of Helena Blavatsky, the controversial religious guru who cofounded the Theosophical Society and kick-started the New Age movement.
Recklessly brilliant, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky scandalized her 19th century world with a controversial new religion that tried to synthesize...
Eleanor of Aquitaine
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1991
"Marion Meade has told the story of Eleanor, wild, devious, from a thoroughly historical but different point of view: a woman's point of view."-Allene Talmey, Vogue.
Alpine Giggle Week
How Dorothy Parker Set Out to Write the Great American Novel and Ended Up in a TB Colony Atop an Alpine Peak (A Penguin Classics Special)
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
A little known, rediscovered letter: an SOS from a woman trapped on a Swiss mountaintop in a TB colony with no idea how to escape—that woman being Dorothy Parker.
“Kids, I have started one thousand (1,000) letters to you, but they all through no will of mine got to sounding so gloomy...
Free Woman
The Life and Times of Victoria Woodhull
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Victoria Woodhull is a historical figure too often ignored and undervalued by historians. Although she never achieved political power, her actions and her presence on the political scene helped begin to change the way Americans thought about the right to vote, particularly women’s suffrage, and...
Sybille
Life, Love, & Art in the Face of Absolute Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In thirteenth-century France, a female poet endures the chaos of the Albigensian Crusade in this novel by the author of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
A holy war is sweeping France, razing cities and destroying the peaceful lives of those considered heretics.
Sybille d’Astarac, born to pampered...
Lonelyhearts
The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
A “breezily entertaining” look at the comic couple who hobnobbed with Dorothy Parker, S. J. Perelman, Bennett Cerf, and other luminaries of their day (The New York Times Book Review).
Nathanael West—author, screenwriter, playwright—was famous for two masterpieces: Miss Lonelyhearts...
HALLOWEEN Boxed Set
550+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Macabre Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror. From Beyond… Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Spectre Bridegroom...
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