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The Tempest By William Shakespeare
With 30+ Original Illustrations,Summary and Free Audio Book Link
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
The Tempest By William Shakespeare - With 30+ Original Illustrations,Summary and Free Audio Book Link
FEATURES:
• Title contains every original Illustrations from Danziel Brothers. ...
Night Beat
A Shadow History of Rock & Roll
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2000
Few journalists have staked a territory as definitively and passionately as Mikal Gilmore in his twenty-year career writing about rock and roll. Now, for the first time, this collection gathers his cultural criticism, interviews, reviews, and assorted musings. Beginning with Elvis and the birth of...
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
Ideals and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
THIS book originated in a series of eight lectures on ‘Russian Literature during the Nineteenth Century’ which Peter Kropotkin delivered in March 1901, at the Lowell Institute, in Boston. Given the impossibility of exhausting so wide a subject as Russian Literature within the limits of one book,...
Bad Feminist
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
New York Times Bestseller
A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay.
**“**Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink—all...
by Alexander Pushkin, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Russia's Father of Literature deserves a place in all digital libraries. This comprehensive eBook presents the major works of Alexander Pushkin, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material.
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Pushkin's...
In Rough Country
Essays and Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
“A poignant, nostalgic collection of literary criticism by one of America’s premier authors.”
—Kirkus Reviews
In Rough Country is a sterling collection of essays, reviews, and criticism from Joyce Carol Oates that focuses on a wide array of books and writers—from Poe to...
Three Uses of the Knife
On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
The purpose of theater, like magic, like religion . . . is to inspire cleansing awe. What makes good drama? And why does drama matter in an age that is awash in information and entertainment? David Mamet, one of our greatest living playwrights, tackles these questions with bracing directness and aphoristic...
by Miguel de Cervantes, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For the first in digital publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents the complete novels of the Spanish master Miguel de Cervantes, with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating...
Shakespeare in Hate (Open Access)
Emotions, Passions, Selfhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Hate, malice, rage, and enmity: what would Shakespeare’s plays be without these demonic, unruly passions? This book studies how the tirades and unrestrained villainy of Shakespeare’s art explode the decorum and safety of our sanitized lives and challenge the limits of our selfhood. Everyone knows...
Air Guitar
Essays on Art and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
The 23 essays (or "love songs") that make up the now classic volume Air Guitar trawl a "vast, invisible underground empire" of pleasure, through record stores, honky-tonks, art galleries, jazz clubs, cocktail lounges, surf shops and hot-rod stores, as restlessly on the move as...
by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Mark Twain" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This is The Complete Works of America's favourite storyteller Mark Twain. The eBook contains over 60 novels and shorter texts (short stories, essays,...
Dreaming the Beatles
The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
NPR Best Book of 2017
Winner of the 2017 Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism
“This is the best book about the Beatles ever written” —Mashable
Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining,...
Sounds French
Globalization, Cultural Communities and Pop Music, 1958-1980
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Sounds French examines the history of popular music in France between the arrival of rock and roll in 1958 and the collapse of the first wave of punk in 1980, and the connections between musical genres and concepts of community in French society. During this period, scholars have tended to view the...
Try Whistling This
Writings on Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Perceptive and entertaining, Try Whistling This is a pleasurable journey through music, ideas and history. Andrew Ford traces the concept of dirty dancing back to the sixteenth century, marvels at the weirdness of Percy Grainger and considers the decision of Wilhelm Furtwängler to keep conducting under...