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Book Synopsis The Importance of Being Earnest by : Oscar Wilde
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde and published by First Avenue Editions ™. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Worthing gets antsy living at his country estate. As an excuse, he spins tales of his rowdy brother Earnest living in London. When Jack rushes to the city to confront his "brother," he's free to become Earnest and live a different lifestyle. In London, his best friend, Algernon, begins to suspect Earnest is leading a double life. Earnest confesses that his real name is Jack and admits the ruse has become tricky as two women have become enchanted with the idea of marrying Earnest. On a whim, Algernon also pretends to be Earnest and encounters the two women as they meet at the estate. With two Earnests who aren't really earnest and two women in love with little more than a name, this play is a classic comedy of errors. This is an unabridged version of Oscar Wilde's English play, first published in 1899.
Book Synopsis Time to Be in Earnest by : P. D. James
Download or read book Time to Be in Earnest written by P. D. James and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997, P. D. James, the much loved and internationally acclaimed author of mysteries, turned seventy-seven. Taking to heart Dr. Johnson's advice that at seventy-seven it is "time to be in earnest," she decided to undertake a book unlike any she had written before: a personal memoir in the form of a diary. This enchanting and highly original volume is the result. Structured as the diary of a single year, it roams back and forth through time, illuminating James's extraordinary, sometimes painful and sometimes joyful life. Here, interwoven with reflections on her writing career and the craft of crime novels, are vivid accounts of episodes in her own past — of school days in 1920s and 1930s Cambridge . . . of the war and the tragedy of her husband's madness . . . of her determined struggle to support a family alone. She tells about the birth of her second daughter in the midst of a German buzz-bomb attack; about becoming a civil servant (and laying the groundwork for her writing career by working in the criminal justice system); about her years of public service on such bodies as the Arts Council and the BBC's Board of Governors, culminating in entry to the House of Lords. Along the way, with warmth and authority, she offers views on everything from author tours to the problems of television adaptations, from book reviewing to her obsession with Jane Austen. Written with exceptional grace, this "fragment of autobiography" has already been received with enthusiasm by British reviewers and readers. The thousands of Americans who have enjoyed P. D. James's novels will be equally charmed. Diary or memoir or both, Time to Be in Earnest is a delight.
Book Synopsis The Story of a Country Town by : E. W. Howe
Download or read book The Story of a Country Town written by E. W. Howe and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of A Country Town is a novel by E. W. Howe, published in 1883 is a great read for anyone interested in the history of the Midwest. It was an immediate success upon publishing and went through many printings. It was reviewed favorably by Mark Twain and William Dean Howells. The action of the novel was placed in Twin Mounds, a fictional city in the American Midwest. It is free from the 19th-century optimism and elevated spirit of other town stories.
Book Synopsis A History of the People of the United States, from the Revolution to the Civil War by : John Bach McMaster
Download or read book A History of the People of the United States, from the Revolution to the Civil War written by John Bach McMaster and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Had it not been for the bell-ringing and the firing there would have been little to indicate that a great change of government had taken place. Some new faces indeed were seen at the coffee-house, and some familiar ones were missed, for many members of the old Congress who had failed to secure seats in the new had already packed their portmanteaus and hastened home. But a sense of duty kept a few in their seats, and these continued to hold daily sessions... -from "The Constitution Becomes Law" A bestseller when it was first published in 1883, this first volume of historian John Bach McMaster's magnum opus is a lively history of the United States that is as entertaining as it is informative. Eventually stretching to eight volumes, McMaster's epic was original in its emphasis on social and economic conditions as deciding factors in shaping a nation's culture: in addition to the words and actions of great men and the outcomes of significant skirmishes and battles, McMaster indulges his obsession with fascinating trivia, from which fruits and vegetables were to be found in the markets of 18th-century Boston to the cost of books in Pennsylvania before the Revolution. Volume 1, spanning the colonial period to the immediate aftermath of the war with Britain and the establishment of the federal government, is a compulsively readable account of the birth pangs of the new nation, and covers such intriguing and unlikely topics as the debate over the coinage of the United States, the first American ship to sail for China, and the impact of war debts on the fledgling country. American historian JOHN BACH MCMASTER (1852-1932) taught at the Wharton School of Finance and Economy at the University ofPennsylvania, Philadelphia, from 1883 to 1919. He also wrote Benjamin Franklin as a Man of Letters (1887) and A School History of the United States (1897), which became a definitive textbook.
Download or read book Halves written by James Payn and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of a Country Town by : Edgar Watson Howe
Download or read book The Story of a Country Town written by Edgar Watson Howe and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register by : Thomas Campbell
Download or read book New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register written by Thomas Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist written by and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women of the South Distinguished in Lite by : Julia Freeman
Download or read book Women of the South Distinguished in Lite written by Julia Freeman and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women of the South Distinguished in Literature ... by : Mary Forrest
Download or read book Women of the South Distinguished in Literature ... written by Mary Forrest and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope by : Abigail Burnham Bloom
Download or read book The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope written by Abigail Burnham Bloom and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 1735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of Frances Trollope have been subject to increasing academic interest in recent years, and are now widely studied. This four-volume set includes scholarly editions of her four novels, in which her comical, yet subversive, treatment of Victorian marriage is an interesting contrast to some of the more earnest but conventional fiction of the time. At the time of their reception all four novels were considered to be the most hilarious and beloved of Trollope’s works. In their satire of Victorian marriage, they challenged and complicated the normative practices of getting married, being married, and getting married again. Trollope’s creation of strong, independent, older women is an antidote to other Victorian novelists’ portrayal of widows and spinsters, and her novels challenge our understanding of the characteristics of the novels of the 1830s and 1840s, especially in their depiction of Victorian gender dynamics as well as their influence on succeeding novels.
Book Synopsis The Widow Married by : Frances Milton Trollope
Download or read book The Widow Married written by Frances Milton Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sir Philip Hetherington by : Lady Augusta Louisa Lyons
Download or read book Sir Philip Hetherington written by Lady Augusta Louisa Lyons and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hyde Marston by : John William Carleton
Download or read book Hyde Marston written by John William Carleton and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles by : Mrs. Henry Wood
Download or read book Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles written by Mrs. Henry Wood and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs. Henry Wood's 'Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles' is a classic Victorian novel that tells the story of a strong and determined widow, Mrs. Halliburton, who supports her family through hard work and faith in God, despite the many challenges she faces. In contrast, her cousins, the Dares, lead a dissolute lifestyle and face scandal and disgrace. The novel spans three generations and is filled with didactic passages about faith, hard work, and the working class.
Book Synopsis The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778 by : Fanny Burney
Download or read book The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778 written by Fanny Burney and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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