Tallulah!

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Publisher : It Books
ISBN 13 : 9780060989064
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Tallulah! by : Joel Lobenthal

Download or read book Tallulah! written by Joel Lobenthal and published by It Books. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the golden age of American theater, no celestial body shone more dazzlingly than Tallulah Bankhead. Outrageous, outspoken, and totally uninhibited, she was an actress known as much for her offstage vices as for her onstage roles—the cocaine and alcohol, the blistering tirades, and her scandalous affairs with both men and women. In Tallulah!, author Joel Lobenthal has captured the private essence of this most public of Broadway stars, the irrepressible diva who enjoyed intimate relationships with the top entertainment luminaries of her day, from Tennessee Williams and Noël Coward to Marlene Dietrich and Billie Holiday. Here also are the close and personal details of her family life and doomed romances, drawn from scores of exclusive interviews, and previously untapped information from Scotland Yard and the FBI. This is the definitive biography of Tallulah Bankhead, a woman even more complex, more nuanced, and more shocking than her notorious mythology suggests.

The Short Oxford History of English Literature

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ISBN 13 : 9780198186960
Total Pages : 732 pages
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Book Synopsis The Short Oxford History of English Literature by : Andrew Sanders

Download or read book The Short Oxford History of English Literature written by Andrew Sanders and published by . This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. The volume includes information on Old and Middle English, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the 17th and 18th centuries, the Romantics, Victorian and Edwardian literature, Modernism, and post-war writing.

Scars and Memories

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Publisher : Open Road Distribution
ISBN 13 : 9781504035910
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (359 download)

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Book Synopsis Scars and Memories by : Odie Hawkins

Download or read book Scars and Memories written by Odie Hawkins and published by Open Road Distribution. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deeply personal story of Odie Hawkins's journey, from "the poorest of the poor" childhood in Chicago to Hollywood screenwriter--and the people who deeply mattered. A tough, touching autobiography.

4th and Fixed

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Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402252633
Total Pages : 361 pages
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Book Synopsis 4th and Fixed by : Reggie Rivers

Download or read book 4th and Fixed written by Reggie Rivers and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fix a Super Bowl? I never thought it possible, but 4th and Fixed is so chock-full of NFL skinny that it sweeps you along from the field to the front office and makes you believe. --Frank Deford

A Simples Life

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446406016
Total Pages : 132 pages
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Book Synopsis A Simples Life by : Aleksandr Orlov

Download or read book A Simples Life written by Aleksandr Orlov and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aleksandr Orlov has become one of the most loved figures in British culture and his catchphrase - Simples! - can be heard from the playground to the office. Written in his inimitable voice (as dictated to his sidekick Sergei), his autobiography will offer the same humour as his TV ads, giving us the full story of his ancestor's Journey of Courageousness from the Kalahari to Russia, the low-down on his life as entrepreneur and founder of comparethemeerkat.com and his love of grubs and cravats. 'My name is Aleksandr Orlov. I live and make work in Moscow. I have a success business. I have a mansion decorate with many fine things. I have a naturally majestic posture. But I would have none of these things if it were not for my family. This book is dedicated to them. I also wish to inspire next generation of young businesskats. I am hope that this book will show what can come of courage, hard work and a good fur-care regime. I am also hope that with royalties I will be able to re-marble roof on Orlov family mansion'

A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139458582
Total Pages : 414 pages
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Book Synopsis A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789 by : Susan Staves

Download or read book A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789 written by Susan Staves and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-07 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on three decades of feminist scholarship bent on rediscovering lost and abandoned women writers, Susan Staves provides a comprehensive history of women's writing in Britain from the Restoration to the French Revolution. This major work of criticism also offers fresh insights about women's writing in all literary forms, not only fiction, but also poetry, drama, memoir, autobiography, biography, history, essay, translation and the familiar letter. Authors celebrated in their own time and who have been neglected, and those who have been revalued and studied, are given equal attention. The book's organisation by chronology and its attention to history challenge the way we periodise literary history. Each chapter includes a list of key works written in the period covered, as well as a narrative and critical assessment of the works. This magisterial work includes a comprehensive bibliography and list of prevalent editions of the authors discussed.

Celluloid Activist

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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299282333
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis Celluloid Activist by : Michael Schiavi

Download or read book Celluloid Activist written by Michael Schiavi and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celluloid Activist is the biography of gay-rights giant Vito Russo, the man who wrote The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies, commonly regarded as the foundational text of gay and lesbian film studies and one of the first to be widely read. But Russo was much more than a pioneering journalist and author. A founding member of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and cofounder of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), Russo lived at the center of the most important gay cultural turning points in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. His life as a cultural Zelig intersects a crucial period of social change, and in some ways his story becomes the story of a developing gay revolution in America. A frequent participant at “zaps” and an organizer of Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) cabarets and dances—which gave the New York gay and lesbian community its first social alternative to Mafia-owned bars—Russo made his most enduring contribution to the GAA with his marshaling of “Movie Nights,” the forerunners to his worldwide Celluloid Closet lecture tours that gave gay audiences their first community forum for the dissection of gay imagery in mainstream film. Biographer Michael Schiavi unravels Vito Russo’s fascinating life story, from his childhood in East Harlem to his own heartbreaking experiences with HIV/AIDS. Drawing on archival materials, unpublished letters and journals, and more than two hundred interviews, including conversations with a range of Russo’s friends and family from brother Charlie Russo to comedian Lily Tomlin to pioneering activist and playwright Larry Kramer, Celluloid Activistprovides an unprecedented portrait of a man who defined gay-rights and AIDS activism. “Schiavi tells a compelling story in this biography—from his re-creation of life on the streets of East Harlem and in Greenwich Village of the 1960s and 1970s to the way he conveys Russo’s excitement about his film research and popular education to his account of the AIDS years in New York City.”—John D’Emilio, Italian American Review “In [Schiavi’s] hands Russo’s life is both fascinating in its own right and a window into a larger milieu of activism during two critical decades.”—Italian American Review Best Special Interest Books, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Reviewers Finalist, Gay Memoir/Biography, Lambda Literary Awards Finalist, Over the Rainbow Selection, American Library Association

Women and Literary History

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Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874138245
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (382 download)

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Book Synopsis Women and Literary History by : Katherine Binhammer

Download or read book Women and Literary History written by Katherine Binhammer and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The essays provide new research into women's literary history from the late seventeenth century to the Modernist period covering topics such as women's science and anti-slavery writing, midwifery, women and the novel, and lesbian literary history. Essays discuss the writing of Jane Sharp, Jane Barker, Anne Finch, Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Harriet Jacob, Phebe Lankester, Pauline Johnson, May Sinclair, Amy Levy, Edith Ellis, and Amy Wilson Carmichael."--BOOK JACKET.

Early Modern Conceptions of Property

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136190856
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Book Synopsis Early Modern Conceptions of Property by : John Brewer

Download or read book Early Modern Conceptions of Property written by John Brewer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Modern Conceptions of Property draws together distinguished academics from a variety of disciplines, including law, economics, politics, art history, social history and literature, in order to consider fundamental issues of property in the early modern period. Presenting diverse original historical and literary case studies in a sophisticated theoretical framework, it offers a challenge to conventional interpretations.

Falling Free

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Publisher : Baen
ISBN 13 : 9781416555469
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (554 download)

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Book Synopsis Falling Free by : Lois McMaster Bujold

Download or read book Falling Free written by Lois McMaster Bujold and published by Baen. This book was released on 2008-01-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: min your own business, fix what's wrong and move on to the next job. Everything neat and according to spec, just the way he liked it. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Could you just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless mega-corporation? Leo Graf adopted a thousand quaddies -- now all he had to do was teach them to be free.

The Delicate Distress

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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813157935
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Book Synopsis The Delicate Distress by : Elizabeth Griffith

Download or read book The Delicate Distress written by Elizabeth Griffith and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actress, playwright, and novelist, Elizabeth Griffith (1727-1793) won fame in England with the publication in 1757 of the first two volumes of Letters Between Henry and Frances, letters from her own courtship with Richard Griffith whom she secretly married in 1751. Her first novel, The Delicate Distress (1769), focuses on the problems women encounter after marriage -- the issue of financial independence for wives, the consequences of interfaith relationships, and the promiscuity of their husbands. Against a backdrop of rural England and Paris of the ancien regime, Griffith reimagines the epistolary novel of sensibility in the tradition of Samuel Richardson and Jean-Jacques Rousseau from a feminist perspective that centers on strong, intelligent, and virtuous women. Two sisters exchange letters about urgent ethical questions concerning love, marriage, morality, art, the duties of wives and husbands, and passion versus reason, while two men correspond about the same subjects. At the story's center is the deep distress of Emily Woodville, a virtuous young newlywed who suspects her husband of infidelity with a French marchioness from his past. The third volume in the series Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women, The Delicate Distress contributes to our understanding of the development of the novel. As Cynthia Ricciardi and Susan Staves show, Griffith's exploration of the psychology of characters who observe and reflect but engage in no grand public actions anticipates Henry James. The editors' introduction places The Delicate Distress firmly in the tradition of the English novel, provides the most complete biography available on Griffith's life, and brings together the most important eighteenth- and twentieth-century criticism of the novelist's work.

The Female Pen

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Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814755194
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book The Female Pen written by Bridget G. MacCarthy and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1994-06 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Had B.G. MacCarthy's criticism been available, Showalter's A Literature of Their Own would have been a very different kind of book...In some ways, contemporary could be ten years ahead if we had started the climb from MacCarthy's groundwork." —Maggie Humm, University of East London Back in print for the first time since the 1940's, this classic work of pre-feminist literary criticism is a challenging and authoritative assessment of women's contributions to English literature. B. G. MacCarthy, widely praised for the originality of her scholarship, challenges the dominant picture of mascaline literary history created by T. S. Eliot and F. R. Leavis. Written with crisp humor and irony, her exploration of women's writing. Focusing on a wide range of authors including Lady Mary Wroath, Eliza Hayward, Aphra Behn, Maria Edgeworth, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Inchbald, Margaret Cavendish and Jane Austen- illustrates that these women attempted almost every genre of fiction, enriched many, and initiated some of the most important. Often savagely witty, The Female Pen discusses a vast array of fictional forms, including picturesque, moralistic, oriental, domestic, and gothic novels.

Is Literary History Possible?

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Is Literary History Possible? written by David Perkins and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Profoundly searching, yet written with grace and lucidity. A distinguished historian and critic illuminates and answers one of the major problems of literary study in a work that will become and remain a classic."--W. Jackson Bate. "Perkins writes clearly and concisely. Like Rene Wellek and M. H. Abrams, he has an admirable gift for making clear the underlying assumptions of many different writers."-- Comparative Literature.

American Women Writers to 1800

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195084535
Total Pages : 452 pages
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Book Synopsis American Women Writers to 1800 by : Sharon M. Harris

Download or read book American Women Writers to 1800 written by Sharon M. Harris and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Women Writers to 1800 advances our knowledge of early American culture. Including works by more than ninety women, many of whom have never before been published, this ambitious anthology captures the cultural and individual diversity of women's experiences in early America. It both complements and extends earlier studies of colonial and Revolutionary America, with writings that observe the natural features and resources of the "New World"; the proliferation of religious movements; racial relations between Native Americans, African Americans, and European settlers; and patriotic and loyalist sympathies during the Revolutionary years. Selections also confront distinctly feminist issues, focusing on women's education; the psychological complexities of girlhood, marriage and childbirth; sexuality; the legal status of women; and the rise of feminist philosophies at the end of the eighteenth century. Along with better known Massachusetts writers such as Bradstreet, Rowlandson, and Knight, this collection presents works by authors from other New England, mid-Atlantic, and southern colonies, by African American and Native American women, and by women who explored the frontier regions. An impressive variety of genres is represented, with extensive selections of memoirs, letters, diaries, poetry, captivity narratives, Native American narratives, essays, sermons, autobiographies, novels, dramas, and scientific and political tracts. Brief biographical introductions to each author, explanatory footnotes, and a comprehensive index and bibliography impress modern scholarship upon this valuable literary collection and offer fertile ground for a radical rethinking of early American women's lives and writings, while challenging our assumptions regarding early America itself.

The Women of Grub Street

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198184492
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (844 download)

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Book Synopsis The Women of Grub Street by : Paula McDowell

Download or read book The Women of Grub Street written by Paula McDowell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much new information is included in this study of the lives of women of middling to lower-class status, living in the London of the 17th and 18th centuries. The book focuses on their activities as authors, booksellers, hawkers, printers & singers.

Players' Scepters

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Players' Scepters written by Susan Staves and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pleasures of the Imagination

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
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Download or read book The Pleasures of the Imagination written by Mark Akenside and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: