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Book Synopsis The Duel (Movie Tie-in Edition) by : Anton Chekhov
Download or read book The Duel (Movie Tie-in Edition) written by Anton Chekhov and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a new forward by the screenwriter Mary Bing In Anton Chekhov’s The Duel the escalating animosity between two men with opposed philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a seedy resort on the Black Sea coast. Laevsky is a dissipated romantic given to gambling and flirtation; he has run off with another man’s wife, the beautiful but vapid Nadya, and now finds himself tiring of her. The scientist von Koren is contemptuous of Laevsky; as a fanatical devotee of Darwin, von Koren believes the other man to be unworthy of survival and is further enraged by his treatment of Nadya. As the confrontation between the two becomes increasingly heated, it leads to a duel that is as comically inadvertent as it is inevitable. Masterfully translated by the award-winnning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Duel is one of the most subtle examples of Chekhov’s narrative art.
Book Synopsis Anna Karenina (Movie Tie-in Edition) by : Leo Tolstoy
Download or read book Anna Karenina (Movie Tie-in Edition) written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official movie tie-in to the major motion picture starring Keira Knightly, Jude Law, Emily Watson, and Aaron Johnson, directed by Joe Wright. This ebook edition also includes the screenplay by Tom Stoppard. Leo Tolstoy’s classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature. Generations of readers have been enthralled by his magnificent heroine, the unhappily married Anna Karenina, and her tragic affair with dashing Count Vronsky. In their world frivolous liaisons are commonplace, but Anna and Vronsky’s consuming passion makes them a target for scorn and leads to Anna’s increasing isolation. The heartbreaking trajectory of their relationship contrasts sharply with the colorful swirl of friends and family members who surround them, especially the newlyweds Kitty and Levin, who forge a touching bond as they struggle to make a life together. Anna Karenina is a masterpiece not only because of the unforgettable woman at its core and the stark drama of her fate, but also because it explores and illuminates the deepest questions about how to live a fulfilled life. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude
Book Synopsis Hemingway: The 1930s through the Final Years (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Movie Tie-in Editions) by : Michael Reynolds
Download or read book Hemingway: The 1930s through the Final Years (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Movie Tie-in Editions) written by Michael Reynolds and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with the major release of HBO’s upcoming film Hemingway and Gellhorn, starring Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen. Michael Reynolds was the supreme biographer of Ernest Hemingway. HBO’s film concentrates on Hemingway’s years with his third wife, the adventurous journalist Martha Gellhorn. This book brings together Reynolds’s Hemingway: The 1930s and Hemingway: The Final Years.
Book Synopsis Victoria & Abdul (Movie Tie-In) by : Shrabani Basu
Download or read book Victoria & Abdul (Movie Tie-In) written by Shrabani Basu and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears, releasing September 22, 2017. History’s most unlikely friendship—this is the astonishing story of Queen Victoria and her dearestcompanion, the young Indian Munshi Abdul Karim. In the twilight years of her reign, after the devastating deaths of hertwo great loves—Prince Albert and John Brown—Queen Victoria meets tall and handsome Abdul Karim, a humble servant from Agra waiting tables at her Golden Jubilee. The two form an unlikely bond and within a year Abdul becomes a powerful figure at court, the Queen’s teacher, her counsel on Urdu and Indian affairs, and a friend close to her heart. This marked the beginning of the most scandalous decade in Queen Victoria’s long reign. As the royal household roiled with resentment, Victoria and Abdul’s devotion grew in defiance. Drawn from secrets closely guarded for more than a century, Victoria & Abdul is an extraordinary and intimate history of the last years of the nineteenth-century English court and an unforgettable view onto the passions of an aging Queen.
Book Synopsis The Last Duel (Movie Tie-In) by : Eric Jager
Download or read book The Last Duel (Movie Tie-In) written by Eric Jager and published by Crown. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • “A taut page-turner with all the hallmarks of a good historical thriller.”—Orlando Sentinel The gripping true story of the duel to end all duels in medieval France as a resolute knight defends his wife’s honor against the man she accuses of a heinous crime In the midst of the devastating Hundred Years’ War between France and England, Jean de Carrouges, a Norman knight fresh from combat in Scotland, returns home to yet another deadly threat. His wife, Marguerite, has accused squire Jacques Le Gris of rape. A deadlocked court decrees a trial by combat between the two men that will also leave Marguerite’s fate in the balance. For if her husband loses the duel, she will be put to death as a false accuser. While enemy troops pillage the land, and rebellion and plague threaten the lives of all, Carrouges and Le Gris meet in full armor on a walled field in Paris. What follows is the final duel ever authorized by the Parlement of Paris, a fierce fight with lance, sword, and dagger before a massive crowd that includes the teenage King Charles VI, during which both combatants are wounded—but only one fatally. Based on extensive research in Normandy and Paris, The Last Duel brings to life a colorful, turbulent age and three unforgettable characters caught in a fatal triangle of crime, scandal, and revenge. The Last Duel is at once a moving human drama, a captivating true crime story, and an engrossing work of historical intrigue with themes that echo powerfully centuries later.
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Download or read book Jennifer Jones written by Paul Green and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinguished film career of Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Jones (1919-2009) is thoroughly chronicled from her faltering start as Phylis Isley (her real name) at Republic Studios in 1939, to her re-invention as a major star by producer David O. Selznick, the actress' second husband. Each of her 24 films--among them The Song of Bernadette, Since You Went Away, Duel in the Sun, Portrait of Jennie, Madame Bovary and Love Is a Many Splendored Thing--is discussed in depth. Robert Osborne, host of the Turner Classic Movies cable channel, affectionately recalls his interview with Jennifer Jones in the Foreword. The actress' biography, radio appearances and unrealized projects are also covered, along with previously undocumented details of her limited stage career, including a 1966 revival of Clifford Odets' The Country Girl.
Book Synopsis The Ironwood Tree by : Tony DiTerlizzi
Download or read book The Ironwood Tree written by Tony DiTerlizzi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First a pack of vile, smelly goblins snatch Simon. Then a band of elves try to entrap Jared. Why is the entire faerie world so eager to get their hands on Spiderwick's Guide? And will the Grace kids be left alone, now that the Guide has mysteriously disappeared? Don't count on it.At school, someone is running around pretending to be Jared, and it's not Simon. To make matters even worse, now Mallory has disappeared and something foul in the water is killing off all the plants and animals for miles around. Clues point to the old abandoned quarry, just outside of town. Dwarves have taken over an abandoned mine there. And the faerie world's abuzz with the news that a creature with plans to rule the world has offered them a gift to join with him -- he's given them a queen...
Download or read book The Hate Merchant written by Niven Busch and published by eNet Press. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caspar Damion Splane, pitchman extraordinaire, had a voice so compelling that no one could pass within earshot without looking to see what kind of man was talking. He could sell anything. At a time when nylon stockings were impossible to find and very expensive, Caspar popped open his sample case, hawked silk rejects as the real McCoy, and sold them all in one afternoon. His power over people became an obsession, a tool for control and power, a compensation for years of loneliness and suffering. At the Kinderwall Sunshine Mission, revivalist Ma Kinderwall saves souls and feeds the poor from her soup kitchen. Followers flock to hear her. She has a gift, they say. During a down and out period of Caspar Splane's life, he and the Sunshine Mission collide, and in no time at all, he discovers a new audience for his madness. He adds "reverend" to his name and turns Ma's audience inside out. In the guise of selling peace, he grows rich on selling hate. Published in 1953, The Hate Merchant, is a timeless and unforgettable account of the power of manipulation and the tragedies that result when rhetoric, slanted facts, suggestions of secrecy, and imagined threats are unleashed into the world unchallenged and unchecked.
Book Synopsis Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff by : Tom Zaniello
Download or read book Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff written by Tom Zaniello and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised and expanded edition of Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff offers 350 titles compared to the original edition's 150. The new book is global in scope, with examples of labor films from around the world. Viewers can turn to this comprehensive, annotated guide for films about unions or labor organizations; labor history; working-class life where an economic factor is significant; political movements if they are tied closely to organized labor; production or the struggle between labor and capital from a "top-down"—either entrepreneurial or managerial—perspective. Each entry includes a critical commentary, production data, cast list, MPAA rating (if any), suggested related films, annotated references to books and websites for further reading, and information about availability of films for rental and/or purchase. This edition addresses both historical and contemporary films and features many more documentaries and hard-to-find information about agitprop and union-financed films.Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor features fifty-eight production stills and frame enlargements. It also includes a greatly expanded Thematic Index of Films. Two new sections will help the reader discover labor films in chronological order or by nationality or affiliation with certain cinematic movements. To read Tom Zaniello's blog on the cinema of labor and globalization, featuring even more reviews, visit http://tzaniello.wordpress.com.Praise for the earlier edition—"Zaniello has created a useful and far-reaching guide with abundant information.... These are the sorts of films that prove what James Agee wrote in these pages nearly fifty years ago: 'The only movies whose temper could possibly be described as heroic, or tragic, or both, have been made by leftists.'"—The Nation"Zaniello has done a monumental job identifying the films that should be included in this genre.... Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff is sorely needed and long overdue."—Cineaste"An engaging and opinionated book.... Even though mining, trucking, Jimmy Hoffa, and class warfare are the book's major themes, what holds the project together is Zaniello's sense of fun and wit. [Zaniello is] a better writer than most major film critics."—Village Voice Literary Supplement
Download or read book The Takover written by Niven Busch and published by eNet Press. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-two year old president Jed Basco has been fired from Basco and Western by a quorum of board members who want the old coot out. Not one to take a bombshell like that lying down, Jed plans a takeover of his own.
Book Synopsis The San Franciscans by : Niven Busch
Download or read book The San Franciscans written by Niven Busch and published by eNet Press. This book was released on with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventy-three year old Andy O'Toole holds a worn and dusty bank book opened by his father the year he was born; a passbook that states he is entitled to a share of the bank's profits. Now ill and penniless, he sets out to claim the money to which he is entitled. On his side is a shrewd young attorney, and on the side of the bank, the president's young widow—each determined to topple the other.
Book Synopsis No Place for a Hero by : Niven Busch
Download or read book No Place for a Hero written by Niven Busch and published by eNet Press. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Charles Fremont — military officer, explorer, and politician — unpredictable and unstable, gifted, imperious, ambitious and hopelessly complex — is the perfect subject for this Bicentennial novella written for the San Jose Mercury News in 1976.
Download or read book They Dream of Home written by Niven Busch and published by eNet Press. This book was released on 1944 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three marines, one seaman, and a raider scout return home to Los Angeles in 1943 only to find themselves and their families irreparably changed. Beleaguered by the traumas of combat, together they struggle to restore the dreams that brought them home.
Download or read book The Titan Game written by Niven Busch and published by eNet Press. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With action moving from the fast-track of Silicon Valley to a Moroccan prison cell, from secret war games in the California desert to sexual espionage in the nation's capital, this story tells of a young man brought up in the weapons business — and disgusted with it — who is suddenly forced to adjust to a world he never made. Jason Streck, once a hostage of another kind, inherits his father's defense-procurement empire and is swiftly drawn onto turf staked out for profit by international merchants whose currency is finding new ways to kill — and Streck's company has one. Many lives beyond Jason's are reshaped or wiped out, blessed or cursed by the new machine and the battle for its control. The youthful CEO must learn to deal with the high-level boardroom and bedroom protocols of the elite Pentagon "E-Circle" group and of certain men and women seeking to penetrate it. The rules of The Titan Game are as deadly as gas and as devious as fog; among them: torturers can become esteemed customers; bystanders are seldom innocent; a man's worst enemy is often himself; and your best work can betray you.
Download or read book The Actor written by Niven Busch and published by eNet Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A has-been stunt man and actor unflaggingly seeks a way back into a profession for which he was once flawlessly suited. In the wings are his devoted wife and his estranged son whose stories intertwine and overlap in this moving saga about the fight for success and coming to terms with oneself in the gold-drenched realm called Hollywood.
Book Synopsis The Gentleman from California by : Niven Busch
Download or read book The Gentleman from California written by Niven Busch and published by eNet Press. This book was released on with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In politics, the rise to the top can also correspond to the erosion of one's moral core. Ask Aline Cleary Belshaw — her father was an honest and popular senator and she grew up immersed in the excitement of political life, believing in the unshakable fiber of the political process. So when she marries a grass-roots lawyer with political ambitions, she is happy to support him in every way. Until, of course, she discovers that his integrity is disappearing along with every toehold. Clay Belshaw thinks he is doing what he needs to do in order to make his way in the "the hair pulling and groin kicking of everyday politics." Although his wife is shaken by the devious compromises he is willing to make, Clay's career continues to flourish and he unexpectedly creates the candidate everyone is looking for. "It was easy—almost inevitable—to center your dreams and hopes on such a man, to believe, no matter what some said to the contrary, that he would make life better and simpler for you, that he could and would restore to the nation some old-time good that, due to the corruption of others, had gone out of it." Sound familiar? Even if political conniving and scheming is old hat by now, published in 1965, The Gentleman from California will interest readers seeking a fictionalized account of U.S. politics, pre- and post- WW II, and the impact of ambition on the lives of those who rise to power.
