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Download or read book Coward Plays: 3 written by Noël Coward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of Coward's plays contains some of his best work from the thirties. Design for Living is about a triangular alliance between two men and a woman, based on friends of Coward's, which he waited to write "until she and he and I had arrived by different roads in our careers at a time and a place when we felt we could all three play together with a more or less equal degree of success." Cavalcade was Coward's most ambitious stage project, set during the Boer War, which cost £30,000 in its day and which includes scenes of the relief of the sinking of the Titanic and the coming of the Jazz Age. Conversation Piece is a musical comedy that Noël wrote for the Parisian star Yvonne Printemps and includes the song "I'll Follow My Secret Heart". Also in the volume are three short plays from Tonight at 8.30 including Hands Across the Sea, a gentle satire of colonials and London Society; Still Life which became the film Brief Encounter and Fumed Oak a suburban comedy about a 'worm who turns'.
Author : Publisher :Odile Jacob ISBN 13 :2738190308 Total Pages :434 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (381 download)
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Book Synopsis The Metamorphoses of Fat by : Georges Vigarello
Download or read book The Metamorphoses of Fat written by Georges Vigarello and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georges Vigarello maps the evolution of Western ideas about fat and fat people from the Middle Ages to the present, paying particular attention to the role of science, fashion, fitness crazes, and public health campaigns in shaping these views. While hefty bodies were once a sign of power, today those who struggle to lose weight are considered poor in character and weak in mind. Vigarello traces the eventual equation of fatness with infirmity and the way we have come to define ourselves and others in terms of body type. Vigarello begins with the medieval artists and intellectuals who treated heavy bodies as symbols of force and prosperity. He then follows the shift during the Renaissance and early modern period to courtly, medical, and religious codes that increasingly favored moderation and discouraged excess. Scientific advances in the eighteenth century also brought greater knowledge of food and the body's processes, recasting fatness as the "relaxed" antithesis of health. The body-as-mechanism metaphor intensified in the early nineteenth century, with the chemistry revolution and heightened attention to food-as-fuel, which turned the body into a kind of furnace or engine. During this period, social attitudes toward fat became conflicted, with the bourgeois male belly operating as a sign of prestige but also as a symbol of greed and exploitation, while the overweight female was admired only if she was working class. Vigarello concludes with the fitness and body-conscious movements of the twentieth century and the proliferation of personal confessions about obesity, which tied fat more closely to notions of personality, politics, taste, and class.
Download or read book The Foreign Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]. by : John George Cochrane
Download or read book The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]. written by John George Cochrane and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Constantinople by : Théophile Gautier
Download or read book Constantinople written by Théophile Gautier and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Némirovsky Question by : Susan Rubin Suleiman
Download or read book The Némirovsky Question written by Susan Rubin Suleiman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Note on Translations and Citations -- Introduction: A Writer Reborn . . . and Debated -- PART I: IRÈNE -- 1. The "Jewish Question" -- 2. Némirovsky's Choices, 1920-1939 -- 3. Choices and Choicelessness, 1939-1942 -- PART II: FICTIONS -- 4. Foreigners and Strangers: Némirovsky's Jewish Protagonists -- 5. Portraits of the Artist as a Young Jewish Woman -- PART III: DENISE AND ELISABETH -- 6. Orphans of the Holocaust: Two Lives -- 7. Gifts of Life: A Mother and Her Daughters -- Notes
Book Synopsis A First French Reading Book. Containing Fables, Anecdotes, Inventions, Discoveries, Natural History, French History, with Grammatical Questions and Notes and a Copious Etymological Dictionary by : William Smith
Download or read book A First French Reading Book. Containing Fables, Anecdotes, Inventions, Discoveries, Natural History, French History, with Grammatical Questions and Notes and a Copious Etymological Dictionary written by William Smith and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Download or read book The Exile's Song written by Sally McKee and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of African American composer Edmond D d , raised in antebellum New Orleans, and his remarkable career in France In 1855, Edmond D d , a free black composer from New Orleans, emigrated to Paris. There he trained with France s best classical musicians and went on to spend thirty-six years in Bordeaux leading the city s most popular orchestras. How did this African American, raised in the biggest slave market in the United States, come to compose ballets for one of the best theaters outside of Paris and gain recognition as one of Bordeaux s most popular orchestra leaders? Beginning with his birth in antebellum New Orleans in 1827 and ending with his death in Paris in 1901, Sally McKee vividly recounts the life of this extraordinary man. From the Crescent City to the City of Light and on to the raucous music halls of Bordeaux, this intimate narrative history brings to life the lost world of exiles and travelers in a rapidly modernizing world that threatened to leave the most vulnerable behind.
Book Synopsis Sketches of the Nineteenth Century by : M. Lauster
Download or read book Sketches of the Nineteenth Century written by M. Lauster and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-05-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the visual and verbal city sketches which proliferated during the 'journalistic revolution' of the 1830s and 1840s. It shows how sketches transformed models of visual and printed media and of life science into a unique kind of sociology, presenting a self-critique of the middle class on the brink of industrial modernity.
Book Synopsis The Strange M. Proust by : Andre Benhaim
Download or read book The Strange M. Proust written by Andre Benhaim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strange M. Proust - the narrator, the author, and the embodiment of A la Recherche du Temps perdu - is now so canonical a writer that his very strangeness is easily overlooked. His book made of other books, his epic composed of extraordinary miniatures, his orderly structure where every law is subverted, his chronology where time can be undone and his geography where places can superimpose: in these, and many other ways, Proust continues to astonish even readers who have engaged with him for their entire careers. In this book, arising from the Princeton symposium of 2006, major critics come together to offer provocative readings of a work which is at the same time classical and unusual, French and foreign, familiar and strange. The book is dedicated to the memory of Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007), whose keynote address was one of his last major lectures. Other contributors include David Ellison, Anne Simon, Eugene Nicole, Joseph Brami, Raymonde Coudert, Christie McDonald, Michael Wood and Antoine Compagnon.
Book Synopsis Harrap's New Standard French and English Dictionary by : Jean Edmond Mansion
Download or read book Harrap's New Standard French and English Dictionary written by Jean Edmond Mansion and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book C/ID written by Emily King and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2006-07-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey of the thirty best recent design work for cultural clients, including galleries, museums, theatres and auditoriums. The focus is on new identities and their application, as well as smaller design solutions as gallery guides, promotional programmes, exhibition catalogues, theatre programmes, branded merchandising, websites, signage systems and temporary exhibition design.
Book Synopsis Heath's Standard French and English Dictionary by : Jean Edmond Mansion
Download or read book Heath's Standard French and English Dictionary written by Jean Edmond Mansion and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Love and Laughter in the Work of Aymé Dubois-Jolly by : Mary Munro-Hill
Download or read book Love and Laughter in the Work of Aymé Dubois-Jolly written by Mary Munro-Hill and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the third persona of Maurice Chapelan, Aymé Dubois-Jolly, and the four romans galants he published between 1978 and 1983. As its title suggests, the work considers the themes of love and laughter in the novels. Just as l’amour and l’humour have much in common, so do “love” and “laughter”. Though the love in question is almost always of the unashamedly erotic kind, often expressed in explicit terms, the whole is redeemed by its many comic elements, usually couched in perfect, elegant prose. Furthermore, we find in Dubois-Jolly’s writing more than an occasional nod to the works of the literary and philosophical giants of the eighteenth century. These romans libertins of the twentieth century will appeal to any reader who has appreciated the work of such authors as Diderot, Voltaire, Rousseau and Sade.
Book Synopsis La Bête de Brocéliande by : Jean-Claude Cappelli
Download or read book La Bête de Brocéliande written by Jean-Claude Cappelli and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Premier novembre 2012, Samain, nouvel an desdruides et des Celtes, la forêt de Brocéliande estravagée par une bête monstrueuse. A ce momentprécis, Laura Trotel participe à un stage animé parLuc de la Garde, chaman et psychothérapeute. Savie va irrémédiablement basculer...La Bête de Brocéliande est bien plus qu'unsimple roman. A travers la découverte bien réelledes lieux aventureux de la forêt mythique, nouscheminons sur les sentiers d'une quête initiatiqueauthentique.