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Download or read book Helen and Nicky written by Wendy Green and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vortex written by Noël Coward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The roaring twenties. A world in flux. The magnetic Florence Lancaster draws people to her like moths to a flame. But when her son Nicky arrives home from Paris with an unexpected fiancée and a secret, it sets off a chain of events which threatens to pull them all into a maelstrom. Noël Coward's brilliantly witty and stinging portrait of the darkness beneath the glittering surface of the Jazz Age is as vivid today as when it premiered, causing a sensation and catapulting its young writer to his first great success. This revised edition returns to Coward's original drafts and was published to coincide with Chichester Festival Theatre's new production directed by Daniel Raggett and starring Lia Williams and Joshua James, in April 2023.
Download or read book The Vortex written by Noël Coward and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2024-05-13T18:28:12Z with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nicky arrives back from Paris to his London family home with new fiancée Bunty in tow, relations with his friends, family, and particularly his mother Florence seem as good as they ever were. Cracks, however, soon start appearing: Nicky has a new drug habit (and there are other hinted-at transgressions); Bunty is uncomfortable in her new role with Nicky’s friends and family; and the façade Florence is vainly putting up against her increasing age and dissatisfaction with life is starting to fail. The Vortex is an early play of Noël Coward’s, and was the first to reach large acclaim. Given the themes of drug abuse, the censors in the UK at the time nearly chose to block its staging, and even after it was passed Coward (as writer, director, and star) had trouble finding a venue. Eventually it was picked up by a small theater in north London, and after critical success and popular interest it moved to London’s West End. The play has been adapted for television, film and radio many times over the years, and is still a popular choice for theaters today. While the drug abuse and coded homosexuality has less shock value than when first performed, Nicky and Florence’s increasingly obvious difficulties in living outside the boxes created for them by society is a theme that stands the test of time. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book The Vortex written by Noel Coward and published by New York Harper 1925.. This book was released on 1924 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Delphi Collected Works of Noël Coward (Illustrated) by : Noël Coward
Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of Noël Coward (Illustrated) written by Noël Coward and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 4567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interwar English playwright Noël Coward is best known for his highly polished comedies of manners, including the enduring masterpieces ‘The Vortex’, ‘Hay Fever’, ‘Present Laughter’ and ‘Blithe Spirit’. His plays caught the clipped speech and brittle disillusion of the generation that emerged from the Great War, while his popular songs and revues struck the world-weary note of his times. An indefatigable genius, he performed almost every function in the theatre, including producing, directing, dancing, singing and acting, as well as directing motion pictures. This eBook presents Coward’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) Please note: some later plays, fiction and autobiographies cannot appear due to US copyright restrictions. When new works enter the public domain they will be added to the eBook as a free update. * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Coward’s life and works * Detailed introductions to the major texts * All 43 plays in the US public domain, with individual contents tables * Features rare dramas appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare revues available in no other collection * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Includes Coward’s satires and poetry * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Plays What Next? (1915) Woman and Whisky (1918) The Rat Trap (1918) I’ll Leave It to You (1919) The Young Idea (1921) Sirocco (1921) The Queen was in the Parlour (1922) Mild Oats (1922) Weatherwise (1923) Fallen Angels (1923) The Vortex (1923) Customs House, Dover (1923) Hay Fever (1924) Easy Virtue (1924) Semi-Monde (1926) This Was a Man (1926) The Marquise (1926) Home Chat (1927) Bitter Sweet (1928) Shop-Girls (1928) Private Lives (1929) Some Other Private Lives (1930) Conversation Piece (1933) Point Valaine (1934) Operette (1937) Present Laughter (1939) This Happy Breed (1939) Salute to the Brave/Time Remembered (1940) Blithe Spirit (1941) Pacific 1860 (1946) Peace in Our Time (1946) Long Island Sound (1947) South Sea Bubble (1949) Relative Values (1951) Quadrille (1951) After the Ball (1953) Nude with Violin (1954) Volcano (1957) Look After Lulu! (1958) Waiting in the Wings (1959) Sail Away (1959) The Girl Who Came to Supper (1963) Suite in Three Keys (1965) The Revues London Calling! (1923) On with the Dance (1924) This Year of Grace (1927) The Satires Terribly Intimate Portraits (1922) A Withered Nosegay (1922) Chelsea Buns (1925) The Poetry The Poetry of Noël Coward
Book Synopsis The Flight of the Veil by : Bruce J. Berger
Download or read book The Flight of the Veil written by Bruce J. Berger and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A well-crafted tale about trauma and miracles." -Kirkus Reviews Nicky Covo is a Holocaust survivor. In 1990, Nicky - a Brooklyn psychiatrist - receives a letter from Abbess Fevronia, the head of a women's monastery in Greece. Although Nicky believes the rest of his family died at Auschwitz, he learns that Theodora, a mysteriously silent nun who's lived at the monastery since 1944, may be his baby sister, Kal. With his old friend and new love, Helen, Nicky returns to Greece - to harrowing memories of his fighting with the partisans and to a reunion with his beloved sister. The Flight of the Veil explores the intersections of guilt and memory, faith and tragedy, fate and miracle.
Download or read book Coward on Film written by Barry Day and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Coward on Film: The Cinema of Noël Coward, author Barry Day documents every film based on Coward's work and/or in which he appeared. The result is an astounding list of film credits, including--on occasion--that of composer. Judged on his contribution to cinema alone, Noël Coward would have left a legacy matched by very few. With this detailed chronicle--which includes quotes from Coward himself and a complete filmography--Coward on Film stands as a fitting tribute to that legacy.
Book Synopsis Nice Place to Die by : Jane McLoughlin
Download or read book Nice Place to Die written by Jane McLoughlin and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern housing estate hides a terrible secret in this gritty crime novel from a respected journalist - The scene of a particularly brutal crime back in 1568, the ancient Somerset village of Catcombe has now been transformed into a modern housing estate where the neighbours keep to themselves, terrorized by the resident ‘problem family’. When a young vicar is savagely beaten to death, DCI Rachel Moody finds it impossible to make headway in the ensuing investigation amid the pervading climate of fear. But it becomes increasingly clear that more than one resident has something to hide, and a terrible confrontation seems inevitable . . .
Download or read book Days written by Mary Robison and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Robison is both wise and entertaining, a technician with a sense of humor, a minimalist with a good eye for what can be salvaged from lives of quiet desperation." —The New York Times Book Review The population of Mary Robison's fiction is the stunned citizenry of a world vaporized beneath them, people who say "all right" and "okay" often, not because they consent, but because nothing counts. Still, there are chronicles of small victories here, small only because, as Robison so precisely documents, larger victories are impossible. "There is an almost incredible purity of line and texture in these stories. Every phrase is lucid, every character comes alive, and every sentence suggested a calm, wise, heartbroken version of the world. Robison writes like an avenging angel, and I think she may be a genius." —Richard Yates, author of Cold Spring Harbor
Download or read book Coward Plays: 1 written by Noël Coward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume in the Coward Collection contains four plays written within a two year period when Coward and the century were still in their 20s. The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley, Coward's first biographer. Hay Fever, a comedy of bad manners, concerns a weekend with friends of the Bliss family, who have all been invited independently for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead. The Vortex was a controversial drama in its time, introducing drug-addiction onto the stage at a time when alcoholism was barely mentioned. Fallen Angels, which is written for two star actresses was described as 'degenerate', 'vile', 'obscene', 'shocking' - the second half of the play is entirely taken up with an alcoholic duologue between the two women. Easy Virtue is an elegant, laconic tribute to a lost world of drawing-room dramas, no other writer went more directly to the jugular of that moralistic, tight-lipped but fundamentally hypocritical 20s society. "He is simply a phenomenon, and one that is unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history" Terence Rattigan
Download or read book The Planting written by Violet Apted and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Monroe is the would-be beneficiary of his father's multimillion-dollar enterprise. Avaricious and sadistic, Mr. Monroe creates an evil plot to secure his inheritance by using another human being to sow his seed and bear the children his barren wife cannot.Bodies begin to disappear one after another. Helen Avery, seemingly a victim of these mysterious disappearances, manages to escape the gruesome nightmare and survives. Rescued from the outback of Australia, Helen begins her own investigation of the past, uncovering more and more evidence that ultimately points to David Monroe.Set in 1980?s Australia, The Planting is a chilling novel of depravity and greed, rich with dynamic characters and twisted plots.The author’s other books are Tommy and Jacqui Laughing With Kookaburras, Jasmin and The Nature Fairies, and War Through the Eyes of a Child.
Book Synopsis Bullying as a Social Experience by : Todd Migliaccio
Download or read book Bullying as a Social Experience written by Todd Migliaccio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bullying as a Social Experience presents data from both the US and New Zealand and draws on past research from around the world to show how social context and factors shape individuals’ behaviors and experiences. By engaging with bullying from a sociological framework, it becomes clearer how bullying occurs and why it persists throughout a society, whilst also allowing for the development of means by which the social factors that support such behavior can be addressed through intervention. An empirically rich and engaged analysis of the social factors involved in bullying at group, school and community levels, Bullying as a Social Experience will be of interest not only to social scientists working on the study of childhood and youth, bullying and cyber bullying, but also to educators and practitioners seeking new approaches to the prevention of bullying, as each chapter contains discussions concerning intervention and prevention practices and programs.
Book Synopsis The Radical Twenties by : John Lucas
Download or read book The Radical Twenties written by John Lucas and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies writers from the 1920s with regard to their political radicalism. Draws on the works of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Patrick Hamilton, among others, to identify the decade as a time of both political activism and of deliberately transgressive behavior, particularly among women. Meets head-on the argument of earlier commentators who take for granted the post-war decade as defined by cynicism and hedonism, and looks at the work and lifestyles of those determined to find ways out of despair. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Salt of the King by : Henry D. Terrell
Download or read book Salt of the King written by Henry D. Terrell and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mayhem at the Desert’s Edge It's 1972. A former ’60s pop star arrives in a small West Texas town, desperate to make a comeback record at a tiny music studio run by an eccentric producer. With determination and gall, but very little budget, he cobbles together a ragtag band of local musicians. Meanwhile, a young female filmmaker is in town trying to make a documentary about an unsolved disappearance. Getting zero police cooperation and running out of time, she decides, instead, to make her film about the little studio and the struggling musician. The projects soon fall into turmoil, beset by insanity, supernatural events, and untimely death. In the midst of this madness, all they can do is press “RECORD” and roll tape.
Download or read book Have You Seen Her? written by Karen Rose and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven dropped to his knees next to the paramedic. "Jenna." Her eyes opened and in them he saw shock and tears and guilt. "I'm so sorry, Steven. I should have listened to you." Steven noticed the smears of blood on her worn Duke T-shirt. "Any other wounds?" he asked the paramedic.Only her throat. the blood on her shirt appears to be her own." "We found bloody handprints on the carpet where she crawled from the bedroom," said Uniform Two.Steven's gut seethed as he pictured her scared and hurt and crawling through her own house like a wounded animal. For that alone, whoever did this to her would pay...
Book Synopsis Our Players' Gallery by : W. J. Thorold
Download or read book Our Players' Gallery written by W. J. Thorold and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theatre Magazine written by W. J. Thorold and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: