Author: Rosemary Anne SissonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780427000692
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Beneath the Visiting Moon
Author: Rosemary Anne SissonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780427000692
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Beneath the Visiting Moon
Author: David Herbert Watkins GrubbPublisher:
ISBN: 9780907746140
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Beneath the Visiting Moon
Author: Romilly CavanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781913054250
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Tom came running up, pulling at his socks, so that there seemed something hiccuping, drunken, in his progress. "We have been cleaning up," he said cheerfully. Mrs. Oxford winced. These poor children in their menial roles--And here came Sarah, with a smut on her cheek. Left in genteel poverty by the death of their father, the Fontayne siblings--Sarah, Philly, Christopher, and Tom--are shaken when their mother, loving but dizzy, takes a liking to Julian, a widowed neighbour with two children of his own. Sarah becomes infatuated with a thirty-something diplomat. Philly endures being painted by a dull local artist. Julian's daughter Bronwen, a child prodigy who has already published a book, deals with the pressures of a literary life. And, in the end, a valiant attempt is made to revive the decaying, long-neglected ballroom of the family home for Sarah's 18th birthday party. All against a backdrop of the ominous approach of World War II. Evoking Diana Tutton's Guard Your Daughters and Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle, Beneath the Visiting Moon is both a glittering, funny tale of romance and family life and a brilliant, haunting story of youthful hopes and heartbreaks in a world on the brink of devastating change. 'First-rate comedy. What a delightful little world it is that Miss Cavan has created and how truly representative of the time' New York Times
The Forgotten Female Aesthetes
Author: Talia SchafferPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813919379
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Schaffer (English, Queens College, City U. of New York) analyzes the complex dialogue between male and female aesthetes in late Victorian England, exploring the heretofore insufficiently recognized role that women such as Lucas Malet, Ouida, and others played in this influential late Victorian literary movement. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
How to Read a Poem
Author: Terry EagletonPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405151404
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content. Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the present day and submits them to brilliantly illuminating closes analysis. Discusses the work of major poets, including John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, W.H.Auden, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, and many more. Includes a helpful glossary of poetic terms.
English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise on the Orthography, Prosody, Inflections and Syntax of the English Tongue; and Numerous Authorities
Author: Eduard Adolf Ferdinand MaetznerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
An English Grammar
Author: Eduard Adolf Ferdinand MaetznerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Speak the Speech!
Author: Rhona SilverbushPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429998490
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
The most comprehensive sourcebook of Shakespeare's monologues ever available in one volume. A detailed guide to approaching Shakespearean text, Speak the Speech! contains everything an actor needs to select and prepare a Shakespeare monologue for classwork, auditions, or performance. Included herein are over 150 monologues. Each one is placed in context with a brief introduction, is carefully punctuated in the manner that best illustrates its meaning, and is painstakingly and thoroughly annotated. Each is also accompanied by commentary that will spark the actor's imagination by exploring how the interrelationship of meter and the choice of words and sounds yields clues to character and performance. And throughout the book sidebars relate historical, topical, technical, and other useful and entertaining information relevant to the text. In addition, the authors include an overview of poetic and rhetorical elements, brief synopses of all the plays, and a comprehensive index along with other guidelines that will help readers locate the perfect monologue for their needs. More than just an actor's toolkit, Speak the Speech! is also an entertaining resource that will help demystify Shakespeare's language for the student and theater lover alike.
Who's who in Literature
Author: Mark MeredithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Contains list of "Fictitious and pseudonymous names."
Author: William Shakespeare