Authors
- Clay Blair
- A. Scott Crossfield
Dewey code: 629.130924
Price: $45.95
Review Always Another Dawn: The Story of a Rocket Test Pilot (Literature and History of Aviation) / Arno Press Inc.:
Publication date: 2001-01
Price: $942.35
Review Adolf Hitler: L'Archaisme Dechaine / L'Harmattan Edition:
Publication date: 1985-09-10
Dewey code: 730.924
Price: $140.00
Review Alessandro Algardi / Yale University Press:
Publication date: 2001-04
Dewey code: 822.50809287
List Price: $875.00
Price: $968.55
Review Eighteenth Century Women Playwrights / Pickering & Chatto Publishers:This six-volume anthology documents the history of women's drama throughout the 18th century, starting with the emergence in 1695-6 of the second generation of women dramatists in succession to Aphra Benn. Containing a representative selection of newly edited and annotated texts by leading woman dramatists of the period from 1696 to 1800, the anthology reflects the changes in Britain's global realignment in class models and perception of other peoples. If women's drama quickly ceases to express the raw rage at the oppression of female sexuality that is evident in Behn and Manley, it continues to show women controlling their lives through manipulation of an increasingly complex and intellectually diverse society. In the 1690s, dramatists were meditating on the 1688 revolution (and its implications for the man's authority within marriage) and Britain's international horizons were defined by its war with France and by its transatlantic colonial possessions. At the end of the period Britain was the dominant world power, ruling India, apprehensively contemplating the aftermath of another revolution, in France. From 1670 until her death in 1689, Aphra Benn had established herself as one of the leading dramatists of her time, having far more new plays performed during these years than any competitor, and paving the way for the surge in women's playwriting towards the end of the century: between 1695 and 1700, six new women dramatists had plays premiered, and from then on women consistently made an important and diverse contribution to the stage. Those included in this collection include Catherine Trotter (1679-1749), Mary Pix (1666-c. 1720), Delarivier Manley (1663-1724), Eliza Haywood (c. 1693-1736), Susanna Centlivre (c. 1670-1723), Elizabeth Griffith (c. [+]1720-93), Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) and Hannah Cowley (1743-1809). Catherine Trotter, Mary Pix and Delarivier Manley formed an important trio of women dramatists at the end of the 17th centuiry. Catherine Trotter was the first woman to adapt a work of Behn's for stage (the novel "Agnes de Castro"). Manley, who like Trotter has never appeared in a complete scholarly edition, was probably the most talented of the trio and also an important writer of fiction. Her best play, "The Royal Mischief", portrays the patriarchal suppression of female desire with a frankness unique in the 1690s. Eliza Haywood - a disciple of Manley in the writing of scandalous prose fiction - wrote two original plays, of which "A Wife to be Lett" (1723) is particularly notable for its harsh portrayal of the commodification and near-prostitution of women. Writing about Susanna Centlivre, in his "Lectures on the English Comic Writers", William Hazlitt remarked: "Her plays have a provoking spirit and volatile salt in them which still preserves them from decay". Elizabeth Inchbald and Hannah Cowley were perhaps the most successful female dramatists of the late 18th century. Both were admired by Sheridan for their original work and adaptations.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-01-16
Dewey code: 823.8
List Price: $1,440.00
Price: $1,125.00
Review George Eliot: Family History (Rtp Family Histories) / Routledge:This set, the fifth collection in the Family History series, brings together valuable sources, including manuscript material from letters and diaries, which give insights into these crucial influences. A new introduction places the material in its literary and historical context.
Edition: Limited
Publication date: 2003-07
Dewey code: 790
List Price: $950.00
Price: $950.00
Review John Houston / Lund Humphries Pub Ltd:A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, John Houston remained closely associated with the college through his role as a teacher: he lectured at Edinburgh from 1955 to 1989. Though dedicated to teaching, Houston remained committed to his own work throughout his time at Edinburgh and successfully forged a distinct artistic identity simultaneously. In this study of the artist's varied career, William Packer charts the development of Houston's life as a painter across five decades. Renowned for its intense use of colour, his work developed an underlying consistency from an early stage. Expressionistic, with romantic overtones and gestural brushstrokes, Houston is a master of encapsulating the atmospheric mood of any setting. This is borne out in the 70 colour images reproduced here for both loyal and new-found followers to admire.
Authors
- Thomas Jefferson Coolidge
Review Autobiography of T. Jefferson Coolidge: Drawn in great part from his diary and brought down to the year MDCCCC / Priv. printed at the Merrymount Press:
Creator: Michael Lang
Publication date: 1997-11
Review One Man in His Time / Book Guild Ltd:
Publication date: 1998-06-30
Dewey code: 809
Price: $9.99
Review Tom / Random House Value Publishing:The bedrock, authoritative account of the little-known early life of Tennessee Williams. "Plainly a work of distinction. It will be great service to Williams's reputation and among other things may bring more of the young to an appreciation of his achievement. "-Arthur Miller. Black-and-white photographs.
Creator: Jerzy Ficowski
Publication date: 1998-06
Dewey code: 808
Price: $87.95
Review The Collected Works of Bruno Schulz / Picador:
Publication date: 1996
Review MUHAMMAD ALI. His Life and Times. Signed limited edition / Easton Press:Book Description: Easton Press, Norwalk, CT, 1996. Leather. Book Condition: Very good condition. First thus edition. Octavo (8vo). 543 pages of text including an index. Maroon hardcover leather binding with gilt and black decoration and lettering; color photographic inlay of Ali on front cover; binding protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Number 560 of 3500 copies signed by both Muhammad Ali and Thomas Hauser. Illustrated with numerous historic black & white photographs. A clean, tight and attractive copy of this publication.
Creator: David Fells
Publication date: 2003-11
Review Ben Caunt: The Nottinghamshire Bare-knuckle Boxer Who Became Champion of England / David Fells:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1994-12-15
Dewey code: 301.092
List Price: $1,440.00
Price: $1,051.19
Review Emile Durkheim: Critical Assessments, Second Series (Critical Assessments Series Volume Numbers 5-8) / Routledge:Completing the project of the earlier assessments, these volumes concentrate on four themes: the reception of Durkheim's work during his life; the relationship between his ideas and French society; his influence on his followers; and his relevance today.
Publication date: 1919
Review The Story of My Life / D. Wyllie & Son:7. 5" * 5. 1". Cloth hardcover.
Edition: 3rd
Publication date: 2000-06-21
Dewey code: 782.42164092
List Price: $125.00
Price: $950.00
Review Song and Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan (Bayou) / Cassell:This classic work is the definitive study of Bob Dylan's 40-year body of songs and recordings. This latest edition offers copious fresh material, including major studies of Dylan's remarkable use of the blues, nursery rhyme, films and the Bible. Unique in its scope and its integration of literature and music, criticism and biography, this highly entertaining and authoritative book has earned exceptional reviews.
Creator: Thomas Pinney
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1981-06-30
Dewey code: 820
Price: $105.00
Review The Letters of Thomas Babington MacAulay: Volume 6, January 1856-December 1859 / Cambridge University Press:The last four years of Macaulay's life, documented in this final volume of the Letters, began as an agreeable coda to the rest. He had come to terms with his invalid state, and took great satisfaction in the achievement that he had already realised. He continued to work at his History, but without any expectations or anxieties, instead he enjoyed what his labours had already brought him. First among these was his house, Holly Lodge, in Kensington, where he removed early in 1856 after nearly fifteen years in chambers at the Albany. At Holly Lodge, attended by servants, and visited by a steady company of family and friends, Macaulay took pleasure in entertaining, and in supervising the care of his trees, lawn and flowers - novel amusements to an urban bachelor of literary habits.
Creator: Neil Chambers
Publication date: 2007-06-30
Dewey code: 509.2
List Price: $953.77
Price: $953.76
Review Scientific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1765-1820 (Pickering Masters) / Pickering & Chatto Publishers:"The Scientific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks" is an unprecedented and continuous record of fifty years of intellectual and technological activity. It provides a unique insight into the development of science and discovery from the Eighteenth to the early Nineteenth Century. It links British science and society to developments on the continent of Europe, the West Indies, North America and to countries farther afield. The current edition is almost entirely comprised of previously unpublished letters to and from Sir Joseph Banks, gathered together from over 150 repositories world-wide. The letters are invaluable to scholars and students of the history of science and natural history, eighteenth-century culture and society, as well as empire studies. They will also be welcomed by museums and institutions around the world associated with Banks' life and work. It includes: around 2,300 letters, largely unpublished, from international archives including: The Natural History Museum, London; The British Library, London; The Sutro Library, California; The Mitchell Library, Sydney; The National Library of Australia, Canberra; Yale University Libraries, Connecticut; Lincolnshire County Archives, Lincoln; Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone; Archive, and Royal Botanic Gardens. Editorial apparatus includes full and detailed annotation, a general introduction and a consolidated index. A calendar of correspondents is also given, along with brief biographical details of each.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1939
Review Call to Adventure! / Robert McBride:
Publication date: 1915
Review The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin / R. R. Donnelley & Sons:
Publication date: 1928
Review Memoir of Thomas H. Malone,: An autobiography written for his children. Introduction by J.M. Dickinson / Baird-Ward]:
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